Barack Obama or John McCain

[J. Raymond Carroll]

It also says a lot about how far we've come, when a black man running for president can get about half the Democratic vote in a place where the state government in the 1920s was run by proud members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Daniel: Thank you for the Private Message, good to hear from you.

I feel a quantum shift underway in American politics, led by our hero, the bold Barack O'Bama. Barack is not a black man, in the tradition of American slave rebellions, a la Jeremiah Wright or Malcolm X, so he is not a threatening figure. His father came here on a scholarship, not a slave ship. He represents the America of John F. Kennedy, the NewFrontier. Some commentators attribute his success in Iowa to THEODORE SORENSEN'S LAST HURRAH. Sorensen stumped the state proclaiming Obama as the new JFK, and the rest is (or will be) history.

My guru in the field of logic is Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) who enunciated the scientific maxim of Pragmatism (focus on the potential practical consequences) which JFK applied in politics to an astonishing degree. Obama is inexperienced, to be sure, but don't let that fool you. He is a tough Pragmatist like JFK and he proved it just yesterday when he took the gloves off against McCain. McCain sneered that Obama is the candidate of radical Muslims, and then his followers sniveled about AGE DISCRIMINATION when Obama responded that McCain has "lost his (moral) bearings".

No fair to poor Johnny Mac.

P.S. The way I feel right now (having doubled my money playing 25/1 Denis of Cork who came third in the Kentucky Derby)

Obama is going to make a fool out of John McCain (and the once-Grand Old Party) long before November rolls around.

[Christopher Hall]

It also says a lot about how far we've come, when a black man running for president can get about half the Democratic vote in a place where the state government in the 1920s was run by proud members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Daniel: Thank you for the Private Message, good to hear from you.

I feel a quantum shift underway in American politics, led by our hero, the bold Barack O'Bama. Barack is not a black man, in the tradition of American slave rebellions, a la Jeremiah Wright or Malcolm X, so he is not a threatening figure. His father came here on a scholarship, not a slave ship. He represents the America of John F. Kennedy, the NewFrontier. Some commentators attribute his success in Iowa to THEODORE SORENSEN'S LAST HURRAH. Sorensen stumped the state proclaiming Obama as the new JFK, and the rest is (or will be) history.

My guru in the field of logic is Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914) who enunciated the scientific maxim of Pragmatism (focus on the potential practical consequences) which JFK applied in politics to an astonishing degree. Obama is inexperienced, to be sure, but don't let that fool you. He is a tough Pragmatist like JFK and he proved it just yesterday when he took the gloves off against McCain. McCain sneered that Obama is the candidate of radical Muslims, and then his followers sniveled about AGE DISCRIMINATION when Obama responded that McCain has "lost his (moral) bearings".

No fair to poor Johnny Mac.

P.S. The way I feel right now (having doubled my money playing 25/1 Denis of Cork who came third in the Kentucky Derby)

Obama is going to make a fool out of John McCain (and the once-Grand Old Party) long before November rolls around.

Speaking of the Kentucky Derby, HRC jinxed the poor filly that had to be put down by picking her to win.

[Jack White]

With info like this being spread daily, Obama hasn't a snowball's chance.

>>>>>>

Is Obama Smarter Than A 5th Grade Jaywalker?

By Doug Patton

May 13, 2008

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has an indicted, Syrian-born Chicago shyster named Tony Rezko for a financial mentor. He has a screwball, race-baiting, America-hating pastor named Jeremiah Wright for a spiritual mentor. He has an unrepentant domestic terrorist named William Ayers for a political mentor. And he has one of the angriest wives ever to aspire to the position of First Lady.

Obama refuses to wear a flag lapel pin because he thinks it is more patriotic to criticize his country than to support it, or even to wear a symbol of its support.

Obama thinks those of us out here in flyover country are all a bunch of bitter, gun-toting, Bible-thumping bigots furious at "those who don't look like us."

That really should be enough to sink this lightweight candidacy filled with vague language about "hope" and "change" -- what George Will has called "rhetorical cotton candy."

But wait. There's more. Just when we thought Obama had shot himself in the last foot he had available, he presents us with another gift.

On top lapelgate and pastorgate and bittergate, now comes stategate. It seems that the brilliant Barack Obama doesn't know how many states there are in our union. In an off-the-cuff statement you will not hear about on the nightly news, Obama declared that during his presidential campaign, he has visited 57 states. He also said that he has one more to visit: Alaska and Hawaii. I swear to you, that's what the man said.

It's RIGHT HERE:

(short 20 second clip) Here are his exact words: "I've now been to 57 states...I have one more to go...they wouldn't let me go to Alaska and Hawaii."

Now, try to imagine if John McCain - or any other Republican - had uttered such a stupid statement in public. Is there any doubt that person would have been pilloried and Dan Quayled for the remainder of this campaign? (At least when Quayle questioned the spelling of potato, he had some basis in fact for his inquiry: the plural of the word is "potatoes" - with an "e.")

