John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama .
He should probably send a thank you note* to Vladimir Putin.
You know, if McCain pulls this off, they’re going to have to install concrete barricades around the CBC to protect the public from the cluster head explosions.
More – Buyer’s remorse?
And…“This is getting embarrassing. 300 people on Daily Kos are now discussing how Obama will word the Text Message when he announces his vice president.”
Experience in the past few elections shows that the polls consistently overstate Democratic support (or at least the Braying Jackass Party’s effective support). The Republicans were supposedly down by 17%-33% at this point in the last two campaigns, and we know that the Democratic edge proved to be completely illusory.
I would ordinarily blanch at citing Maureen Dowd, but her ravings today are quite amusing:
(Via Contentions; NYT warning) Maureen Dowd, Two Against The One
That Leftists are already resorting to their usual crepuscular reasoning and conspiracy theories to explain the crushing defeat awaiting B. Hussein Obama, Jr., is indeed a harbinger of victory for McCain.
The democratic convention should be interesting. Never count out a Clinton. They will “roll call” the states – alphabetically – it will be interesting to see how much behind the scenes work has been going on with the Clintons – and whether this will hold sway.
Also, we can be assurred that the McCain campaign has been digging the dirt on Obama – I’m sure that nobody rises that fast in Chicago politics without some malfeasance, however legal or shadowy.
I am sure the Democrats are in a fit over the fact that Obama, who was sent from heaven, is not doing better in the polls against an evil, big bad Republican who is part of the same party as the evil George W. Bush.
I always felt the non-stop mean-spirited childish hammering of Bush was going to bite the Democrats eventually. Most intelligent people are sick and tired of hearing it, and most people realize that the hammering has gone too far, and has descended into pure nastiness. (The left-wing fools in the Canadian media will be bashing Bush 20 years from now – they will probably try and find a way to blame him for Obama’s defeat).
So not entirely surprised McCain has pulled ahead, just hope he is not peaking too soon.
I would tune into the Democrat convention coming up in Denver, it could be very interesting. Of course if the Hildabeast were to stage a coup of the messianic black prince, the reverend race baiter Sharpton might not hold back the hood in a massive violent demonstration against whitey as he suggested.
CBC would just display the results of the explosions as modern art Kate.
CBC can call in the Chernobyl concrete workers to help with the construction of the containment vessel. Kate, you’ve articualted the best idea yet for the Librano Broadcasting Corporation.
I’ll bet The Messiah is wishing he had ordered one of those up for the Hildebeast (next POTUS).
Does Vladimir fear the beast? Methinks he should.
The Left does not understand that traditional Christians can not vote for Obama due to his radical support for abortion. Rome is becoming more insistent that Catholic politicians who publicaly support abortion are barred from the Eucharist and that others who vote for abortion supporting politicians are committing a moral sin through their complicity.
The Left also must understand that their judicial activism has so politicized the Supreme Court (in Canada and the USA), that Christians are keen to ensure that moral people are in a position politically to ensure that Roe vs Wade is overturned (as well as many other non-democratically introduced policies pushed through by the tyrants on the Supreme Court). Christians are not tied to the Republicans, since traditionally Catholics have been strong Democrat supporters (think of JFK), and Evangelicals were traditionally split.
What Canadians don’t understand is that American Christians have not denied Christ in the public sphere as many Christians in Canada appear to have done through their capitulation to the anathematical concept that faith should be a private issue and should not be brought into the Public Square. This is a highly hateful concept since it unjustly tells Christians that they can have a worldview as long as they don’t express it publically. Hypocritically, this is what the gay lobby is doing in Canada with using the HTC’s to silence traditional Christian views on the sinfulness of homosexual activities.
Anyway, hopefully lots of Canadian Leftist’s heads will explode in November when McCain wins the election over Obama. The only consolation that they might have is keeping their jobs, cause Obama is likely to enact some very very protectionist legislation or even wipe out free trade. The Left, in their misplaced idealism does not understand that the American Left is more concerned about securing power than any idea of human solidarity. McCain, while no friend of Canada either, is more likely to enact legislation which is positive to Canada’s economy.
They are discussing how and not who?
I suppose I ought to be surprised but I just can’t.
Bill O’Reilly predicted this swing on his radio show on the weekend.
He played the comments of both Obama and McCain regarding the Russia-Georgia conflict and predicted that McCain would benefit in the polls because of Obama’s sissy, panty-waist references to getting the U.N. to step in.
BTW, is there any more enjoyable broadcaster to listen to than Bill O’Reilly?
I catch him on XM Radio when I’m out and about on weekends and I find his style riveting to listen to.
