Victor Davis Hanson: Autopsy of the Primaries

pajamasmedia.com ^ | June 2, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

Check the comments section for some very good comments

[Tolik]

I disagree with the premise that McCain is the only Republican candidate that can win the election this year. People do misunderstimate the power of consistent conservative message. Anyway, on the details VDH is right on money.

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[Jeff Chandler]

he has yet to figure out that unhappiness with Bush’s spending, appointments, and inability to articulate a message and defend himself does not really equate to a desire for billions in new taxes and unworkable new programs.

Add to that list open borders and Hanson is exactly right.

[STD]

I'm from Springfield Illinois, where BHO was frequently out on the town buying up drinks and hanging out with several pretty white girls. My friends own two nightspots and have given BHO rides home late at night or called him a cab when he was too far gone to drive.

Maybe Michelle is mad at "whitey" because she's too often awoke in the morning all alone?

Perhaps, BHO has only recently converted to a new found patriotism because he now enjoys social acceptance as he's risen to power and influence in public forums and at the DNC?

Whatever, we will certainly have a much better chance against BHO in the election race than we would against HRC.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

McCain is truly a socialist in Republican clothing, and he’s not a truly conservative Republican. McCain and all RINO’s at every political level shouldn’t be a part of the Republican Party, and all “big tent” Republicanism is soon going to come down!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the close:

In fact, I don’t think any of us know much of anything about OBama the candidate–and the more we can discuss this possible next President, the better off we will all be. The Carter experience should guide us here.

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Some Links to help:

Obama's Alliance with Marxists

And:

OBAMA’S FRIENDSHIP WITH PFLEGER ( Who is Obama?)..and with AYERS

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And a little gem from the first linked article:

and he supported allowing criminals to sue their victims if their victims injured the criminals in self-defense.

[weegee]

Obama’s personality has nothing to do with it. He has an angry political machine propping him up. He’s a stooge.

[rockinqsranch]

Respectfully disagree that “Obama’s personality has nothing to do with it.”

His personality is why the “angry political machine” is propping the stooge up.

Obama has nothing else.

[metesky]

Nice links. bttt

[george76]

http://bp2.blogger.com/_a3kDRNLmIJ4/SEV5exQMRqI/AAAAAAAACDE/AzpDMYyMSc4/s1600-h/obama.gif

[TexasCajun]

So, the Larry Sinclair story may not be such a stretch after all?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AP says he effectively has the nomination....FR thread:

AP tally: Obama clinches Democratic nomination

[potlatch]

Thanks for the alert. Cute graphic, lol.

 

Obama is too Old and Confused to be President

McCain is too Old and Confused to be President. That's the message that Obama supporters are trying to put out and they have a point.  After all McCain is clearly old.  McCain is an aged 71 while Obama is a spring chicken at the tender age of 46.

Unlike McCain, Obama is unconfused and on the ball all the time.

For example Obama knows that there are 57 states in the Union and he's visited every one of them. Particularly Mars.

Obama knows that 10,000 people died in a Kansas tornado that killed only 10 people. Clearly math was never his strong subject.

At Selma, Obama informed us that his parents met four years after he was born and that his Kenyan diplomat father had a flag draped coffin.

He knows that Canada's Prime Minister is actually a President

Obama knows they speak Arabic in Afghanistan and that there are poppy fields in Iraq

Obama knows that Matt Lauer is really Tim Russert

Obama had no idea whatsoever that his home church and the reverend with whom he had a 20 year relationship was a crazy america hating racist.

Hell Obama couldn't even figure out how to use the voting buttons in the Illinois State Senate

Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.

"I was not aware that I had voted no," he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he "intended to vote yes."

On March 19, 1997, he announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6: "I was trying to vote yes on this, and I was recorded as a no," he said. The next day, he acknowledged voting "present" on a key telecommunications vote.

He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. "I pressed the wrong button on that," he said.

Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. "I pressed the wrong button by accident," he said.

On Nov. 14, 1997, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside. Moments after its passage he rose to say, "I'd like to be recorded as a no vote," explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.

