| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/13/2008 1:28:16 PM |
"The Rev. Jerry Falwell, said he has not endorsed a candidate, and O’Donnell’s appointment should not be interpreted as a signal that he is backing McCain…”Senator McCain is getting a real winner, and I’m sure Brett will be a great help to him,” Falwell said. “He’s getting Brett at the peak of his production.” | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/13/2008 2:39:46 PM | Jerry Falwell is dead. We don't have to worry about Falwell endorsing anyone.
But the preachers McCain associates with are bad apples. Hagee has said some nasty anti-Catholic things, while Parsley wants to destroy the Islamic faith. The kinds of things they have said are far more destructive than what Wright has said, and McSame hasn't condemned them for their nasty words, while Obama has distanced himself from Wright for the unpatriotic remarks.
Once the public becomes aware of Parsley and Hagee's wrongdoings, people will start reconsidering voting for McCain. Unfortunately the media has an excessive conservative bias that gave Parsley and Hagee a free pass while going on the attack on Wright.
One poster mentions Cheney being a traitor. Those words are so true! Bushboy and its minions are ALL traitors who should be tried for war crimes. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/15/2008 4:23:52 PM | Look, the Republican party is in free fall right now.
All it takes is for the Democrats to concentrate on putting a million candle spotlight on the record of the Republicans over the last eight years, and what that's meant for the nation.
Couple that with a plan that orients itself to working and middle class, a sane foreign policy, and returning to a base close to those golden years of the early Sixties is exactly what the doctor ordered - to win.
You've got a Republican candidate that's tied heavily to Bush, the type of decisions that sunk the US economy, and the Iraq war - which is costing a fortune and not delivering the intended results across the board.
When one's opponent is staggering, his arms are dropping, he's unable to focus clearly, and he's looking around desperately for the referee to start a standing count of ten ?
That's the time you put all your effort into the one punch that ends the match, or start to deliver a flurry of punches that ensure he's on the mat before he even realizes it's over.
Do that, and there's an excellent chance to take back the country from those who have hijacked it, and been it's worst enemy.
It's time to say "let's roll" . | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/15/2008 4:44:49 PM | | Haven't read all the responces but being from the south I believe he has a very good chance and will beat Macain in the election. I also believe more people will come out to support him in the general election than the primary's. Matter of fact it is the south that will put him on top. Good Luck to Obama! | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 5:48:52 AM | ( pull a candle out of their what? ) 
Wonder how long it will be before someone screams "impeach Bush"? He has said something to get some people all jumpy. Everyone is lookin for a fight, it seems. This is going to be one nasty election.
So is the president’s assertion in Jerusalem his way of raising some flags even at this last moment? I don’t know.
I do know that those kinds of words don’t get into a carefully-drafted presidential speech without a lot of consideration and discussion from a whole lotta people. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 12:32:18 PM |
Vote Big Papi, aka David Ortiz 2008!! He's ineligible to become president of the United States. He was born in the Dominican Republic. He could become Senator or Governor of Massachusetts if he feels like running for office and the people of Massachusetts don't keep wondering about the question "Who's your Papi". 
If Obama were running against McCain right now, he'd lose. Now what will be different in half a year that will alter that result? This is what Obama needs to focus on. Sadly for the people who voted for him in Democratic primaries and other registered Democrats, I don't think things will change enough. He's a 3-1 underdog against McCain. Hillary would be like a 2-3 favorite against McCain. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 12:46:01 PM | | ^^^ Never underestimate the stupidity of large swathes of the American public... that should be inscribed on a plaque on W's desk in the White House. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 1:40:21 PM | | if its Obama and McCain... McCain is a shoe~in (pardon the pun) because the Democrats have just shot themselves in the proverbial foot. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:08:50 PM |
If Obama were running against McCain right now, he'd lose. Now what will be different in half a year that will alter that result?
What polls are you citing with that claim? Regardless, McCain has been basking in the relative peace of the media focus on the battle between the Democrats. Soon, he will have to face his own demons against a united opposition for once.
McCain's going to sink in the wake of idiocy Bush leaves behind. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:16:47 PM |
He's a 3-1 underdog against McCain.
I wish I had someone here giving those odds, I'd put a chunk 'o change on that bet. 
McCain is heavily tied in to the three most unpopular things in America right now.
1) The economy
2) Iraq
3) The Bush Presidency
That announcement today from Saudi Arabia, and the secondary announcement from the US government about no longer delivering oil to the federal reserve stocks as of July means that you are probably going to see oil prices going up in this critical summer vacation period rather quickly. If supply doesn't go up, prices go up.
That's going to hurt Americans a lot, as that's traditionally a period of heavy mileage.
