Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

More – “… you know, everybody gets the King Canute story wrong.”
h/t reader sjt

I don’t think she’s interested in the Vice-Presidency.
I think what she’s interested in is sealing Obama’s fate with that “angry white woman” base, by forcing him to reject her.

A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women.

And reject her, he must. Would you allow the Clintons within a “heartbeat of the Presidency”, if it was your heartbeat standing in their way?
Me, either.
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Is there nothing that Obama won’t do?

Amy Holmes;

There goes that historic, transcendent, life-changing, not since the Gettysburg Address, “I have a dream,” must-be-taught-in-every-school race speech. It didn’t hold up three months, let alone the time it would take to print up new textbooks.

A party worker is “uncomfortable” with this. Isn’t that quaint?

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Via LGF

More… uh…. foreign policy specifics…

But “if we are going to isolate the Venezuelans, it may be that we have to engage in a full-on diplomatic strategy with them,” the adviser says. Obama was not saying he, himself, would propose such a meeting, nor that he would necessarily participate in that meeting. When Obama referred to “my talks with President Hugo Chavez,” he did not mean “my talks,” literally (necessarily) — he meant his administration’s talks — “though it could be him engaging in this diplomacy directly and personally,” the adviser says. The point is, all the tools need to be in the diplomacy kit — isolation, willingness to hold presidential meetings, and everything in between.

And on his lack of military service;

I didn’t serve as many people my age because Vietnam was over by the time I was of draft age and we had then moved to an all volunteer army.

Whew, that was a close one! Because, as we all know, the ultimate cowardice when up against a Vietnam vet for the office of President is to have run for the safety of one of these;

h/t and video

Who saw that coming?

“Democratic Sen. Barack Obama questions Republican Sen. John McCain’s commitment to the troops. CQ Politics has the video. McCain has the son in Iraq.”

280% more popular than Stephane Dion.

“Oh please, Lord – let it happen…”

Really, I can’t believe I’m the only one who can see the possibilities. Think of the headlines – “After A Divisive Nomination, The Democrats Join Cults”

He’s survived the Rich Playboy Disease that took so many others before their time, so I wouldn’t count the old buffoon out just yet. The Anchoress;

“My prediction: Someone – probably Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews – will go completely over the top and say that the Kennedy illness will not mark the “end of Camelot…how fitting that it is being revived this very night by Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy’s handpicked successor to the enduring legacy,” or some such gag-inducing nonsense.”

Count on it.
That Ted Kennedy is being described as the Kennedy “patriarch” is an indication of the steepness of the clan’s decline.
Further thoughts: I take no pleasure in the news, either, but there’s something in the knowledge that this is a man who once chose to leave a young woman to die, that has an eroding effect on my sympathy.
Just remember the name Ted Kennedy the next time someone equates “he’ll have to live with it for the rest of his life” with “punishment”.

Of the things you can’t say about Obama.

Read more here on Bill 42, the Election Amendment Act.

““We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK…”

“Is this another Bosnian sniper incident…?”

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“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,”

And Obama claims it’s cut to his fit.

People are starting to notice;

When will Barack Obama finally decide to throw in the towel? No this is not a typo. Being a native Montrealer the only thing I’m smoking is corned beef. It should be clear by now to anyone who has been watching this race since the end of February that Barack Obama hasn’t won anything…

“We don’t circulate pamphlets with (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper next to an oil derrick or the Husky Tower as if that was a reason to hate a person,” [NDP MP Pat] Martin said.