Politics 101

19 Replies to “Politics 101”

1. No, it came from a Citroen.
   Parlez vous Anglais?

2. Je ne comprends pas.
   Rather astute of McCain, I thought.

3. Right now Obama is on his heels for two issues
   1) The victory lap, which went on WAAAAYYYYY too long to serve the purpose it was meant to. Demonstrate that he was taken seriously on a world stage. Now the backlash has started as Obama demonstarted a tin ear or more importantly a cold hand for American Domestic politics.
   2) Offshore drilling, took too hard a stand at the beginning and now is boxed in as opposing drilling, and even if he moves off that position then he ticks off his hard core supporters (not that they’ll vote for McCain). Obama needs to throw them under the bus, so to speak so as to not risk the important swing voters who fall into McCain’s position more naturally.
   McCain is having a good week but there are about 14 more of them to go…..I have said it will be a a close race till mid to late October, then someone will open a small but solid lead of 3 to 6 points and keep it. My bet is the actual election will be won by 3-4 points, 51.5 to 48.5 or something like that. It wont be a nailbiter but it wont be known till well into the counting of states like Minnesota, Colorado and New Mexico.
   Both candidates have significant strength and yet both have some serious vulnerabilities. I would never count out the GOP finding a way to win and I would never count out the Dem’s to find a way to lose.

4. *
   well… too bad he’s not as smart as garth…
   who is apparently inviting blogging tories
   to a meet and greet…
   “Dear neo,”
   “You are invited to join MP Garth Turner
   and Liberal leader Stephane Dion,
   for a special evening, as our guest…”
   sorry pal… gotta wash my hair that night.
   *

5. need to make a t shirt. “If you can read this that bi#ch democrat fell off”

6. Good thing the MSM is covering only one of the two campaigns. This little slip-up might slip on by…..

7. GMA on ABC mentioned McCain was at the bike rally.
   Didn’t say a word about the “roar”
   No bias there.
   Use your brain
   Vote McCain

8. Sounds good to me ….. Go Johnny Go………..

9. Disgusting.
   Abe Greenwald, Snobette
   Still unclear about what liberal elitism looks like? Check out Wonkette’s post about John McCain’s stop at a biker rally…

10. There’s a LOT of well-off, wealthy, influential people at Sturgis bike week these days. Lotsa doctors and lawyers on $100k Harleys.
    Hilarious to watch the free-love dope-smoking Lefty crowd trying to disrespect McCain for going where the money is.

11. Damn, does that mean the chosen one will try to up the ante by going to a NASCAR race? He probably heard that the drivers there all were left leaning. /rimshot please

12. Har……..
    Picture the headline Tex ….. NASCAR turns left … Obama Campaign Hits Charlotte !

13. John McCain admitted he never used a computer. Now he is trying and needs his wife to turn the thing on. google (McCain + computer) and laugh.
    He is 72 year old.. he is a dinosaur.
    Obama all the way.

14. the only black reporter there, asked to leave . . .
    Article published Aug 2, 2008
    McCain security ousts reporter
    By Paul Flemming
    FLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU
    Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price on Friday was singled out and asked to leave a media area at the Panama City rally of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
    Price was among at least three other reporters, and the only black reporter, surrounding McCain’s campaign bus — Gov. Charlie Crist and his fiancee, Carole Rome, were already aboard — when a member of the Arizona senator’s security detail asked the reporter to identify himself. Price had shown his media credentials to enter the area.
    Price showed his employee identification as well as his credentials for the Friday event.
    “I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man said that didn’t matter and that I would have to go,” Price said.
    When another reporter asked why Price was being removed, she too was led out of the area. Other state reporters remained.
    Jonathan Block does advance work for McCain’s campaign. He was in Panama City on Friday but was not present when reporter Stephen Price was asked to move from a restricted area.
    “Access to the senator is tightly controlled,” Block said. “I would first express regret that your reporter was moved, and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that race had nothing to do with it.”

15. Obamessiah gets an ecstatic response to his glib, platitudinous speech from 200,000 Berliners, who don’t vote in American elections.
    At the Sturgis, SD Annual Motorcycle Rally, John McCain gets a very warm welcome, cheers after his well-received, substantive speech from 50,000 Americans from all over the US, WHO DO VOTE in American elections.
    Yet, the Dems, the Obamessiah team and their lickspittle propagandists in the MSM see the former as a triumph and the latter as a failure.
    As Sun Tzu advised thousands of years ago, “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.” So, keep thinking that way, clueless Comrades.

16. I have reservations about McCain but even more about Obama’s competence. I stick by my prediction that it will be a McCain landslide. Republicans will loose in the House & Senate. While the Democrats gain. To me that is about as good a strategy as can be found to stop any excess from either side of the political divide.
    A check on fat cat crooked big government neo-cons in the Senate & Congress. At the same time having a POTUS with a military back ground in a time of war. Who has a political record at least in domestic affairs as well.. In Obama I smell another peanut farmer with modern neo-Marxist acculturation. Another Trudeau or Jimmy Carter politically. I think he has a streak of Utopianism in him as well. Being black is a distraction. Look at the lack of platform or experience. Yes people want change, but not backwards.

17. “quebecois separatiste”:
    “He is 72 year [sic] old.. he [McCain] is a dinosaur.”
    And since you’re a Québec separatist, you’re a dinosaur too.
    Takes one to know one, I guess.

18. “Yet, the Dems, the Obamessiah team and their lickspittle propagandists in the MSM see the former as a triumph and the latter as a failure.”
    The obvious danger here for the Democrats is that they could alienate a significant part of the electorate if they do not rein in any tendency to slight Americans by appearing to be too cosy with Europeans.
    To point out the obvious, 200,000 cheering Germans can’t provide Obama a single vote;* 50,000 jeering Americans can deny him 50,000 votes.
    * Though I’m sure there was a statistically insignificant sampling of dual citizens amongst them…

19. Remember when the left used to pretend to care about ageism? Funny thing is that while all the young men who are by and large leftie to get laid, are out drinking and sleeping it off, old codgers are voting. They vote in high numbers. What else do they have to do?
    I only wish we could get QS a wider audience.