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So who's going to win, McCain or Obama?

Good question -- and some updated thoughts on veep choices. But first a reminder that 15 months ago this space predicted a McCain-Clinton race, and got things half right.

She blew it.

Yes she blew it. She entered caucuses she shouldn't have (such as Iowa) and let Obama go practically unchallenged in too many others. She found herself overmatched in fund-raising. She had all that Clinton luggage, including her husband. And she ran up against one of the smoothest orators -- rhetoricians -- the nation recently has seen.

In her January 2007 announcement for the presidency she said: "Let the conversation begin. I have a feeling it's going to be very interesting."

It wasn't particularly. Despite a lot of throat-clearing, she never really found her voice -- maybe because in this whacked-out Democratic Party to speak forthrightly about what one believes is to alienate the moderates the party must attract to win.

OK. OK. So how big is Obama's margin over McCain going to be?

Whoa. Obama's principal accomplishment is to be the first multiracial American to secure a presidential nomination. Other than that,
he has spent three unachieving years in the Senate -- two of them hungering after the presidency. Since March he has coasted, performing poorly in the primaries (losing most of the big ones to Senator Clinton), and dancing around in his version of Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope.

Surely you . . .

No, I don't jest. And in the past months he has spent a good deal of time retreating from his church and his pastor of 20 years who preaches the racial separatism Obama says he doesn't embrace. Oh, and retreating from his call for unfettered meetings with our most virulent enemies.

But isn't Obama going to sweep the boards? What about those stupendous rallies of enraptured college students? What about record turnouts in the Democratic primaries? What about the polls? And what about a press that represents him as the best thing since the Beatles?

A press full of Obamatons is the same press that goes goo-goo over every leftie it accords a chance to win. Polls don't mean much at this point: In May 1988 ,Michael Dukakis led Bush I by 19 points. And turnout? There's little that correlates high party turnout in the primaries to victory for that party in the fall.

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Posted By: geoff  on Thursday, June 12, 2008

The outcome is going to depend largely on how successful Karl Rove & Co. are at stealing this election, too. Obama can only lose: McCain (100 more years in Iran! spying on Americans is OK!) can't win. All the Dems have to do is flash pictures of him hugging Bush & play tapes of him singing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb Iran!" & Obama won't have to say anything about Bush Lite, it will be more like Bush's 3rd term...

Condi Rice as VP is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Did she actually manage to achieve anything in all those sorry excuses for "diplomacy"?


Posted By: mb  on Thursday, June 12, 2008

I can just keep repeating this:

In response to geoff: Normally I try to be graceful when debating with someone who brings half truths and lies as their argument. As you already saw today, I point out errors in conservative articles as well as liberal ones. But for your response above, I can only say: there's no point in arguing with you- you've had too much of the liberal Kool-Aid and Obama Hawaiian Punch. You have lost all objectivity and perspective- only about 2 phrases from that response could be honestly judged as accurate.


Posted By: geoff  on Friday, June 13, 2008

So: you don't think the Dems can win by showing John & Bush, or John singing, etc.? Or you don't think Rove will manage to steal the election this time? or you don't think McCain said anything about "100 more years"? or that I somehow didn't notice that peace broke out all over the Middle East under Condi? What did I say that was not accurate?

You might try questioning the accuracy in this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25126582/


Posted By: Beverly  on Saturday, June 14, 2008

Will someone please do me a favor?  Please wake me up in 20012.  I don't think I want to be around for the next four years.  Doctor, I'm ready for that coma injection now.  Zzzzzz...


Posted By: geoff  on Saturday, June 14, 2008

Beverly: Know the feeling. Things are so F-ed up right now, it will be difficult, no matter who wins, for anyone to clean things up. That might be one reason why the Republican candidates were all such losers anyway: they didn't think they had much of a chance. Hillary at least probably had the "balls" to stay the course, the big worry is that maybe Obama will fold when Rove & Co. start to "Swiftboat" him, or he'll have to spend all his time trying to defend something as inconsequential as his middle name.


Posted By: Tony  on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Hahahahahahahah... you still obsessing over Karl Rove, what a loser!!


Posted By: geoff  on Sunday, June 22, 2008

Tony: You mean lapel pins, Obama's middle name, his hand gestures, etc., are important issues, somehow? Rove set up a slime machine & it's still working overtime: O'Reilly, Lumbaugh, Coulter, all trying to distract people's attention from the fact that McCain can't do anything more than "stay the course" and people ain't buying this time.

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