As those oil prices rise, so will the frustration level of US citizens. That price rise will trigger rises in other products.
Against that backdrop, the USS McCain sits tied to those three anchors.
And they are going to pull it below the waves - by November. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:21:45 PM | I'm pretty sure McCain is not the reason for Bush's idiocy. Why would a rational thinking person believe this and tie McCain to Bush? Oh wait, we're talking about voters.
Soon, he will have to face his own demons against a united opposition for once. What? Do you mean CNN and MSNBC are merging?
What polls are you citing with that claim? Work out the Electoral College. Tell me how Obama will turn a red state to blue. I'll do some research to see if I can find some unbiased 2008 Electoral College analysis. It's not a poll per se, just my sense of what the Electoral College result will be on November 4. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:23:47 PM | Why would a rational thinking person believe this and tie McCain to Bush?
Because it's the truth ?
Check out those threads on McCain.
Tax cuts galore, continue the war, and we know what's in store. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:25:26 PM |
Check out those threads on McCain.
Tax cuts galore, continue the war, and we know what's in store. You really think Bush is taking orders from McCain? I thought he was taking orders from Rove and Cheney. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:37:29 PM |
You really think Bush is taking orders from McCain? I thought he was taking orders from Rove and Cheney.
First, McCain’s chief foreign policy aide, Randy Scheunemann, has, as the Times ungrammatically notes, “longtime ties to neoconservatives,” and was “a founder of the hawkish Committee for the Liberation of Iraq” as well as “an enthusiastic supporter of … Ahmad Chalabi.” Scheunemann, we’re later told, works out of the campaign’s Virginia headquarters and essentially acts as the coordinator for all of the foreign-policy information McCain receives
Before the Iraq war, Mr. McCain generally opposed aggressive assertions of American power abroad. As a freshman congressman he criticized Ronald Reagan’s deployment of marines in Lebanon in 1983; later, in the 1990s, he sought to cut off financing for American troops in Somalia, at first wanted to limit the American response to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait to the air, and opposed military intervention in Haiti.
But over the last decade, McCain’s approach has been much more hawkish, and not just when it comes to Iraq. In 1999, he argued for a ground invasion of Serbia. As a presidential candidate in 2000, while George W. Bush was warning of the dangers of nation building, McCain advocated a policy of rogue-state rollback. More recently, he has said that North Korea should be threatened with “extinction,” and has threatened to attack Iran. It’s no exaggeration to say that, during this period, McCain has appeared considerably more willing to use military force than has Bush.
But don’t take it from me. Look again at what Scheunemann himself—remember, he’s McCain’s top foreign policy aide—told the Sun about where McCain has been “for the last four or five years on the Iraq war and foreign policy issues,” and how that aligns, or rather doesn’t, with pragmatists like Scowcroft.
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/mccain_not_so_torn_on_foreign_1.php
The concerns have emerged in the weeks since Mr. McCain became his party’s presumptive nominee and began more formally assembling a list of foreign policy advisers. Among those on the list are several prominent neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan, an author who helped write much of the foreign policy speech that Mr. McCain delivered in Los Angeles on March 26, in which he described himself as “a realistic idealist.” Others include the security analyst Max Boot and a former United Nations ambassador, John R. Bolton.
http://www.civicsnews.com/2008/04/neo-cons-to-dominate-hypothetical.html
That 2005 article on McCain was mentioning a probable VP spot for Jeb Bush on that ticket.
McCain and Bush are tied together, even down to the words used by some Republican insiders - who have said he's be the same on taxes. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:42:31 PM |
who have said he's be the same on taxes.
this isn't good news. in 8 years, bush didn't repeal the federal income tax. if mccain continues this illegal policy of wealth redistribution, he had better not win. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:42:52 PM | Do you really think Obama is taking orders from Wright? As you said, we're talking about the American voter here. I think Obama wearing a flag pin now is his concession to the lowest common denominator in America. I'm sure he would rather not have to pander at that level, but that is the reality we live in. McCain and Bush are closely tied policy-wise nonetheless.
It's not a poll per se, just my sense of what the Electoral College result will be on November 4.
OK. Well, I've called every presidential election correctly back to, and including, Reagan beating Carter. Admittedly, I don't think I made my final calls this early on. So it's my sense against yours. And if I get bitten by a radioactive spider, it'll be my spidey sense against yours! | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 2:59:22 PM | | Yeah, but if I see Obama has a copy of "To Serve Man" in his library then I'm going to feel so stupid for not recognizing Wright's true influence. | |
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| obama's chances in the general election
Posted: 5/16/2008 3:23:21 PM | As soon as Obama is named factual instead of presumptuous nominee, I'll consult my Tarot cards and tell you who's going to win. The cards do not lie. :)
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