President Obama
As I write, the momentum appears to be with Barack Hussein Obama. It's hard to believe it--a man with a name like that--but Americans have been nothing if not accomodating in the wake of 9/11. Here is a young man, handsome, charming, and with oratorical skills we have not seen since Ronald Reagan. He's generally happy, winsome, and comes off as an optimist--which is not easy for a Democrat. The first time I heard him speak, I was stunned and astonished. He is a fantastic speaker.
Hillary's right--it's all meaningless platitudes and poetic nothingness: It's time for change. Things will change. We are change. You are change, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. (Can I get change for a dollar?)
But in an evenly divided nation--where a charmless fear-monger like Al Gore almost won--no one is going to be beating Obama easily. Add to that the RINO shill-for-the-liberals that is John McCain, and the Republicans don't stand a chance. No matter how many of the people once stabbed in the back by McCain eventually come out and rally for him, some of us are not going to buy it.
Does anyone actually believe the Lesser of Two Evils Argument is enough to defeat one of the best speech makers since MLK?* Bob Dole, is that the best you can do? President Bush the Elder, is there no better defense of McCain than that--that he's not as horrible as the Democrats? And what's with calling McCain a "Reagan Conservative"? Saying that destroys all your credibility. In fact, it's more than mere "puffing," as they say in law school. It sounds like a lie.
(*Although--a vast gulf lies between President Obama and Reverend King, as King's speeches possessed not only high-rhetoric, but also substantive content.)
Anything can happen in politics, but the odds are with B. Hussein Obama.
Hillary's right--it's all meaningless platitudes and poetic nothingness: It's time for change. Things will change. We are change. You are change, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. (Can I get change for a dollar?)
But in an evenly divided nation--where a charmless fear-monger like Al Gore almost won--no one is going to be beating Obama easily. Add to that the RINO shill-for-the-liberals that is John McCain, and the Republicans don't stand a chance. No matter how many of the people once stabbed in the back by McCain eventually come out and rally for him, some of us are not going to buy it.
Does anyone actually believe the Lesser of Two Evils Argument is enough to defeat one of the best speech makers since MLK?* Bob Dole, is that the best you can do? President Bush the Elder, is there no better defense of McCain than that--that he's not as horrible as the Democrats? And what's with calling McCain a "Reagan Conservative"? Saying that destroys all your credibility. In fact, it's more than mere "puffing," as they say in law school. It sounds like a lie.
(*Although--a vast gulf lies between President Obama and Reverend King, as King's speeches possessed not only high-rhetoric, but also substantive content.)
Anything can happen in politics, but the odds are with B. Hussein Obama.
posted by S. at
8:59 AM
1 Comments:
I've already resigned to the fact that it's going to be President Barack Hussein Obama. Short of another major attack on the U.S. by the practitioners of the religion of "peace", I don't see how BHO will not be residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue come Jan. '09.
And what's with all the offense at refering to his middle name? No one ever had a problem with references to Richard Milhous Nixon, William Jefferson Clinton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, et al. So why all the hoopla now?
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