Maybe Obama was just tired all these years and needed a nap. Let's just hope he manages to figure out how the nuclear button and the intercom button works before he blows up the planet while trying to order some Spanish ham.

But don't worry, when Obama's campaign makes a mistake, it's always his staffers who are at fault.

After the Politico raised questions about questionnaire Obama filled out in 1996, Obama supporter Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wa., took to Tucker Carlson's MSNBC Show to say, "He didn't fill it out and he did not support those positions then . . . That was a questionnaire filled out in his first state Senate campaign back in 1996 not by Senator Obama but by somebody on his staff that didn't get it cleared."

Well that sort of thing can happen once or twice, right? Or over and over again. But what can you expect from a guy who doesn't even know what letters he's writing or for whom?

In a March 2008 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times to answer questions about Tony Rezko, Obama was asked about the fact that Obama had told the newspaper in November 2006 that he had never been asked to do anything to advance Rezko's business interests. But the Sun-Times had subsequently learned about a October 28, 1998 letter Obama wrote to city and state housing officials on behalf of a housing project for seniors that Rezko was working on.

Responded Obama: "I wasn't even aware that we wrote the letter. The answer that I gave at the time was accurate as far as I knew...This was one of many form letters, or letters of recommendation we would send out constantly for all sorts of projects. And my understanding is that our letter was just one of many. And I wasn’t a decision maker in any of this process.”

Who does the buck stop with? Not with Barack Obama who barely even knows when he's writing a letter in support of building a senior center on a toxic chemical spill waste site for the guy closely tied to his law firm who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for him. I mean whatdaya expect anyway? He's not a decision maker.

But with all of Obama's confusion and his ignorance of how many states there are and his constant inability to keep his staff from fooling him, maybe Obama is just too old and confused to be President.

At 46 isn't it time for Barack Obama who has had a dignified record of pressing the wrong buttons in the Illinois Senate and a hundred days or so in the US Senate voting Present on many major issues, to be put out to pasture and retire so he can finally enjoy the good life?

Far be it from me to mock Obama's premature senility but it would seem that his age and mental confusion makes the Presidency a too high pressure job for someone with his fragile memory and awareness.

Instead maybe it's time for the Democratic party to let in some fresh new blood such as 32 year old Rep. Patrick McHenry from North Carolina or 21 year old superdelegate Jason Rae. They clearly have the fresh ideas and the experience garnered from years of videogaming to figure out which buttons to press to vote on crucial issues.

If younger is better, than we can certainly do better than Obama. It's time for new ideas and less confusion. It's time for Obama to take his nap and make way for the younger generation. The fact is he's clearly too old and confused to be President anyway.

[potlatch]

Meant to ping you to #13 Ernest.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

read later

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

So, the Larry Sinclair story may not be such a stretch after all?

Hey, he said white girls, not white boys. IIRC, the Enquirer had said some months ago that BHO had an eye for the ladies.

[dennisw]

Both Obama and McCain have pulled off the once unthinkable. The former dethroned some 16 year of Clintonian political hegemony by the sheer force of personality and charisma,

Nonsense
Obama is an awful speaker.
He was the darling of the national media and that was his best advantage
Also lots of young people worked for him. They were fool enough to be inspired by him and his message of "change" LOL! These youngsters worked their butts off in the caucus states and other places. An unpaid army that Hillary lacked

Obama succeeded due to mass media and young volunteers

[driftless2]

McCain is a known quantity, Obama is not. Whether you love McCain or hate him, you know him and you know where he stands. This description does not hold true for Obama. What has come to light about him is not good. He’s got anti-American past and present associations. He has a far-left agenda. Remember many Americans who will vote in November know little about him. I suspect that the more the average voter finds out about Obama the less they’ll be likely to vote for him.

[Tolik]

There is a cliche about youth enthusiasm that does not translate into actual voting. Its interesting how this new cadre of naive will show up in November. Or not.

[BIGLOOK]

There ought to be something witty to say here......but I'm watching Hillary's non-concession speech now.


Oh....and Obama's as bright as a 40 watt light bulb powered by a solar panel at sunset on a cloudy day.