Always helpful;
And, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012. I firmly believe that she is. I think the Clintons are waiting out there.
They are watching this. They are watching a lackadaisical failure response to the earthquake in Haiti. They are watching this election result. They've been loyal. They've been spouting the Obama talking points all over the place. Hillary has dutifully gone wherever she's been told to go by Obama. Now we had a referendum on Obama; his approval numbers are plunging. No issue he supports enjoys majority support of the American people. Mrs. Clinton, start gearing up for 2012. Her loss was narrow! Operation Chaos (orchestrated by me and executed by many of you) kept her in that race longer than she otherwise would have been. But Obama has failed miserably in record time. And my gal Hillary, who so many of you voted for in the Democrat primary, could be well poised to springboard back into the race in 2012.
I hope she's pondering it. Nobody could have ever expected (except me) this big and this fast a failure on the part of the president of the United States. But I have no doubts because I know, and knew, that his policies were going to take us right where we are. So make no mistake about it: Even without my urging, Hillary Clinton is salivating and Bill Clinton is salivating because (doing Bill Clinton impression), "A few years ago, that guy would've been getting us coffee. In a couple more years, that guy can get us coffee. Maybe three."
I really don't see anyone else for the job. The retirees may be replaced by a contender. Maybe there is a loss of belief you can give everybody what they want. Hilary's main fault may be all the connections she and Bill have made over the years coming back to haunt.
Other than scaring me, I can see the American voter has enough problems dealing with everyday life without more manure from the same herd. I see a revolt of sorts in throwing the old gaurd out on both sides. Out of touch? Out of here.
There's no doubt that Owebama is toast but I doubt that Shrillery could win. Owebama won in part because he is seen as an outsider. Palin's popularity is in large part because she is an outsider. Shrillery is the consummate insider. With the shenanigans Pelosi and Reid are pulling, insiders are not going to be (re)elected.
I think that Obama and Co. are going to pull a scorched earth plan. They'll pound every piece of leftist legislation through that they can and devil take the hindmost. This ain't politics as usual, this is Marxism!!
I don't mean to laugh, but....the sight of Kerry hobbling onto the stage in crutches, on such a night, is just too perfect as metaphor. It's one of those everlasting iconic images - it might even top that image of Dukakis in his onion-helmet, when he managed to make a 40-ton tank look like a tricycle with streamers.
Limbaugh is surely right about Bill and Hillary salivating. What's happening, both nationally and in Massachusetts, *is* vindication for both of them, albeit perhaps for different reasons. I've been unable to find the quote, or the clip, but late during the Hillary/Obama contest, when it was becoming clear that Obama was in the ascendant, Bill Clinton lost his cool a bit and said -- effectively said, this isn't verbatim - "Have you taken a look at this guy's record? Seriously? I mean, come on!!" He practically threw a pencil in the air and rolled his eyes. You could see that he thought it ridiculous that Obama was in any way qualified to be President.
You have to say this for Obama: he makes Hillary look like a superb, top-notch Presidential nominee. The guy can obviously accomplish anything, if he's just given the opportunity.
The worst thing for Ogabe is he can't make a comeback now. He's a hard-core Marxist who will go down with his rotten ship rather than change course. And the economy has been so devastated by his tax and spend economic policies that he can't gain popularity from an economic rebound. The guy is toasted!
Yeah, Rush had lots of good material today....
It's all coming apart as it should
Health care
Global warming
Cap and trade
War on terror (obama version)
Stimulus package
Auto industry take over
Super majority
Socialization of America to the Marxist dream
The chickafication of America
The far left mainstream media
And the first affirmative action president
Forty years of progressiveness is now shown to be a destroyer of wealth, culture and security.
You guys still listen to a guy who was denied the chance to buy a football team 'cause everyone knows he's a racist, huh?
Everyone associated with the Obama administration is going to be a pariah.
Hillary too.
Steady, everyone - ixnay.
from a cap to unlimited, a xmas present to the American people.
http://usawatchdog.com/fannie-freddie-and-gold/
jwkozak91
I agree: steady and ixnay. There's two more years to go before the next presidential campaign starts (officially, anyway). A lot can happen in that time.
Would you have believed two years ago 'President Obama' today?
