McCain-Palin Pull Even, Change the Narrative, and Obama Employs Sexism
By Bud White on September 7, 2008 at 7:35 AM in Associated Press, Barack Obama, Electoral College, Fund raising, Gender Bias, Joe Biden, John McCain, Misogyny, MyDD, Obama's Neuroses, Political Strategy, Presidential Candidates, Race Card, Sarah Palin, Sexism, South Carolina
Sarah Palin’s speech on Wednesday night might be the defining moment of the General Election. According to CBS’s new poll, Obama’s post-convention bounce has evaporated and the race is again tied. It’s likely that McCain will pull ahead with his own convention bounce. One of few sane netroots bloggers, Jerome Armstrong, sifting through the CBS poll, is warning Obama supporters of a close election:
if we pull out a 4% spread on election day, I’ll be very pleasantly surprised. It’s much more likely that we are going to see the same result as in ‘04 and ‘06, a tie or 2% lead. That’s it.
A tied race is particularly bad place for Obama. The Obama campaign planned on putting McCain on the defensive in Western states and overwhelming him with money in the key battleground states. The selection of Palin will probably nullify any Obama inroads in the West and the Republicans are suddendly at financial parity with Obama. Bloomberg News reports:
With an increase in fundraising following McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republicans say they are no longer in danger of being swamped by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign cash.
“The money game is essentially off the table now,” said Eddie Mahe, a former deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee.
In addition to the financial boon brought on by Palin, the attempted swiftboating of Alaska’s governor has created a situation where the public overwhelming perceives the media as being biased for Obama. Armstrong suggests that the attacks on Palin will actually strengthened McCain:
The media has been busy digging a grave for us this past week, by following up on the vicious personal smears that have been pushed by prominent liberal blogs into the mainstream. Not only did they mostly backfire by not being true, but they confirmed the popular opinion that the media favors Obama. It’s become conventional wisdom. This presents two huge problems.
First, McCain can basically wield whatever attacks he’d like, and not have to worry about the critique of the media. They are not seen as objective judges in the matter.
Second, the only way that the media can change this public opinion is to go overboard the other way, by attacking Barack Obama with multiple feeding frenzies.
To date, the media has been unwilling to investigate or critique Obama, so a feeding frenzy is unlikely; there’s nothing to suggest that this will change. The public’s understanding of this bias gives McCain the opportunity to define Obama and link him to the media’s elitism and the D.C.-establishment culture. Obama’s selection of Joe Biden makes McCain’s task much easier. McCain/Palin now own the Change narrative. As Bob Somerby says:
That “maverick” narrative is deeply entrenched—and this planet is driven by narrative. (If we might borrow a bit from Lord Russell: It’s novels, all the way down.)
The Associated Press is reporting that Palin’s speech (and perhaps McCain’s as well) was viewed by more viewers than Obama’s, and her critiques of Obama appear to be taking a toll on the Democratic nominee. Obama seems rattled and is now defending his mysterious work as a “community organizer.” Carolyn Lockhead of the SF Chronicle (h/t Paul Villareal) writes:
Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, Pa, hotly defending his work as a community organizer. He said he assumes Palin “wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty [sic]. I’ve been through this for 19 months. She’s been through it, what four days?” (emphasis added)
Lockhead seems to be approving of Obama as the political pugilist, as Obama “punches” at his rival’s VP pick. Instead, by saying that Palin “wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated,” Obama is drawing attention to her gender and implying that if she complains of his tactics that she’s not as tough as the “guys.” This is classic Obama sexism: it’s the condescending put-down meant to disempower his female opponent by playing into stereotypes.
In the next sentence, however, Obama comes across as defensive:
Obama’s hackles were clearly raised by Palin’s dismissal of his community organizing –a response to his earlier dismissal of her record as a small-town mayor. “Why would that kind of work be ridiculed?” Obama said. “Who are they fighting for?” The idea that community organizing is not relevant to the presidency, he said, just shows why Republicans “are out of touch and don’t get it.”