The election wont really take hold till the debates in Sept and October.
The “faith debate” (which is sad to see) showed off straight answers from McCain and roundabout answers from Obama. Obama needs to sharpen his response if he hopes to make the American people more comfortable that he wont be hamlet in office. The early years of the Clintons was like that, too much analyis, continula, like a Dorm Room bull session. Paul Martin was like that up here…you get indecision and then some crazy idea that they go forward with.
Never count the GOP out and never underestimate the Democratic Party’s ability to lose.
It was the reverse up here, Liberal wins and Conservative self immolation.
I dont know who will win but I am comfortable that it will be close till late October then someone will solidly but not a landslide. 2-4 points.
In other Obama news:
Barack Obama’s ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya
Senator Barack Obama’s long lost brother has been tracked down for the first time living in a shanty town in Kenya, reports claimed.
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
I feel guilty for laughing at the juxtaposition of the “God Damn America” Obama vs the “damn I wish I was in America” Obama…
forgot to include the money quote:
Embarrassed by his penury, he said that he does not does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation.
“If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed,” he said.
I think this “story” on Obama’s other half brother is killer. Maybe it explains the shift in poll results.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obamas_hillbilly_half_brother
No surprise that McCain’s experienced a bump in the polls. After all, he’s the one who demonstrated substance when it counted, meaning he said the right stuff at the time of Darth Vladimir’s invasion of Georgia, before even the President himself said anything concrete.
I can’t recall reading anything about what Obama said about Darth Vladimir’s actions in Georgia, perhaps because he said nothing of consequence or substance?
That grinding, screeching sound you hear is the destruction of the Daily Kos gear box from overuse and lack of maintenance.
Which will impload first, the CBC or the Daily Kos.
If we are lucky we’ll have simultaneous super novas.
BOOM BOOM 🙂
The great thing about Obama is that he is the gift that keeps on giving. With each public encounter that vacuous preening elitist little moron sinks in the polls. I think the Saddleback debate, a study in form over substance, finally caught up to the public. Even the MSM is having a tough time keeping the wheels from falling off. The vacuous preening elitist little morons in the MSM are in a tough spot. Obama’s candidacy is as much indictment of them.
Honestly, I think Obama lost the election with the response to the abortion question – with the answer being above his “pay grade”.
That answer will be incorporated into many ads and commercials – and sorry doode – as “leader of the free world” – it’s all in your pay grade.
You can only pretend to slough things off to the courts for so long . . . . (see Canadian politics)
cluster head explosions! I hope they get them on camera. That would be a cool, real life version of David Cronenberg’s Scanners.
Are all Obama’s supporters retards? They sure seem to be a brick shy of a load, then again I could be wrong?
You can only pretend to slough things off to the courts,… because you don’t believe in elected representatives.
AtlanticJim maybe we could lay some 4′ by 8′ sheets of plyboard out and just crazy glue anything that lands on it and send away for a Canada council grant.
The fact the wood isn’t metric should upset them even more.
Hoping that McCain is not peaking too early, but I’m not surprised by these new poll results. My only surprise is that they haven’t come sooner, but I suppose it took a majour international incident (Georgia/Russia conflict) to highlight the stark differences between McCain and Obama.
Mind you I’ve seen Obama as a political lightweight all along, and I truly don’t think he draws from a central moral core to direct his politics. Power acquisition drives his every political move.
With his initial mealy-mouthed response to the Russian/Georgian conflict, and with his weak performance in the Warren interview the other day, I think Obama just nuanced himself out of any chance of sitting in the Oval Office.
The spotlight only gets brighter as November approaches, and I truly believe the more Americans see Obama, the less they will see him as a viable president, particularly in time of war.
One thing for sure, Americans are much more in tune with their politics than sleepy head Canucks will ever be.
I understand that American Presidential campaigns are much longer and MSM exposes it that much more but for an utter failure in every sense like Dion still tied with the greatest leader this country has had in many many decades by ‘accident(?)'(Thank you Adscam, I guess) tells me that Canada’s total apathy and disregard for it’s freedom and democracy would simply not be the same if it’s neihbor to the south was NOT the leader of the free world. Just imagine if we were north of Russia or China: This country would simply not exist. Not even close to what it is now anyway.
We truly are free loaders towards the US in every sense of the way. And lefty moonbats dare to spit antiAmerican platitudes continuously.
Anyway, another bad report for Dion who’s hoping to ride Obama’s success which now seems to be fading daily.
Sanity will prevail (In the States anyway).
I had to laugh (groan) when Joe Cummings on the CBC News this morning took potshots at John McCain, because Cummings poor CBC sensibilities obviously couldn’t handle the five-point lead McCain has on Obama.
