Posted on 03/05/2008 8:37:08 AM PST by zendari
WASHINGTON -- So now all Republican political calculations come down to one question: Will it be possible to successfully criticize a candidate whom even Hillary Clinton, the toughest partisan in American politics, could not wound?
Barack Obama will not be defeated by taunts about his middle name, which gain his juvenile persecutors all the sympathy of a schoolyard bully. He will not be defeated by sinister interpretations of his hypnotic popularity -- people generally (and unsurprisingly) are attracted to the handsome, genial and eloquent. And in a change election, Obama will not be defeated because he seems inexperienced -- his freshness is actually a qualification.
But Obama may be defeated in the end because he is inexperienced -- because he has already made some serious errors in the primaries that will exact a cost in the general election.
Obama's 100-day agenda would be designed, in part, to improve America's global image. But there is something worse than being unpopular in the world -- and that is being a pleading, panting joke. By simultaneously embracing appeasement, protectionism and retreat, President Obama would manage to make Jimmy Carter look like Teddy Roosevelt.
Which is why President Obama would probably not take these actions -- at least in the form he has pledged. Sitting behind the Resolute desk is a sobering experience that makes foolish campaign promises seem suddenly less binding.
But it is a bad sign for a candidate when the best we can hope is for him to violate his commitments. And that's a good sign for John McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Baraq is the name of the winged horse that Muhammed claimed he rode to heaven and back. The horse had the face of a woman and a tail like a peacock. This is too much for me.
Obama-A vote for socialism
Mhm. The media claims the opposite; namely that Barack is a ‘unity’ candidiate.
And he’s bought it.
It’s not really interesting, its expected.
The Clintons are (sadly) successful politicians who have actually done something to further the liberal agenda.
If the radical left would sit down and think, they wouldn’t turn on Hillary. Because Hillary is going to turn on Hussein to ensure she gets another chance in 2012.
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I think part of the problem is that many people, and particularly those who are still young, don’t think it matters much who is president anyway. Someone who is engaging and likeable is good enough for them. Fortunately, to most people, Senator McCain is actually engaging and likeable most of the time, and a case can be made for his experience.
Senator Obama is clearly an intellegent person, and also likeable. His argument that he is the best available change agent is his strongest one. It will take a little time to flesh it out, but Senator Obama is much more of a European-style socialist and internationalist than people generally realize yet. I think that needs to be developed and exposed.
Senator Obama’s world view is very much that of the average Ivy-league faculty’s, and that of other Ivy-league faculty wannabee’s. It would come at the cost of our admirable but expensive military and it would come at the cost of a hamstrung economic system which would probably still be able to compete with the anemic Europeans, but would not be competetive at all with the vigorous Asian tigers.
I hope that in the course of the campaign, it can be made clear that Senator Obama is just a pretty face to put in front of the dour and snarling Senator Reid, the treacherous Speaker Pelosi, and the whole pantheon of irrational democrats who have been revealing their party’s nasty colors in endless hearings this past year. I think those endless hearings and snide press conferences contain the grist for the mill of an effective Republican campaign.
Senator Obama can’t, in the end, differentiate his brand of change from that of Howard Dean or Hillary Clinton, or any of the rest of the democratic leadership. The way to defeat Senator Obama is to tag him squarely as what he is, just another tax and spend democrat, just another defeatist democrat. A smoother talker than most of his fellow democrats, but very much just another of the same European socialist wannabes as all of the other democrats. That’s their platform. Stick it on them. Tell it like it is. Give the voters a choice of European State Socialism and pallid internationalism or the American free enterprise system and a values-driven foreign policy.
We republicans have the better product. Let’s market it.
Given the influence on Obama's policies by such Carter luminaries as Strobe Talbott and Zbigniew Brzeziński, one has to wonder if that isn't exactly where he'd head. These have been described by commentators who claim not to be under the influence of crack cocaine as "realists." Get ready for "hope" and "change" to morph to "malaise"...
President Obama will be the greatest thing that ever happened to this country. With Pelosi and Reid at his side, he will bring great changes to the country.
Total Democrat control will open up more American eyes than a billion dollars of RNC ads coud do.
By 2010, these changes will have so po’ed the populace that Reid and Pelosi will be gone.
By 2012, even the New York Times and NBC will want Obama gone.
It will be a new day for conservatism.
Oh, wait! The Republicans will probably seize the opportunity and put up another Bob Dole in 2012.
Nevermind.
Well said.
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