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Susan Estrich: The Final Days [Only Racism Could Explain an Obama Loss]
Creators Syndicate ^ | October 31, 2008 | Susan Estrich

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; democrats; election; elections; estrich; mccain; obama; puma; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Susan, with all due respect, you are as stupid as you are ugly.


41 posted on 10/31/2008 4:29:02 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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."

Oh, I believe those California Democrats don't want to leave anything to chance in New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. So I'm sure they'll just cast some of their extra California Democrat votes in those states also.

42 posted on 10/31/2008 4:30:47 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does she understand that that the PUB’s were the ones during reconstruction were the ones that were the champions for black vote? The KKK was formed under the rat’s to suppress the black vote. Started in Mississippi and was used as a model in the south. The current racist rats have used this model in inner cities till this day.

We as PUB’s continue to pay for something that we made right over 135 years ago. The RATS continue to keep “them” on the plantation.


43 posted on 10/31/2008 4:32:16 PM PDT by mmanager (It's amazing to watch a 900# Moose drag a 3,000# RINO.)
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Of course it has to do with race. At least some of it.

And it has to do with the guy being a commie.

I have to believe that being a black commie doesn’t help.


44 posted on 10/31/2008 4:35:24 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Susan Estrich: Spokesperson for America’s third sex.


45 posted on 10/31/2008 4:35:49 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Will Bush, Bernanke or Paulson let Uncle Sam handle their personal wealth?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

RACE HAPPENS!!


46 posted on 10/31/2008 4:36:01 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ferengi?.....Probably not, but he sure has the lobes)
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To: mmanager

I remember watching Susan in 04....it was early and no one was really calling anything one way or the other, but there were down trodden faces of republican pundits. Estrich piped up and said....come on, lets get it out there, the exit polls are all showing a President Kerry. LOL, I’ll never forget that.

I think the pre-election polls are wrong, I think the exit polls will be wrong and I think McCain/Palin will be moving into the Whitehouse in January 09.


47 posted on 10/31/2008 4:37:05 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

put the drink down susan...


48 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:05 PM PDT by outlawjake
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll bet Susie would defend Adolf Hitler if he had been black.


49 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only race? How about extremism, how about his arrogance, how about his little experience and the mystery surrounding his life and upbringing with extremists? Holy moly, talk about a one tract mind.


50 posted on 10/31/2008 4:38:52 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Susan,

You explain it to yourself any way you have to, baby.

51 posted on 10/31/2008 4:39:07 PM PDT by Boagenes (I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is racism that is responsible for this person being the Democrats nominee.

Clinton arrogance was a factor as well.


52 posted on 10/31/2008 4:39:27 PM PDT by Radix (If Alaska were to secede from the Union it would probably become a power player in OPEC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anybody who will let a birth cert. stand in the way of his being prez. is NOT qualified to be prez. ,that simple.


53 posted on 10/31/2008 4:45:17 PM PDT by Waco ( G00d bye 0'bombers)
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To: ChicagahAl

Right on!. If this person should win it will only be because of race. He has no credentials worth anything and on a scale of 1-10 ( with 10 most credentials) he rates maybe a 0 and that is being generous.


54 posted on 10/31/2008 4:45:45 PM PDT by mulligan (A)
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To: bigbob
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.

So she was drunk on Election Night?

Hmmm...that would explain a few things.
55 posted on 10/31/2008 4:48:31 PM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Russia invades Georgia? For a moment, I thought that was Red Dawn II)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stick your head back in the sand, Ms. Ostrich. I would be embarrassed and fuming at a woman like YOU if I weren’t so busy feeling sorry for you. Sarah Palin rocks. You don’t, and never did.


56 posted on 10/31/2008 4:54:24 PM PDT by informavoracious (Oust all incumbents.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Very little light? Is it because the media is trying to elect the son of the Prince of Darkness???


57 posted on 10/31/2008 4:56:28 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch, pray, and work. This election will separate the sheep from the goats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She right. I am voting for McCain because he is 100% Caucasian. And Susan, its time for you to be over. We are sick of your imitation Lauren Bacall boozey voice. YOU calm down and relax. You are the racist. You are so on your knees for Bama that you can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t vote for him.
I’m going to paraphrase poor old Tex Antoine: per Susan—when Maxism is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.


58 posted on 10/31/2008 4:57:01 PM PDT by nitejohnboy (vote for the Caucasian, he's on your side and has proven it.)
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To: HerrBlucher

what’s a PUMA


59 posted on 10/31/2008 4:58:34 PM PDT by nitejohnboy (vote for the Caucasian, he's on your side and has proven it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It doesn’t matter what he wants to do to the country, we have to vote for him or we are racists. I guess I am a racist.


60 posted on 10/31/2008 5:01:03 PM PDT by yazoo
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