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from swimming freestyle:
"Barack Obama is a remarkably eloquent man and turning into a remarkably capable politician. But if the Senator believes it's smart to insult voters from a state critical to your success, he's hit one of the worst false notes yet in his campaign.
Yeah, I know what his campaign said, and that may have been what he meant. But a sophisticated candidate doesn't refer to voters in language that can be construed as derogatory or insulting. Obama asserted Pennsylvania voters are bitter and so simple and lacking in maturity and intelligence that they address their frustration by clinging to primitive and reactionary crutches rather than addressing their problems in constructive ways.
It's divisive. And not the way to attract the voters you need most."
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Thanks for that link Jay.
*sigh*
Summary of an Obama townhall meeting in Pennsylvania today, underscoring how this si all a bunch of hot air:
"First he explained about meeting people who were bitter and angry because politicians had been coming to their towns for 25 years promising things would get better, but they never did.
He said that people had stopped voting on their economic interests, because they didn’t believe things would ever change. They instead voted on issues like the right to bear arms, and gay marriage; they took refuge in their faith and their communties.
Then he called out McCain and Clinton, McCain for “needing three tries before he realized there was a mortgage crisis. And he says I’m out of touch?”
Then he talked about how Clinton had voted for a bankruptcy bill sponsored by credit card companies that makes it harder for American to deal with debt, and again he said “and she says I’m out of touch?" "
John, considering this latest gaffe just hit the airwaves... we will see how out of touch Pennsylvanians decide he is after they have heard it. I wouldn't be surprised if his audio isn't HER next television ad.
This will be spun just like everything else Obama does. It makes no difference, the media has crowned him king and in Jan. 2009 they will coronate him.
I see your point, Susan.
Lord knows we're going to have two days of the media blowing this out of proportion before anyone starts reporting Obama's response to, well, himself.
(Granted, if CNN airing that town hall meeting was any indication, it might even take less time than that.)
Exactly. 10 days, thats a lot of time politics wise.
Night , see you tomorrow.
Looks like Obama's trying his hardest to keep this from really exploding, because he just posted the speech he gave at that townhall meeting:
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The Democrats are kicking themselves.
They know they can't fairly give the primary to Clinton, but they know know that Obama will *never* win a general election for President. The Reagan Democrats will turn to McCain and that's before the Bradley Effect kicks in.
They know McCain will be the next President. They know the Dems are about to lose the House. Years from now, when we look back at what could have happened, about how we could have been forced to surrender in Iraq, when political science majors talk about the death of the Democrats as a major party in the US, they will point back to the campaign in 2008.
What America wants is simple: We want to win. Americans, truly great Americans, have always been winners.
McCain wins in a landslide. I honestly see him getting 60% of the popular vote and 400+ electoral votes.
He said what he said and there is not way he can turn it around. The problem with Obama followers is their insistence in wanting everyone to believe that ‘he walks on water’. He has even been compared to Martin L. King and Nelson Mandela! PLEASE!
He is a good politician that got lucky and whose campaign has turned out divisive along the racial lines which is the last thing the country needs. He, as well as Hillary Clinton, is going to make mistakes along the way. We have to pay attention not at his delivery of speeches but at his specific plans. So far I have not heard much about them and I am asking myself “where is the beef?â€
There is no beef.
Obama is just another Dem politician in the mold of Kerry/Gore/Dukakis/Carter.
But for voters this is his third strike. With Rezko, Wright, and now the San Francisco speech where he disparaged millions of Americans who believe very strongly in the tenets of faith, in the Second Amendment, in opposition to gay marriage, the people he would have to have in order to beat John McCain...he just lost them.
John Hindraker over at Powerline is asking very seriously if Obama is done.
The answer is yes. That's a given now. He will never be President. It's a fact. The real question is "Do the Democrats know that and will they nominate Hillary?"
That's still up in the air. Either way, McCain wins. If it's against Hillary, it will be a solid victory. If it's against Obama, it will be a landslide.
If the African-American community truly wants change, they need to place the blame where it needs to go: with Barack Obama. He will set back politics in that community for decades should he run and lose.
Expect immense pressure now on Obama to bow out from the African-American community. He's done.
It will start as private, back-channel requests. But after he loses by 20%+ in Pennsylvania and the damage mounts in polls in Indiana, and he comes uncomfortably close in losing NC, he will be looking for an exit strategy.
He'll be asked to leave. He's young, relatively speaking. He'll think he can try again. So he'll be gone a month from now.
If he's not, the damage he'll do the Democrats will be nothing short of fatal.
Lightwave, John .W, Whatever you might believe because of your support for McCain could be very much wrong for a 20th Century politician, Barak Obama. Your acclaimed honesty is not enough to determine the faith a cross country politician.Your continual comment on the issues on Pennsylvania talt could make him more popular than you ever think. Consider the damage you tried to pose on with Islam religion could not still teach you a lesson.
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