Newt Gingrich has written an excellent article on the decline and fall of The One in the latest issue of Human Events:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28196
Here are some of the tidbits:
*Senator Obama's first step on his long, downward slide may have been repudiating Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his pastor of twenty years.
*Then, Senator Obama waffled on drilling offshore to ease the energy crisis, first supporting a blanket prohibition even to the extent of actively seeking to withhold from the public the results of government surveys of America's offshore oil and gas reserves.
*This was followed by his expression of "openness" to some undefined "limited" drilling. Why? Because the voters were increasingly unhappy with Obama's leadership on anti-energy extremism.
*Next, Senator Obama handled the Russian assault on Georgia with an uncertainty eerily reminiscent of President Carter. He sent three different messages to the American people (and the world) in the same number of days (while getting tougher and clearer as he went along, he reminded everyone that while he was the campaigner in chief, he was not really ready to be commander in chief, and the damage was done).
*Last week former federal prosecutor and National Review Online Contributing Editor Andy McCarthy documented the degree to which Senator Obama has been dishonest about his record of opposing legislation in the Illinois State Senate that would have protected babies who survived a failed abortion. This is a position, by the way, which puts him in opposition to over 90 per cent of all Americans, including liberal Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) as well as 99 other members of the U.S. Senate, who voted in favor of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002. Americans almost universally believe that live-born infants must be afforded full legal rights under law, regardless of their stage of development or whether their live births occurred during a failed abortion.
*The choice of Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) for his vice presidential running mate is one more step in the decline of Barack Obama. Now Senator Obama has nominated as his running mate a man who received 9,000 votes for president and withdrew. Obama could have picked Hillary Clinton, who received 18,000,000 votes. (He would have done so, by the way, without sacrificing his desire to have a Vice President with strong national security and foreign policy credentials on the ticket.) That works out to 2,000 votes for Clinton for every one vote Senator Biden got.
None of Obama's meltdown described by Gingrich includes the damage done to his campaign by McCain's gutsy selection of Alaska governor and hockey mom, Sarah Palin as his VP. She's gotten into Obama's head and he doesn't have a clue how to shake her. As you can imagine, I'm downright giddy that "...Obama's decline has taken him from an Oprah Winfrey-endorsed 'change we can count on' trendy leader to a normal politician," inexperienced though he may be.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28196
“Judgment” has become the byword of the election. Barack Obama has always wanted the election to be about the importance of “good judgment,” not experience. While Obama claimed last week that he had more executive experience than Sarah Palin, he has generally stuck to this theme." But how sound is Obama's judgment?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,418821,00.html
Meltdown??
Slight decline perhaps but I believe this is mostly perception because McCain has gotten a good bump from Palin bruhaha.
But wait until America realizes that Palin is just another George W. Bush cowboy. Her "reform" reputation is solely because of cleaning up some corruption (kudos to her for that) and a nice spin that she put on the "bridge to nowhere." For the corruption, she deserves real credit, but does this constitute reform? I say it constitues following our existing framework.
For the bridge to no where, Alaska still got all of the money, they just used it on other things. Alaska gets more Federal money per capita than any other state. This did not change under Palin.
Where is the reform?
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterBarrys campaign simply was not ready for Palin because they never even susected she would be chosen. This is what happens when people breathe their own exhaust for too long. They've been claimin that Republicans are sexist and racist for so long that they genuinely believed it.
Newt Gingrich has written an excellent article on the decline and fall of The One in the latest issue of Human Events:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28196
Here are some of the tidbits:
*Senator Obama's first step on his long, downward slide may have been repudiating Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his pastor of twenty years.
...[text shortened]... erienced though he may be.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28196
This thing is far from over and Zero could still pull this off, but if they don't make an unexpected move fairly soon, McCain is going to lock a sidewinder right onto to Bambis six. He's been in The Ones OODA loop for several weeks now, thats way too long. Husseins campaign managers specialize in winning elections in highly liberal areas against other liberal opponents, they might be out of their league in a national campaign with a wide variety of voters to appeal to. Lord knows The Verbose Blue Hen isn't helping any...
Obama/Media 2008! might very well go home rejected.
Originally posted by Merkwhat?
Barrys campaign simply was not ready for Palin because they never even susected she would be chosen. This is what happens when people breathe their own exhaust for too long. They've been claimin that Republicans are sexist and racist for so long that they genuinely believed it.
This thing is far from over and Zero could still pull this off, but if they don't ...[text shortened]... Verbose Blue Hen isn't helping any...
Obama/Media 2008! might very well go home rejected.