The McCain Team should be wary of a cornered Obama. In a similar situation in January, on the heels of back-to-back defeats in New Hampshire and Nevada, Obama, sensing defeat, began to sound rattled. In a column titled “Now or Never,” David Broder described Obama’s desperation in psychological terms:
But all that is down the road from South Carolina. For now, Clinton and her husband, the former president, have gotten inside Obama’s head and rattled his composure. Obama seemed unusually defensive in his speech here Sunday evening, launching the final burst of campaigning in the state
Obama’s firewall in South Carolina, as has been well-documented, was the despicable use of racial politics against the Clintons.
McCain’s selection of Palin has shifted the narrative of this race away from Obama’s Hope message and back to the familiar Marverick narrative. While McCain/Palin own Change, Obama/Biden are the verbose Washington insiders. Independents and women voters are swinging back to McCain, and the electoral map projections will change the “inevitable” narrative. The McCain Team should be wary. In times like these, when Obama is feeling down, he lashes out.
I looks BHO free ride from the MSM may be coming to an end….bout time!
Remember, this is the same MSM that helped bring you (and continues to bring really) the Iraq war. The media has no other narrative, they will have to defend Hussein Obamacus all the way to the very end. Sure, they may ask a hard question, which they will give to Obamacus in advance, and allow him time to get his ducks in a row.
I do think that he will still lose.
I give the edge to the GOP. They are better cheaters.
I dunno, dude. I think more dead democrats vote in Chicago and St. Louis than dead republicans.
If ACORN was there registering, then that is very likely the case.
Bud White — great piece and thanks for the hat tip!
Obama wins the electoral votes in IL, DL, VT -big deal! All he gets is 24 electoral votes (if that). McCain takes the MAP! WINS in a LANDSLIDE OF APPROVAL!
McCain/Palin now there is a ticket for Americans!
Democratic cheating is well documented.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/fund200409130633.asp
I think the media will give the debate questions to Obama and Biden in advance so they can prepare answers for them. The media has gone all out to help elect Obama and would look like fools if the public did not buy what they peddled.
McCain won the Republican nomination fair and square.
It was Obama and his thuggish campaign that stole the Democratic nomination through well-documented and pervasive caucus fraud, buying off and threatening superdelegates, aided and abetted by a corrupt DNC which selectively punished states won by Hillary, handed over delgates to Obama won by Hillary, and held a sham roll call at the convetion to hand the nomination to the only candidate in this race who never has been properly vetted.
Good thing there are no caucus states in the general election, something the DNC chose to ignore about the electability factor that will cripple Obama and would have benefitted Clinton. It’s winner take all in the general election baby! And I believe the red states will stay firmly red and the swing states will probably swing red. BTW, if we don’t have Obama in the WH in November, you can most likely thank a woman and a Bubba. I’m cool with that.
Oh, this could be good news, but seemed like something to mention. Obama pulled all his ads in Georgia. Maybe it’s no longer purple or maybe the fix is in? But today we are all Georgians!
liz b thank you — well said. The Dems figured that even when Obama and Clinton were just about tied they would give the nod to Obama because his people would riot while her women voters would go home with their heads between their legs and shut up. WRONG.
Women have long memories and we know how to carry a grudge. Sorry BO you bought the farm.
And he came from behind to do it too. His party pretty much wrote him off and the right wing conservatives were glad to do it. Now with picking Palin as his VP and his ability to fight on thru all that adversity, he is on track and the public can see what he has actually done. Americans like fair play and fighters for what they believe in. That was Hillary’s deal too. Too bad she ran into party cheaters before she really got to show the general public how good she is. Good for JMac..
It’s amazing isn’t? I was one of those disgruntled Conservatives. I was not going to vote, until the Anti-Messiah rose from Hyde Park
vince — Obama knows how to bring us all together. Me a lifelong Dems and you a disgruntled Conservative united. Its a great day in the USA.
Yes, the Right wanted Huckabee or Romney, not JMac.
