This guy was "charismatic" too. Do they really want to drink the "Charismatic Kool-Aid"?
Posted on 08/25/2008 7:23:14 AM PDT by library user
Mrs. Clinton, after this convention, must listen to followers and form her 3rd party. History awaits.
I just don't get it.
Obama is quite different. People don't know him, they just know his image. Once people start to understand who and what he is, they will recoil. I think McCain will win very big. I just wish the GOP had picked a better candidate.
A friend who is a historian made a witty comparison between the DNC in Denver and an event that happened in the year 532 in Constantinople, called The Nika Riots.
Justinian I, the emperor, was a somewhat weak willed character, much like Bill Clinton. His wife, the empress Theodora, however, was very strong willed and fearsome, not unlike Hillary.
Constantinople itself was divided into four factions, ironically what today we would think of as sports fans, but far more political. Each of the four factions were associated with a color, whose shirt they wore.
Now Bill Clinton, or really Justinian I, was a supporter of the blue faction, or the blue States, as it were. Aligned with them was the more radical green team, that maybe today we can think of as the far left, environmental-agitator type anti-war Moonbats.
The other two factions, the red States, or team, and the white faction, which Howard Dean pointed out recently, were far more conservative, and less inclined to make trouble.
Some of the blues and the greens, who broke the law and got away with it, and were protected by the church sanctuary movement, were also protected by the Democrats, or blues and greens, who demanded that they be given pardons for their crimes, which Bill Clinton was willing to do.
Well, the blues and the greens, with the help of some treacherous congressmen, or really senators, tried to impeach him while President Bush was trying to negotiate peace with the Iraqis, or in this case, the Iranians, who were called Persians at the time.
Their leader, Hypatius, or Obama, that the extremist greens wanted to become the new emperor, met at the great gathering at the Hippodrome in Denver, called by Theodora, Hillary, as peace and unification talks of their two factions.
But Al Gore, the popular eunuch, named Narses, passed out gold to
Hillary’s supporters, so that at a given moment they walked out of the convention, leaving behind the surprised Obama supporters in the middle of Obama’s coronation and nomination as the new emperor.
Then imperial troops led by retied General Weseley Clark stormed the Hippodrome in Denver and slaughtered 30,000 Obama supporters.
Hypatius was executed, and the offensive congressmen Pelosi, Murtha, Reid and others were exiled for supporting the riots outside the convention hall.
Then after some lesser riots in cities around the nation, John McCain was able to restore order and the rule of law as the new President.
Because of her vicious and treacherous supression of the greens, Hillary, or Theodora, insured that her nation would continue for many years, even though she herself never got to really rule, since the empire didn’t permit female rulers.
Agree with everything you said.
LOL...
This guy was "charismatic" too. Do they really want to drink the "Charismatic Kool-Aid"?
Mrs Clinton will be the nominee of the d’RATS. There is a coup d’etat going on and she will not be denied.
I’m undecided about how I should feel about this. /s :)
Given the dislike of Bush and Republicans as evidenced by that focus group Luntz assembled, that may be the best we could have done this year. We may be thankful down the road given the anti-Bush sentiment out there. And I say that as a conservative Republican who is not a McCain supporter but who will hold my nose while pulling the lever.
I like 2 of the dems ONE WORD answers about McCain
“Bush Two.”
“Older generation.”
FAscinating - I have a read a historical novel about Empress Theodora ,by Gillian Bradshaw who is also clasical scholar, and your parallels are really stunning.
“Once people start to understand who and what he [0bama] is, they will recoil.”
What will bring such an understanding....and when will it occur?
My son’s friend’s mom said she’s voting for Obama because he will “bring us change”. During our short conversation I mentioned Giuliani, Romney, and Reagan and she said she liked all of them. Obviously this woman knows nothing about any issues and votes on personality.
I think that's the wrong question. Of course he's ready to do what the Democrats would like him to do....to turn us into Cuba. To think that asking if he is ready or not is going to score points with the Dems is wishful thinking, in my view, and it's the wrong thing to attempt to get the independents, the undecideds, to ponder.
I think the "threshold question" is two-fold, they are: 1-"Do you want a socialist America?", and 2-, "Is Obama a socialist?
Obama and Biden achieved the dubious distinction of being the most, and second-most liberals in the Senate. They finished AHEAD of Bernie Sanders. Sanders admits to being a socialist, something these two would deny.
We need to stop asking people to ponder whether he's "ready" or not and ask them to think about whether or not they want to ditch capitalism, because that's what a vote for these two commies will do.
That might happen DURING the convention.
It really depends on which way the wind is blowing.
It may be blowing stronger against Obama than we are aware
of, we NOT being Democrats who might well see their party going down the drain. Just consider how conflicted this party is right now, with a pretty even division between Hillary and Obama, and YET, a whole lot of buyer’s remorse and backtracking showing its face at literally the last minute. Yet they have to put on a good show to the rest of the nation at the Convention, and depending on how they pull that off, Obama may squeak through without a challenge. BUt I would DEARLY love to see the challenge I have been predicting for months, and a Hillary coup at the convention. THough all news reports in the last few days suggest it will be something less.
Obama's only hope is to hide and remain secretive as the election approaches. That, by itself, will turn people off. He has no choice but to step out and say something. Much of what he says will be a lie. And he will be called on it (again: McCain's ads have been harder than I expected).
I'm feeling good.
I too think McCain will win very big, like 60/40 AT LEAST.
But I recently had dinner with relatives who chuckled at the idea that Obama would NOT win in a landslide. Wanting to enjoy seeing them for the first time in 2-3 years , I quickly found a way to call a halt to that conversation.
They like many many others are going to be brought face to face with REALITY on Election Day. “BUT......everybody said he was going to WIN!!!! IT’s not FAIR!!!!!”
**21 undecided Colorado voters sit trying to decide whether they have more doubts and reservations about Barack Obama or John McCain. **
This is good news for the McCain campaign.
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