How Obama lost the election…
September 4, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
From Asia Times of all places…
Oh boy… The whole article is interesting in that it is an apolitical view at US politics. Anyway, the money shot/sentence is the one about ‘Out-Bushing the Bush Administration’… Ouch…
Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city’s Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers. The crowd, of course, cheered mechanically at the tag lines, flourished placards, and even rose for the obligatory wave around the stadium. But its mood was sour. The air carried the acrid smell of defeat, and the crowd took shallow breaths. Even the appearance of R&B great Stevie Wonder failed to get the blood pumping.
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On television, Obama’s spectacle might have looked like The Ten Commandments, but inside the stadium it felt like Night of the Living Dead. The longer the candidate spoke, and the more money he promised to spend on alternative energy, preschool education, universal health care, and other components of the Democratic pinata, the lower the party professionals slouched into their seats.
of course there is this part, which I consider the whammy…
I sat in on a session with three leaders of Veterans for Obama, a group of retired young officers who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of the New Republic’s writer on the scene, David Samuels. With passion and enthusiasm, these young people spoke of their hopes for nation-building in Iraq. The George W Bush administration should have put twice the resources into the beleaguered country, they harangued me - not just soldiers, but agronomists, traffic cops, lawyers, judges, and physicians. The Department of Agriculture should have mobilized, along with the Department of Justice.
Nation-building? Doubling down on the US commitment to Iraq? Isn’t that trying to out-Bush the Bush administration, while Obama campaigned on getting out of Iraq and spending the money on programs at home? Unblinking, one of the soldiers said, “That’s what we think Barack will do.” They believed in a more expensive version of the administration’s program, and faulted Bush for half measures - and somehow they believed that Obama really agreed with them, all the public evidence to the contrary. And they believed in Barack with perfect faith.
With a VP nominee who is a religious fanatic, I don’t think McCain will win. From the Associated Press: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it “God’s will.”
Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihQ7X9rzlM
McCain found himself someone worst than dear old Dick
You should post the article right above that one, where they talk about how the Republicans seem to be “flailing in all directions” and seeming rather desperate.
Also: Oh my. You found an article on the internets that says bad things about the Obama speech. My god, I am shocked. Really. You should see if you can hunt down some porn on the internet as well, I understand that’s pretty rare.
Do you honestly think that Obama has no faults. That he has all this mystical experience that he can steer us through all these storms.
The folks associated with PUMA do not believe that Obama is the right choice. The believe (as others) that if Hillary didn’t make it, McCain would be the next choice.
Not Obama - sorry we don’t believe in your messiah.
Why are you here, did the Obama campaign send out instructions to start trolling the Pro-Hillary sites and try to force us to drink your Kool-Aid.
How about this - we will NEVER vote for this man.
The fact that you can willingly go from Hillary to McCain tells me two main things. First, it tells me that you have paid NO attention to the issues whatsoever, because if you had, you could not possibly go from supporting Hillary to supporting the McCain/Palin ticket, whose philosophy is damn near the exact opposite of Hillary’s.
Second, it tells me that this whole little ‘movement’ of yours really is fueled by nothing but spite and stupidity. Who exactly had ideas of a ‘messiah’ here when the loss of your candidate causes you to support her polar opposite, in what has to be the most phenomenally bone-headed move since people voted for Bush twice?
Or, and I consider this more likely, the whole PUMA / C4M nonsense is really just a republican front, and they managed to sucker people like yourself into it. Consider that the original register of the clintons4mccain website was the Republican National Committee.
Not to mention that I CANNOT, WILL NOT, AND WILL NEVER tolerate the stupidity of people who are willing to support candidates who are all too willing to strip women of their right to choose even in the cases of rape or incest. Your willingness to support that particular monstrosity is, among other things, what makes me come on here to give you nutters a hard time.
For all of you who believe “it was fair and square” but are willing to consider evidence to the contrary, please listen to the NO WE WON’T Blog Talk Radio shows
for Sept 6th and 7th. Make sure you watch the video ‘We Will Not
Be Silenced’ about what went on at the caucuses. I agree with all of you who understand the importance of this election. It would be lovely to be able to believe in our (Democrat’s) nominee; I certainly think we owe the planet an apology for 8 years of Bush but not at the cost of democracy. Please write back after you listen.