11. He has Satan on his side, so that negates reasons one through ten.
Posted on 07/31/2008 10:34:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an election cycle where Republicans are reviled and the GOP candidate, John McCain, seems to inspire less excitement than a Droopy marathon on the Cartoon Network, it's hard for some people to understand how the race is still close. After all, Barack Obama is drawing record crowds and generating the sort of wild-eyed loyalty from the press that hasn't been seen since Guyana, right before they broke out the Kool-Aid -- and yet, on paper, this race is a coin flip.
Why is that? Because this race is turning into a referendum on Barack Obama and quite frankly, he has absolutely nothing going for him besides the fact that he's young, good looking, black, and does a great job of reading the speeches his handlers have prepared for him. Once you get beyond those paper-thin qualifications for office, Obama is nothing but a mass of flaws, bad character traits, and left-wing agitprop. While the press lauds Obama as if he just cured cancer and invented a car that runs on lawn clippings in the same day, everyone else can't help but notice...
The Snobbery: If little girls are made up of sugar, spice, and everything nice, then Obama is made up of arugula, personal presidential seals, and hubris. Never before has a candidate with so few accomplishments to his name looked so far down his nose at the American people.
The Phony Idealism: Silently, there must be a lot of liberal Democrats kicking themselves today because all during the primaries, the race was portrayed as a battle between Barack Obama, the idealist and Hillary Clinton, the pragmatic, say-anything-to-win candidate. Then, the moment Obama captured the nomination, all of those precious ideals flew out the window and Obama started shifting his positions farther and faster than Hillary Clinton ever did. So much for the candidate who was supposed to be a "new kind of politician."
The Anti-White Racism: Obama spent 20 years going to a virulently anti-white, anti-American church while he used Jeremiah Wright -- who's the moral equivalent of David Duke -- as a spiritual mentor and a sounding board. This is not a man who looks kindly upon what he refers to as "typical white people."
The Lack of Patriotism: Rather famously, Obama refused to hold his hand over his heart for the national anthem and publicly made a point of not wearing a flag pin -- and then had the "audacity" to complain when people quite naturally questioned his patriotism. Since then, Obama replaced the American flag on his plane with his own symbol and made a point of running down his country and calling himself a "citizen of the world" while he was overseas. Is having a President who loves his own country too much to ask? In Obama's case, apparently so.
His Liberalism: Although Obama has attempted to shift to the center since he captured the Democratic nomination, his record is one of radical liberalism. In fact, he was ranked as the single most liberal senator in 2007 by National Journal, actually supported a complete ban on handgun sales, and wants to hand out 845 billion dollars to foreign nations as part of an effort to "elimin(ate) extreme poverty." If you would be thrilled to have a President who is as liberal as Michael Moore or Keith Olbermann, then Barack Obama is your man.
His Changing Position On The War in Iraq: In one of the most ironic twists of the campaign, Obama beat Hillary Clinton by being so stridently anti-war in Iraq, but his latest ever-shifting position essentially mirrors that of John McCain. Although Obama is still promising a timeline, he is saying he could leave 50,000 troops in Iraq and that the withdrawal is "entirely conditions-based." Although the lefties are biting their tongues, you know they must be seething that they've been sold down the river on their biggest issue -- or maybe they just assume he's lying, which is entirely possible.
His Inexperience: Obama has never served in the military, the House, or as a governor, was first elected to the Senate in 2004, and his battle with Hillary was the only tough campaign he has ever been in. In other words, if he's elected, he would be one of the least worthy candidates ever to make it to the White House. If we had another 9/11 on his watch or even if one of those infamous 3 AM emergency calls that Hillary campaigned on were to come in, would you rather have Obama or McCain handling it? For that matter, would you rather have Obama or a random person picked out of the phone book handling it? Neither Obama nor the random person from the phone book would have much relevant experience, but at least the random person would probably be humble enough to realize it and ask for help, unlike Obama.
The Poor Judgment: This is a guy who stayed in a racist church and stuck by a bigoted reverend for 20 years, grotesquely leaked his Western Wall prayer to the press, and blew off a visit to see wounded troops while the whole world was watching him overseas. In other words, even when it comes to matters of mere politics, this is not a man who can be trusted to make wise decisions. So, how can we trust him to make good policy decisions for the country?
He's Gaffe Prone: When John McCain makes mistakes, the media tries to portray him as senile. But Obama makes dumber mistakes than George Bush, more mistakes than Dan Quayle, and that's despite the fact that he spends far less time talking to the press than McCain. So, what's his excuse for thinking that we have more than 57 states, claiming America's "fallen heroes" were in the audience listening to him, and his claim that "'10,000 people died' in the Kansas tornadoes when the death toll was really only 12?" Dan Quayle’s notorious potato(e) error, which was used to forever portray him as a drooling moron, wouldn’t even qualify as one of Obama’s top five mistakes.
