Posted on 05/08/2008 2:12:44 PM PDT by neverdem
Buyer's remorse was beginning to afflict supporters of Barack Obama before Tuesday's primary election returns showed he had delivered a knockout...
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John McCain as the Republican candidate does not like that kind of campaigning, either. But a gentlemanly contest between the old war hero from out of the past and the new advocate of reform from the future probably would guarantee Democratic takeover of the White House. The Republican Party, suffering from public disrepute, faces major Democratic gains in each house of Congress -- leaving the defeat of Obama as the sole GOP hope for 2008.
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The test of Obama's strategy may be his friendship with and support from William Ayers, an unrepentant member of the Weatherman terrorist underground of the 1960s. Instead of totally disavowing Ayers as he belatedly did his former pastor Wright, Obama potentially deepened his problem by referring to Ayers as just a college professor -- "a guy who lives in my neighborhood." He then compared their relationship with his friendship with conservative Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, as he had compared Wright's racism with his white grandmother's.
Democrats abhor bringing up what Obama calls Ayers' "detestable acts 40 years ago," but it will be brought into the public arena even if it is not McCain's style of politics. A photo of Ayers stomping on the American flag in 2001 has been all over the Internet this week. That was the year Obama accepted a $200 political contribution from Ayers and the year in which the former Weatherman said: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
While McCain will demand no response from Obama, others will. How the prospective nominee handles this in the future will help define whether he is seen as flawed or fantastic in the long campaign ahead.
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Flawed.
Big time.
Flawed, Fantastic?
Try communist.
Ruefully
Please refrain from using the term “swiftboat” and replace it with the term “truthboating”. Thank you....:)
Obama = Turd in punch bowl
The three worst people who might be president of the US.(in order of ‘worstness’) — Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, John McCain. OMG, how did we get to this point?!
No one has challenged Obama on his political philosophy. I think he’s a Marxist. I say that because Marxism is not only Wright’s philosophy, but it’s also the documented basis for the Church that Obama attends (whether Wright is the pastor or not). William Ayers is also a Marxist.I haven’t read Obama’s book, but I hear that he admits to searching out Marxists during his college years.
We know Obama has a very Leftist voting record both in the state legislature and in the Senate.
Why doesn’t he have to explicitly tell us where and how his political viewpoint differs from Marxism?
Seriously, unredeemably flawed!
Has anyone viewed his college transcript?
I don't know. It would be interesting to see what classes he took.
both. he's fantastically flawed...
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