Marquis: They just dropped a 2 ton anvil on your foot in Mass., in part for crap statements like that
Rush was railroaded.
Talk about stuck on stupid. Heh.
Well ... you must admit that watching the Clinton's team of weasels going after Obongo in a presidential bid would be immensely satisfying.
And very helpful to whomever the Republicans can come up with.
Romney?
If Brown could show him how to remove some of the starch, he'd do just fine.
It's funny. Even though Americans were willing to vote in a Marxist for President ('granted, the Obmaessiah's agenda was well-camouflaged by the media), I don't think they'll vote in a Mormon (Mitt Romney).
Even though I've never met a Mormon I didn't find highly likable, have you checked out their theology?
I love our chances for a four-way race. Dear Leader versus Romney gain the majors with Clinton and Palin running as Indies.
Palin/Bachmann in 2012!
One thing going for Hillary and Bill, they could refurnish the White House with the stuff they stole from it.
"...have you checked out their theology?" So what does that have to do with anything? batb, you are sounding like one of those sheeple the spin doctors want to get to. Unless the guy is a Druid or Satanic Cultist I don't think the vast majority of Americans will really care unless of course, rumours of secret handshakes, meetings and rituals behind closed doors get imaginations going wild. Kind of like Mason paranoia. Besides, Romney actually has experience governing.
The problem with the last Republican primary was religion. The Mormons didn't like the Baptist Huckabee and the Baptists didn't like the Mormon Romney. So Mccain won. Maybe if the two sides would stop evangelizing each others children, they could get along better. By the way, I am Catholic, they all agree I'm going to hell.
Texas Canuck, first the Masons are scary, not just imagined, to many Catholics. Of course not on the local level, but no Catholic businessman or woman is likely to get ahead in a community run by Masons. Secondly, as a matter of fact, the Archbishop of Canterbury is a Druid, and he joyfully admits it. It is not likely that he will soon receive an invitation to join the Roman Church anytime soon.
It's O'ver.
The Beard and the ThurdReich have decamped.
The HillBilly will be taking this into their triangulations, er plotting.
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"Paul Krugman: "I'm Pretty Close To Giving Up On Obama""
"See also: Robert Reich: The Voters Are Firing Obama Because He's Flopped On The Economy"
http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-im-pretty-close-to-giving-up-on-obama-2010-1
Obama Finds Out That Brown Won Mass. Video. Hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4aQCiRjvZY
Pat said "I think that Obama and Co. are going to pull a scorched earth plan. They'll pound every piece of leftist legislation through that they can and devil take the hindmost. This ain't politics as usual, this is Marxism!"
The Dem's remind me of Bob Rae's government in Ontario. A lot of hateful bitter people suddenly got hold of the government. They tried to do as much damage as they could because they knew they would never get another chance. They stayed in power until the last legal minute they could.
We had to put up with several years of race baiters and crackpots in the news everyday spouting off ridiculous statements.
"Everyone associated with the Obama administration is going to be a pariah.
Hillary too."
When Clinton took the Secretary of State job, I remember posting here that I thought it was a "smooth move" on the part of the new administration. She is now indelibly chained to the Obama team, for better or worse.
If Obama's response to Haiti is a "failure",* then it's Hillary's failure as well (she's the US FOREIGN MINISTER after all).
Hillary should have remained a senator but she just couldn't stay away from the levers of power and was sucked right into having her political career buried at the State Department.
I think the only way she could ever make a comeback would be to make a clean break (resign over a policy issue or something).
As 2012 draws closer, and she's effectively muzzled over there at Foggy Bottom, her clout recedes and the show moves on, with younger and fresher players on both sides vying for glory.
* Mind you, for what it's worth, I do not believe it is a failure.
More good news for HillBilly.
"German commentators say it is the end of hope."
Course, the Germans mean O'Hope, not Hope, Billy's Hope town.
But, the bestest news:
"The World Bids Farewell To Obama"
"This week, though -- a week when Obama should have been celebrating the first anniversary of his inauguration -- may have been the president's worst yet."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433900/posts
Rush. Now there's more than a pound of BS talking. A true American hypocrite.
Rush Limbaugh: "Properly articulated, issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country."
