On my commute from my home to Pajamas Media/PJTV headquarters this morning, I spied a man at the side of the road wearing what seemed like a Medieval cloak and a strange triangular hat. It was raining and it was hard to get a good look at him, but I assumed he was just another one of the homeless, when he stepped out in the road and started to flag me down.
“Mr. Simon! Mr. Simon!” he shouted. What was this? He knew my name? Some crazy in the middle of Los Angeles? I wanted to step on the gas to avoid this loon, but the light had turned red and he was approaching my car. “That poll you ran from CrossTarget. It was off the charts. Ridiculous!” By now he was right next to me with his grizzled face pressed against the window. I could smell his hot breath through the glass. But how had he known about our poll?
“Which one are you talking about?” I said. “The Friday one with Brown up by 15? Or the one Sunday with him up 10?”
“The Friday one, of course. That was the outlier. The Sunday one is okay, but maybe a little off.”
“How would you know?” I said. The light still hadn’t changed.
“How would I know? How wouldn’t I know? … I’m Nostradamus.” Now I knew I had a real whacko on my hands. “And I should tell you, you should listen to me,” he continued, “because there won’t be any exit polls today. They weren’t prepared for such a close election and the media companies weren’t ready. If you want to know what’s going to happen, you’re in my hands… Besides, I can tell you even more about the future than a measly election in Massachusetts.” The light changed, but I sat there a moment. “But if you must… Brown will win by 7. ACORN will not be a factor. They are too afraid of indictments. Nancy Pelosi will pretend it doesn’t matter, but she will really have a migraine and yell at her staff… And Axelrod will say that Brown ran a ‘good race’ for Senate.”
“That’s already on Drudge. I don’t need Nostradamus for that.”
“It’s only a start.”
“A start?” I sat there while the car behind honked at me. Did I really want to know this joker’s opinion. Was this man really Nostradamus? Stranger things had happened. Well, maybe not. The car honked.
“Why don’t you pull over?” said “Nostradamus.”
That was Rick Moran, You don’t recognize your own employees? hehe
“By the time 2012 comes around, Obama’s poll numbers will be up again.”
The odds might be better than either Roger Simon or I will humiliate Kobe Bryant on the basketball court. Barack Obama only wanted the glory of the presidency. The ho-hum everyday responsibilities bore him to death. He will also want to punish the American people for our betrayal of his utopian vision. Obama will increasingly scare people with his weird behavior. He is going to lose it. The majority of American voters sense that the president does not have his act together. They have lost faith in him—and he will never get it back. It’s gone for good. On top of that, Obama’s mediocre Harvard education dooms any chance for a reversal of fortune. He is the Peter Principle president. Obama should still be an Illinois state senator.
Scott Brown will probably win by eight to ten percentage points. It appears that Martha “Marcia” Coakley is not getting the numbers required to save her campaign out of the Democratic precincts. Brown seemingly has all the momentum going his way.
Roger,
The man was a fraud! Nostradamus always wore a FOUR-cornered hat, officially identifying him as a physician.
Mr. Simon…..it is my hope and prayer that while the first part of ‘nostradamus’ prediction will come true-that the second part, about Obama getting re-elected will not.
The American people must stay awake and not go back into their complacent slumber-ignoring the ever pressent danger to our Republic.
Amercan people-do not fiddle while your country is burning. For this administration and those who support them are more than willing to continue setting ‘fires’ that would burn us all to the ground.
FROM HIS LIPS TO GOD’S EARS…
Unfortunately, Brown does not win..
He was the guy who played Ben Franklin on “The Office” — you dress like that and there are only so many paying gigs.
This is awesome!!! Fine job! A great story that requires the reader to look “a little deeper” and connect the “political dots”! I thoroughly enjoyed the read! Thanks for making my day!
This just proves my theory… the dead ARE rising from the grave!
So….the Noster says by 7 uh? Hope he win by 6 or 8 now.
I should print this out and save it til election day just to highlight how wrong it is.
Obama is the man for whom the term “empty suit” was created. He is not just the emperor naked: there’s nothing under those cool clothes but a homunculus. The Peter Principle only applies to those who move up through the ranks of management until they get promoted beyond their capability. Obama has never had any capability – neverbeen promoted by virtue of performance: he has advanced only through patronage, through hoax.
The AAA team – Alinsky/Ayers/Axelrod – has always known this. If a campaign goes to extreme lengths to conceal every detail of its candidate’s record of performance, you know that there is either something very bad or nothing positive. Or, in this case, both.
