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John Hawkins: Obama's Top Ten Flaws That Will Cost Him in November
Townhall ^ | August 1, 2008 | John Hawkins

Posted on 07/31/2008 10:34:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm worried less about Obama being a leftist than I am about his arrogance, his lack of personal credibility and his absence of good judgment. Those are three flaws that compromise a chief executive's stature. And come to think of stature - all of what he has is media-generated and none upon closer inspection, come from his own accomplishment or experience with life. Obama is young, green and inexperienced. With all of the above, he's not ready for the most powerful office in the country. The Presidency is no place for on the job training.

"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

61 posted on 08/01/2008 2:32:09 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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 -- "

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.

62 posted on 08/01/2008 2:33:38 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
They forgot #11:

11. He has Satan on his side, so that negates reasons one through ten.


63 posted on 08/01/2008 3:04:20 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I wasn't in church during the tim<img e when the statements were made.")
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To: ETL

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.


64 posted on 08/01/2008 3:20:05 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: Ingtar
I believe it will cost him the nomination, not the election.

If it costs him the nomination, it will cost him the election; unless, of course, you're suggesting he'll be a winner of the election via write-in votes.
65 posted on 08/01/2008 3:27:04 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Caipirabob
Oh, some group is planning a large anti-illegal immigration protest, so things could get really messy really fast.
66 posted on 08/01/2008 3:28:45 AM PDT by singfreedom
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To: mylife
This is exactly what is killing him with the blue collar class in Ohio. He puts on an act of "whoaa is me" while dissing people who had more difficult lives

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.

67 posted on 08/01/2008 4:32:11 AM PDT by Heartland Mom (The Presidency is not an entry-level position.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just this past week, R-John McCain promised not to raise taxes. The coverage of this promise was so minimal as to be nearly non-existent. I didn't see it posted here at FR. And I only saw the coverage at one news site.

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.

68 posted on 08/01/2008 4:35:40 AM PDT by Alia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The British have a name for people like nobama - twit.


69 posted on 08/01/2008 4:55:55 AM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Lack of Patriotism: Obama never registered with the Selective Service as required by law!?!


70 posted on 08/01/2008 5:44:53 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: aruanan

No, that it would cost him the nomination, so he has no chance at the election. It was late.


71 posted on 08/01/2008 6:25:49 AM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: YdontUleaveLibs
The fact is most people don’t look past the superficial and many young people and senile demonrats will vote for NObama just because he is a Demonrat and a good looking(not to me)black man.

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.

72 posted on 08/01/2008 6:32:58 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When He rolls up His sleeves, He ain't just puttin' on the Ritz)
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To: goldstategop; All
Obama is young, green and inexperienced.

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.

73 posted on 08/01/2008 6:42:25 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Heartland Mom
"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."

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.

74 posted on 08/01/2008 7:36:46 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: ricks_place
"The Lack of Patriotism: Obama never registered with the Selective Service as required by law!?!"

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.

75 posted on 08/01/2008 7:45:21 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: mylife

“What a pompous ‘tit’.” Hilarious!
I haven’t heard this one before.


76 posted on 08/01/2008 7:52:42 AM PDT by bamagirl1944 (That's short for Alabama, not Obama)
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To: azhenfud
You may be correct, but there is also the matter of of his admitted cocaine use which would disqualify him from enlistment. It should also disqualify him for CIC. After all, isn't that the charge that the Dems were slinging around about Bush with absolutely no proof?
77 posted on 08/01/2008 7:54:10 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems like a good analysis albeit an obvious analysis for anyone other that the media and Obama supporters.


78 posted on 08/01/2008 7:55:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Porterville
liberal or not, that is pure country music.

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.

79 posted on 08/01/2008 8:36:27 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: bamagirl1944
"What a pompous ‘tit’."

Hilarious! I haven’t heard this one before.

Sounds like a line from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZPCo_Cf_0

80 posted on 08/01/2008 8:45:10 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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