His Fuzzy Platform: Obama's positions on guns, the war in Iraq, taxes, FISA, and public financing, among other issues, have shifted faster than a cheetah chasing a greyhound through an obstacle course. Since he doesn't have much of a record to go on, seems to have very poor judgment, and he doesn't have a solid platform to stand on, how are people supposed to know what he will do when he gets in the White House?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It would be a disservice to our men and women in the military to elect a man as CIC who places no deeper regard for the banner that drapes their coffins when they pay the ultimate sacrifice to earn him his ability to run for public office.
11. He has Satan on his side, so that negates reasons one through ten.
Well, the little turds have obviously done some research (too bad some of it wasn’t in improving written English skills), but I don’t think they have the faintest clue what they would be getting into. After a few of them died, their “understanding” would probably increase exponentially.
The whole put-down of the Christian gun crowd will definitely come back to bite him. Unlike the Democrats, whose backbone has become the kook fringe, the Republican base is by and large moral and practical and hard-working. Add to that the Regan Democrats and the PUMAs behind Hillary, and BHO looks more and more like the joke that he is.
Not to raise taxes.
THAT'S A HUGE THING. Coverage, zip.
I didn't see it at conservative blogs, either.
Let me draw a picture of what I'm trying to say: You can always know when a K-12 curriculum has been authored by liberal academics. There's tons of pictures on each page; and the text is paltry (and of course biased). Experts in ed have found that all that superfluous crap addles synapses in students. And therefore, the tests on subject matter also tend to be "subjective" - which is something conservatives allege to scorn.
John McCain does not clutter the pages of his campaign trail with lots of pictures and paltry text or substance.
Obama does.
Liberal ed texts are flawed, massively flawed, and generally reduce each student using such a text to be a human guinea pig for the social scientists who are in bed with Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrats who've been designing the educational curriculum for K-12 and colleges/U's for many years know exactly what types of visual cues effect "viewers".
And many conservatives have been "reared" on liberal textbooks.
John McCain has promised not to raise taxes. Can we begin having visuals, graphs, and pictures on his pages too? Or should we?
For all Obama's flaws, and yes, his are readily apparent (gaffes, waffling, etc.), people trained to looking at the pictures, and paying little heed to paltry text will not be inclined to let "flaws" supercede visuals.
What Obama's Magical Mystery Tour did not get was a bounce. The visuals "failed" to produce. I'm not certain that this is because nobody "bought" the visuals. I'm saying its possible the "populace" is still trying to balance the clear visual of Obama's "anti-military" stance with the visuals produced via Magical MT.
The liberal curriclum raised students are having a "moment" of quandry.
John McCain has promised not to raise taxes. And for the life of me, I cannot figure out why conservatives can't grok this.
The British have a name for people like nobama - twit.
The Lack of Patriotism: Obama never registered with the Selective Service as required by law!?!
No, that it would cost him the nomination, so he has no chance at the election. It was late.
Our political system is, unfortunately, binary.
The interlude of Republican government (1994-2006) for which so many worked so hard was a failure. It may yet prove to have been a catastrophe.
Now, I know all about the media, and Clinton, and the Gang of 14, and all that crap - but the fact is, the average voter, when he thinks about "change" is thinking about firing George W. Bush and not letting anyone closely related politically to him near the White House for 50 years.
I still think Obama is going to lose, because he is so stunningly unqualified - but he fall of the Republicans in entirely their own fault - and if you believe in the theories which underly our system, it's very well deserved.
We are very fortunate that he is "young, green and inexperienced". Otherwise, he'd be even better at conning naive and ignorant Americans into believing he actually loves our country and has its best interests at heart.
While I agree, should McCain appear as just an extension of the Bush Regime and ignore domestic policy over foreign, he will have lost well before November. Outside of FreeRepublic, Americans blame Bush for every wrong of American society - from the war in Iraq brought on by "faulty intelligence" to high energy prices for his and Cheney being oilmen to the housing market slump because lender regulations became more relaxed under a Bush inspired, Republican controlled Congress.
Many I speak to eagerly anticipate November when the current administration is over. We might not LIKE the attitude, but it is what it is.
I would suggest you go back a few years and you'd see it became unnecessary to register - beginning with the year of my 18th birthday (1976). I know because they REFUSED my registration. Obaba is just three years my junior, so I know it wasn't required by law for him to register.
“What a pompous ‘tit’.” Hilarious!
I haven’t heard this one before.
Seems like a good analysis albeit an obvious analysis for anyone other that the media and Obama supporters.
I used to feel the same way up until a few years ago. But the more I've learned about the left, the more I reject anyone that sides with them, assuming they fully know what they're doing, and many of them do not. They are completely ignorant of the true motivations of the left. I think I would put Merle in this category. And, as I mentioned earlier, he is very likely under the influence of Willie Nelson, who actually suspects that the Bush administration was behind the 911 attacks. Willie was always a strong Dennis Kucinich supporter.
Hilarious! I haven’t heard this one before.
Sounds like a line from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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