Posted on 10/09/2008 10:40:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is a frightening thought indeed that Obama, as President, would have immediate, unquestioned, access to our most secret secrets, yet on his own merit he would be ineligible for a top secret security clearance.
Senator Obama couldn’t gain entrance into the military if his past associations were known, much less be given access to any type of intelligence or weapons information.
Yeah, I'm sure Tom Brokaw and Olberman and the rest feel such a sense of accomplishment that one person has a contrary view around FR.
I've never understood why some people don't dig it when someone tells the truth as they see it just because it differs from the prevailing desire. If you want FR to be nothing but a bunch of yes-men, you'll have to just read the other 99% of posts--if a tiny percentage of us don't see this mirage you do, why does that bother you? You're in the majority.
Of course. There's no reason not to vote, and anyone who WOULD be dissuaded because someone else senses doom is another of the sheep.
I was never very good about living in denial. But a prediction of bad possibilities rule doesn't rule me. That's for the emotion-based people I have no use for.
I do. I was telling that to someone just today, in fact.
But come on, if the polls were flipped, we'd be crowing proudly.
We can be saying 'Yeah, but the internals say...' all we like. One thing keeps popping up--we keep saying Obama can't close the sale, but he's been pretty consistently ahead of McCain. And you must be seeing some electoral maps I haven't. And I've seen a half dozen different ones, not one of them with anything even vaguelly hopeful.
Yeah, I was saying long ago "McCain, you are seriously deluded if you think the news media who love you so much are going to support you now." I recall Chris Matthews oozing love for McCain long ago--the last bit I saw on Youtube, you'd think McCain had just bashed Matthews' puppy with a shovel.
McCain was just shockingly unequipped to deal with Obama at these debates. McCain's "suspending his campaign" can now be seen as a complete mistake, and since then he's been failing, and looks it. Obama is calm--like the mannequin he is. That's what these "nonideological" swing voters want.
You're right, of course, we may see people split the vote if McCain and some 527 ads can get people wondering about Obama. But this is cutting it very close.
I give up.
I'm not going to bother to vote. It's just a waste of time. This thing is over.
Right?
If he gets the white and thw women's votes, it won't matter. And the Hispanic vote isn't going to be enough of a factor in the Bush states he could potentially swing.
Sky-high gas prices were bad enough, but McCain seemed to be getting past that situation and perhaps even pulling ahead of Obama. But not after the financial meltdown.
Very sad and very scarey to think of Obama appointing a wagon load of federal judges, who serve for life, from the SC on down. let's all learn how to say, "Goodbye to 250 years' worth of social capital and hello third world" status where elites make out like bandits and everybody else is part of the dependent underclass.
Now, please step aside. The adults with backbone will take it from here.
It seems Mexican immigration has put New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada (they think) into play. Obama is making a big lunge for them, trying to bust the Finkelstein Box in the West. But he has to open his own offices to work around the existing cadres, who, being older, are slow to cooperate with a black candidate, it turns out. Older Hispanics are cool to Obama, so he's trying to register and motivate young Hispanics to vote for him.
I'm certainly not voting for McCain out of enthusiasm for his policies; I'm voting for McCain as a way of stopping Obama. It's kind of like using a parachute as opposed to leaping out of the plane without--either way, we're heading for the same place.
Blah blah blah.
If you're such an adult, why don't you have the self-control to not read my posts? Do you have to respond to every post you disagree with, neurotically?
For an "adult" you sure come off like a spoiled child who can't stand the free flow of opinions.
Why would someone else's opinion cause you "despair"? How is that anything approaching an adult control of one's own emotions?
Too many people have this weird idea that the nuances that make up the truth will somehow get through to people who are so thick-headed they STILL haven't made up their mind who they're going to vote for (i.e. the undecideds).
very scarey to think of Obama appointing a wagon load of federal judges
Back when McCain first got the nomination and people were complaining, my tagline read "The one reason to vote for McCain: SCOTUS, SCOTUS, SCOTUS".
We can all thank Mike Huckabee for cutting into Romney's vote just enough to give us McCain. No Republican would have an easy win in this cycle, and one could say Romney'd be called a fat cat. But he would have, simply put, demolished Obama in the debates about the economy. He would talk rings around him on the subject of what's happening and what can be done about it. He would ENERGIZE people, and Obama's "cool, calm demeanor" would have been exposed as the dullard's silence it is.
What if, what if...
I hope we have some real conservatives ready to run in the midterms. Because if what my friends in finance and business have told me is accurate, the storm's gonna really get wild in the second quarter next year (one friend just reported that his business is booming because people have their budgets now to spend, and they won't have that kind of money when budgets are drawn up NOW for early next year), and Obama's gonna be one clueless community organizer paddling a rowboat atop a tidal wave.
This 'poisoned chalice' prediction as to how terrible things will be next year that whoever wins in November will lose in the future, may very well be true, but it does not reduce our obligation to do what is best for our country. Of course, if we lose, we can start the 'Impeach Obama' campaign in anticipation.
Then, God forbid, that imbecile does win, I plan to make his life miserable. Email, phone calls, calls to Rush & Hannity, by every avenue available to me, I will let Obama know my displeasure. The media can't protect him forever.
Talk about a lame silver lining, huh? :(
On the bright side, maybe we can reconstitute as a CONSERVATIVE Repubican party, but first we need a wholesale cleaning of the RNC. I don't see that happening with McCain as the head of the party (how does that work if the candidate doesn't win?).
If 0bama is elected, we are going to have serious, serious problems. Nightmare may not be too strong of a word.
I think that’s kinda the point: “the polls” NEVER ARE “flipped” though. Every election I can remember, where polls were a factor, the Dem has had the lead position. That is the reason I can never put much stock in what they say.
If 0bama is allowed to constitute an administration, there will be serious trouble. The mood of the right opposition will be much darker than it was in 1993-95.
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