Obama Can't Win

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama's head. How else to explain Sen. Obama's decision to go one-on-one against "Sarah Barracuda," captain of the Wasilla High state basketball champs?

It's a matchup he'll lose. If Mr. Obama wants to win, he needs t ...[text shortened]... n's No. 2, says Karl Rove:


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122108935141721343.html

Oh well if Karl Rove has called it then Obama may as well pack it in.

What does this debate really signal though?That McCain sits fairly in the shadow of his own VP, that when the two of them arrive together to speak, the crowd get turned on when she is up to speak. All this will do is reinforce the notion that he may not have what it takes to run the show and that if elected by default she will by force of personality take over to some extent. I mean if the American people are happy with that notion of a hockey mom being in charge of the nuclear arsenal then so be it.

Originally posted by kmax87
...I mean if the American people are happy with that notion of a hockey mom being in charge of the nuclear arsenal then so be it.

You sound just like Matt Damon, who may be a fine actor, but is a bad political commentator.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama's head. How else to explain Sen. Obama's decision to go one-on-one against "Sarah Barracuda," captain of the Wasilla High state basketball champs?

It's a matchup he'll lose. If Mr. Obama wants to win, he needs t ...[text shortened]... n's No. 2, says Karl Rove:


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122108935141721343.html

maybe he is planning to play the "McCain may croak in office and would you like palin in charge of the nucular booombahs?" card.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You sound just like Matt Damon, who may be a fine actor, but is a bad political commentator.

I saw Matt Damon's little utube video. It is amazing that he can not trust where Sara Palin would take this nation, but he can trust a junior senator who has not accomplished anything beyond reading a good speech off a tele-prompter. I judge a person by their accomplishments, not their words. Obama has a lot of "words", but little to prove he is ready for the job.

Matt Damon says that he knows nothing about Sara Palin, and he doubts that he will be able to learn anything about her in the next 8 weeks. That is a sign of a very closed mind.

Originally posted by Dace Ace
I saw Matt Damon's little utube video. It is amazing that he can not trust where Sara Palin would take this nation, but he can trust a junior senator who has not accomplished anything beyond reading a good speech off a tele-prompter. I judge a person by their accomplishments, not their words. Obama has a lot of "words", but little to prove he is ready fo ...[text shortened]... able to learn anything about her in the next 8 weeks. That is a sign of a very closed mind.

Priceless last sentence.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You sound just like Matt Damon, who may be a fine actor, but is a bad political commentator.

Well he had better of said it before I posted, otherwise he is looking at a writ for plagiarism.

Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You sound just like Matt Damon, who may be a fine actor, but is a bad political commentator.

Apparently he was posted on the 10th but he made a much more compelling point out of the observation.

a) Do the actuary tables on McCain getting through his first term.
Maybe one in three chance--not good.

b) The appointment was politically motivated

c) She was Mayor of a very very small town. And after being Governor of Alaska for 2 years if McCain slumps then she may be facing down Putin and this hockey mom will suddenly be in charge of the nuclear codes. Scary thought.

d) All of the above sounds like a bad Disney movie.(And the more you think about it, thats all it should have been, a plot for a Disney movie, but instead we are really looking down the barrel of this for real.

All I can say is when every right wing talking head told Hilary to suck it up that any criticism was part of the territory she had better learn how to handle it or go home, then the same advice applies to Sp.

What can we possibly find out about her in the next 8 weeks is also a very good point made. And you would have to agree. All the other candidates in the race have had a very public life up until this point, with their lives and their records having already undergone a lot of very close scrutiny. But Sp on the other hand we know comparatively very little about.

The point that really needs to be made is that are we to expect this from a McCain Presidency, always being served from left field?

I saw a CNN bio of him recently and he came across as a typical kid whose family has connections. Brash cocky and a chip on his shoulder so large to prove himself, but he then goes about proving himself by having to constantly challenge authority. When your family has a long naval tradition and your father is an admiral, then its easy to see how that can develop into a healthy level of confident self assuredness that sometimes overflows to becoming obnoxiously arrogant. Its this resilience that no doubt helped him through his POW years though and you can marvel that he would rather endure captivity than help their propaganda. Considering the way they tortured him its hard not to be impressed.

No one can accuse him of being weak, the story of him coming home and enduring very painful physiotherapy to get his leg in shape to pass his naval aviator competency tests are a profile in courage all of their own.

The point is that he was known as maverick and along with that tendency to be a loose cannon the question remains, will good warrior be a good choice for CIC. I would not have thought so. Would I want him on my side if we were caught in a foxhole? Yes absolutely.

Would I want him to steer America through the uncertainty of the present and on into the future where with each passing month China declares herself stronger? Do we need loose cannon lips ready to pounce when the occasion will more often than not require an absolute understanding of all the ramifications of what is being said? No absolutely not!