My comment: We underestimate Obama at our own peril.
The American people will eventually realize that Emperor Obama has no clothes.
The question is, will we realize it before or after the election?
Its not skill and intelligence, plans or experience that Obama has, because affirmative action does not require any of these to rise to a position , its more the hatred of Bush that gets him elected.
Just listen to what is the best reason to vote for Obama from a Democrat, and they won’t cite anything tangible, just platitudes and beauty contestant verbiage such as “world peace”, the only real honest value they can cite is that “he is the most electable”, which means they won’t be voting for him based upon perceived skills, but rather voting to vote against the consertiave...
Golda Meir once said, ‘Israel will have peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.’
Likewise the US will be prosperous only when liberals learn to love their country more than they hate the conservative candidates.
I agree with your summary.
His words may have power, but not near the power of words on FREE REPUBLIC!!!!!
ding ding ding.
I also think he believes in his leftest views.
But...
His leftest view implemented will produce the exact opposite of his stated goals. That’s why he’s a fool. Foolish behavior produces the opposite of the desired outcome. Not only will the poor be poorer, so will everyone else.
Basically his solutions are feel good solutions that don't take into account the long term consequences. You can't take from productive people and give it to nonproductive people and increase a nation's wealth. It does just the opposite. Money is a tool. Take away that tool from people who know how to use it and give it to those who don't and we as a nation produce less. The less we produce the poorer we all are and the less we can do on any number of fronts.
Cult of Personality
by Living Colour
Look into my eyes, what do you see?
Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Neon lights, A Nobel Price
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your T.V.
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Neon lights a Nobel Prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set you free
You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be
I'm the Cult of Personality
I agree.
Remember, Slick never got 50% of the vote. With her polarizing personality, and very, very high negatives--there is no way she could ever get elected.
Hussein, on the other hand, is eloquent and mesmerizes his audience (heck, they even faint when they see him). He is a much, much bigger threat (which is why Republicans voting in any remaining elections should vote for Slick Hillie--since the longer we can draw out the Dem primary process, the better).
I guess I am one of the “gullible political class” because I understand Obama competely. Liberal and socialist commentaters have been filling in the details for years. Read Paul Krugman and Noam Chomsky for the specifics of Obama’s domestic and foreign policies. Hell listen to Hillery. Obama just puts it in grand phrases.
And speaking of health care, despite Obama's cheerleading skills, Obama is foolishly in contempt of the Constitution where his health care ideas are concerned. This is evidenced by the fact that his ideas are based on non-existent federal government powers. In fact, this post (<-click), while addressing a tax-related thread, explains in more detail why misguided dreamers like Obama are foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In sharp contrast to Obama's health care plans, for example, note that Thomas Jefferson, while reflecting on the Founder's division of federal and state powers, emphasized that the Founders trusted the states, not the federal government, with the care of the people.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, (emphasis mine) our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801. ME 10:262 http://tinyurl.com/onx4jI think that Obama, like FDR, is clueless to the fact that he first needs to rally the people to exercise their Article V powers to amend the Constitution to properly authorize the federal government to address health care issues. In the meanwhile, we cannot allow people like Obama to make our high federal taxes even higher to pay for federal government programs that are constitutionally unauthorized in the first place.
The bottom line is that the people need to wise up to the MAJOR problem of a federal government that is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, a consequence of FDR's dirty politics. Bluntly put, the people need to quit sitting on their hands and send big-shot, constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama and Clinton home instead of trying to put people like them in the Oval Office.
This kid is biracial, physically attractive, charismatic, an excellent orator and neither of his parents were bootlegger criminals...all comparative positives.
I think, as Rush said, we need to concentrate on our congressional races.
Barrack (Iraq) Hussein (Hussein) Obama (Osama) , in my opinion, will be elected.
We need to neuter him by electing an opposition Congress, then he, like Carter will be a one termer.
“We underestimate Obama at our own peril.”
Absolutely true. There are a lot of factors this year that work for Obama. The biggest one will be the economy. Houses aren’t selling (and in my neck of the woods there have been more foreclosures than sales since the beginning of the year) and people can’t use their equity as an ATM, gas is approaching $4.00 a gallon, groceries are skyrocketing. When Americans can’t buy stuff they get anxious and upset. Couple all that with an unpopular war and the fact that the Republican party has held the Presidency for eight years, and the incumbent President is not all that popular.
All that points to a Democrat win, unless the Pubbies pull a rabbit out of their hat, and I don’t think McCain can do it. He’s old, not all that likeable, not a good orator, he’s admitted to not knowing much about the economy, which is looking to be THE ISSUE this November, and his campaign seems to be flailing around with misstatements, retractions, apologies, etc.
When people don’t like what they have, they will vote for “change,” however nebulous or undefined. Freepers here laugh at it, but I’m sure the “hope for change, and change your hope” message has been thoroughly researched and focus-grouped as the message the electorate wants to hear this year. All the candidates, including McCain, have used the hope and change mantra this primary season to one degree or another.
The general looks to me like a replay of the nomination, with McCain playing the part of Hillary. He will start out pretty strong, but the more people see of him, the less they’re going to like him. Conservatives vote on principles, but moderates and independents vote on emotion, and barring something unforeseen, Obama will have that vote sewn up.
BTTT!
Richard Whalen wrote Reagan's "secret weapon" was that "Democrats fail to take him very seriously."Same goes for GWB. Same goes for GHWB. I scarcely believe that anyone on FR doesn't take Hillary or Barry seriously, except for the a-holes who plan to vote for either of them in November.
The Black Senator Who Could Challenge Hillary
The Telegraph (UK) | 10-6-2006 | Alex Massie
Posted on 10/05/2006 9:19:24 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1714603/posts
