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Even some Euros are beginning to have doubts about the empty suit.

Especially Now that the bear is back in the woods.

1 posted on 08/22/2008 7:09:16 AM PDT by wildbill
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...[t]he fact is that the 47-year-old Democrat, less than four years in the Senate, is still largely a blank page for American voters: a great orator and an attractive figure, but unknown and untested.

Errr, uh, I might, mmm, not completely, uh, agree with, umm, what this, uh, author is... uh... saying.

2 posted on 08/22/2008 7:17:34 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (Ssshh! I'm a liberal plant AND a stalker!)
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But the uncomfortable truth for the many devoted fans of Senator Obama is that the more the race is about him, the less likely he is to win it.

Bam.

3 posted on 08/22/2008 7:18:54 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Entertaining read...Thanks for posting.

On the subject of nasty campaigning, American politics has always been fraught with mudslinging.

Thomas Jefferson hired writers to editorialize lies about John Adams. And John Adams returned the favor.

It actually might be that we’ve become more civilized in our nasty campaigning tactics.


5 posted on 08/22/2008 7:21:15 AM PDT by hoe_cake ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." MTwain)
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This election cycle reminds me a lot of Superbowl XXII. Back in 1988, the conventional wisdom was that John Elway and the Denver Broncos would roll over the Redskins, much like the elites have already given the election to Obama. I still remember Elway throughing that touchdown bomb on the first play of the game...


7 posted on 08/22/2008 7:23:50 AM PDT by Ozone34
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Great article. You gotta love the Brit’s take on things. I wish our media had half as much of a clue.


8 posted on 08/22/2008 7:23:58 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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Excellent summary of the campaign and the chosen one’s limitations.

Reading the comments section within the article, I loved this line by an Indiana farmer when asked if he was going to vote for Obama:

“I already have a saviour, I’m going to vote for a PResident”


9 posted on 08/22/2008 7:25:08 AM PDT by SueRae
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Great Post! I am going to forward a copy to everyone I know who needs a few points lowered on their blood pressure gauge, but not enough to keep them from voting conservative.


10 posted on 08/22/2008 7:25:58 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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I love it. How many francophiles and anglophiles are now rending their garments, knowing that their savioUr isn’t loved by every Brit on the planet?

BTW, just for the record, Barry Hussein Obama’s book is entitled, “the Audacity of Hope”

Roughly parsed, it means the “recklessness of hope”. If I were to be a betting man, and I am, I would think that by entitling his campaign as “hope” that he wants to proceed, full speed ahead, with no regard for anything.

Well, duh.


11 posted on 08/22/2008 7:28:10 AM PDT by Weya (Barack Hussein Obama hates the United States of America. No question about it.)
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But, But He Ventured Forth To Bring Light To The World. How could he not win?

If tiy think the above story is funny, you gotta see this video:

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


12 posted on 08/22/2008 7:34:58 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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Finally, someone in Britain who understands American politics:"For many of these working-class types, he's just a bit too cerebral, a little vague. His campaign lacks both substance and passion. While unemployment is rising, incomes are slipping farther behind rising inflation and house prices are falling, Senator Obama keeps talking about hope and change, keeps promising a new type of politics. These benighted Democratic voters don't really want a new type of politics. They want to know what exactly he's going to do to raise their living standards.

The irony for Senator Obama is that he has built a campaign on a pledge to put an end to cynicism in the political system, but the more he offers only vague promises of hope, the greater the danger that he increases voter cynicism about politicians in general and him in particular.

...The more the campaign is about the concerns of the American voter, especially the state of the economy but also the general anxiety about the direction of the country, the more likely they are to throw the Republicans out. But the uncomfortable truth for the many devoted fans of Senator Obama is that the more the race is about him, the less likely he is to win it. "

14 posted on 08/22/2008 7:37:58 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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18 posted on 08/22/2008 7:45:57 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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Also discussed here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065947/posts


22 posted on 08/22/2008 8:10:30 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Another great article from Mr. Baker. I loved his reading of another great article he'd written this summer: The Obamessiah
24 posted on 08/22/2008 8:39:01 AM PDT by Kellykoop (All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.)
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a great orator

Not by any stretch of the word.

26 posted on 08/22/2008 8:54:38 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Earth First...we will drill the other planets later.)
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