Posted on 08/30/2008 12:21:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the few political cliches that makes sense is that "In politics, overnight is a lifetime."
Less than a year ago, the big question was whether Rudolph Giuliani could beat Hillary Clinton in this year's presidential election. Less than two months ago, Barack Obama had a huge lead over John McCain in the polls. Less than a week ago, the smart money was saying that Mitt Romney would be McCain's choice for vice president.
We don't need Barack Obama to create "change." Things change in politics, in the economy, and elsewhere in American society, without waiting for a political messiah to lead us into the promised land.
Who would have thought that Obama's big speech at the Democratic convention would disappoint expectations, while McCain's speech electrified his audience when he announced his choice of Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate?
Some people were surprised that his choice was a woman. What is more surprising is that she is an articulate Republican. How many of those have you seen?
Despite the incessantly repeated mantra of "change," Barack Obama's politics is as old as the New Deal and he is behind the curve when it comes to today's economy.
Senator Obama's statement that "our economy is in turmoil" is standard stuff on the left and in the mainstream media, which has been dying to use the word "recession."
Not only has the economic slowdown failed to reach the definition of a recession, the most recent data show the U.S. economy growing at a rate exceeding 3 percent-- a rate that many European economies would die for, despite our being constantly urged to imitate those countries whose end results are not as good as ours.
Barack Obama's "change" is a recycling of the kinds of policies and rhetoric of the New Deal that prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s far beyond the duration of any depression before or since.
These are the same kinds of liberal policies that led to double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and rising unemployment during the Carter administration. These are "back to the future" changes to economic disasters that need repeating.
Make no mistake, the political rhetoric of FDR was great. For those who admire political rhetoric, as so many of Barack Obama's supporters seem to, FDR was tops. For those who go by actual results, FDR's track record was abysmal.
Although the Great Depression of the 1930s began under Herbert Hoover, unemployment during Hoover's last year in office was not as high as it became during each of the first five years under FDR.
During the eight years of FDR's first two terms as president, there were only two years in which unemployment was lower than it had been under Herbert Hoover-- and not by much.
World War II has been credited by some with getting the United States out of the Great Depression. What the war did was put an end to the New Deal, as national survival became the top priority and replaced FDR's anti-business and class warfare rhetoric.
Senator Obama's rhetoric today is the anti-business and class warfare rhetoric that worked so brilliantly in a political sense for FDR in the 1930s. But Obama is following an opposite course from FDR when it comes to recognizing threats to American national security.
Senator Obama has repeatedly tried to deal with national security threats with rhetoric. He tried to dismiss the threat of a nuclear Iran with because Iran is "a small nation"-- even though it is larger than Japan, which launched a devastating attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor.
FDR had the good sense to begin urging greater military preparedness in 1940, more than a year before the United States was attacked. He said, "If you wait until you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you."
Cutting the military budget and taking foreign policy problems to the United Nations are Obama's version of "change."
That is change that we dare not believe in. It is the audacity of hype.
This is great!
What is more surprising is that she is an articulate Republican. How many of those have you seen?
Indeed, Obama combines the WORST of both parties from the 1930s, FDR’s anti-business, high taxing, ultra-big government Socialism and the Republicans’ naive isolationism, now embodied by paleo-Conservatives like Ron Paul.
Barack's choice of Biden shows he is all talk, no action on change. He picked the safest, most old-fogey-ish of VPs. His speech was the same old boilerplate--my opponent sucks, her's an edited version of my "story," I'm gonna cut taxes and boost services, America's best days are blah blah blah, all from the set of the Sigfried and Roy show.
The libs are licking their chops that Biden is going to eat Palin up in the debates, and the lesbians are all shrieking "Hey, she's in the big leagues now, no quarter!" But they forget that mainstream women don't play by their rules--if Biden is Biden, he'll come off as a know-it-all, bullying jackass.
Rick Lazio offered the "tough" Hillary a pen and was branded a stalker. Cuts both ways, ladies--if Biden comes off as condescending and bullying, he will lose votes, no matter how many times DU says it's not fair.
I'm not afraid of a debate loss, though. Sarah Palin is the man Joe Biden wishes he could be.
Great post!
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That's gonna leave a mark.
Ms Rhodes claimed that this was McCain's "Abortion Hail Mary Play". She was joking (I swear to God) about McCain dropping back to heave a Hail Mary pass with a fetus. Her and her crew were laughing about this. Talk about sick.
Randi Rhodes also joked about President Bush being assassinated, so it doesn't surprise me a bit that she and her crew of morons laugh. I mean, it's not like they should be trying to get ratings or anything, they might as well sit around laughing like a bunch of drop outs.
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I doubt Biden can resist being the smug, arrogant, jerk that he is in the debates. He's running a huge risk with women (except for the NOW witches) who instinctively rally to the defense of other women. He'll have to have a very high I.Q. to pull it off, and I doubt he can.
Barack has gotten by on great press. When he makes a decision, or is away from a teleprompter, the evidence is there--he is ONLY where he is now because, in Biden's words, Dems saw him as a "clean" black man (or "Boy" as Jimmy Carter would sayd).
Now McCain picks a truly revolutionary choice--and not just because she's a woman--and you hear Larry King, James Carville, Begala, and the rest of the usual jackoffs groaning and moaning. A female liberal on the local radio station was FURIOUS, saying this was all about appeasing the "little woman"--all before she found out what kind of woman Palin is.
Biden must realize he is a non-issue now. His ego won't allow that. He will be condescending to her, and she will smash him down. He'll then start stutterring again.
“Sarah Palin is the man Joe Biden wishes he could be.”
Great line.
It's amusing to think how the same people who screamed bloody murder when Lazio handed Hillary a pen will be cackling in glee as Biden insults this woman.
But I think she can take him easily.
You just know, though, that if she makes any comments about her kids, Olberman and company will say she "played the mommy card" or the "mother of a soldier card" or whatever.
Biden can only play the Hair Club for Men card.
I am looking forward to the debates and can’t wait to see how Biden handles himself. There are many women who still remember how he questions Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas process. Many women perceived him as bullying up on Anita. Add to that the fact that many Democrat women believe Hillary was given a good dose of sexism by the DNC and you have the perfect storm.
If Biden appears the least bit bullying, the feminists for Hillary will think it is sexist and turn them even more off from the Democrat party.
I have no doubt that Sarah will put him in his place but she will do so in a much more eloquent way than Biden ever could and this will make the debate even more interesting to watch.
Get the popcorn ready!
Observed over the years by more than just a few. The creepy smile and slitted eyes have become even more apparent recently with the TV make-up.
Would anyone buy a used car from this man??
I wouldn’t buy a used hairpiece from him, that’s for sure.
Now, there's a bumper sticker we can believe in!!
Many young people are falling for this "hope" and "change" message, not realizing that "the emperor has no clothes," when it comes to defining the kind of "change" which will come from increased government intervention to force that change.
The geniuses who came together in America during the founding period came with a great passion for liberty and a deep understanding of the history of civilization's struggles against the tyranny of forced redistribution of the wealth of a people--whether by one or many rulers.
Under their constitutional formula for limiting government, America flourished.
We need restoration of their principles, not "change we can believe in."
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