I think I can safely guarantee you that, one year from now, very few people in those “heavily-Republican suburbs” will admit to having voted for Obama.
You could see it on his face at the speech last night: he knows he’s not ready for this job.
I don’t think he imagined he’d get the nomination, let alone win the Presidency, this time out.
I don’t think he imagined he’d get the nomination, let alone win the Presidency, this time out.
Your thoughts mirror mine. I have believed for some time that he would get into office, and then ask nervously "OK, what do I do now."
He has NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE.
He is just a jaw-boner, philosophizing over nuances.
His participation in the Annenburg Project which produced NO DISCERNABLE RESULTS FOR $100 million shows what he is capable of. Will he even know how to delegate and manage a team ?
Don't point to his campaign, the look on his face last night indicates that he is exhausted. His low energy levels were commented on negatively, in comparison to McCain.
He took a couple of weeks off in the summer, while McCain did not.
I don't think he really knows how to work hard and under deadline.
He has never produced anything under those circumstances, least of all his books.
In DuPage County, where Republicans for decades have counted on strong turnout to boost the GOP ticket, Obama won 54 percent of the vote with 99 percent of the precincts in. To put Obama's early, unofficial total in DuPage County in perspective, his more than 224,000 votes there are nearly as many votes as Ronald Reagan received there in his 1984 landslide over Democrat Walter Mondale.
Uh, sorry John Patterson, to "put this in perspective" the population of DuPage County is nowhere near the level it was in 1984. In 24 years my *little* Village has DOUBLED in population and size (land area). Naperville has also exploded in size and population. Ergo Barry's 224,000 votes in DuPage mean... poop (medical term).
Furthermore you bonehead 'journalist', take a look at the rest of the races in DuPage. Every single one was won by ... surprise (not) ... a Republican. And in some races the RATS didn't even have a candidate.
Granted the RATS have made inroads in DuPage and vote totals are going up -- thanks to Volvo driving brain-dead yuppy scum from Chicago, Section Eight housing (a fricken scourge) and illegals, oops, 'immigrants'. But as long as I'm still suckin' air DuPage will be RED.