The punditry cackle about “signs of weakness”, “indecision”, “changing course”. when what they are witnessing is the inevitable demonstration of a total lack of any qualities of leadership, any skills in governance, any evidence of high intellect, any competence in any fields other than evangelistic spell -binding and brown-nosing. He is truly nothing but a puppet.
Clinton was, and remains, a smart, savvy politician. He would have been a great success as as a car dealer or a marketing manager. . He made the decision to change course and performed on it. Obama knows no other course. Worse, he remains dedicated to the cause of his daddy and his mentor Ayers. He will not voluntarily back off from what he sees as his destiny, and with his narcissism, will not hesitate to fight any effort within his administration to change the agenda. By the time they finally rid themselves of him, the whole sordid story of their big scam will be exposed, and he will go back for solace to Rev. Wright – and life-long rejection by the DNC.
I truly believe that the Democrat party will so damage itself in the next couple of years that it will take over a decade to recover.
Interesting prediction. Obama may be willing to sacrifice his party for his agenda, but I doubt his party will oblige. He may have no choice but to follow Clinton’s example.
I believe the Pelosi/Reid/Obama gang have so damaged the Democratic Party, that by the time 2012 rolls around, Obama will be quietly and firmly asked to “decline” running again.
Jeane Dixon told me that if Ms Clinton smells blood in the water in 2011 – BOs polls still low, unemployment high etc. she’ll do what Teddy did to Jimmy and mount a challenge as a Clintonian Faux Moderate.
……and it may be true that Obama will be coerced to govern more from the “center”. But that would still continue the downward trajectory of our economy.
IMHO — our economy is in so much trouble that we need a revolution of individual and corporate freedom, to produce more of our own fossil fuel, to lower the size and cost of govt, to lower taxes and the entitlement state amounts, to lower the wages and bfts of govt workers, to get illegals out and enforce our borders so that our unemployeds can take those jobs, to create individual rights and tax deductions for health ins and allow selling across state lines……..and on and on and on. We need a lurch to the right, which would be towards freedom. So if our leaders Obama with a gridlocked Congress simply plod along doing nothing helpful, we’ll continue to lower our standard of living (GDP) which is certainly decreasing dangerously in the private sector) and the unemployment % will stay horrendous and probably get worse. That’s just my opinion. But I’d put money on it, unlike “Nostradomus”.
– has a chance to redeem himself in how he handles Haiti.
Nostradamus on the Day of the Massachusetts Election: The future of Obama and the Dems
Did he give a prediction ‘B’ covering the future
in which a major crisis strikes the US in the
next few years: The New Madrid Fault lets go,
a major Terrorist strike succeeds, the economy
double-dips and stays down ?
And then they lived happily thereafter…
The US economy won’t be recovering very soon – 2 wars, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, pensions for government workers are going bankrupt, huge debt, horrible regulations. So, you can tell your Nostradamus to pick up a couple of economics books, his predictions are not right.
Ever hear of Da Emperor, er, President, Jones?
Nostrals seems to have lost his touch – dooms day is his specialty, and we’re swimming in it. Nice try though.
Except, for all his faults, Clinton was LIKED as well as his wife. It doesn’t matter if Obama suddenly wakes up and sees the light. People will not forget what he is capable of and will want him just to be gone. This first term has been a nightmare for 50% of the country. He is a bigger liar than Clinton and a radical America hater. Does the country really want to hand him a second term so we can sit on pins and needles waiting to see what he tries to pull again? They will not want to take the chance that in his LAST YEAR of a SECOND TERM it will be a repeat of his FIRST YEAR IN HIS FIRST TERM. No charge for the prediction. I wish he would resign tomorrow. Become President for life of Haiti.
I was thinking I was going to get to read some quatrains or something.
Sorry, sALLIE, with 45% of precincts reporting, Brown leads 515,000 to 460,000, 52% to 46%. The Fat Lady is cinching up her girdle. Thank you, Massachusetts.
I agree that Brown will most likely win. And yes, the initial response from the White House to Scott Brown winning the special election will be one of defiance.
The big question is how does the White House, along with the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate respond?
They have a number of options:
- Accept that the present proposal for Health Care reform is dead and start over, focusing solely on measures that will help to control health insurance and health delivery costs.
This would be the smartest course politically, but the least likely as Obama is unable to govern from the center as matters now stand.
- Settle the differences between the House and Senate bills, delay sitting Brown and push the amended legislation through the House and Senate, with Kirk voting for the Bill in the Senate.
- Have the House pass the Senate bill as is, while promising to use the reconciliation process to pass the required amendments necessary to obtain the needed votes.
Either of these two options are tempting. Should the President and the Democrats proceed in this direction, the President will be finished politically. The Democrats will suffer a devastating defeat in the 2010 midterms and the people will not forgive the President in 2012, no matter how good the economy. Obama has already said that he is not concerned with being re-elected, so I would put the odds of this happening at 25% in favor and 75% against.
