Posted on 09/12/2008 9:13:06 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Cautiously Optimistic.
I do love your confidence, you keep me going.
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the No. 1 person on the Democratic ticket argue that he’s better prepared than the No. 2 person on the Republican ticket. That’s not a winning argument even if you win it.
I’ve always liked Barone’s work. I have two of his Almanac of American politics books.
Thanks for this post...nice read!
Perhaps the Obama campaign strategists expected their many friends in the mainstream media to do their work for them. Certainly they tried. But their efforts have misfired, and the grenades they lobbed at Palin have ricocheted back and blown up in their faces. Voters are on to their game.
I loved this paragraph!!!! It is truly right on the mark. bullseye! This is why we are seeing Oprah not allow Palin on, The View and Charles Gibson trying their best to crucify our candidate instead of interview or even help as Stephanolpolus did last Sunday with the “My Muslim Faith” instead of Christian faith. Voters are on to this....tired of the manipulation and it will and is showing in the polls. Enough!!!
Michael Barone explains how the McCain’s employment of the OODA strategery has demoralized, thrown off balance and locked the enemy into a self-destructive cycle that threatens to obliterate him! The Obama campaign doesn’t understand what has hit them and why its forcing them to play the election on McCain’s terms.
Team Obama is starting to get back into McCain’s OODA loop though. It’ll be done by at least next week unless they make the domestic policy shakup I’ve been emailing around...
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest library and read Coram’s biography of Boyd. It’s great.
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Brilliant.
The pick of Sarah Palin was just the beginning.
Having HER zero in on ZERO during her acceptance speech, rather than “running” against the other VEEP was the 2nd brilliant move.
It’s as though McCain threw the pit bull a bone and that bone was Obama.
Right off the bat , I’m sure that stunned them.
Team Obama now really has to re-orient itself and figure on new and unprecedented strategies.
I don’t think they’re smart enough in this shortened time-frame to come up with much of anything.
They’ll keep trying different things,and they’ll keep stepping in it, sort of like Al Gore in the 3 separate debates with Bush when he presented himself as three separate people, trying to see which one would stick.
None of them did.
It doesn’t help when , day after day, people like Charlie Gibson and those VIEW gals come across and either condescending , or clueless shrews, getting more and more nervous that the tide is turning against their shoo-in candidate, the Mocha Messiah.
“The Obama campaign doesn’t understand what has hit them “
The dems worst fear is that they would live in a nation where one of the people setting the trends, and moral example, for the Presidential Administration, is Sarah Palin.
There’s another term that fighter jock often use. It’s called crash and burn which is exactly what Obama is going to do.
Impressive both of Barone’s Almanacs?
As for the article, well...perhaps...I’m reminded of the last book of Tolkein’s “The Return of the King”.
Gothmog....these guys won’t go quitely.
Wow. Fantastic analysis.
I say this in a lot of my posts but I will continue to do so as I believe it’s imperative for all of us to remember.
Yes, we have a chance. But the other side has no line they will not cross to win (reference their attacks on Palin and her family and now on McCain’s disabilities as a former POW).
We must continue in this as though we are 15 points down across the board. Whatever state you’re in, do not take for granted that your state will go either red or blue.
We must ignore the polls. They’re moderately interesting but largely irrelevant and almost always skewed to effect the electorate. Plus, it’s the electoral college that we need to care about, not a general poll about what percentage of the people say they’re voting for McCain.
How so? Team Obami is on perpetual defense because it has contracted gaffitis by osmosis from the selection of Biden. It is a wonderful thing to behold!
Bingo!
No, if you saw THE VIEW today, it was Barbara Walters in self-destruct mode. She couldn’t even look at McCain as her shrill voice got higher and he was smiling. Cindy McCain didn’t answer the question of how many houses they had, and they all ended up with their mouths shut. It was funny....the left looked looney.
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