McCain is still being vilified for referring to Iran-supported terrorists in Iraq as al Qaida, as if the vast majority of Americans care about the distinction between a Sunni and a Shiite terrorist.

Entire books have been written about the gaffes of George W. Bush. He has been castigated for everything from his mispronunciation of the word "nuclear" (he always says "nucular") to his inability to communicate with the press. His mangled syntax has been regular fodder for the crew at "Saturday Night Live" for his entire two terms in office. "Misunderestimated" was always one of my personal favorites.

But even the most misinformed American can tell you this country has 50 states, having learned that information in what? Kindergarten?

But fear not, Obama supporters; excuses will be made by the mainstream media. "He was tired," we will be told, or "he misspoke." And they will only tell you that if they are forced to report on the matter at all. The New York Times (and most other major newspapers), CNN, ABC, CBS, tax-supported PBS and especially NBC are so pro-Obama it is downright embarrassing, and make no mistake, they will continue to circle the wagons around this guy, just as they have done throughout this campaign.

Perhaps Obama should be a contestant on Fox's "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" Or maybe Jay Leno could interview him out on Hollywood Boulevard as part of his Tonight Show "Jay Walking" segment.

How many of our states have you been to, Senator Obama? Fifty-seven? That's very impressive. I hope you get the chance to see the other one. Or is it two?

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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.

[J. Raymond Carroll]

With info like this being spread daily, Obama hasn't a snowball's chance.

Doug Patton, the author of this screed, is a GOP hatchetman. Old Proverb says:

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A PIG, EXCEPT A GRUNT.

After 8 years of incredibly dumb republican rule, it is poor old John McCain who looks like the snowball as this fire heats up.

And he has one of the angriest wives ever to aspire to the position of First Lady.

Michelle Obama seems to be a lovely woman, a supportive spouse, a great mother, and I am sure she will be a great First Lady.

Never having studied first ladies much, I cannot say which one was the angriest -- how about Abigail Adams?

Is Michelle Obama the next Abigail?

[J. Raymond Carroll]

It's too bad Sorensen couldn't replicate his earlier feat in a state with a similar demographic to Iowa's, like West Virginia,

I am sure he would have loved it, if only he was able. Poor Ted is not a well man these days, and suffers from multiple serious ailments, so travel to West Virginia was out of the question.

I'd like to be optimistic, but I can't.

To plagiarize a great American, YES YOU CAN.

Charles Sanders Peirce emphasized that good reasoning is impossible without the spirit of optimism. Whichever candidate can communicate and inspire the greatest optimism is the one who gets the most votes.

to say nothing of another couple thousand young Americans Killed In Action

John Edwards just endorsed Obama (REFEREE STOPS FIGHT) and got his loudest cheer when he said America would end the Iraq war and bring home the troops in 2009.

The bottom line is that ... no candidate -- no matter how pragmatic and toughminded and wise, or how charismatic and eloquent and "non-threatening" -- can keep people from being bigots or from being stupid.

True enough, and therefore the majority of Americans, who are NOT stupid and bigoted, will turn out in record numbers this year, just to prove to themselves that they really do exist. Obama's election will be a great day for a great many people in America and around the world.

[J. Raymond Carroll]

I presume he will choose a centrist female governor or senator, there are several good options.

Just tonight my son said Barack must pick Bill Richardson, and the more I thought about it, the harder it was to argue against it. I had to admit it is a perfect choice in so many ways. My son tells me Bush sent him to North Korea, which is one way of saying that Richardson is 24-carat gold in the field of NATIONAL SECURITY (Please god he doesn't have a bimbo in the closet)

The only argument against it is that it will really REALLY pissoff the Clintons. Expect Bill and HIllary to lobby for ANYONE but Bill Richardson, the man who put a good deal on the line to help Obama just when he needed help. If Ted Kennedy backs Richardson, as I hope he will, and if Obama has good judgment AND backbone as I hope he does, he will pick Richardson and stand by him.

Edited May 15, 2008 by J. Raymond Carroll

[Jack White]

I presume he will choose a centrist female governor or senator, there are several good options.

Just tonight my son said Barack must pick Bill Richardson, and the more I thought about it, the harder it was to argue against it. I had to admit it is a perfect choice in so many ways. My son tells me Bush sent him to North Korea, which is one way of saying that Richardson is 24-carat gold in the field of NATIONAL SECURITY (Please god he doesn't have a bimbo in the closet)

The only argument against it is that it will really REALLY pissoff the Clintons. Expect Bill and HIllary to lobby for ANYONE but Bill Richardson, the man who put a good deal on the line to help Obama just when he needed help. If Ted Kennedy backs Richardson, as I hope he will, and if Obama has good judgment AND backbone as I hope he does, he will pick Richardson and stand by him.

