Posted on 10/31/2008 4:07:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is time for this election to be over. It is time because it has been going on for what feels like a lifetime, because the final days have been full of noise and fury and very little light, and because we need to start solving problems rather than just debating them.
It is time because we all know how it should turn out and because thinking about what could happen if it doesn't is too upsetting.
Are Democrats in danger of being too confident? The short answer is no.
It's no because we've lost too many times when we were supposed to win. It's no because it's easier to convince people to go to a wedding than a funeral, to show up at a party instead of a wake. The California Democrats I've talked to, even the tired and cynical ones, are heading off to Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico, leaving nothing to chance, eager to be part of celebrations across the country.
And the truth is that no matter what the polls say and they couldn't be much better we're all still holding our breath. We're holding our breath because as many times as we tell each other that with the economy the way it is, with the wrong track numbers the way they are, with consumer confidence as low as it is, race shouldn't matter, it really shouldn't matter enough in enough places to make every single poll wrong.
It shouldn't. It really shouldn't. Because, let's face it, God forbid if it does.
This is the unspoken what-if, the whispered fear.
It's not just that Barack Obama should win because he's ahead and the economy stinks and he's run a disciplined and well-financed campaign while John McCain struggled for a message and chose a running mate whose inability to answer easy questions has left women embarrassed and fuming.
It's what it will say if he doesn't. And what will happen if he doesn't.
There is only one reason the polls could be this wrong. There is only one reason a contest that is not even close, that is somewhere between clobbered and landslide, could wind up with the other guy on top. Every pollster in America is not incompetent. Every pollster in America is not failing in precisely the same way when it comes to pulling a sample, screening for voters and assigning weights to the various groups.
The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.
Why would they do that?
You tell me it has nothing to do with race. I'll laugh. What else could it possibly be?
It is too awful to think about, for reasons having nothing to do with what kind of president McCain would be and everything to do with what it would say about us, how we would see each other, the distrust and the anger that it would unleash. Obama could say all the calming words in the world and I have no doubt he would but it wouldn't matter.
It's time for this election to be over so we can stop worrying about what could go wrong and how bad things would be if it did. We need to think better of each other. After Tuesday, hopefully we will.
Another lame hurling of “racism” by the LibTards?...
...yawn.....
David M. Neal, a Turtlecreek Township resident who runs a political Web site, filed suit last week, saying state and federal government leaders have failed to verify that Obama was born in Hawaii, instead of Kenya.
The U.S. Constitution requires presidents to be natural-born citizens who are at least 35 years old.
Neal says hes part of a nationwide grass-roots movement that has questioned Obamas birthplace and qualification to run for president.
Neals complaint asserts that Obamas Internet site does not disclose the name of the hospital where Obama was born and that an original long version of the birth certificate should be made available before the election.
The controversy has lingered even though various fact-checking groups and journalists have concluded that the Hawaiian birth certificate appears to be authentic.
Neal contends that Obama should be removed from the Ohio ballot if Brunner cant confirm that Obama was born in the United States.
Look for the privacy (lovers) to go after Mr. Neal like they did Joe. One can only hope this is not a lefty magistrate.
meanwhile for Berg... Supreme Court asked to halt Tuesday's vote Constitutional crisis feared over Obama's 'qualifications'
>>What else could it possibly be?
A profound distrust of a cult, perhaps, Sus, both around the cult leader and his followers?
An appreciation of both the life stories of McCain and Palin, despite how one may differ with particular political stands.
One thing, the election season has to be shortened.
This is madness, for two years we’ve been inundated with garbage on the “news” channels.
I can see why your career is on the trajectory it's on.
You twit.
How about if the pollsters are oversampling Democrats? Could that be a reason why the polls would be off?
-PJ
I agree with Sue
The racism shown by the black community by their 96% vote for Hussein, has certainly turned off a lot of people. I would never vote for a race-monger like Hussein.
Only racism can explain 95% of blacks voting for Obama..
Hahhaha. Only bad part is, you have to listen to Peggy Noonan drone on before you get to it.
GO BRADLEY, GO!
Jerimiah Wright IS a hate filled racist. Obama is one of his disciples - is he not somewhat racist; I think so. Therefore, if people vote against a racist because they don’t want a “give whitely his comupance” candidate to be POTUS - then being “racist” to combat a “racist” is fully justified.
So, if Obama loses because of his “race” coupled with his heritage and mentors, then it is a good thing.
I just hope that cool heads will prevail and no one on either side (black or white) will assume that all of the opposite side are the same. I’m associated with the military and I value my black brothers & sisters in arms. I don’t want that to go down the drain...and I’m praying hard it won’t. However, I know that an Obama presidency would be ruinous on many, many levels. ALL americans (black, white, latino, etc.) will suffer under Obama. His run needs to be stopped. John McCain and Sarah Palin are the current best hope for America’s (all Americans) future.
ROFLMAO!! Oh, sure, Susan, would you be including your very own Dukakis fiasco in that "supposed to win" b.s.?? Or maybe the Jon Carry "reporting for duty" fiasco??? Or perhaps the McGovern-Carter-Mondale-Gore fiascos??
Exactly which of your loser presidential races in the past 36 years were you "supposed to win" and why??
Actually, the only things that keep the socialist miasma of the Demagogue Party competitive are the failings of too many Republicans and the grotesque bias of the MSM.
Here we go, just as predicted (Racism)
Geez
formerly? ;-)
One of the few women I’ve “fumed” over is Estrich, after she was so in the tank for Kerry.
Then she showed up plastered on the air and had to take a little sabbatical from FNC, but like a bad penny, she’s back, with a Sexism crutch under one arm and a Racism one on the other. Without the traditional props the liberal female she’d fall flat on her face. Again.
This B knows exactly why Obie-one loses if he does. If there are riots after this election, I think every public figure that has played this game ought to be held accountable. Seriously, isn't it on a par with shouting "fire" in a crowded building?
TOWNHALL.com: "EGO AND MOUTH" by Thomas Sowell (COLUMN SNIPPET: "The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges-- very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world. The signs of Barack Obama's self-centered immaturity are painfully obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the ideology that Obama represents.") (October 31, 2008)
Of course. And the fact that Alan Keyes was not elected to the Senate when he ran against Obama...I guess that was racism. After all, Keyes is not just 50% black, he's 100% black, so that means he should have been the clear choice, by your formula. So why was it that only Republicans voted for Keyes and Democrats chose the guy who looked and talked more like a white guy?
Waiting...
(cricket sound)
Back away from the vodka, Susan. When Obama loses it will have everything to do with his world view: Barack Obama is a Marxist.
And Marxism, no matter the flavor it is wrapped in, is not palatable to freedom loving Americans.
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