OBAMA PREPARING TO PULL AN EAGLETON?Published in September 12th, 2008 | EditPosted by Berlet98 in AMERICAN CULTURE TODAY, McCain/Palin, OBAMA, POLITICSNo CommentsThe handwriting is on the outhouse wall. When you’re in a hole, the first rule is to stop digging. He who laughs last, laughs best.

Those words of wisdom seem to be the guiding force in the Obama/XXXXX camp of late.

First, we had the tailspin in Obama’s numbers, then the steep dive in monies people were contributing to him, then Biden floating a trial balloon that Obama should have picked Hillary, then the lovefest in Harlem as Bubba hugged the man he had called a Chicago ”thug” and predicted a landslide in November for the Obamassiah.

Something smells in Obamaland!

The scrawl on the outhouse wall reads, “We want change!” but now it’s not the ambiguous change that Obama has been preaching about but a ticket change. The Obamanians have stopped digging but they still want that last laugh on November 4th, so what to do?

When your own party stalwarts, and office holders, start expressing fears that Obama could sink them, you’re in a deep, bad pickle: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8031-11dd-99a9-000077b07658.html, so what to do?

It’s said that most people don’t start paying attention to elections until after Labor Day and the sad truth for Obama is that millions of Americans are finally tuning in, jumping off his bus, and preparing to kick him under it, so what to do?

White women especially and that all important bloc of independents have bailed out of the ‘Bama Bus, having learned more about him than they ever wanted to know, so what to do?...

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NOBODY WANTS TO ENTRUST THEIR FUTURE TO OLD MAN MCCAIN, TO DO SO WOULD BE AN ACT BOTH IRREPONSIBLE AND INSANE.

THE BUSH YEARS ARE THANKFULLY ALMOST OVER, AND AMERICA'S BETTIN' ON LUCKY BARACK TO BE THEIR FOUR LEAFED CLOVER.

GOOD NIGHT MCCAIN/PALIN

YOUR POLICIES ARE OLD

AND CAMPAIGN IS FAILIN'.

What is more curious is those that support McCain/Palin and their slash and burn campaign that has very little substance and even less honesty. Really, I'm beginning to think that McCain/Palin are not more of the same... but worse.

I wrote: Here's another fact for you: BO hasn't the experience and therefore also doesn't have the vaguest notion of how to command a military force or run a Senate committee or manage a business. Now go put on your detective outfit and see if you can find the facts to refute that! I'll bet you can't...

But you didn't even attempt to address that challenge. No, obviously you're not capable of comprehension or you know you cannot succeed at meeting the challenge or you're just stupid and lazy because instead of answering this, you changed the subject to: How have Rumsfeld, Cheyney, Bush done with the command of a military force?...this gang has done NOTHING to stop the perpatrators of that crime... Oh and by the way, does that make you feel better to call me a nasty name since you can't find a valid way to support your unqualified candidate?

Here are a few clues for you to solve your dilemma in discerning the differences between one individual and another.

McCain was nastily drummed out in 2000 the same way Bush's gang drummed Kerry out in 2004. Why on earth would that fact lead you to believe he is one and the same as W? That he is in lockstep with W's policies or positions? Oh, that's right, you believe everything the BO machine tries to program into your little weak mind and they said "Bush=McCain" so you take that as gospel truth. It's really sad that so many in your camp don't seem to be able to reason their way out of a paper bag...

Wake up and use your brain - two people are incapable of being exactly the same, reacting, governing exactly the same way. This is especially true with two so diametrically different people as W, the spoiled little rich kid/failed businessman/"daddy's puppet", and McCain, the career military man/effective legislator/"Maverick". If you can't see the differences, if you can't acknowledge that McCain has had to hold his tongue as regards W since 2000 and "get along" to survive in politics, mind you - just like BO does when he smiles warmly and claims to be bonded with Hillary (whom he obviously does not like).... well, if you can't see these things, there is no hope for you. Your poor small brain is just deficient and I guess the real burden is on all of us, that we must deal with the poor decisions you make in life when saddled with such a burden.

Now if you want to refute me, go find the facts on the challenge I made instead of acting like a fool, cursing and making up ludicruous arguments that have nothing to do with what I wrote.

HE'S FEEBLE AND INFIRM AND SARAH'S JUST A WORM.

"It is imperative that the Democratic party shows that they can be empathetic to the multiple cultures of America."

But why don't Republicans ever have to show this? Why doesn't anyone ever complain that McCain & co "just don't get" well-educated, cosmopolitan, urban voters? And heaven forbid any politician should ever express sympathy for atheists.

What percentage of the country lives in small towns these days, anyway? Millions of us have left that life to seek education and opportunities in urban centers. How did it come to pass that we became "not real Americans"?

how stupid can these working poor and rural people be ??? they can't even seem to think over what the TV news tell them to!

I understand. I do. Frustration is natural, perhaps unavoidable. Frustration that things aren't easier, that our peers don't seem to see what we see or haven't of their own volition and under their own power educated themselves as we think they should to share our perspective is natural. We see what is going on, so how is it that they can not? We assume a failure on their part - some sort of intellectual or moral bankruptcy which allows them to remain willfully blind.

Sure. That's one way to see. That's one perspective.

I can't help but wonder what history might have been like if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had decided not to go for a walk. Because surely - the odds were against righteousness. If America had put to a vote the idea that all her sons and daughters should be treated fairly, equally, morally under her banner and within her borders according the very edicts of her own proud Constitution - would it not have been a landslide in the wrong direction?

We can be brought to water and refuse to drink. This is true. For a percentage of us it may always be true. Our job, those that deeply care, is ultimately to show the way again. We could blame them for the same educational system that taught them. We could blame them for the media that has left them uninformed, that is for sale to the story - true or false - which pays the most. We could blame them for the same economy that fails them or the culture that raised them. We could blame them for the system of militarization that supplanted a healthy infrastructure full of varied job opportunity - the same one that restricts their employment. We could wish them death by their own dehydration.

Sure. That's one way.

Yet none of us shall be made better by the failure of the rest. Our first job is not to light the fire that burns them, but to light the lamp that guides them... to sit down and talk. Democracy is the ideal that all viewpoints have their time to be expressed. Surely, some perspectives will shine under the light of scrutiny where others will be proven false. This is the crucible we call society. We have abandoned our society. We, as a nation, have abandoned ourselves. This is not new. None of the problems we face today, as much as we might think they are novel and more dire, are new in the history of human culture. Lies are old. Corruption is old. bigotry and misunderstanding are old. Rarely though are we given the opportunity to be better than we have been, to be better perhaps than we can be alone. For the first time in a long time we have before us that rarest of creatures - a good option. I will fight for it. I will not do it because it is easy, as one once said.

We have to get out. We have to do something about it. I am not a transient nor a snake handler. I come from that much maligned (rightly or wrongly) state, Florida. I will be on the phones, working them - of that you can be sure. It is up to all of us to act, and act for good. Get involved. We shape our world. We have ourselves to blame or praise. Yes, perhaps we need to listen. Perhaps the middle ground is more difficult to stand on than we may hope. That is all the more reason we must do it.

I would like to make this country one deserving of pride again. I would ask everyone to help. I think there are things we can agree on.