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2008-09-18 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2008-09-18 05:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Is this the WaPo getting ready to throw Obama under the bus?

Posted by Snaitch Sproing2496 2008-09-18 08:39|| 2008-09-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Can change what he can't see. This happens when someone lives in a different time and spacial universe from the real people of America, aka 'the little' people, the one's THEY claim they represent as they aggrandize more power to lord over them.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-18 08:54|| 2008-09-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Can't change...[sheesh]

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-18 08:55|| 2008-09-18 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 WaPo editorial page never let him on the bus.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-09-18 08:58|| 2008-09-18 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not Obama's fault. He's cool. It's his campaign's fault, the democratic party's fault, and McCain's fault.

oh ...but wait!! .... Even worse for Obama, all these shifts to catch the prevailing winds confirm the most serious concerns about his political character. As a senator, he has almost never opposed the ideological consensus of his party. (The ethics reform he often cites as his profile in courage eventually passed the Senate 96 to 2.) And now as a presidential candidate, Obama has run his campaign with all the constancy of a skittish sailboat on an erratic ocean.

... they actually criticized him. I feel faint.

Posted by Betty Grating2215 2008-09-18 09:53|| 2008-09-18 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd begin to really wonder if the Obama campaign is loosing them in droves. My own daughter voted for him in the primary - she's any 'anyone but Hillary' voter, and if anything was apolitical when she was in the Marines.

Now, she is just so revolted about the Obamanauts going after Sarah Palin's family, and the sheer floods of vicious misinformation being poured onto various newsgroups that she follows that that she's going to vote McCain with a vengeance. It's only anecdotal... but still you have to wonder. The more she find out about Obama and his happy little band, the more she dislikes them all, and regrets taking him at all seriously earlier this year.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-09-18 11:04|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-09-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 The Democrats have the voices of the fringe yelling at them at high volume. Some advice good, most bad. Its got to be confusing.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-18 11:24|| 2008-09-18 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 sgt mom, wake up calls are sweet. With the slanted MSM it's amazing anyone can see the light. It's actually alot of work finding the truth, I pass it on freely to my friends and co-workers.

Posted by Jan 2008-09-18 11:33|| 2008-09-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#9 The only reason for Obama to really panic is if he runs out of buses. Otherwise, he can dance from one Democratic conventional wisdom to another, well for just about forever. If he loses in November, he can draw on vast Democrat supplies of sour grapes.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-18 11:34|| 2008-09-18 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama could attempt to "beat back the politics of fear, and doubt, and cynicism." He could try to build a coalition that "stretches through red states and blue states." He could reject "the politics where we tear each other down instead of lifting this country up."

Fat chance. Obama's primary campaign was run on Axelrod's usual campaign' model, where the emphasis is placed on wooing African Americans in urban, already Democrat-heavy, environments. Hence the emphasis on showmanship; the secular-preacher mode, the 'hip urban jerks', and the general bypassing of traditional Democrat demographic groups in favor of a selective campaign machine. There is no consensus-building.

(the only thing different was the campaign using a strategy similar to Clinton's 1992 campaign, but for the primaries rather than the general election.)

Posted by Pappy 2008-09-18 13:49|| 2008-09-18 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 John is the one saying the American people don't want us yelling at each other anymore.

John's taking the high road, but The Machine is stuffing the ballot boxes........

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-18 16:23|| 2008-09-18 16:23|| Front Page Top