Posted on 09/10/2008 6:12:34 AM PDT by seanrobins
The feeling is familiar. I had it four years ago and four years before that: a sinking feeling in the stomach. It's a kind of physical pessimism which says: "It's happening again. The Democrats are about to lose an election they should win - and it could not matter more."
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Look at yesterday's opinion polls, which have John McCain either in a dead heat with Obama or narrowly ahead. Given the well-documented tendency of African-American candidates to perform better in polls than in elections - thanks to people who say they will vote for a black man but don't - this suggests Obama is now trailing badly. More troubling was the ABC News-Washington Post survey which found McCain ahead among white women by 53% to 41%. Two weeks ago, Obama had a 15% lead among women.
There is only one explanation for that turnaround, and it was not McCain's tranquilliser of a convention speech: Obama's lead has been crushed by the Palin bounce.
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Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it
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What message would that be?
Call yer own damn military up when the Russian tanks roll back into Poland?
Let Europe sort it out the next time India and Pakistan play nuclear chicken?
I have a message for the Guardianistas- each American military gravestone in Europe- was an answer to their last big message. And their rebuilt economy and that of Japan? Yep, that too. And the nonexistent bloodstained Berlin Wall? Yep, that too.
The Guardian?
Pravda West, the ‘guardian’ of the marxist agenda.
The Guardian - Pravda with a posh accent.
Well...may I sugggest the world send UN troops to the US right now................
Fortunately, foreign dictators, crooks, and tyrannists do not pick the US President. Nevertheless, many US citizens are fully aware that the muslim world with money flowing from the middle east is attempting to buy obama the presidency.
When Russia invades Europe, let the “internationalists” defend Europe.
Us knuckle dragging, gun toting, bible thumping Yanks will sit on the sidelines and watch the carnage.
Yeah, that’s right... American elections are all about making the world like us. They’re not about what’s best for our country. Uh-huh. Makes perfect sense.
The world is full of thugs, like a dark alley.
Approval is not something that I look to receive from them.
The world is wrong. That is why the US has been, and still can be the leader. A leader leads, and does what is right. If a leader sacrifices doing the right thing to please the masses, that’s no longer leading, that’s Clintonism.
It is also known over here as ‘the Grundiard - the famous misprit’ because of all the proofing errors it contains:^)
Coined by the late great Spike Milligan (who they called Spike Milligna)
I love the Brits, but their politics suck. Perhaps the British press should be more concerned about the rising muslim population within their own borders than the politics in “the colonies”.
Well, basically it says that the world's esteem is now unwanted.
If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us - and, make no mistake, we shall hear it.
What arrogance...America might reject the candidate chosen by countries that continually insult Americans? We do slap you with the glove, sir.
So "Grundiard" was Spike Milligan's coinage? (That guy was a comic genius.)
The reality would be real harsh if we ever got a government that cut off aid to these whining, communist, parasites and limited it to governments that support us. They could then have the whine without the cheese.
I’m kind of hoping they’re stupid enough to do the same thing again with this election. The hopeless naivete of the average Guardian reader in trying to appeal to the sensibility of the average American wonder worked wonders for the Bush Campaign in Clark County.
McCain is a lot more interested in Anglo-American relations than Obama, although his support for a stronger more integrated EU is a bit worrying, but I don’t think that would make any real difference to the outcome of that particular battle....
Reminds me of the global Op-Ed threats made to Israel in the 1990s should they dare elect Bibi Netanyahu over Shimon Peres. Of course, they did.
It could be, that term was coined by ‘Private Eye’ and Milligan was a long time contributor to Private Eye in it’s earlier years....
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