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The thinking on the left has become very sad in that not only does it no longer engage in ideas, it precludes the possibility of ideas as it falls to the two tactics that it enjoys and utilizes the most, ridiculing and caricatures. Many an article has been written about how all the late night hosts, and comedy shows "conveniently" cannot find anything about President Barack Obama that is funny. They will include him in a skit or comic, but he is the comedian and others are his foils.

Some of us are not puzzled by this at all because many of us Republicans watched a few of the Democratic debates and noted how each time Obama was engaged, he lost a big state to Hillary Clinton. A smile, and a speech off a teleprompter won't save you when you have to engage and argue your ideas with someone else. Every supposed strength of Obama, as you noted, is played up by these interactions and also, as you noted it could and should break the campaign wide open by putting that distance between him and McCain, or putting him...

Something I have to ask about some of these figures is does anyone remember what racist is anymore? It seems we have defined the bar for racism down to a mere difference in perception of offense among different groups. This is almost as bad as those reports out of the UK whereby toddlers were being labeled racist if they didn't respond favorably to ethnic food selections. The John McCain Celebrity Ad shows Obama amidst two celebrities who appear to have questionable talent and have proven to be more famous for being famous than anything else. How does linking Obama to...

Liberals claim to know your information better than you, and your own motivations better than you. They claim to know where and how you got your information, what you are going to do with it, and why you read it in the first place. As usual, it turns out they are wrong. The pedestal is really not even a stair step and might even the cellar thanks to their own closed minded insistence on ignoring reality. When their closed minds lead to bad conclusions, election losses and the always popular unintended consequences it is always because of "dirty tricks."

From House Speaker Pelosi, we learn that any proposal that is conservatie is not worthy of serious debate and is of course a hoax or lie. The Democratic Congress promised an end to expensive $3 gas when they took office and now we have $4 because of their serious debate and non-hoax solutions. Obama insists that if we changed our spark plugs and inflated our tires, we need not drill. So I wanted to see some serious, non-hoax solutions and so I go to BarackObama.com to read of how Presumptive President Elect Obama plans to get more energy. His first...

The Obama campaign is not selling a grand idea. It is selling a grand person. You show he is merely a normal person and that means the ideal they are selling is false and thus will not resonate, no matter how many dollars you toss at it. I hope Republicans will remember this and jump on it. As has been noted by many, the factors out there create an uphill climate for any candidate coming from the right politically. The fact that the left is promising utopia makes this challenge even harder to overcome. Yet showing that the nominee is...