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Friday April 18, 2008 17:24 |
The Democratic party may be barreling towards another huge election defeat a la Walter Mondale’s 49-state loss in 1984.
Democratic voters have proven quite inept at selecting presidential candidates who could win in general elections for the last 8 years. They seem to think that going more radical and more liberal will do the trick. But it just ends up in defeat. With Barack Obama they have decided to cash in all the chips and go as radical as possible. It’s hard to imagine a more radical left-wing candidate.
I can see scenarios where John McCain may not just win the 2008 presidential election, but he may win in a landslide.
It looks like Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. Several months ago Republicans were afraid that if he were the nominee he would be unbeatable. This young, articulate, charismatic and novel figure would easily overtake the old, doddering John McCain with his youthful energy and fresh ideas.
But, look again. You knew Obama was from the far left wing of his party – there’s no hiding that. But the more we find out, the more downright scary he becomes. First, it’s silly for him to deny that he disagrees with the anti-American diatribes his pastor has delivered from the pulpit. Most people on the far left agree what his pastor said! And of course he agrees with his pastor - you don’t go to a church for 20 years when you have fundamental disagreements with what’s being preached there. He’s also married to a woman who shares the same views as his pastor. So, why would he try to deny knowing any of this? It stretches credulity to ask us to believe that he didn’t know where his pastor stood on the issues of the day. And it’s simply not believable that he had no idea what his pastor was preaching from the pulpit every Sunday for the last 20 years.
How can you go to a church where the pastor proclaims America deserved 9/11 and not know about that? Everybody in Chicago knew about it! And if you don’t know what’s going on in your own church how could you be expected to run something far more complicated as the U.S. government? Oh, but of course - he did know about it. He's only denying knowledge now because it would hurt him in his run for the presidency. Thankfully, America is nowhere near as radical as he and his pastor are. However, this undermines the whole rationale behind his candidacy. He freely admits he doesn't have much experience. But he says that's not what's important. What's important, he says, is his judgment. What's important is the fact that he is post-partisan - he's not like old-style politicians. But if he's willing to lie just to get elected, then just how different is he exactly? And if he didn't have enough good judgment to get out of that radical, racist church, just how good is his judgment?
Imagine the general election campaign, with video clips of Obama talking about how he wants to bring people together followed by a clip of his pastor ranting about how evil America is because of the white man. I'm imagining a commercial where Obama talks about his love for America juxtaposed with a clip of his pastor screaming, “not God bless America, but God DAMN America”!
Next we find out Obama is friends with Bill Ayers, who was a member of the 1960s-era radical Weather Underground. The Weather Underground was a violent radical left group which bombed government buildings, including the Pentagon, in protest of the Vietnam war. Ayers was bombing the Pentagon while John McCain was being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton. I'm imagining those two images juxtaposed in a campaign commercial.
Of his Pentagon bombing, Bill Ayers said recently (in 2007) that:
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.”
And ironically, on 9/11 2001, Bill Ayers said this of his bombing past:
“I don’t regret setting bombs, I feel we didn’t do enough.”
While John McCain was being tortured by the North Vietnamese, Obama’s friend Bill Ayers was cheering for a Communist victory over our troops. This will not play well in Ohio during the general election.
Obama has so many close friends (and spouse) that have expressed antipathy towards America that it defies all logic to believe that Obama doesn’t share a substantial portion of their views.
If the Republicans can make this fact clear to the public, Democrats could be looking at a loss of landslide proportions. |
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