The truth of that statement depends on how you define conservatism. For me, the definition involves limited government that refuses to redistribute wealth. I do wonder if such a philosophy will ever appeal to a dependable majority and that our "successes" won't always be temporary reactions to populist excess. There are simply too many people who like the idea of getting someone else to pay for what they want, and politicians, being politicians, will always offer to facilitate the process.
If conservatism is to gain in mass appeal, the gap between what is available and what the majority can afford must be acceptable to most people. One would think that technological advances, which are greatly facilitated by capitalism and free markets, would minimize that gap, and in most areas in life I think the gap is indeed being minimized. The problem today centers on so-called "health care". In an earlier age, when most people took for granted some sort of life after death, it was easier to accept death when medicine offered no cure. In a materialistic age, such acceptance is harder, and the struggle to obtain the best possible defense against death intensifies. Enter the Democratic party, willing to pander to any fear, and against which Republican stoicism is a poor competitor.
I just can not see 'HRC' running in 2012 presidential elections as the president, but could maybe on the ticket as a VP.
In just one year (actually, it happened even more quickly), Obama has convinced me that it is possible to be a worse President than Hillary would be.
Interesting to speculate. My own view is that:
First, Obama himself won't run for a second term. I maintain that he's a frontman puppet of a hardcore radical set of socialists who now run the Democratic party, the BackRoom Gang (BRG). Obama himself is a malignant narcissist without any capacity for anything other than to promote himself and control a SMALL set of other people.
So Obama could, using race - and he's a racist as is his wife - propel himself into various posts via affirmative action, but he does zilch in these posts (editor of HLR, community organizer, senator). He leaves all the work to others but he controls the small set around him.
He can't do more than this. He was used by the BRG to get them into power. His campaign was both anti-Bush and all about Obama as messiah. Their agenda was to rush through their statist overthrow of the US rapidly. But they haven't managed to achieve this rapid march. And Obama has proven a liability.
His ignorance and inability to think has meant that he can't handle press conferences about policy; note that they've removed him from such ad hoc questions since July. He wavers on policy, asserting that HE would hone back on various issues only to have Pelosi and Reid rebut him the next day. Notice how Pelosi rejects Obama's attempt to not have a public option with her insistence that It Must Be. And her laughing at the people for taking Obama's campaign pledges to use c-span seriously.
The BRG now realize, he can't do anything more for this gang. He can't sell their policies; he can't get individuals elected. I speculate they'll ditch him before 2012; they'll find him a job at the UN where he can pontificate and preach that the oceans won't/will rise as much as he wants.
That does indeed leave them with a problem. They've tried to marginalize Hillary in her SOS job, burying her behind Bill and others. And no-one else yet in the party dares to whisper a word against Obama. But - even now, CNN (Cafferty) is suggesting that Obama is a one-term president.
As for the GOP - it's still too early. Obviously, Scott Brown is a huge contender. But I think 2012 is too early; he'd be better at 2016. But this means that the next person would also be a one term holder.
More clicks in the path have to unfold. Meanwhile, it's quite something to see the Democrats - Axelrod and Obama, blaming Bush for the Mass. loss.
When Obama was elected, I bet a Liberal friend of mine that he would not win a second term. Recently gave him a chance to win his money back by betting not only would Obama not win a second term, he would not be the Democrat candidate in 2012 (reminding him, at the same time, how close Hillary was to winning the nomination).
You can almost see Obama starting to "hear the footsteps". Would love to know if Hillary is okay with holding civilian trials for the Gitmo terrorists in New York?
It's interesting to wonder about Hillary being the 2012 nominee. I don't know who else they have but at the moment, no-one in the Democratic party dares raise their head above the sand.
Would Hillary run if she thought she'd lose?
And, who would the GOP run? Although I think Scott Brown will one day be president, I think it's too early for a 2012 run.
Much as I like Palin, I think she's best as the voice of common-sense American, as the voice of the independents. Not as a president or vp. I can't even explain that opinion. Other than to suggest that the common-sense American view needs to be articulated by a public figure and it needs to come from outside Washington and she does it very well.
So, there are some other nuts and bolts and pieces of wood to be put in place before things become more predictable.
