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The Good News According to Barack

7.29.08 @ 12:01AM

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These facts -- past as prologue and the radical leftist agenda of Obama -- are compounded by the inconvenient fact of alternative media voices today. McGovern was aided and abetted by a monolithic press. Obama doesn't have that, to put it mildly. I think people are falling into the trap of believing that those who make the most noise have the greatest heft. This is almost always false, and it is certainly false in this case.

So here's a prediction for you that will be totally forgotten as soon as you read it, but here goes anyway.

Obama will carry DC and Hawaii (arguably the two areas least associated with the United States.)

He will likely carry Minnesota, Maryland and perhaps Vermont, although even these are not certain (remember Mondale.) He will lose every other state, including Florida, New York and California, and his home state of Illinois, where he has been defeated once (for the House) and where his election to the senate was a fluke, enabled by a candidate withdrawal.

Remember where you heard it first. Or not. But please, let's not get overwhelmed by the noisy bleating going on around us. People understand. They just keep it to themselves.
-- Stacey James Lippman
West Palm Beach

I think BHO knows that unless McCain can come up with a campaign of some sort (can anyone repeat McCain's theme? We all know BHO's), BHO will be President Obama. An Independent friend of mine asked me if McCain had dropped out of the race. He said that it appeared as though BHO was running unopposed. I answered by saying that my friend had it half right: McCain was still the Republican Candidate but that BHO was running unopposed.

The only difference between McCain and his predecessor Bob Dole is that McCain will probably be the spokesman for Depends rather than Viagra after he has lost the election.
-- Paul Melody

I was somewhat disconcerted to see Mr. Tabin describe Alan Keyes as "buffoonish." I would expect something of that nature from Keith Olbermann, perhaps; not an American Spectator contributor.
-- Scott Allen

LEAVE US ALONE
Re: Shawn Macomber's Little Tyrants Everywhere:

I am "Mean Martin Manning." A divorcee of 8 yrs, I know of no one who enjoys the solitude of home more than I do. Having raised 3 boys and been married for 23 yrs, to now live autonomously within the sanctuaried walls of my home is near heaven. I eat, sleep, shower, laze around, jump up and down, dance, sing, flatulate, go naked (please forgive my sharing), come and go as I please, CONTROL THE REMOTE, read, cyber surf, stay in my pajama bottoms, slippers and bathrobe all day, scream, laugh and generally be any kind of fool I like. I still work for a living. But for that one interruption my world is pretty much my own. Eight years and I am still not tired of it nor do I EVER get lonely. Too much to do to even think about being lonely. Hell, I can sneeze and feel a great sense of accomplishment. I mean, I did survive. I do get out to the golf course at least twice a week and I keep my house and yard clean and cut, so I am not completely worthless. Yet, I do these things mostly at my leisure.

Barrack Obama is a Ms. Pitney. i.e. We "should" all learn a foreign language so as not to continue being an embarrassment to the rest of the world. America may just become a "life improvement zone" if Big O should have his way. After all he knows what is good for America and Americans.

I've met a few Alice Pitney's in my day and know one or two even today. Do they ever make my skin crawl! They insist you be happy, they insist you be clean, they insist you be healthy, enlightened and lean. They insist you have manners, they insist you be good, they insist you be civil like nobody could. They insist you eat smartly and never drink gin, they insist but I tell you I'll never give in.
-- Jim Jackson

"Little tyrants" is an apt phrase for describing the "enlightened thinkers" who believe it is their sacred duty to protect us from ourselves. That individual freedom gets tossed overboard as a result? A small price to pay for progress.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

FRONT ROW PASS
Re: Emma Elliot's Barack in Berlin:

Ms Elliott mentions that a German commented on the failure of Barack to speak even a little German at Tiergarten, in the style of Kennedy. This is noteworthy inasmuch as Barack has harangued Americans for their embarrassing failure to learn other languages. Barack has visited humiliation upon us all in failing to even use a single German phrase or word in his speech. This brings to mind an idea for political healing in the Democratic Party. Barack could offer to Hillary a brand new position within his administration: Language Czar. Inasmuch as Clinton has claimed to be multi-lingual, this would be a great post from which to further harangue Americans about their unilingual limitations (never mind that Hillary isn't really multi-lingual -- she's close enough to fool Democrats). Exposing those limitations, we were slow to realize that Kennedy had claimed to be a jelly-filled pastry. Now Barack claims to be a "Weltburger." It's enough to give one visions of a couple of entirely new fast food franchises. I anticipate seeing "Weltburger" outlets springing up all over the country and the world, to challenge the pre-eminence of MacDonald's. And perhaps Eintunken Berliners outlets to compete with Dunkin Donuts? And then we can all become Weltburgers by patronizing these new institutions, eating our Weltburgers with French Fries, not just jingoistic American fast food junkies exporting our vices to a beleaguered world (which reminds one that the reason Mickey Mouse did so well in France is because the French--although not the Americans--understood that Disney, no matter how much he disguised his name, was French!)
-- Kent Lyon
College Station, Texas

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