MG
I don’t know if that’s the case or not but I’m thinking now that the elimination of the Clintons was planned a long time ago by the leadership of the dems and they groomed 0bama, who agreed to the plan. They knew he was well-versed in Chicago-style politics and that he’d do anything…with their help, of course. I just am thinking it began with the current corrupt leadership.
Also, 0bama’s style has been to win by eliminating his competition. I wonder how he thinks he’ll eliminate mccain?
Well, none of them have my vote…that’s all I know for sure. Have a good one, all.
I think everyone assumes the more desperate Obama gets, the more he’ll try to paint McCain and especially Palin as racists. (I noticed recently on a blog an anonymous waitress said she overheard Palin say “Sambo beat the bitch”). That’s the start. But will it work again? Obama already has the black and white guilt vote. Everyone else may see it as just more of the same.
see #65 on this list.
http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
about #65 (I have an addition for those MEN PUNDITS out there)
you said:
my addition is:
Women are perfectly allowed to call each other bitches and fully get away with it - we ALL are and we ALL KNOW IT and we TRY to keep it to OURSELVES most times but sometimes we can’t HELP OURSELVES!!!
lol
it’s true
ellen — its the law of diminishing returns. This country is getting tired of Obama and his antics. A recent poll showed 50% of Americans feel they have seen too much of Obama and are sick of him. If he starts his racism stick against this woman this will not play with the electorate. Palin has become the underdog and anything he says about her he has already said about Hillary and Bill and small town Americans etc. You can only play the white guilt card so often before people dismiss you as an immature moaner with a glass jaw.
Obama cannot fall back on his experience -
he has none. In fact he has very little in his arsenal but vicious attacks against another prominent woman and cheating. I think the Republicans can cheat better — than he can.
I so agree!
MG
Its too bad that no one can ask the media questions like WHEN EXACTLY did you do any vetting of Obama? For example, sending reporters to snoop around Alaska but sending no reporters to Chicago to do the same for Obama.
The bias towards Obama has long been evident to Clinton supporters and because of that, her supporters have become very high information voters and will never vote for Obama come hell or high water.
deep truths — The Dems say we don’t exist and the media says we don’t exist but McCain knows we exist and Palin is his present to us Hillary Dems.
Obama can’t handle that millions of Democrats will not vote for him so he sends out surrogates to get us back in the fold - now if we didn’t exist why would he go to so much trouble to get us back.
Regardless of Obama’s alleged cheating, if the DNC rules were the same as RNC rules, Hillary would be the nominee. I suspect McCain would have trouble beating her. There is something to be said for “winner-take-all” and “winner-take-most” rules.
Not so sure - they are truly sexist.
The best thing about the choice of Palin will be if she really does destroy the Dean/Axerod/Obama western strategy to which this post refers. Democrats really do not know what this stategy entails. If you have not yet done so, you need to read this New Yorker article about what the western strategy entails. (The last five paragraphs are the key):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/01/080901fa_fact_lizza?printable=true
Here is a very telling quote from the article about what this strategy will bring if it succeeds:
“It’s a party that becomes more Hispanic, and less African-American,” Kenneth Baer, the co-founder of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, said. “More oriented toward high-tech workers and less towards labor. It’s the end of the New Deal coalition.”
I would have dismissed this as crazy except for the fact that it explains Obama’s tactic of dissing Clinton’s record which appeals to the working class. It has only been recently that Obama bothered to point out the great Clinton economy. That was either because he was trying to appease Clinton Democrats or because the race is so close that he has finally realized that he needs those working class folks in Ohio and Pa.
The western strategy is a big loser. Knowledge workers have already been voting for Democrats. Why in the world would you want to turn your back on lower class voters just to please them even more? The only thing I can think of is that it is cooler to represent these types of cutting edge people.
They do realize that Clinton received 55-60% of all Hispanic votes and up to 80% of all Asian-American votes. McCain does have a strong appeal to Hispanic and Asian American voters. There is a strong distrust between Hispanic, Asian Americans vs AAs. 90% of Hispanic American are Catholic and Soetoro has a problem with Catholic voters. If this is the strategy they were depending on-they are more stupid than I though!