- Settle the differences between the House and Senate bills, get the House to pass the reconciled legislation and allow the bill to be defeated in the Senate by the Republicans and then turn the 2010 mid-terms into a referendum on health care reform.
In my view, this is the most likely outcome and I would put the odds at 75/25 in favor of the Democrats choosing this pass.
Should the Democrats proceed in this direction, they will suffer significant losses in the 2010 mid-terms as the people will reject “Obamacare.”
However, it then allows the President to govern from the center, co-opting the Republican/Tea Party agenda as appropriate, while continuing to defend core Democratic values and gives him a shot at winning re-election in 2012.
Providing, as you suggest, that the economy recovers by 2012, then barring some unforeseen event, I agree that the Presidential race will be a toss up.
For those of us who enjoy politics, how this all unfolds is going to be fun to watch.
While your colleagues are scrutinizing tea leaves and entrails and eliciting portents of doom, your more mundane musings hew more closely to the truth.
– I have never, but never, seen all the anchors and reporters so devastated, now that most of the results are in, the outcome called, and Cloakley calling Brown to concede. Maddow looks like Cronkite announcing the death of JFK. It’s not even 9:30 p.m. In the end, it must be because ObamaCare is doomed (not to mention the results of November 2009). When you lose Chris Matthews, you’ve lost Boston.
The true Nostradamus in this link is revealed: #10, Stuart Williamson. Honor is due.
I can’t wait to see Olberman’s head explode on TV.
IT’S OVER!! BROWN WON, COAKLEY CONCEDED!!! 52 – 47
Sully not taking this in stride! Fun to watch the MSNBC O’Donnell “sisters” cover the action.
Obama is an ideologue. He can’t tack to the center. OTOH, Clinton had already led the Democratic Leadership Council before being elected, showing he had the capability to be center-left (“moderate”). He barely won with 43% of the vote in ’92 so had no “mandate”. After 1994 he had a Pubbie Congress to keep him on track. In 2010 it’s 50-50 that Pubbies will win either house, so no hearings, etc.
Finally, Clinton was a much, much wiser politician than BHO.
Ever since Obama went to Europe trying to get the Olympics for Chicago, I’ve suspected that Chicago Mayor Daley is the man who has Obama on a leash. Think about it — Daley must know where to get lots of evidence tying Obama to illegal, Chicago-style corruption, evidence that would force Obama from office. Using this for political blackmail would be regarded as routine politics by both men. Daley is also more of a political moderate, and may well have forced Obama’s decision to send extra troops to Afghanistan. If Obama is well behind in the 2012 polls, don’t be surprised if Obama, conveniently for Daley, decides not to try for a second term.
Not so fast my Nosty friend…..the depth of feelings as to political
direction and one party dominance has not been as severe nor reaction this strident since the anti- vietnam- Richard Nixon period…for every action an opposite…. etc. Tea Time has not gone away…p.c.
fear has been set aside in some quarters for the first time in 40 years. Democrats for perhaps the first time in quite awhile may choose to openly battle for control of their party forcing many to openly defend that which they denied they held dear. Republicans wiil have to
come to grips with a stroger push from their conservative wing….I
say let us speak our minds and find a way to agree on the path we believe in for the general good…For tonight, I shall sigh a great sigh,say a short prayer of thanks, and begin to formulate my reengagement in local politics with conviction and enthusiastic yet civil persuasion…..maybe I really can make a difference.
We get the true inside dope from Diedrich Knickerbocker, channeling Rip van Winkle and Brom Bones. What Diedrich tells us is, in Massachsetts the monolithic Irish Catholic vote in force from c. 1848 may finally be fragmenting. If joined by post-Boomer black constituencies and (Lord help us) the benighted Jewish bloc, competitive races may restore some sanity to ossified partisan ideologues.
By 2016 if not before, Internet task-force may attain 12-year Congressional term limits (six House, two Senate), gerrymander reform (districts “compact, contiguous, equal in population, stable over time”), Electoral Votes on a County vs. State basis despite the adamant opposition of geriatric perpetual incumbents. Add Unit Allocation Budgeting (qv) and certain other procedural reforms neglected by the Founders, and slow-motion Statist coups such as Obumba’s visceral hate-America thugmeisters attempt will never be possible again.
In the words of the great philosopher Han Solo, “Don’t Get Cocky, Kid”.
One (or three) off term elections do not a revolution make.
Even if the Republicans win back the house, a choice I only support because they are not Democrats, do not underestimate the ability of the Republicans to do exactly what the Democrats are doing. Overpromise and underdeliver while going back to the same old same old.
