Posted on 08/01/2008 10:11:28 AM PDT by The_Republican
His arrogance is mind-boggling and WILL lead to his downfall.
Guaranteed.
All McCain has to do is not let IDIOTS like Phil Gram run their mouth. As long as he can keep himself and his surrogates from sticking their foot in their mouth, he would be ALL RIGHT.
OHIO, MICHIGAN and FLORIDA is where McCain needs to spent his money and other than Florida he has been doing that. Ofcourse, HAVE to hold Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia. All indications are that he IS going to be able to do that.
There is NO WAY that working class voters relate to Obama. Simply no way. Polls today are simply a way of VENTING frustation. Whatever small gains Obama shows there are just that and nothing more.
When actual vote happens, in NO WAY the blue collar workers push the button for an arrogant ass.
I would’ve thought that Bonnie Erbe has a brand new set of presidential kneepads at the ready.
She is a far-left gynocrat.
Obama has NEVER been a regular guy who why start now. He has been elitist for a long time and like a leopard cannot change his spots.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_operative_term_is_hubris.html
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
- Euripides
He has a seat on his campaign aircraft marked “president”. He has taken a shot at creating his own presidential seal, complete with Latin motto. He has laid claim to personal control over the world’s oceans and seas. He has repeatedly attempted to dictate how and on what level he, his ideas, and his activities may be discussed. He has encouraged a portrayal of himself as a messianic figure, including a portrait of himself as Christ, complete with halo. He is even now completing a triumphant grand tour of the old world, during which he attempted to shanghai an ancient monument for personal use without consulting the host government.
The operative term here is “hubris”. A word of Attic Greek origin, hubris was a major concept animating classical Greek thought. Hubris is overweening pride, an arrogance so profound and so visible as to affront the gods themselves. Hubris was a quality often identified with Greek tragic heroes. The hero allowed simple human pride in his accomplishments and station to burgeon to offensive proportions, at which point the wheels of fate began rolling. The ending was never good — the valiant Ajax stabs himself to death at a lonely spot, the kingly Oedipus is transformed into a howling, self-blinded wreck.
Barack Obama embodies hubris in chemically pure form. Not that he’s a tragic hero, or a hero of any sort, to anyone apart from his deluded legions of college freshmen. Beyond cleaning Hillary’s clock, he has no accomplishments to speak of, and as for his station... A glance at Trent Lott, Robert Byrd, and Ted Kennedy clearly reveals that “U.S. senator” is not a position of particular pride.
But even if he hasn’t founded cities, destroyed monsters, or led men into battle, Obama does share one quality with the heroes of the ancient world: an absolute conviction that he is superior to the ordinary run of humanity. Like them, Obama believes himself a man of destiny, and like them, Obama will go over the edge.
The only question is whether he gets to take the country with him.
There are rumors heating up that McCain would pick a female VP - Palin or Fiorina or someone like that.
That alone with these tight polls can make all the difference and get him across a finish line!
He doesn’t have to WIN the plurality of gynocrats, he just needs to break away 5-6%.
I believe he has fairly descent shot of doing just that.
Thanks for the post! I LOVE that quote by Euripides! It has so much wisdom and truth!!!! Awesome!
What??
. . . . . . . . No, seriously, WHAT!!??
The Seattle PI used to be a somewhat decent paper, but I see they’re sliding down the gangplank to Puget Sound. A shame.
> There are rumors heating up that McCain would pick a female VP - Palin or Fiorina or someone like that.
None of the above please. Palin is damaged goods, and Carly Fiorina would be a good choice only if we had a time machine and could bring her back from the pre-HP/Compaq merger era.
If the light's just right...
There is no Republican in the presidential race this year. McCain is the Democrat candidate and Obama is the Marxist-Socialist candidate.
that must’ve been before my time.
I have several lifelong frinds who are blue collar workers. They are union members and democrats, and white. They won’t vote for Obama....in this lifetime, or any other.
They view him as arrogant and elitist. The have said repeatedy “if the college boys are voting for him, then there’s got to be something wrong with him”.
My guess is she is a Hillary gynocrat (I like that) but a gynocrat non the less.
I haven’t seen her recently. So she’s porked up?
Lacking a decent candidate, the GOP needs another Lee Atwater more than ever.
I almost stopped reading at that point. A commentator that oblivious to what went on around her doesn't have a great deal of credibility to begin with.
True to this model, she seems dimly to have sensed what the rest of us have been shouting about for the last several months - Obama is an overinflated, oversold, overconfident blowup doll of a candidate, and his staff is doing the impossible by turning a sure thing into a poor joke. The reason cited for his defeat will, to be sure, be that we're all racists for not falling for it, but at some point you just can't pretend anymore.
McCain is a Moderate Democrat, Obama is a Communist.
My labels were more polite, but yours are more accurate.
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