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Nagging Doubts

Democrats leave Denver on a high note, but there are lingering fears about their chances in November.

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  • Posted By: bammer @ 09/14/2008 1:05:00 PM

    WHEN THE LIBERAL ELITE "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" INJECTS ITSELF INTO A NATIONAL US ELECTION, IT LEADS TO THE "LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES"

    IF THERE'S WAS NO "MSM" BIAS AGAINST HILLARY, HILLARY WOULD BE THE US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND OBAMA WOULD BE THE VP CANDIDATE

    IF THE TICKET IS CLINTON/OBAMA.....THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN EFFECT

    IF THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN, THERE IS MCCAIN/ROMNEY REPUB TICKET

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF CLINTON/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF OBAMA/KEANE ADMINSTRATION

    BY US LIBERAL ELITE MEDIA BACKING OBAMA AND TRASHING HILLARY, THEY LOSE A POSSIBLE 16 YEARS IN POWER AND WILL PROBABLY NOW LOSE 8 OUT OF THE LAST 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.

    FOR YOU ELEONOR, NO AMOUNT OF OLBERMANN/MADDOW/MATTHEWS HISTRONICS CAN CUT THROUGH WHAT THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD ELECTORATE SEES IN THE "MSM"

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/06/2008 11:11:42 AM

    HEY WE CAN USE JOHN McCAIN'S MIDDLE NAME(SIDNEY) AND JOE BIDEN'S MIDDLE NAME(ROBINETTE) OR EVEN SARAH PALIN'S MIDDLE NAME (HEATH) BUT YOU BETTER NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT MENTIONING BARACK OBAMA'S MIDDLE NAME BECAUSE IF YOU DO THEN YOU ARE TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE ! IT IS HUSSEIN ! THAT DON'T SCARE ME BUT HIS POLICIES DO !!

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 11:31:52 AM

    Part 1 Who got Obama started in his political career? William Ayers, of course, is the Weather Underground bomber. And Obama began his career, his coming out party in 1995, and Ayers and Bernadine Dorns home.
    And then for, you know, some 20 years, Obama has been working with Ayers, certainly since 1995, on a series of foundations: the Annenberg Foundation and the Woods Foundation. The boards of directors together, or in the Annenberg Foundation, Ayers created it, and Obama was on it. And together they spent the money of these foundations to implement their radical socialist agenda.
    A lot of people say, no, they just know each other. They???re not friends. Just because -- you know, just because they worked on boards together.
    Obama was in 1995 going to take the seat of Alice Palmer, who is also an extreme socialist. She???s an African-American who had actually gone to Russia and had attended communist party meetings and reported on them. And it was all very much of a leftist gathering.
    Ayers and Dorns were like the stamp of approval on Obama, introducing them to their click of leftist friends for funding and for advancing his candidacy. So that very beginning was a chosen intentionally association with Ayers and Dorns to launch Obama`s career, and Obama knew exactly what he was doing picking him.
    Senator Obama is the one who???s saying, "This is just another guy in my neighborhood," but in fact, that???s not true at all. It may turn out to be that they had a much closer relationship through their work together on the Annenberg Challenge to create their ideas to control the government and its people that???s the challenge!
    His agenda -- I believe, in 2001, in which Ayers was unrepentant, saying that he wished he bombed more. And obama???s greatest influence is
    Saul Alinsky he was a radical socialist organizer. His main book was "Rules for Radicals." His methodology was you go in as a community organizer. That means, really, a rabble-rouser.
    You rub raw the discontent of the community, almost in a communist sense. You find class antagonisms. You learn to speak the grievances in the people???s own logic and language, and then you go for radical redistribution of income and wealth through gaming power and mobilizing the community. Making them think that your working for them by doing small stuff that seems to help but ultimately you gain far more than the people you help it???s a trick to get them on your side because it seems you care about them and in turn they move you to the top of the political ladder!