I read that Sarah Palin has been polling well with Hispanics who are often Catholic, socially conservative and interested in education / healthcare. It was conventional wisdom earlier in the election that McCain would attract Hispanic voters because of his earlier immigration bill. This might’ve been the case, except this group moved overwhelmingly toward Clinton in the primaries. Sarah Palin’s biography, her fiery speaking and confidence, are playing to McCain’s strengths that he cannot talk about himself, and he has taken on more domestic issues. He is talking about national security, welfare reform, energy independence and creating jobs.
Look I am a staunch FDR/Truman Democrat.
But I have to take issue with
Knowledge workers have already been voting for Democrats.
Because what is exactly meant by knowledge workers???
Does one mean the upper middle class latte and wine drinking set? The doctor; dentist; lawyer; journalist; media, advertising, marketing reps, under 50 corporate middle management types who have actually been doing just fine under Bush II economically yet hate his cultural conservatism and Neo-Conservative foreign policy adventurism. This voter demographic are socially Multicultural Left-Libertarians yet economically are staunch Neo-Liberals. They flock to Barack Obama while at the same time look down their noses at working class Democrats . But they are an elite subset of the electorate. They are minority of Democratic voters, yet for most of the last 30+ years they have had the upper hand in choosing our presidential candidates and party leadership.
The much ballyhooed Left-Libertarian/Economic Neo-Liberal/Minority Coalition has been fatal to the Democratic party for the last 30+ years.
Some might bring up the success of Bill Clinton, to claim otherwise. But in 1992 Bill Clinton ran as a staunch economic populist who reached out to the neglected working class across racial lines. Bill Clinton kept his economic Neo-Liberalism/DLC pedigree under wraps until after the election when he later sold the working class base of the party down the river with NAFTA, China PNTR and assorted other economic chicanery. Also do not forget Clinton had the help of Ross Perot tearing GWHB a new A-Hole at ever turn. Clinto
NOW if by Knowledge Workers who actually mean STEM workers or Science, Engineering Technology and Math degree holders then the Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker article and the Howard Dean/DNC strategy is really off base.
True Knowledge/STEM workers have been hammered for a over a decade now by both the Clinton and & Bush administrations. Nearly a million of over 35 year old IT and engineering professionals have been displaced in the economy because of the combined effects of wildly corrupt H1-B and L1 “insourcing” visa programs, outsourcing, NAFTA and China PNTR.
This segment of the electorate is now a independent swing vote. They are at best “Lou Dobbs” Democrats.
Pro-Employer - Anti Worker/ Open Border Immigration policies and legislation are a deciding issue with this electorate. Neither the Barack Obama or McCain has done themselves any favors by backing the treasonous so-called Kennedy/McCain “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” legislation that proved wildly unpopular with the public across party lines.
Right now the STEM worker vote is split among the Presidential candidates but leaning towards McCain especially since the Palin pick as VP. Obama is not being trusted because of his unrelenting Marcusian/Gramscian Racial Marxist rhetoric.
Yet take a careful look at what is happening in the Senate races in Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota and Maine. A 6-12 months ago these were seen as being easy victories for Democrats. However, unlike in 2006 when winning candidates like Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown, Heath Schuler, Brad Ellsworth, Joe Donnelly among others, staked out their own more moderate if not restrictionist take on immigration, now the DNC, Pelosi and Reid are all insisting that the Democratic candidates support “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” less they not receive lots of very left-wing Hollywood and corrupt corporate campaign cash. Combined with the fact that Obama is soaking up the vast pool of small donations, it has these senate candidates flip flopping all over in order to try not alienate voters. And guess what?? It is not working. All of these races are now swinging Republican or within the margin of error.
Ryan Lizza, Howard Dean, Pelosi and Reid are all wet.
This election is shaping up to be an unmitigated and entirely avoidable disaster for Democrats
I think by knowledge workers they mean primarily the Silicon Valley/Redmond crowd.