Cummings, in mocking tones of his own, accused John McCain of “mocking Obama’s celebrity” and of “attacking his inexperience.” Boo hoo, hoo, Barak. Boo hoo, hoo, Joe Cummings.
Expect more partisan commentary, if that’s possible, on an increasingly wide gap between John McCain and Barak Obama–in McCain’s favour. Obama’s running out of steam–and words! He’s sounding like a high school kid running for class president with platitudes about “making things better than they are for ALL” …fill in the blank…
Go, McCain, Go!
Is Obam* the 12th Imam?
grind a grit – you are exactly right; if it were Russia or China on our border to the south, Canada would have been taken over long ago.
As it is, we are economically and politically dependent on the US. Over 85% of our exports go to only one country – the US – a dependency situation unheard of and unknown anywhere else in the world. Our industries and businesses are franchises of theirs; our infrastructure is built and funded by them – and other foreign investors, since our high taxes made it impossible to develop our own investor class.
Our multiculturalism – and fictional bilingualism – has limited our ability to develop a shared identity and vision for the future.
Canada, unlike the US, is able to live within fictions: multiculturalism, bilingualism (we aren’t factually bilingual)..an economic ability to support a middle class. We are able to do so because of the US economic support (that 85%, those industries, they do all the research and development)..and because we don’t compete in the world market with other producers…and..we have limited responsibilities in the world.
The US can’t afford to live within fictions; it has to face and live within facts. Economic, military and societal facts.
Obama has been on vacation essentially since the Euro trip. The European trip went on too long and he overplayed his hand, making him look more interested in non americans than americans.
He has to scramble back from that, it is still SOOOO early. Mccain is doing some damage to him right now, but it is a long campaign….who knws if nasty John will show up or not.
As always it will come down to votes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, possibly Missouri. In other words, down in the trench electoral politics. Obama showed a talent for that in the Dem primary. Bush had that down in the 2004 election.
Obama is letting himself be painted as inexperienced, the Iraq card wont play any longer since it is looking like things are settling down. This allows McCain to say he too is for withdrawl, because they were successful rather than as a tactic to force the Iraqi’s to do something.
Iraq was powerful in the Dem primary, because it was THE issue and Hillary was on the wrong side of it (from a dem perspective) General election that is less clear.
Obama needs to make a bold Veep choice. He is boxed in now. He needs a Jim webb, a Sam Nunn or a Bill Richardson but there is pressure for him to pick Sibelius as a proxy for HRC.
Sibelius means the ticket cant be sold on foreign policy experience. If he chooses a man then McCain can counter with the female governor of Alaska and hive off the menopausals. McCain doesnt have to worry about Foreign policy, he needs to play electoral politics and shore up his domestic agenda….Alaska Governor, Meg Whitman (ex Ceo of EBay) target women….Pawlenty might flip Minnesota making Obama’s job quite difficult.
At the end of the day the debates and lack of gaffes (the Veep choice can only ever be a nuetral or a gaffe) will shape the battlefield and then election day trench warefare will decide the winner.
I wouldnt place any bets till October.
“He’s sounding like a high school kid running for class president” – batb
Funny BATB, I always thought he sounded more like a contestant on the Miss America Pagaent:
“…and I will work toward world peace and an end to poverty…”
Cooked polls, folks. Just as most of the American MSM is in the pocket of the Democrats and Obamessiah, so it appears are polling organizations.
As Charles MacDonald noted in the first comment, we’re seeing so many polls in which they oversample Democrats and undersample independents and Republicans. From what I’ve seen, my guess is that we can add a minimum of 5% to McCain, maybe even 10% or more.
Anything can happen in politics, but as I’ve said to friends for months, start getting used to “President McCain”.
“attacking his [Obama’s] inexperience.”
There’s just so much to attack it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel. From the Jerusalem Post:
The audacity of resume-padding (or, why Obama makes things up)
http://tiny.cc/nwwFa
The reasons for the turnaround are as numerous as Obama’s lies and gaffes. The MSM cannot ignore or paper over every one of the 98 pound weakling’s many vulnerabilities.
Well complimented ET.
Too bad there aren’t more Canadians like you my friend.
Harper will get a majority if we do have that election in the fall which I’m so itching for.
Then the slow but steady healing of Canadians and their often misguided mindset from too many years of liberalism (The 70’s are long gone Canada!) with a complicit MSM will continue and will accelerate more so if blessed with a majority.
Due to our bountyful natural resources (Especially energy) this Country will continue to prosper thus the threat of a return to a Liberal government due to economic woes will be that much less. This will give Harper more time to repair and/or change things for the better.
