Posted on 08/22/2008 5:07:59 AM PDT by kellynla
Why is it a real race now, with John McCain rising in the polls and Barack Obama falling? There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention.
It's hard for our political class to remember that Mr. Obama has been famous in America only since the winter of '08. America met him barely six months ago! The political class first interviewed him, or read the interview, in 2003 or '04, when he was a rising star. They know him. Everyone else is still absorbing.
This is what they see:
An attractive, intelligent man, interesting, but—he's hard to categorize. Is he Gen. Obama? No, no military background. Brilliant Businessman Obama? No, he never worked in business. Famous Name Obama? No, it's a new name, an unusual one. Longtime Southern Governor Obama? No. He's a community organizer (what's that?), then a lawyer (boo), then a state legislator (so what, so's my cousin), then U.S. senator (less than four years!).
There is no pre-existing category for him.
Add to that the wear and tear of Jeremiah Wright, secret Muslim rumors, media darling and, this week, abortion.
It took a toll, which led to a readjustment. His uniqueness, once his great power, is now his great problem.
And over there is Mr. McCain, and—well, we know him. He's POW/senator/prickly, irritating John McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
"It would give bitter Democrats a chance to regroup, and it would give those who like Obama but consider him a little half-baked to vote against him guiltlessly while he becomes fully baked. (Imagine the Q&A when Sen. Obama announces his second presidential run in 2011: "Well, Brian, I think, looking back, there is something to be said for the idea that I will be a better president now than frankly I would have been four years ago. Experience, if you allow it, is still the best of all teachers.")
My God, is she that naive? Dems getting over it? They aren't over 2000! And time for Obama to mature? He will be just as bad then as he is now. Besides it won't happen. Losers in this fight don't get a second chance. If McCain makes this pledge he will be a lame duck from the get go.
Yes the press is in Fauxbama’s back pocket and have been for 4 months, and even that can’t keep him afloat. He’ll get his convention bounce, and that will be the last time his numbers go up, between now and Nov.
Possibly he'll get a bounce, but I wonder even about that. In a convention which will be for the purpose of nominating a Barak Obama, there is bound to be a critical mass of Jeremiah Wrights. I'm agreeing with your "Wellstone Memorial" analysis, and raising it - I just don't think that that many Jeremiah Wrights can keep their racist hostility from ooozing out. Not when they are entitled to reparations for things done to their ancestors, by the ancestors of some - but far from all - "typical white" Americans.I think they are not capable of staying within the script. Whether or not the polls reflect that immediately after their convention, I think that the defeat of the Obama campaign will be baked in the cake after the Democratic convention. After that, it'll be McCain's election to lose - tho I do not question that he is capable of losing it.
“He is an empty head on top of an empty suit?”
And how many years did you spend in the Hanoi Hilton...
that’s what I thought...
Wow. Can you say that on a family oriented web site?
Peggy's right. No one knows him. Hell, there are Americans out there who don't even know George Bush is President yet. And some of 'em vote.
Polk died on June 15, 1849, a mere 103 days after he left office, so it wouldn’t have done him much good to have run for a second term.
“The absolutely last thing in the world we want is for the Messiah to become “fully baked”
But think of what a “fully baked” Obama would be and what his record would be. He would progress along a very liberal path (necessary to achieve the Dem nomination). He would have a voting record that Americans just won’t buy. In voting in the Senate, you can’t have it both ways, the way he operated in the Illinois State Senate.
IMHO, neither of them will be alive in 2112.
marking for later
Pssst, Peggy, pretty Lady, Barack Obama is not the point of focus you in the media ought to be focus upon, David Axelrod is where your focus ought to be sonce Obama is his fabrication. David Axelrod is an expert at creating a receptor to which people can project ... IOW, Barack Obama is a projection SCREEN fabrciated by David Axelrod to receive whatever Axelrod can get people to project onto Obama Screen. It is a well known psychological phenomenon in human relations ... mate fall in love with what they have projected onto the ‘other’ and seldom see the real person onto whom they have projected their hopes and aspirations. Axelrod uses terms like ‘hope’ and ‘change’ as portions of the invitation to project onto the Obama screen what you want to believe about ‘tour choice in political leadership. And Peggy, darlin’, 99% of man-woman relationships will be hallmarked by the projector awakening to the real nature of the screen ... and that’s why we have so many divorces and so many abortions and so many unhappy mating aged people. AND AXELROD is exploiting those sorts of people who have projected, been disappointed, and seek someone else onto whom they can project.
Heard from the mothership lately?
Very good. You oughta copy this post to the WSJ site where peggy darlin’ will read it!
I really should do preview before posting ... dropped lots of verb endings and plural markings. BUT the mothership is a Calypso Louie hallmark. If you want to insult someone, tyr to hit closer to something real. Project much lately?
No insult intended; playful poking, is all.
What are you talking about and what does it have to do with this topic?
Okay, I just edited it and submitted at the WSJ comments site. Whatever ...
>>Polk died on June 15, 1849, a mere 103 days after he left office, so it wouldn’t have done him much good to have run for a second term.<<
So, then, you are saying he is no threat to McCain or Obama?
LOL...If you look at posts 11, 14, 19, 24, 25 and 27 you’ll see I’m not the one who took this detour; I’m just a hitch hiker that came along for the ride.
Actually it all started with #4)
Well, Polk could still cast a vote for Obama, so McCain needs to carry TN by at least two votes. As far as competing for office, I don’t think Polk is a threat to anyone.
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