A friend just sent me this link to "Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat". Seems like he sees a future for Hillary as well.
http://www.forumeter.com/video/211442/Hitler-Finds-Out-Scott-Brown-Won-Massa
Here's an example of what I mean about Obama and the BRG. He's their upfront man to supposedly sell their policies - and make no mistake - these are THEIR policies. Obama hasn't a twitter in his brain outside of himself as Himself.
But Obama, left on his own, contradicts Their Agenda.
Washington Post: "Obama added to the confusion Wednesday when he seemed to endorse one option: having both the House and the Senate start from scratch, by voting on a scaled-back package of popular provisions that would crack down on insurance companies but provide health coverage to far fewer additional people.
"We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people," Obama told ABC News in an interview. "We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because, if we don't, then our budgets are going to blow up. And we know that small businesses are going to need help."
But the White House quickly moved to clarify that the president still wants comprehensive reform."
Heh. The BRG is always having to clarify what 'Obama really meant'. They can't let him loose in front of a reporter anymore.
They'll ditch him. But they've got to find him an Elevated Position first.
But what will they do, since they aren't going to abandon their agenda of statism - and who will they nominate? Will the Clinton machine move in and turf THEM, this radical BackRoom Gang, out?
Will Hillary move to the centre? Will she resign as SOS this year or next?
Obama is headed for a lame-duck stage once the independents vote out the marxists masquerading as Democrats ie the ‘progressives.'
That would be in November ... less than 10 months away.
Pushing through a health care bill that the American people are against by a 56-38 margin (according to Rasmussen) an action only a troll would see as wise.
Two words: Failed presidency.
"Properly articulated, issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country."
Bingo Rush.
IMO the failure of conservatives on both sides of the boarder has been communication. Whether it's in the media, public schools/institutions, the use of language or any other number of fronts, we've been getting whooped for my entire lifetime. Only when buildings fall and economies crash, or should I say when reality hits, does the common sense conservative conversation begin. This must be addressed!
Further to my point, I've seen an improvement on the communication front for conservatives. For example, conservatives of late have utilized media services like You Tube and Face Book effectively. Talk Radio and conservative blogs are great, but it's preaching to the choir for the most part. But YouTube songs like the latest one "pass healthcare, and we'll vote you outta there" and movies like "An American Carol" reach a much broader audience.
Conservatives must find a way to communicate successfully with the pop culture demographic. Perhaps someone like Killa Cam (arch rival of Jay-Z) performing at a Scott Brown event would peak the interest of some younger and minority voters. After all, Brown's two beautiful daughters probably don't listen to Ted Nugent(sp?), and given the choice, would show up at Obama's event featuring Hova. I would!
Indiana:
Did you see who was performing on election night in Brown's headquarters?
The Doug Flutie Band. Yeah, that Doug Flutie.
Very interesting analysis 'ET'. I do not think 'HRC' is going to run as president because USA is not ready to be lead by a woman. I think Americans will protest the vote on both sides if 'HRC' runs as a presidential candidate but if she was on the ticket as a 'VP' she would receive a lot of the vote. Who is going to run as a candidate with the backing of the 'BRG', {_____}?
Personally, I think that Obama has and will be used until 2012. Then I think he will go on as a 'UN Rep' and run for president their.
I think the GOP had the right idea with Palin even if not the right person. What the Americans wanted and hoped they would get with Owebama is someone to clean up that fetid incestuous swamp that is Washington. Shrillery is a part of that fetid feces laden swamp and I doubt that she could win the presidency. The first party that can come up with a clean new to Washington candidate with more than two brain cells to rub together will win the Whitehouse in '12
The iconic picture of Kerry is when he jumped up and hung from the runner of a statue of a helicopter, reminiscent of the final days for the US in South Viet Nam.
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/2004/08/white-men-can-j.php
What a tool.
I tend to agree with ET. The dude is an empty suit, a puppet. Question is: Who has their hand up the great "0" butt making all the moves?
Rahm Emanuel?
Posted by: Merle Underwood at January 21, 2010 1:39 PM
Didn't Canadians have the same fantasy about Jean Chretien?
Unless the story is about Palin for president, I tune out.
MichaelMann-AlGore for the perogie side v. Beck-Paul for the cons. In the least it would be a fun campaign.
Ah an Ad Hominem attack, must be a lefty visitor with their usual contribution....