Jockey — well said. Ryan Lizza’s article is Howard Dean’s talking points. I read the same words last week quoted by Howard Dean himself down to the last phrase about not being able to get this done this year. I could have added — how about never.
The Democratic Party was the ordinary people’s party and now that it thinks its too good for ordinary people — then there is no reason to be a Democrat at all. I think Republicans are playing it smart in appealing to the Democratic base. I see a more moderate Republican Party becoming the majority party for decades to come.
There is also something else going on here and that is with the economy in such bad shape those who are usually never touched by economic upheavals are in the same boat with the rest of us. If you’re hurting do you want an overgrown kid who was a Community Organizer and has little or no other experience to to be Potus — I doubt it.
bernie — it may be cooler — but its a loser. A party made up of the creative class, latte liberals, AA’s and Youth is not enough to win. And telling the base of the Democratic Party to stay home because they weren’t needed to win will be taught in political science classes as the dumbest political move ever made.
Lastest TIME magazine with Sarah Palin on the cover continues with the lies (asking for book banning issue for one). They also show pictures that are NOT meant to flatter. TIME shills for obama… nothing new! Unfortunately many people are under the impression that magazine is “credible” and its words are fact and truth!! We need to start boycotting and cancelling such RAGS!
Yes, Bud!
“Periodically, when [Barack] feels down, ()he starts launching attacks against…” those whom he fears. This sexist code statement against HIllary used by Barack was detested by millions of women who see that this incompetent sexist race-card baiter hasn’t changed at all and is now attacking his newly perceived female threat.
Beware indeed. He appeared in this youtube mega-hit:
“Obama Gives HIllary the Finger” —
and plays a well-rehearsed JayZ rapper-wannabe act dusting off and scraping off (as if excrement) his female fellow senator HRC, smirking and using his dainty midfinger strategically.
Barry is dangerously camouflagins his sexism so Sarah Palin better be ready for an out of left field attack that could be race-baiting in nature.
It started already with bloggers sayint they found a waitress in Alaska by the name of “Louise” and she head Palin say “So Sambo beat the Bitch”!…
So, the race-baiting already started against Palin.
Barack must be taught a painful lesson and the Republicans, unlike the exDems who didn’t bother defending Hillary against the dirty punches of the BHO crowd, have to quickly neutralize the narrative and even sute Barry for slander by bringing their own witnesses against him.
Barry fights dirty and keeps his manicured nails always clean. But not this time. There’s a baraccuda ready to bite his ears off. And the pumas will be only too delighted to roar their wild approval…
The McCain Team is encouraging Obama to lash out, that is when Obama makes the biggest mistakes of opening doors to things. Today on George Stephanopolis, Obama accuses McCain of labeling him a muslim and hanging around with radicals, what a stupid move, one everyone knows McCain will have to answer too, and answering to it will not be good for Obama and the media.
B Hussien cracked and said McCain called him a Muslim?
BWAHAAAAH how absurd… McCain has been super careful to avoid that entire subject… BACKLASH
Let’s be serious here. If the GOP hasn’t been saying Obama is a Muslim, then who has?
Trolls aren’t serious
You are a troll
Ergo you aren’t serious.
Go away.
Answer: The Obama Campaign itself, to draw the Righteous Indignation “backlash” vote.
In 1924, while seeking to become the first Irish Catholic Governor of Massachusetts, James Michael Curley hired people to burn crosses in the heavily Protestant western part of the state. He did this so he’d be able to point at them and yell “BIGOTRY!” and suggest that anyone who voted against him was a bigot. (He lost anyway.)
This is what the Obamabots did- desperate after losing New Hampshire and Nevada, they threw the race card into the SC primary by accusing the Clintons of doing it.
Now they can reap the whirlwind.
Well you know there is strong evidence out there that Mr. Soetoro is by birth a Muslim. Plus he has not produced his origional BC-what is the problem??? Why no original BC?
Why no original BC? Because the State of Hawaii won’t provide it.
hello? you mean Soetoro couldn’t get his real birth certificate from the state of Hawaii, and that is why he forged his sisters BC and put it on his website?