If they get back in power, or in a position to affect things, don’t forget the hold them to the same standards you are demanding from the Democrats. We are going to have to continue to show up at the Town Hall meeting and hold their feet to the fire if they get too far out of line.
The only good thing is knowing that some of them will at least make an attempt to live up to their press. The Democrats have no standards, no morals and cannot be trusted to run a pay-as-you-go pizza party. The Republicans are the same, except that some of them have a sense of shame.
I have to agree with Mr. Williamson. Obama is much too much of a narcissist. He is stubborn and inexperienced as well as handled by the triple A, (Ayers,Alinski,Axelrod)who are socialist idealogues. He will never back off the lodestone of taking control of the US heathcare industry adding it to the post office and Amtrac. The leftwing Democrats are focused on command and control of the US economy and will never back down since they have the hammer. Rupublicans need to stay as focused on less government involvement in the economy, lower taxes, less regualation of business and more freedom throughout America. The lefies think they “know whats best for American citizens” because they are elite, but, American citizens know that they don’t! The Tea Party in America is strong, vibrant, informed and good just as it was in Boston before our Revolution. To see this with your own eyes just go to one rally-meeting as an observer and it blows the media analysis to pieces.
This isn’t a comment about the article, but about the ad for the armed douchebag running for President. Its funny to me that on a site that makes its living catering to the ambient bigotry of Islamophobes, that this ad–so much like the political posters of the radical Islamic movements of the Middle East–should appear here. Such ads are generally aimed at disempowered people and seek to suggest that the solution to their problems is violence, not thinking. Bravo.
Clinton was able to get back on his feet because of an all too convenient terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. That, and the fact that the Republicans nominated a dead-in-the-water candidate like Bob Dole, who had about as much chance of winning as did Homer Simpson.
Fenelin:
“…the ad for the armed douchebag running for President.”
Why do leftists insist on being incoherent? What ad are you talking about?
RW Johnson:
“Clinton was able to get back on his feet because of an all too convenient terrorist attack in Oklahoma City.”
Oh man…..I hate it when someone uses the term “convenient” in the same sentence with “terrorist attack”. Surefire method of getting the conspiracy types stoked….
But that does raise an interesting question: so far, all anyone has discussed is how Obama will (or won’t) adjust his DOMESTIC policy based on the MA election. Any thoughts on how he might adjust his FOREIGN policy (particularly a response to a potential future terrorist attack) in an effort to offset his domestic loss and reverse his slide in popularity?
Further question: might such a change in foreign policy affect the calculus of potential terrorists? Would this make an attack more or less likely?
You should have asked about the forged Birth Certificate and what the Usurper has planned for when the Republican controlled Congress orders Hawaii to provide access to their records.
EXCERPT FROM BARACK OBAMA AND THE “CURSE” OF THE KENNEDYS
“Was it accidental irony or Providence in motion that a Massachusetts Senate seat held by Democrats for over half a century beginning with John Kennedy in 1953 was lost to a Kennedy backed candidate born that very year? For Martha Coakley came into this world on July 14, 1953 exactly 192 days into JFK’s Senate career.
Is it accidental irony or a Providential sign of coming success for Republicans in 2010 and 12 that the number 192 when multiplied by ten gives us the year 1920? For 1920 was a banner year for the GOP when they added the 29th Presidency to their control of Capital Hill in what was to be a Era of Normalcy after the radical Wilson years?
And was it accident or Providence that the day Martha Coakley was born coincided with the anniversary of the French Revolution, the first egalitarian revolution in history**? Could this be an ominous sign for Barack Obama denoting the fate of his egalitarian plans to Europeanize and Frenchify our capitalist country and make everything green? Of this I have no doubt…”
Google ApolloSpeaks(one word)to read the rest of my piece: “Barack Obama and the “Curse” of the Kennedys” for evidence of an underlying order and master plan in the chaos of Obama’s unprecedented election and catastrophic presidency.
“might such a change in foreign policy affect the calculus of potential terrorists? Would this make an attack more or less likely?”
NO. Islamic terrorism has the pedal to the metal. They are going flat out, WOT. Anything they can do they are doing. They cannot quit, they cannot go anyfaster, so nothing we do can change their efforts. Except killing them.
We are winning the WoT.
As evidence, I give you the Predator program. It is terrorist leaders that drive around with one eye on the sky, looking for a Predator carrying a Hellfire with their name on it. It isn’t Obama’s cabinet members or any of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Osama is hiding in a cave, not Obama.
It upsets the 4th worlders, who believe Alinsky’s nonsense, that we are winning. Never the less, we are.