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/05/2008 11:33:32 AM

      Part 2???
      The -- the connection to Saul Alinsky. In
      Fact, Alinsky had change as his mantra. And by it, he meant radical socialist redistribution of income from the haves to the have-nots. That was the primary purpose.
      Alinsky dedicated "Rules to Radicals" to Lucifer, whom he called the first radical. And he said it was a Machiavellian approach, which means you???ll lie, do whatever you need to do to get power, because the haves were going to lose to the have-nots, who were being championed by this community organizer. (Obama)
      The theme is common that Senator Obama made in San Francisco about people are bitter, clinging to God and to guns. That is actually a paraphrase of something Saul Alinsky wrote in that same book, in "Rules for Radicals."
      A very condescending view that he has of the middle class as people who are lost, who -- he says that they turn bitter, because they cling to certain fixed points that are elusory, but very real to them. They ask questions that Alinsky considers meaningless, like what does our flag mean to you? Interestingly, something that was just said at the Republican convention. That???s Alinsky. You know,obama???s his influence coming through.
      Just take a look at his taxation policies. He wants to increase capital gains, because he says they???re unfair.
      The point is that he clings to this relationship. And he???s even defending Ayers now. His campaign is defending Ayers, despite the fact that he???s an unrepentant terrorist who set bombs and may, according to congressional testimony, may have even been involved or had knowledge of a bombing that killed somebody. That???s the important thing.
      Alinsky taught to say whatever is necessary to get power. That???s the Machiavellian approach. When Obama articulates policy positions, especially moving to the center, it may be completely calculated. We will not see the real Obama until its too late then we are going to be stuck in a radical system that will take a civil war to get out of !

  • Posted By: vinman @ 09/04/2008 11:18:32 PM

    Obama, the "CHANGE " candidate made a bold, daring play and chose.....Joe Biden? This is change? This is hope? Not so much. He chose a boilerplate, washington good ole boy. It's shows that BO is insecure.

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 09/02/2008 11:23:08 PM

    Obama's VP choice locks the ticket into only left wing Liberal appeal. McCain has the middle and moderates locked up as his natural constituencey, now add a governor to bring in the conservitives who have been in wait and see mode!
    Obama delapitated his campaign as McCain flipped on the after burners! McCain and Palin look for debate! Obama dreads it and also running from his name, his friend bill ayers and others, his refusal to visit wounded US service people...refused to save the lives of infants..and has embraced the discrimination campaign against fire arms owners!
    McCain will walk, not run to the White House! Obama will not buy back the "CHANGE" signs from anyone... and the sign "CHANGE" is the only change anyone was going to get!

  • Posted By: busby @ 08/29/2008 5:42:16 PM

    The speech last night was boilerplate. I've heard scores of them. I don't like promises of grand programs and tax cuts for 95% of the people when we are in such debt. Maybe I'm the ultimate idealist but what's wrong with TELLING THE TRUTH for once. Under the circumstances we can't have it all right now. I'm sorry but politicians like Mr. Obama assume the gullibility of people by telling them what they want to hear. A different kind of politics? So far, it's pretty run of the mill. There is no utopia out there - there is just..life.

    • Posted By: sageginkgo @ 08/29/2008 6:11:00 PM

      McCain has an opening with the young voters on the deficit issue.

      Everyone should watch IOUSA, the documentary made by Warren Buffet, an uber-rich democrat.

  • Posted By: sageginkgo @ 08/29/2008 3:47:13 PM

    Why would the debate over experience be moot now? Consider these--
    1. Palin worked her way up and had more executive experiences than Obama and Biden combined.
    2. Considering the number of VPs taking over the presidency over the entire US history, I'd bet she will stay as VP for the entire term. I don't mind Obama as a VP on a Dem ticket while gaining crucial experience to get ready for the real presidency.

    I'm at odds with Palin on many social issues, but she did do some good deeds and after all, she's the VP candidate.

