Why Obama Lost the 2008 Election .... (Actually 10 reasons)

Intellectual Conservative ^ | August 6, 2008 | Phillip Ellis Jackson

[IrishMike]

Ten reasons why Barack Obama will not win the 2008 presidential election — and none of them have anything to do with his middle name.

Yes, I know it’s only August, and only a simpleton or clairvoyant would offer a post-election analysis about how Barack Obama blew the 2008 presidential race.

Needless to say I’m not clairvoyant. The jury still seems to be out — at least in some people’s minds — about whether I’m a simpleton, though. But, I won’t use any innate foolishness I possess as the basis for offering a judgment about the outcome of an election that’s still three months away. Rather, I’m going to do what any good political analyst should do; analyze the present situation and offer a (hopefully) informed assessment well before the trends I detect become so manifestly obvious that everyone will claim they too “knew” the outcome months in advance.

So here’s my top ten list of reasons why John McCain, despite running one of the most turgid and uninspiring campaigns in modern electoral history, will succeed George W. Bush as the 44th President of the United States.

Reason #10: Racist white voters will not support Obama

No, this isn’t a condemnation of white, Southern, toothless, gun-toting Republicans. It’s an observation about the rank and file of the Democrat party. Whether it’s angry older white women who feel that the election was stolen from Hillary by an upstart younger black man, or just your average Joe Six Pack union worker who made it clear in the Democrat primaries that Bill Clinton was speaking for him when he floated his racist trial balloons on Hillary’s behalf, the so-called party of the average guy has repeatedly shown its true colors; pure white, not half-white.

This shouldn’t be much of a surprise. A former Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan is now the respected Dean of the Senate Democrats. Any effort to break the cycle of black poverty and illiteracy through welfare reform and school vouchers has been repeatedly opposed by Democrat party officials who prefer their constituency to be completely dependent on the largess of their white elected leaders, rather than even the tiniest bit self-sufficient. Even Democrat fellow travelers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are less interested in bridging the divide between blacks and whites than they are in filling their own pockets with money from guilty white liberals and blackmailed corporations. Al Gore may have invented the carbon credit scam where his companies profit by selling hypothetical indulgences to hypocritical environmentalists who want everyone but themselves to change their lifestyles, but he doesn’t hold a candle to the organized race-for-hire politics of Jackson and Sharpton. The Democrat party is about preserving racial politics, not ending it, so it comes as little surprise that those who live by that sword may also die, at least metaphorically, by that same sword.

Take away the small cadres of limousine liberals and idealistic youth who will vote for Obama to assuage their guilt over being born wealthy and white, or just think it would be really, really cool to have a Black Guy in the White House even though it’s not all about skin color, and you have the naked face of race-based politics rearing its head in the Democrat party. The “Bradley Effect” is alive and well among Democrat voters, so named because they have a distinctive habit of lying to pollsters about their support for black candidates, only to act differently on election day. When their decisions actually count, all their progressive, liberal pabulum goes out the window as they reach for the lever and vote for the white guy like they did repeatedly in California, Chicago, New York and other cities. It’s why Obama needs to be 10-12 points ahead of McCain in the battleground states on November 4 — not statistically tied like he is today — or he’ll end up losing the election by double digits.

[kcm.org]

In spite of the hard sell to the young IPod/IPhone voters, they are not buying Sen. Osama hype. America is too great for Warren Buffet-line to call our shots through a shill!!

[mouse1]

1.) COLB
Proven fake by more than one source
2.) Sketchy childhood
We know some details - Lots of gaps
3.) College thesis has vanished
Was it anything like Michele’s?
4.) Overseas travel
Why?
5.) Law records
What cases did he represent?
6.) Senate records disappeared
What was he trying to hide?
7.) Associations
Rev Wright, Ayers, Michele etc.
8.) Senate voting record
That speaks for itself
9.) SCOTUS
10.) Clinging bitterly to my guns and religion

TEN REASONS I WONT VOTE FOR OBAMA

[envisio]

“””RACIST WHITE VOTERS”””

What about the black voters? Obama is said to have 90% of the black vote. Is that not racism against McCain?

Oh but if McCain had 90% of the white vote... that would be racism.

[camle]

kinda counting yer chickens a little eaarly, ain’tcha?

[pgkdan]

I say McCain will take 40-45 states in a landslide. If the GOP keeps the energy pressure on they may be able to actually pick up a couple of seats in the House and hold their own in the Senate. We’ll see. One thing’s pretty certain though...McCain will not have coattails. The down ballot Republican candidates are on their own.

[Patrick1]

Ouch quite a smack down. I agree with the view that is the Messiah doesn’t lead by five or more he loses to McCain and by more than Keith Olbermann’s head can stand.

[IrishMike]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057396/posts

[Archytekt]

“Reason #10: Racist white voters will not support Obama”

should read:

Reason #10: Racist white Democrats will not support Obama

[cdbull23]

"What about the black voters? Obama is said to have 90% of the black vote. Is that not racism against McCain?

Oh but if McCain had 90% of the white vote... that would be racism."

Completely irrelevant in the context of this article. The author is saying that currently, white Democrats are saying in polls that they'll vote for Obama, but when it actually comes time to vote, they simply won't do it, i.e. the Bradley Effect.

Black voters who say they will vote for Obama WILL vote for Obama.

[bert]

.....Reason #10: Racist white Democrats will not support Obama....

What’s really funny is that they have developed an iron clad cover. They won’t vote for Hussein because he’s probably, likely, said to be, might be (pick one) Muslim.

The reason is he’s black but the excuse is he’s Muslim

[laotzu]

[PhilDragoo]

[laotzu]

1) Every now and then, Obama opens his eyes and the world springs into existence.
2) When a tree falls in the forest, Obama hears it.
3) Obama can clap with one hand.
4) Prometheus was punished for plagiarizing Obama.
5) Obama can make a journey of a thousand miles without a single step.
6) Socks worn by Obama are used for climbing walls in Spiderman movies.
7) Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race when she learned Obama's true name.
8) "Obama" is the very first word in the English language to be a verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb, interjection, superlative and pronad. (Pronad is a new category made specifically for the word "Obama" so its power can be fully realized).
9) When Obama squints dreamily into the distance, he can see next week's lottery winning numbers. But he never plays because that would mean poverty of ambition.
10) Obama can calculate your guilt just by looking at the numbers in your checkbook.

[junta]

The left is not a monolith it is a conglomeration of cults rigidly segregated from one another. Obama’s problem is that he is identified with the crazier ones and they identify with him. Imagine the Black Civil Rights cult sitting next to the GlobalWarming Zero Population Growth cult and having anything in common much less anything in common with the Six Pack American?

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

February 23, 2008:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1974972/posts?page=31#31

Slight clarification here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1974972/posts?page=32#32

February 22, 2008 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1974398/posts?page=104#104

[nina0113]

Obama is said to have 90% of the black vote.

I'll be interested to see how that really shakes down - I think there may be a reverse-Wilder effect going on. I guess the only way to tell will be with precinct-level results, I wouldn't even believe exit polling.

[Islander7]

8) “Obama” is the very first word in the English language to be a verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb, interjection, superlative and pronad. (Pronad is a new category made specifically for the word “Obama” so its power can be fully realized).

I thought the ‘F’ word was the first to be all and do all.

[nikos1121]

so far I agree with # 10

[Matchett-PI]

"kinda counting yer chickens a little eaarly, ain’tcha?"

Someone else counted them a lot earlier. :)