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Crisis in the Maccain Campaign
Published on September 3, 2008 By Bahu Virupaksha In Current Events

Politics is an unforgiving game.  Barack Obama delivered a splendid sppech at Denver while accepting the nomination of his party to the Presidecy of the United States. He quite rightly laid out his domestic and foreign policy and set to rest the niggling doubts that some people had about his ability to lead the country in a time of war. It seems that the Republicans have forgotten that the US constitution makes the President the Commander-in- chief and not the other way around. Barack Obama handled his pitch to be the next President in a forthright and dignified manner. I have now no doubt that he will be the next president.

Maccain lived up to his reputation of being an independent macerick. By choosing a young and inexprienced Sarah Palin as his running mate, Maccain hoped to attract the Clinton voters, essentially the white, educated and working women. However, he seems to have forgotten the basic fact that women who vote for Clinton will be pro-choice and probably opposed to the NRA lobby, and the candidature of Sarah Palin will hardly appeal to the Clintonites. Moreover, the Democratic Party has carefully papered over its yawning cracks and for the time being is solidly behiond Obama. With the demand that Palin be withdrawn form the race gathering strength it is advantage Obama.


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on Sep 03, 2008

With the demand that Palin be withdrawn form the race gathering strength it is advantage Obama.

Demand from who?  The looney left?  Democrats are so scared of Palin, it's almost funny to see them and the media doing whatever they can to attack her.  Obama is losing.....even the media knows this.

 

on Sep 03, 2008

You really do need to stop drinking the kool-aid and get out and see what the swing voters are saying.  Right now, they are saying a big loss for Obama.  Palin was everything they wanted to see, biden was nothing of what they wanted to see.

As ID says, the loons are kicking and screaming, and getting their lunch handed to them with force.  The best that Obama was able to muster coming out of his convention was a 5 point bump, lower than any candidate since Bob Dole in 96.  And you saw what happened to him.

 

on Sep 03, 2008

Is the Obama Camapign looking up

No.

While Palin was basically mentioned in passing by last nights speakers, Palin was all that CNN could talk about at the end of the night.  The MSM is running scared.  Come on, they've even got Lindsey Lohan to offer her thoughts on how Palin is dealing with her daughter!  This is so far beyond the pot calling the kettle black.  More like the lump of coal calling the snow black.

on Sep 03, 2008

Come on, they've even got Lindsey Lohan to offer her thoughts on how Palin is dealing with her daughter!

That's like getting marriage advise from Liz Taylor and Mickey Rooney combined!

on Sep 04, 2008

Palin was everything they wanted to see, biden was nothing of what they wanted to see.
Obama is losing.....even the media knows this.

Too early for this prediction. A large pecent of the undecided voters are still in a quandry.

Palin's performace today was good and she touched all the right bases and made the right noises about energy, Iraq,  Taxes, jobs etc. But she does not know how to achioeve these things. Her attempt to mock Obama by passing herself off as a "community organiser" was shocking and in bad taste. She was a mayor and Obama workedi with a Harvarsd degree behind him, on the streets, mean streets of Chicago, for the disadvantaged.

 

 

on Sep 04, 2008

But she does not know how to achioeve these things.

I have a strong suspicion that you, and a lot of others currently in either denial or apoplexy (the MSM falls into the latter group), grossly underestimate this woman.

I think we may have caught our first glimpse of a woman who will eventually be President, maybe the first woman to do so.  I believe Rudy was right - Obama looked to the past to shore up his campaign; McCain looked to the future to shore up his.

on Sep 04, 2008

Yeah, I was here.

on Sep 04, 2008

But she does not know how to achioeve these things. Her attempt to mock Obama by passing herself off as a "community organiser" was shocking and in bad taste. She was a mayor and Obama workedi with a Harvarsd degree behind him, on the streets, mean streets of Chicago, for the disadvantaged.

1. NO one knows how to achieve those things - that is why they have not been achieved.  So why did you not slam ObamaBiden with the same thing?  Bias

2.Her mocking was funny!  Which goes to show 2 things again.  LIberals have no sense of humor, and your Bias

3. Harvard degrees are like moldy sliced bread.  As has recently been shown, they are very over priced considering the value they bestow.  And in the end, they mean no more than any other degree, only what is done with them.  IN this case, virtually nothing.

4. The "mean streets" of chicago are that way BECAUSE of Obama.  It is his policies while a politician up there that, while perhaps not creating them, surely perpetuated them.

on Sep 04, 2008

Palin's performace today was good and she touched all the right bases and made the right noises about energy, Iraq,  Taxes, jobs etc. But she does not know how to achioeve these things.

LOL, and I suppose Obama does? But what I don't understand is why is Palin being compared to Obama, i though McCain was the one running for President? Why is Biden being left out of this loop? Or is the obvious really that obvious?

Her attempt to mock Obama by passing herself off as a "community organiser" was shocking and in bad taste.

I will never understand why an action is considered good or bad depending on who uses it. It's ok for the Democrats to mock but  of bad taste when done to them. Talk about being unfair.

She was a mayor and Obama workedi with a Harvarsd degree behind him, on the streets, mean streets of Chicago, for the disadvantaged.

Please Obama may have worked with the people in the streets but that does not make him some kind of street wise pro.

on Sep 04, 2008

Her attempt to mock Obama by passing herself off as a "community organiser" was shocking and in bad taste. She was a mayor and Obama workedi with a Harvarsd degree behind him, on the streets, mean streets of Chicago, for the disadvantaged.

Bahu, this is quite shocking that you would respond this way.  Obama's campaign went out trying to belittle her mayorship of a town pop of 9K.  Now when she responds it's 'bad taste'?  Maybe I missed the logic?

 

 

on Sep 05, 2008

Maybe I missed the logic?

Maybe you just aren't a liberal?

on Sep 05, 2008

Is the Obama campaign looking up

Yes they are. They are looking up asking God why he is doing this to them and praying they still have a chance to win. I mean, they were happy just a few days before when hurricane Gustav was heading towards New Orleans as they believed God was on their side.

on Sep 09, 2008

Bahu, this is quite shocking that you would respond this way. Obama's campaign went out trying to belittle her mayorship of a town pop of 9K. Now when she responds it's 'bad taste'? Maybe I missed the logic?

I think Barack Obama, and I am also with him on this, did not make any personal difficulty that Palin may have with one of her daughters a subject of public controversy. Family is off limit.

Now do you remember the comments made by John Maccain on Chelsea Clinton when her father ran for the first time. Why is no one bringing up yhr mermbership of thwe American Independence Party that Sarah Palin is supposed to have held sometinme back.

on Sep 09, 2008
Why is no one bringing up yhr mermbership of thwe American Independence Party that Sarah Palin is supposed to have held sometinme back.
No one bringing up? I guess the LA Times, Boston Globe, Ny Times, AP and UK Telegraph are nobodies now! You are funny! The reason it is not gaining traction (BIG difference from not being brought up) is that it is a so what? So what?
on Sep 09, 2008

Now do you remember the comments made by John Maccain on Chelsea Clinton when her father ran for the first time.

No, I don't.  A reference to a quote would be nice when you make such a claim.

Why is no one bringing up yhr mermbership of thwe American Independence Party that Sarah Palin is supposed to have held sometinme back.

Key words being 'supposed to have held' - not only was it 'brought up,' it was her husband Todd who was a member for awhile, not Palin herself.

Careful Bahu, your knickers are showin'.

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