    I believe Obama may make a great US president, but not now without the experience or the predictability from an established track record.

    • Posted By: jh35180 @ 08/29/2008 4:46:00 PM

      In all sincerity, you seem to make some very thoughtful points.

  • Posted By: anamorphicart @ 08/29/2008 3:29:54 PM

    Eight is enough.......my what a great president Bush has been!! A pox on all republicans!

    • Posted By: Jose52 @ 08/29/2008 4:10:08 PM

      andmorph into an Armerican! Bush needed to do and decide important actions after 9/11. After all the turmoil and success, the dems and the MSM have whined and complianed so much about everything that most of the public (not true americans) cannot tell the difference between our reality and Obama lies/promise them everything/ we will take care of all your needs' democrats. You need to decide if you want to stay in America when McCain/Palin wins.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/29/2008 2:51:25 PM

    ''Can win and should win''. Geez NEWSWEAK. Why not slap a red star on your Bolshevik pamphlet and be done with it?

    The non-partisan THE HILL,observed something we already knew. Last nights speech,and to a man-woman, every single last person with a green press badge were jumping up and down for joy for His Edifice. [and then,like MSNBCs chief executive,have the laughable temerity to call themselves ''impartial''at almost the same moment that Matthews launched into a tirade aimed at Bushs picks of Powell and Rice and using all of the Thesarus adjectives for the word''fawning''to describe Obama].
    What a pack of lamebrains. H.L.Mencken,who used to write for the old Baltimore Sun before even he became disgusted with the Fourth Estate,would be having a field day dragging you bovines through your self-made muck.
    The introduction of Palin into the political equation is already creating more Obama headaches. They cannot properly nail her for ''experience''becasue she has acted as a large states chief executive. A position Obama never had. Pork and ''business-as usual''will not work either as Obama has more ties to pork waste,and created such with his pal Biden[who is swamped in earmarks up to his eyebrows],than the anti-Stevens Palin. A nominal pro-choicer,Palin knows where to draw the line in a way that has many Americans shocked at Obama for his percieved callousness in defending full-birth abortions[a stance that even FACTCHECK,almost reluctantly it seemed,could not take issue with based upon the evidence]. Unlike Obama and Biden, Palin doesn't seem to have anything to hide either. Biden still has not explained to the American people why his pork earmarks went to directly benefit his own son. Obama is still squirming on the ANNENBERG Papers controversy,and their only tactic thus far is to react with the un-American trampling of free speech using minions. Obama is a smooth empty [BARNEYS],suit. Little more. A pox upon the media including this rag,for their overarching ,blatant partisanship at a time when we have had enough of it coming from this quarter of the national ''news'' services..

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/29/2008 3:54:05 PM

      And this is included on her resume regarding abortion due to the fact that she will neither alter nor eliminate ROE. [ ''It is the law'',when asked by the New York Times on Oct.16,2006].

    • Posted By: rangerjoe @ 08/29/2008 3:30:21 PM

      The only thing ???large??? about Alaska is its land mass. Its population and governmental structure isn???t. Think she also has her own ???scandals??? to worry about. By the way, Barrack is running against McCain and his failed policies. Seems like McCain is desperate and playing the ???minority card???.

      • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 08/29/2008 3:52:00 PM

        Firing her ex brother-in -law? Some ''scandal''. Tell us more about this.


        Operation BOARD GAMES.

    • Posted By: Jose52 @ 08/29/2008 3:45:31 PM

      Kudos to you Mr. Holmes, You hit the nail on the head! Palin is a governor, Anti-pork, Anti corruption, Pro-life, and all the proper values requirements. What a home run! Her oldest son ships out to Iraq this month and her youngest son is a recent down syndrone baby. This is a family and emotional issue that will tug at the pro life segment of the american society. Let Joe "Catholic/I am a abortion" Biden try to scrap with her and she'' ll basketball slap him". What an athelete and Beauty queen!?? Great Choice!!!!

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