I am encouraged by conversations with two life-long Democrats who aren’t buying Obama’s Kool-aid.
One woman, from the “blissed-out” 70′s listens to CNN on her computer and has already caught on to Obama’s trick of listening to people’s problems, then repeating the problem and promising change but not something specific. Unlike Hillary, who had plans for everything, plans she admitted the American people couldn’t afford, Obama is merely offering us the most self-absorbed couple of narcisisists we wouldn’t hope for. Prince Daintyfingers and Princess Ticked-off, as someone on National Review dubbed them.
A PR job on Michelle might have worked in an earlier era but those initial video clips are still around and they still rankle. Everytime those two open their mouths it’s always about them. That no PR person can erase.
I think Republicans are way too pessimistic. The public is dragging both parties into doing something about energy independence. McCain may just visit Anwar and decide drilling there would be OK. Environmentalists are being shown as the power-grabbing watermelons they are: green on the outside, red on the inside. Last night’s 60 Minutes story on the fortune spent to save the salmon, was tragic and hilarious in showing government idiocy. It seems poetic justice that these idiots have to go through bird shit (they brought in birds that prey on salmon as a bird refuge) to retrieve the microchips they implanted in the baby salmon. FUBAR, and the story of another fortune spent on television beamed to the mideast makes one think, if one ever doubted it, that government should do as little as possible, because what they do, they inevitably screw up.
The war in Iraq is going much better and CBS’s NCIS and David Mamet’s THE UNIT (based on Inside Delta Force) both shows dealing with our current conflict led the line-up Saturday night. CAIR may have persuaded 24 to do “other” terrorists, the always reliable Germans, but local TV stations show the seasons with Islamic terrorists. TV is about ratings and if war stories are being shown it’s because people ar watching them, and that is much more accurate a reflection of what people think than polls which are so often wrong.
I think McCain, even outspent 3 to 1, will win in November, and the Democrats may do much worse in the House and Senate than they think. The war’s no longer a winning issue for the Democrats. Their foot-dragging on energy is pissing a lot of people off. Where are their winning issues? Republican corruption. They’ve shown that corruption is something they do far better than the Republicans. (Dodd, Conrad, Wm. Jefferson).