The Liberals need to rebuild from the ground up and truly be grass roots driven just like our Conservatives. The Power Corp branch must be vanquished and removed. It must go back to a central line and leave the crowded left to the NDP and Greens. This could take a decade or more.
Why do a Conservative like myself care about the Liberals? Because I know that power unchecked eventually becomes corrupt. I still want an effective opposition I can trust if need be. Although I have difficulty envisioning Harper as a depraved leader. The man simply does not have a corrupt bone in his body. He’s truly a rare gem in the political world of today.
Long Live Right Honorable Prime Minister Stephen Harper!
Obama isn’t worried. As I understand it he has hired David Blaine to teach him the levitation trick and he plans to use it during the presidential debates.
Hey, who wouldn’t vote for a guy that can float in the air?
Largs: “Hey, who wouldn’t vote for a guy that can float in the air? ”
It didn’t work for Doug Henning.
Obama has less experience than any major party candidate since Lincoln. Or so people say, I know he has less experience than any since Hoover, I only stop there because I know nothing about Hoover. But if you bring that up, you are raising the spectre of affirmative action, and you know, nothing brings out the racist in white Americans quicker than affirmative action, so you see, pointing out something true is crypto-racism. I had it all explained to me quite convincingly by a liberal, so I know now that it is true.
It is my duty as a right-thinking American to vote for Obama based on his skin color alone. Or I think that is what I am supposed to do, because he has nothing else to recommend him. Unless that stuttering, halting, um and ah filled oratory of his is supposed to be a reason.
I can’t wait for the attack ad calling “Mr.Compassion” Obama to account for leaving his poor brother in a shack in Africa living on less than $1 a day while he and his wife earn a over $1 million a year.
So, Obama is going to text his VP choice? The KosKids are complimenting him on a brilliant way to collect contact information from supporters in order to “mobilize” them in the future. Sounds like a scam … “give us your cell number, we’ll tell you the VP choice (which you could just get on the internet or TV), and then we’ll only use your contact information when we really need to.” Obama could be the first presidential candidate to use spam text messaging.
Those sad, sad dems.
Grind a Grit
Well said!
Eeyore
“Funny BATB, I always thought he sounded more like a contestant on the Miss America Pagaent:”
Actually, I have thought and said he is like a poor singer auditioning for American Idol. Everyone who loves him has told him he’s a great singer; but, when he finally opens his mouth the response from Simon is: WHAT WAS THAT?
I have no doubt McCain will win. Americans, are really, really stupid. They’re like shit-their-pants stupid. All McCain has to do is talk tough, and they suck it all up.
I mean can you imagine the intelligence of a person who buys into his argument that Obama (a half-breed son of a single mom) is an elitist when he’s descended from a long line of Admirals, and married to some rich chick.
Seriously, they’re doomed.
“Americans are really, really stupid”
Now, that is a stupid thing to say.
Mindless CBC American-hating parrot. Squaaak.
John McCain will be a great leader.
Just like I was.
No muslims attacking America since 9/11.
I’m baggin’ muslims by the tens of thousands.
It’s too bad Canadians are so ignorant otherwise the country would be alot bigger and more powerful.
What would Canada look ike without my protection?
Latvia or Belarus?
Take a pic.
It would be stupid, if it weren’t so true. A president is only as stupid as the people who voted him into office. Let’s review the facts…
First there is the war. He attacked another country that did not attack the US, nor did it pose a serious threat. He then screwed up the war by waging it incompetently and screwing up the aftermath. The cost in lives and money has been huge, and it’s made the US less safe, because everybody now thinks they’re a bunch of torturing unilateral douchebags with zero respect for international law. Way to set an example for civilized behavior! Stupid.
And… his unilateral action in Iraq basically lowered the bar for other large nations to act unilaterally as well. Enter Russia. Stupid.
The national deficit and debt are out of control. Bush turned a surplus into a deficit. He actually grew the government. Aren’t conservatives suppose to reject that? Stupid.
He’s done everything he can to reject science. He supports creationism (really stupid), shredded the FDA, and rejected the over-whelming findings of climate science. Stupid
The middle class is shrinking, gas has doubled in price (along with profits for his buddies in big oil), and we’re seeing the worst inflation in nearly 20 years.
The number of people now without medical insurance is nearly 40 million. Americans now pay far more than Canadians per person for medical care. Stupid.
And on and on.
Basically, if you vote republican… you either crazy, or retarded.
I now invite you to try and name something he’s done that has actually benefited the US. It must be measurable. “Stood up for freedom” doesn’t cut it.
I’ve seen media bias before, albeit not in such a major way, and if the public knows about it it usually backfires.
