Posted on 05/30/2008 12:40:29 AM PDT by neverdem
letter to the editor:
I have been following politics for a while. Since 1952. I have never seen the conventional wisdom about an election more baseless.
Why Obama? Charisma, ideas, hope? None of these or any other reasons that have been bandied about. It's Obama because he is not Hillary.
The Clintons embarrassed the Democratic Party. Many, many Democrats were ashamed of their President. They do not want to see Billary in the White House ever again, even as visitors. Note that Obama won in the caucus states where the politically active determine the outcome.
A Democratic year? How do you figure? Because the New York Times says so? Look at 2006! Yes, let's look at it. In the preceding 6 midterm elections where the incumbent President's party lost seats the average loss in the Senate was 6.1, in the House 29.33. In 2006 the Republicans lost 7 in the Senate and 30 in the House. Pretty ho-hum.
Let's look at the Democratic Presidents.
JFK and Nixon tied in the popular vote, even though Nixon was extremely unlikeable.
LBJ beat Goldwater in 1964. Kennedy had been assassinated, we were in the middle of a war and Goldwater was a radical.
Carter beat Ford in 1976. Nixon had resigned because of Watergate and Ford was an appointed Vice President.
Clinton beat GHWB in 1992 with only 43% of the vote. Ross Perot got 19% which, arguably, was 60-70% Republicans.
It seems that Democrats only win in extreme circumstances.
In our history we have seen stretches where one party controlled Congress that average about 30 years with occasional one-term reversals. I'll go with history every time.
From where I'm sitting it doesn't look at all like a Democratic year.
Regards,
Roy Lofquist
After the Rev. Wright fiasco, Obama might even lose Iowa.
Obama wins MA— the other 56 states he looses.
Like I just stated on another post, the radicals who are planning on showing up at the Democratic Convention could cause Colorado to fall into McCain’s lap if they cause any major trouble (ala Chicago circa 1968).
Obama is losing steam and McCain is now ahead 1 to 5 points in the recent National polls. I think the messiah effect has run it’s course. Rasmussen Data released yesterday gives McCain 5 point advantage.
I stick by the adage that you should never make predictions, especially about the future.
Hillary won the MA primary, even with the Kennedys backing Obama. Also, MA has its own version of Obama - Gov. Deval Patrick, he pretty much ran on the same platform of “hope”, “change” and “yes, we can” - I am hopeful that the people of MA have learned their lesson.....then again, that may be wishful thinking on my part.
that may be wishful thinking on my part.
yes...i believe it is.
I talked to a friend of mine in Iowa and he says that if the news of Rev Wright had come out before their caucuses that Fauxbama would be a dead man. He is toast in Iowa now.
I think you have it right.
That said, the current lineup of candidates is more gawd-awful than I can ever remember it being. Going back to Truman.
My plan?
Jump in the swamp
dig a hole
jump in the hole
pull the hole in after me
You owe me a keyboard!!
Sorry, I don't get it.
I am convinced God loves America. Only God could get McCain elected.
I'm firmly convinced that if Obama gets in with this radical Dem Congress there will be a push for Reparations Payments.
Don't believe me? Listen to the jackals in that abhorrent so-called church that he has attended for over 20 years.
I will hold my nose with both hands and push the McCain lever with my elbow.
Yeah this is the most brazen group of Communists to make a run at the White House.
Now we are learning that Obama is a malformed and contaminated fish who grew for 20 years in the scummy pond of Chicago's South Side politics.
Throw him back.
LOLOLOL!!!!!
I've been reading a few pro-Hillary blogs lately (Obama's are so syncophantic as to be nauseating), and if there's one tiny ray of hope in all this, it's a little lightbulb that I see going off in some Dems minds about socialism. Obama is the epitome of full-blown, no holds barred social redemption through collectivism, and they're not liking what they see. They don't understand that Hillary, and McCain for that matter, offer a more pragmatic, creeping version, but, in time, a very long and painful time, they just might make the connection.
Or not.
I stick by the adage that you should never make predictions, especially about the future.
In assumed this was meant to be humorous since it is impossible to make predictions about anything BUT the future.
It is a classic Yogi-ism. I will assume you are familiar with Yogi Berra and his many classic statements such as "When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
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