Comments on: Be careful what you wish for – looking forward to an Obama administration

By: newton

newton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:53:22 +0000

Just watch. The moment Obama gets his first full-CIA briefing as President, and maybe even his first economic briefing, his smirk will disappear and his hair will begin to turn gray. You will not see that man smiling again for the rest of his presidency.

That day, my friends, is when our revenge begins.

By: hermie

hermie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:27:38 +0000

But think of how much damage Jimmy Carter did while he was POTUS, and he was only a complete incompetent. Obama is actually wanting to destroy the military and the economy so as to install his far Left plans. His foreign policy people want Israel to submit to Hezbollah and Hamas, and his answer to Russian aggression is to blame the victim.

What kind of a world will be left when the enemies of the US are emboldened by Obama’s weakness?

By: John

John — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:44:07 +0000

I’m pessimistic at this time, but as I said above, long-term I expect that even if Obama does get elected, you can’t put lipstick on a pig, to borrow his phrase, and sell it to the American public once they’ve seen the pig in action.

Even with the mortgage and banking crisis, Obama continues to run away from the issue, as if he’s still a back bench in the Illinois Senate. And the media covers up for him. But when you’re president, you can’t spend four years ducking every controversial issue, and — while I’m sure he’ll try it, and the media will assist him in his effort — you can’t spend four years blaming all your problems on George W. Bush. That might work for a year, but a Barack Obama who won’t take any responsibility is going to anger the American public after a while, as will a Barack Obama who tries to play the race card on every controversial issue (I mean, jeez, Saturday Night Live’s already called him out on this one).

And as far as Congress going lock-step with Obama if he tries to push a left-wing economic and/or foreign policy agenda, a lot of Democrats just got into office two years ago, in some cases by running to the right of their Republican oppnents. And they remember what happened to the Democratic reps in swing districts who stuck with Clinton on tax hikes and national health care in 1993-94 — they were ex-representatives by 1995.

A lot of damage can be done, especially on national security during an Obama administration. But unless they’re incredibly stupid, swing state Democrats are not going to be like those kids in that “Children of the Dammed” Obama video two days ago, and march their political careers off a cliff because the media and Hollywood are having orgasms over the guy. Which is why if Obama decides to follow the advice of his closest advisers, best bet is he’s as beleaguered as Jimmy Carter circa late 1979 a few years from now.

By: frankie

frankie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:29:35 +0000

We can always revive the militias like during the Clinton years.

By: Ralph Woods

Ralph Woods — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:25:43 +0000

Obama campaigned on a mantra of change and now change is coming faster than even he could imagine. An economy tanking faster than gas prices rose. No money for all the utopian socialist programs because it has already been spent on utopian mortgage programs that failed. Wars and rumors of wars in far flung regions that he has learned the names of in only the last few weeks. Change is certainly at hand.

By: Dr.T

Dr.T — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:59:08 +0000

I’m a congenital optimist, but I confess to feeling despair.
It’s clear that people who know the real Obama and the consequences of his intended policies will vote against him.
But one can tell from the utterly false ads for Obama that they are able to get away with telling lies with no fear of repercussions.
The media will do nothing to bring out the truth about his background; what little was said during the primaries was not considered by the general public.
The ridiculous irony is that the people who put us in our current financial crisis will be elected and those who tried to prevent it will be defeated.
Of course we always think the current liberal candidate is the worst ever. But now we truly have a person who is not only inexperienced, but utterly unqualified to be president.
He scares the daylights out of me.

By: david levavi

david levavi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:25:37 +0000

A year ago McCain was counted out. Dead and buried. And then there he was, the only Republican candidate still standing.

I have confidence in this old soldier. Loyalists complain that he isn’t playing hardball. But even as he’s held his fire, his opponent hasn’t managed to widen his lead until now. And this lat through no doing of his own.

The novelty has worn off Obama. His high flown oratory has lost its resonance. The idol is tarnished. The bloom is off the rose. And he’s shot his load. There is nothing terrible he or his MSM stooges and surrogates can say about McCain or Palin than they have not already said. Ad nauseum.

Had McCain flogged Obama’s most glaring negatives all along, his criticisms of Obama would be old hat, too. But he’s been a gentleman and kept his powder dry. Obama’s closet is full of skeletons and the greater American public has yet to meet them in full color.

Obama may yet regret MSM’s suppression of any and all criticism of their chosen and all but anointed.

After a long hiatus from the public eye, Revs. Wright and Pflegger may yet be raised from their deep freeze, fresh, hideous and hoary. Ayers Dohrn and ACORN are barely known to the wider public and full of incendiary potential. America has yet to be introduced to the poor Black folk and the cockroaches and rats in the Chicago public housing that Obama turned over to his crony Rezco.

Keep your pajamas on. This race is going down to the wire.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:03:52 +0000

I realize that Obama is ahead, and I do think he can thank the financial crisis for this. It is too bad we do not have an objective and unbiased media which might actually report on the genesis of this crisis, but we don’t.

However, that will go on for so long. The Democrats were able to hide this nasty little secret until reality hit and the markets tanked. Chances are this won’t be the only disaster. Only the next time, there might not be any George Bush to blame.

In truth this began a decade ago. The Bush administration did try to bring Fannie Mae under the control of the Treasury Department as far back as 2003, and Democrats like Barney Frank and Chucky Shumer defended the agency. In 2005 McCAin tried to get reform legislation through. The Democrats blocked it. Back in the Clinton years Republicans like Newt Gingrich did not stop these changes, I am sure no one imagined then that this could happen.

But if Obama wins, the chickens will have come home to roost. I somehow doubt he has a magic wand to fix this.

By: Mike_K

Mike_K — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:59:51 +0000

This is what fascism looks like when it is being whooped into office. The elites think they can control this empty suit, and maybe they can, but I wonder. Who knows where all that foreign money is coming from ?

With Obama will come the firing or defanging of Patrick Fitzgerald. He is the US Attorney investigating, prosecuting and convicting corrupt Chicago and Illinois politicians; a number of them associates of Obama’s patrons the Daleys. If the WP and NYT thinks that firing of US Attorneys by Presidents is sinister, wait until Obama…no wait…they WILL find some justification for Fitzgerald’s firing. Ironically the MSM and Dems just LOVED Fitzgerald when he went after Scooter Libby, but if the Obamamessiah gets in, watch for him to be labelled ‘rogue’ and unworthy of his position.

I think this is step one after inauguration. Clinton did the same thing with Whitewater.

By: Godzilla

Godzilla — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:55:31 +0000

Although this is something that I don’t like to think about, because it makes me hope that McCain loses, I’m willing to wager a sizeable chunk of money that the 2012 incumbent will be doomed to defeat for having allowed Iran to develop nuclear weapons. I doubt that McCain can do anything to prevent that, and Obama certainly won’t. In fact, I’d wager a smaller amount that Israel will be nuked before 2012. Tonight all I want to see is Palin do another job on Obama. Biden is irrelevant. I’m voting for McCain, but I’ll tell you right now that I’ll be breathing a sigh of relief if he loses. I just want Palin to come out fully restored by Election Day. She’s the future.