Pelican Six
08-21-2008, 01:15 PM
According to the conventional wisdom, The Light Worker should have the general election put away even before he's secured his own party's nomination. War fatigue, low approval ratings for the incumbent Republican president, coupled with an unexciting Republican nominee were supposed to be a slam dunk for Hopey McChangaudacity. Instead, it seems that the more people learn about The One, the less they seem to like him.
His support amongst the Youth Vote? Slipping. (http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1927197620080820?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true)
Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain, who will turn 72 next week, was winning 40 percent of younger voters.
What about his relationships with seedy characters like Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko? What about the fact that he won his first primary for Illinois State Senate in 1996 by having all the other candidates, including the incumbent, thrown off the ballot (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html) by challenging the signatures on their qualifying petitions?
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago (http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Chicago) rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
It wasn't necessarily illegal, but does it conflict with his portrayal of himself as a champion of the people? Damn right, it does.
Also, you have the sheer idiocy of Obama's campaign by going after McCain's age, especially when their guy has no experience to contrast with. Doesn't anyone remember how Ronald Reagan handed Henry Trewhitt his ass (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez2.html) in the second 1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale?
REPORTER: Mr. President, I want to raise an issue that I think has been lurking out there for two or three weeks, and cast it specifically in national security terms. You already are the oldest President in history, and some of your staff say you were tired after your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale. I recall, yes, that President Kennedy, who had to go for days on end with very little sleep during the Cuba missile crisis. Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/images/84/842-30.jpgREAGAN: Not at all, Mr. Trewhitt and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trewhitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said if it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.
Look, I'm not any happier about this than say, Michael Dominici or peychaud. I've got a warehouse full of commemorative Obama silkscreens on velvet ready to go on sale after the election, and you people are shorting the Lamb of Chicago like tulip bulb contracts in 1637! Anyone want to help me out?
His support amongst the Youth Vote? Slipping. (http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1927197620080820?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true)
Obama's support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29, which had been one of his strengths, slipped 12 percentage points to 52 percent. McCain, who will turn 72 next week, was winning 40 percent of younger voters.
What about his relationships with seedy characters like Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko? What about the fact that he won his first primary for Illinois State Senate in 1996 by having all the other candidates, including the incumbent, thrown off the ballot (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html) by challenging the signatures on their qualifying petitions?
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago (http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Chicago) rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"That was Chicago politics," said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. "Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right? It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
It wasn't necessarily illegal, but does it conflict with his portrayal of himself as a champion of the people? Damn right, it does.
Also, you have the sheer idiocy of Obama's campaign by going after McCain's age, especially when their guy has no experience to contrast with. Doesn't anyone remember how Ronald Reagan handed Henry Trewhitt his ass (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/84debates/2prez2.html) in the second 1984 presidential debate with Walter Mondale?
REPORTER: Mr. President, I want to raise an issue that I think has been lurking out there for two or three weeks, and cast it specifically in national security terms. You already are the oldest President in history, and some of your staff say you were tired after your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale. I recall, yes, that President Kennedy, who had to go for days on end with very little sleep during the Cuba missile crisis. Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/images/84/842-30.jpgREAGAN: Not at all, Mr. Trewhitt and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Trewhitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said if it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.
Look, I'm not any happier about this than say, Michael Dominici or peychaud. I've got a warehouse full of commemorative Obama silkscreens on velvet ready to go on sale after the election, and you people are shorting the Lamb of Chicago like tulip bulb contracts in 1637! Anyone want to help me out?