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| VDH: Obama's crash and burn |
| 2008-03-24 |
| The latest polls reflecting Obama’s near-collapse should serve as a morality tale of John Edwards’s two Americas — the political obtuseness of the intellectual elite juxtaposed to the common sense of the working classes. For some bizarre reason, Obama aimed his speech at winning praise from National Public Radio, the New York Times, and Harvard, and solidifying an already 90-percent solid African-American base — while apparently insulting the intelligence of everyone else. Indeed, the more op-eds and pundits praised the courage of Barack Obama, the more the polls showed that there was a growing distrust that the eloquent and inspirational candidate has used his great gifts, in the end, to excuse the inexcusable. . . . Go read the rest. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #15 Unfortunately, dear TW, Justice Thomas is hated by the loony left even more than they hate President Bush, and would therefore cost Obambi his base. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2008-03-24 22:45 |
| #14 Professor Hanson's prescription for Candidate Obama (what odds he'll be re-elected to the Senate after losing the presidency?) is a long-about way of saying he can't fix this. The only hope I see now is if he were to have Colin Powell by his side for the rest of the campaign, along with other successful men and women also known to have rejected Reverend Wright's religious point of view. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas might possibly do the trick. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 20:58 |
| #13 I meant in terms of being a Red Diaper baby -- you write so knowledgeably about the various flavours of Socialists back in the day that I assumed you'd rebelled against your environment by becoming somewhat religious. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 19:01 |
| #12 im close to a neocon on foreign pol, on child rearing im a good ole boomer liberal (and my parents were typical WW2 era spock readers). |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-03-24 17:10 |
| #11 You were clearly born with a strong character, liberalhawk dear. Besides, aren't you almost a neo-con? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 16:54 |
| #10 I was never spanked, ;) |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-03-24 16:33 |
| #9 Says it all http://www.break.com/pictures/edumacated473264.html |
| Posted by: Beavis 2008-03-24 14:38 |
| #8 a good deal of the blame can be laid at the feet of the generation who were born too early to be Boomers but too late to serve in WWII. I'd no idea they were that old, lotp. But don't let's forget all those parents who believed Dr. Spock's dictum on spanking, many of whom grew up during the war. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-24 13:46 |
| #7 Will take a lot more than just 20 flags. Obama's big problem is his ability to work without the safety net of a teleprompter. His demeanor (stuttering, stammering, leaving sentences unfinished) on Friday night's questioning by Major Garrett was in stark contrast to his 'reading' his race speech in front of ardent supporters and invited guests. |
| Posted by: ClemScheck 2008-03-24 13:26 |
| #6 Has there ever been a generation that was so wrong and so stupid on so many issues? If you mean the Baby Boomers, a good deal of the blame can be laid at the feet of the generation who were born too early to be Boomers but too late to serve in WWII. Consider some of the members of that generation: Noam Chomsky, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Trent Lott ...... Jane Fonda, Harry Belafonte ..... The list of them - too young for WWII but born before 1946 - is actually quite extensive. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-03-24 13:07 |
| #5 I predict Obama is going to try to spend his way out of this one. He's going to keep showing commercials about "hope" and hope every one forgets. If he doesn't start improving in the polls soon, thenhe should worry. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-03-24 13:07 |
| #4 Woodrow, I detect a certain amount of sarcasm in that next-to-last paragraph w/r to flags, ect. :-) |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-03-24 12:47 |
| #3 Has there ever been a generation that was so wrong and so stupid on so many issues? That is quite an accomplishment in its own sad way. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-03-24 12:41 |
| #2 If there was ever a sign of the death of the liberal victimization mindset - I think this election is it. Those who rode to power on the 60's issues can not move away from the fast enough. Has there ever been a generation that was so wrong and so stupid on so many issues? |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-24 12:11 |
| #1 This is the first time I have ever disagreed with VDH. He's right about the flags - but I think if Obama did that it would be too much of a flip-flop. Obama staked his flag deep into liberal victimization territory. To suddenly wave the flag now would deeply offend the self-proclaimed elites. The rest of us who have even an ounce of common sense will just feel our intelligence has been further insulted. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-24 12:06 |