A federal court can and will order the state of Hawaii to produce the BC–which will say “Barry Soetoro”. Soetoro-”Obama” won’t produce it, so he was sued to produce it, and evidence of his citizenship.
Soetoro is not eligible to be POTUS. That’s why he introduced Biden as “president”, you know.
How about show us the Birth Certificate he wrote about in his own book? You know, the one he had in a box. Show us that one then.
Oh, you mean he just made up that for the book???
John — My favorite saying is HE WHO DEFILES HIS OWN HOUSE SHALL INHERIT THE WIND.
Well in the Primaries whenever a smear like that would leak out, they usually traced it back to staffer on Obama or Clinton or whoever’s campaign.
So in this case if someone is calling him a Muslim, then where is the outcry.. because the press would just love to scream bloody murder about it and expose the evil hateful Republicans.
But they haven’t.
That photograph of him with his brother came from his campaign.
freedom
Your boss has been saying it. Now he’e playing the ‘religion card.’ The Clintons never said anything racist but your boss played that card too. It won’t work with the Repubs–they couldn’t care less. In the war between the Daley machine and the Republican machine the latter wins hands down.
Obama just raised the issue HIMSELF. It would have been helpful if BO had tried at least one case in court. Any good lawyer would tell their client to shut-up about that topic.
First rule of politics: ‘when you’re explaining, you’re losing’.
Hillary could not do this during the primaries without being labled “biggest racist” in the world. I am so happy that he is calling him on the racist call and maybe my fellow AA will see through this. And by the way there were 7 more murders in Chicago this weekend.
Let’s bring Chicago Politics to the Nation!!!
I still can’t believe the Democrats were dumb enough to nominate someone who came directly out of the Chicago sleaze political machine. The Democrats would probably put up Al Capone if they thought he could win.
I just hope the MSM go into his non action in fact participation of us having the highest taxes in the country, his house getting a waiver on historical landmark (Michele) and Valeria Jarett his “Brain” and her relationship with Mayor Daley.
OBSP I doublt that the corporate controlled media is going do do very much! They are losing the trust many Americans use to put in them. I hear so many people knocking and hating these charlatans! Its about time, we need to break the monopoly which these liars have on our airwaves!
This is what happens when you entirely deregulate the media. The only thing to get any regulatory attention recently was a wardrobe malfunction. Just more diversion so that do-nothing politicians could appear to be busy doing the people’s work.
I for one, will be glad when the adults take back the reins of government from the extreme left and extreme right and start getting some real governing for their money.
I notice Obamabots are all ovder comment threads for the UK Telgraph and The Times, because more Americans are reading the foreign press, hoping for objective coverage. More people think our elections are unfair and the corporations control media content.
STEVE1 McCain has suffered at the hands of this media also and when he gets in he can put some decent people in at the FCC and take away licenses of stations who call themselves news stations but do commentary instead of news like CNN. If I was McCain I would put Sarah Palin in charge of this.
Farrakhan in 2012!
What an idiot! You don’t go on national television and call attention to the very thing you’re trying to deny the most. It just reminds me of what Shakespeare said—”Me thinks he doth protest too much.”
amen to that!!
Wow, he’s REEEEAAAAALLLY desperate.
Hey-they are playing the same race card. Don’t you remember when they accused Clinton cmapaign of the same thing. But you know what-he probably is a Muslim. Nothing wrong with that. But, to lie about and than accuse your opponents of swearding this, is the height of hypocrisy! Well this time real Americans are not going to fall for it. Barry Soetoro, Indonesian adopted father, Lolo Soetoro, Barry Soetoro traveling to Pakistan, who paid for that? Who did he meet? Barry Soetoro and out right LIAR!
steve 1
Why THIS time real Americans….will notice?
Where they not real Americans when Clinton was in the primaries?
Friday, June 20:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2040982720080620?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
Hey Barry, we’re tired of these cards. Don’t you have any more?
Oh, and calling us all racists and islamophobes seems a little divisive to me.
