Here's something I'm not great at...
Posted on 09/08/2008 10:19:52 PM PDT by Red Steel
I cannot recall anybody who ever categorized Hugh Downs as either an extremist or even a mild right-winger.
And this is why this now-retired American broadcaster, renowned TV host-producer and author of an electrifying column headlined "Obama will lose" should have received – but did not – front-page and prime-time coverage all over the U.S.
The following are highlights from a three and one-half page article:
* "Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated. Not due to racism, not due to the forces of reaction, not even due to Karl Rove sending out mind rays over the national cable system. He will lose for one reason above all, one that has been overlooked in any analysis that I've yet seen. Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake. I'm using the term in its generally accepted sense. A flake is not only a screw-up, but someone who truly excels in making bizarre errors and creating incredibly convoluted disasters. A flake is a "fool with energy," as the Russian proverb puts it. ("A flake is a terrible thing to have around, but a fool with energy is a nightmare.")
* "(In Chicago) Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church has been turned inside out since the videotaped sermons appeared early this year, without anyone ever quite explaining exactly what Obama was thinking of when he joined up in the first place. Street cred, so it's claimed. But there are a plethora of black churches that would have provided him that, without the taint of demented racism that Wright's church offered. Obama apparently had to swear an oath of belief in "black liberation theology" when he joined the church. (It is the little touches of that sort that make it a "cult," and not simply a "church.")
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Jimmy Carter? James Buchanan?
Chester Alan Arthur was a dandy, wasn’t he? :)
What about Jimmy Carter? I remember people thought he was a flake.
How about that CHILDISH sing-songy VOICE?? OMG!! The thought of listening to that for years makes me ill.
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