Raymond...what naive thinking. All bases have been covered in advance. Scenarios are

being acted out. VP candidates are already chosen...in all three cases to be someone

beholden to the PCG in case of assassination or death. Why do you think the Bilderbergers

meet every year? Nothing can be left to chance.

No offense intended; just study who runs things.

Jack

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Raymond...what naive thinking. All bases have been covered in advance.......Nothing can be left to chance.

Jack

That is exactly what Hillary & CO. thought, but she forgot what the bible says:

Neither is the race to the swift

Nor the victory to the strong,

but Time and Chance happens to them all.

[John Simkin]

I presume he will choose a centrist female governor or senator, there are several good options.

Just tonight my son said Barack must pick Bill Richardson, and the more I thought about it, the harder it was to argue against it. I had to admit it is a perfect choice in so many ways. My son tells me Bush sent him to North Korea, which is one way of saying that Richardson is 24-carat gold in the field of NATIONAL SECURITY (Please god he doesn't have a bimbo in the closet)

The only argument against it is that it will really REALLY pissoff the Clintons. Expect Bill and HIllary to lobby for ANYONE but Bill Richardson, the man who put a good deal on the line to help Obama just when he needed help. If Ted Kennedy backs Richardson, as I hope he will, and if Obama has good judgment AND backbone as I hope he does, he will pick Richardson and stand by him.

The media in the UK claims that Barack must select someone who can get the support of white, working-class voters. Does Richardson fall into this category? Some have even gone as far to say that whatever he does, Barack will be unable to persuade Clinton's racist supporters to support him.

[J. Raymond Carroll]

The media in the UK claims that Barack must select someone who can get the support of white, working-class voters. Does Richardson fall into this category?

Hard to say, but he must have pretty much made a clean sweep of this category in New Mexico.

Richardson won his second term as Governor of New Mexico on November 7, 2006, 68–32 percent against former New Mexico Republican Party Chairman John Dendahl. Richardson received the highest percentage of votes in any gubernatorial election in the state's history.[17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson

My sense is that white working-class voters will be quite comfortable with Richardson, who comes across as just a regular guy, but a man who sticks by his guns and tries to speak the plain truth. His presence on the ticket will certainly guarantee that one category of voters will be HIGH ON OBAMA:

During New Mexico's most recent legislative session, Richardson signed a bill into law that made New Mexico the 12th state to legalize marijuana for medical reasons. When asked if this would hurt him in a Presidential election, he stated that it did not matter, as it was "the right thing to do."

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Behind every great fortune there is a crime, according to Balzac, and you can read in today's New York Times about how our hero, the bold Barack, came by his millions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/polit...memoirs.html?hp

[Michael Hogan]

Behind every great fortune there is a crime, according to Balzac, and you can read in today's New York Times about how our hero, the bold Barack, came by his millions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/polit...memoirs.html?hp

A 1995 hardcover first-edition library copy of Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama can be had for $700:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetail...x%3D57%26y%3D14

[Guest David Guyatt]

My sense is that white working-class voters will be quite comfortable with Richardson, who comes across as just a regular guy, but a man who sticks by his guns and tries to speak the plain truth. His presence on the ticket will certainly guarantee that one category of voters will be HIGH ON OBAMA:

Makes sense. Obama is being run by the international business oriented Trilats, whereas Richardson got a masters in international affairs from the "universalist" Tufts Fetcher School, was a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was a former Kissinger State Dept guy, and a former lecturer at Armand Hammer's United World College of the American West and a US Ambassador to the UN (amongst other appointments).

Just the sort of all round regular guy the US working-classes would choose for their champion, eh.

The words, "fixed", "casino", "wheel" and "roulette" spring to mind.

[Mark Stapleton]

My sense is that white working-class voters will be quite comfortable with Richardson, who comes across as just a regular guy, but a man who sticks by his guns and tries to speak the plain truth. His presence on the ticket will certainly guarantee that one category of voters will be HIGH ON OBAMA:

Makes sense. Obama is being run by the international business oriented Trilats, whereas Richardson got a masters in international affairs from the "universalist" Tufts Fetcher School, was a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was a former Kissinger State Dept guy, and a former lecturer at Armand Hammer's United World College of the American West and a US Ambassador to the UN (amongst other appointments).

Just the sort of all round regular guy the US working-classes would choose for their champion, eh.

The words, "fixed", "casino", "wheel" and "roulette" spring to mind.

Maybe, David. But if he is willing to defy big pharma, the media and the DEA by signing a bill legalising medical cannabis, then he would get my vote.

Edited May 18, 2008 by Mark Stapleton

[J. Raymond Carroll]

Richardson got a masters in international affairs from the "universalist" Tufts Fetcher School...

The words, "fixed", "casino", "wheel" and "roulette" spring to mind.

Old proverb says ALL IS YELLOW TO THE JAUNDICED EYE.