In his own words Obama has said why he would be bad for this country. He is young and inexperienced and his wife is a bitch. Like a broken clock Obama tells the truth twice a day.
LOL
New Zogby poll out there, and it’s more good news for Palin/McCain.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1548
The GOP team is ahead 50-46%.
This explains the utter overreaction to Palin. They are seeing it all fall apart due to Obama’s hubris. Obama is yesterdays news and saying everyone is calling him names is pathetic. He only has 8 weeks and it is not enough time to reinvent himself again. He gambled on not selecting Hillary as VP and lost.
Imagine if Obama was attacked the way Palin was — Obama would completely unravel and they would have to lock him up.
Well, nobody was allowed to attack or question Michelle, remember?
What’s funny is how Obama had to give the entire country a lecture about race when HE was attacked for his RACIST minister of 20 years.
Did Sarah lecture any of us about anything when they tried smearing her?
I don’t think that is funny, I think it is disgusting. Are you a certified moron? Nobody made Obama give an inane lecture on race — he needed to explain what he was doing in that disgusting church for 20 years, what he heard and knew about Wright, and why he was still there. Obama decided he would not do that, instead he took no responsibility and lectured us. WE should be lecturing HIM. I expected Obama to drop out of the race at that point. I am so angry at that jackass for turning his egregious conduct and lies into a lecture to the citizens of this country that I developed deep hatred toward that man.
It was at that point that I quit listening to him at all. I can’t take more than three minutes of his speeches now, especially the cadence and preachy tenor. He reminds me of one of those ministers that gets caught with a hooker. I just roll my eyes when he tries playing his mind games, “They”re going to do this…” and “People will say…” and as I have said many times, I’m tired of hearing “folks.” Ain’t no folks in DC, Hyde Park or Hawaii.
Funny: as in being Odd, curious, etc..
You are right. It was a huge mistake to not ask Hillary to be his VP. He proves once and for all that he is a petty, grudge holding, immature man.
If Obama can not put personal feelings aside for the bests interests of his campaign, how can we expect him to act in the best interests of our country?
Kat or anyone else who’s reading. Do you know why Real Clear Politics stopped including the Zogby Poll in it’s average?
When it grossly favored Barky it seemed it was included.
Or am I just being paranoid?
(after the May 31 Michigan vote grab…I am a little paranoid)
I noticed that too. I also noticed that they have no polls in PA later than 8/25 or something. They are still giving those votes to Obama because of a 5 point lead as of 8/25.
But his lead had shrunk to get there. Perhaps they will update that this week.
FiveThreeEight is also losing its mind over these polls. HAHA! By “projections done right” they mean *WISH PROJECTION!*
Two days ago they told all the Obamafans to stop hyperventilating because the post-Palin bounce was “over.”
HAHA, then suddenly they are not reporting Obama’s continued tanking anymore, just weird attacks on Palin being a “hockey player” not a “hockey mom” — whatever that’s supposed to mean!
Just listen to Air America radio and Olberman- they tell us that it’s because “pollsters arent reaching the younger crowd because they have cellphones and not land lines, so the young are being undercounted, and of course they are heavily for Obama blah blah blah..”
Which is a complete and utter joke. Pollsters ARE reaching cellphones. They want to be accurate, not look stupid.
It’s just bad news for the Obamabots. Ignoring it or dismissing it won’t make it go away.
No you aren’t paranoid you are being realistic!
http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
Gallup has Obama down to just a 2-point lead. The top story says that Obama’s lead is steadily shrinking.
That 2 point Obama lead was yesterday’s results. Today, McCain is up by 3.
Hey as a member of a traditional Democratic family, parents, grandparents, we have never voted Rep. We, will! We can hold our noses for the next four years. We rather put up with an honest, decent, heroic straight talker and America first, president.
Than vote for that lying, limo riding, glass-pipe smoking, hanging with the hate America crowd, pretentious phoney! Clinton 2012.
Oh yeah, I forgot to add, hypocrite!
…and you forgot “sexist.”