One amusing instance – going back to an Ottawa mayorality race
in the `60s, Sam Berger had the media in the palm of his right hand.
Sam was the man for sportslovers;
Sam was the man for the youth vote; etc. But the voters (sportslovers and youths included)
thought otherwise, and Charlotte Whitton won yet another election.
John
The only stupid happening here is that you’ve convinced yourself that you are right in the face of all of the evidence/history that is easily accessible in the SDA archives.
WRT to big government, most of us will agree with you. The Irony is how progressives like yourself support growing government, as long as it wasn’t GWB. People like you have no ideas of your own, this is evident when you are caught throwing stones at someone who does something you support, just because you don’t like him. ex: The change of position by the Libs on Khadar, and Afghanistan.
Gee John, I will be sure to take your counsul into consideration as I enter the voting booth.
Shit in the pants dumb is electing someone who has destroroyed or sealed all record of his carrer before his 140 days in the US senate. That would be shit in the pants dumb.
McCain was not my choice, I was considering staying home, til I found out what a cypher this Obama is.
neither CBCpravda or CTV(tass) has reported this poll.
lies by ommission.
“I was considering staying home, til I found out what a cypher this Obama is.”
Posted by: Tim in Vermont
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Tim, I think this is the crux of it. Initially, I felt McCain was going to have a problem with Republican voters staying home on election night. Like you, however, I think many are realizing what a political lightweight (to be charitable) Obama is and will feel compelled to get out and vote for McCain. I am watching your election coverage with much interest……
CJ, it is not just me, I kind of stuck with McCain half heartedly and was talked out of supporting him for a little while. But now, the guy who talked me out of it is more committed to McCain than I am.
Enough comments like John’s and it becomes crawl over broken glass to vote committment.
It would be stupid, if it weren’t so true. A president is only as stupid as the people who voted him into office. Let’s review the facts…
First there is the war. He attacked another country that did not attack the US, nor did it pose a serious threat. He then screwed up the war by waging it incompetently and screwing up the aftermath. The cost in lives and money has been huge, and it’s made the US less safe, because everybody now thinks they’re a bunch of torturing unilateral douchebags with zero respect for international law. Way to set an example for civilized behavior! Stupid. …John
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You live in a stupid, upside down world, John.
Bush did not attack Iraq. He attacked, and removed from power, the murdering, genocidal, nuclear weapons-pursuing, regime which had been attacking innocent Iraqis for 25 years and which had buried 338,000 Iraqis in mass graves.
The regime over whose fate you whine, John, had been in daily breach of a ceasefire for 12 years and had refused to comply with 17 U.N. resolutions. And 50,00 Iraqi infants were dying evey year because the international community belived the appropriate way to deal with this insane murderous regime was to punish innocent Iraqis.
So much for your purported concern for international law. It is a joke.
It was not Bush who demonstrated no regard for international law but those (U.N members) who pretended to uphold it.
If you knew anything at all about this suject, you would know that so-called international law is largely illusory. International law will choose the rights of dictators over the basic civil rights of ordinary citizens every time.
Iraqis now live under the rule of law enacted by a democratically elected government. This would not have been possible if George Bush, The Great Liberator, had not had the courage to recognize the failures of so-called international law and take action.
I have not the slightert doubt that you don’t realize that the liberation of Iraq did not comply with international law because it did not receive the approval of France, Russia and China.
Bush’s refusal to subject Iraqis (and the security interests of the non Islamic world) to the dictates of phony, flaccid international law is a badge of honour.
Not only did Bush liberate 25 million Iraqis, American forces and Iraqis handed a devastaing defeat to al Qaeda. This is the story of Iraq that the leftist MSM won’t tell. And, John, you can’t figure it out for youself.
JOHN,
BUSH CRIPPLED THE LEFTARDS PLAN TO LEGALIZE DRUGS IN CANADA
BUSH HAS SECURED THE AMERICAN BORDERS
BUSH HAS SECURED AMERICAN AIRLINES
BUSH HAS HIS ARMY WHIPPED INTO FIGHTING SHAPE IN CASE HE NEEDS TO PROTECT YOUR WAY OF LIFE
BUSH HAS SHOWN RESPECT AND DIGNITY TOWARDS HIS FAMILY, RATHER THAN USING CIGARS FOR DILDOS
BUSH HAS MADE DECISIONS, FOR GOOD OR FOR ILL, DISPLAYING UNTEMPERED COURAGE IN USA’S MOST TRYING DECADE SINCE THE CIVIL WAR
Obama has said change so often , he sounds like a homeless person. language warning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JmUEMQ6zY