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National Review Online: If McCain Presents A Competent And Reformist Conservative Alternative, He Can Prove The Dems Wrong
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- The editors of the National Review are more intelligent than this - the Democrats are certainly not "betting that Clinton%u2019s triangulation and Bush%u2019s perceived failure have changed the country so much that an uncompromising liberalism is once again politically viable." This implies that Obama was chosen by the party leadership in a rational, calculated decision. Obama was chosen by caucus and primary voters, most of whom are attracted to his charisma and his personality, and probably couldn''t even tell you what the phrase "Clinton''s triangulation" means. The Review is certainly correct that he is the most liberal candidate in years, but implying that he was ''chosen'' because of this is a complete misunderstanding of the way that he won throught the primary and caucus system.
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Is Ron Paul still around?
Posted by guysdigdirt
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Now there''s a thought. Obama/Paul ''08!- Reply to this comment
- For decades opinion polls have showed that while the public didn''t like the "liberal" label, our political views are overtly liberal--supporting women''s legal right to abortion, social welfare programs like social security if they work, universal health care even if it''s a government program, etc. Conservative operatives like Rove and Gingrich managed to tar the word with their brush but didn''t manage to turn the American soul; and now that the proper spokesman has been found at the right moment, all the errant assumptions of the right wing are going to come crashing down. Obama and the Democratic congress will begin fashioning the European-style social democracy we need to be if we''re to be a civilized society, and the public will cheer in helping to erect it.
No amount of name-calling is going to deflect a public whose current generation is proudly calling itself "liberal" besides just subscribing to the values of liberalism. NRO squandered its inheritence on Cheney and Iraq, and will soon be in foreclosure... - Reply to this comment
- Wow, could it be a worse election than this? Obama is so far left even he does not know what he stands for. McCain is... well is looking too much like Bush.
Which is worse?
Is Ron Paul still around? - Reply to this comment
- "look at me mommy!! i made a rhyme!!! yay!!"
Posted by jamesm12341
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Go me! Clever AND good-looking. :) - Reply to this comment
- It is 3:00 am and Hillary gets a phone call. Obama has clinched the party nomination what will you do now the voice on the other end proclaims.
It is 3:00 am days later and the only thing heard from Hillary is the sound of clicking keys as she hacks away on her calculator!
Hillary, the Queen of Spin and a Legend in Her Own Mind!
http://klintons.com - Reply to this comment
- First of all the NRO has lost ALL their credibility based on their support of the invasion, bush and his crime family and mcBush.
Why don''t the neo cons at the NRO just call him a liberal (OH, NO!) and get it over with. Obama announce he will not take corporate lobbyist money for his campaign. That must make him a communist huh dummies? - Reply to this comment
- ib4075, FDR was a far right conservative compared to the modern "screaming child" socialist leftwing party in America today.
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- OBAMA''S DISTURBING TREND
If he wants to get to the White House, Obama needs to reverse his current trend as he heads into battle with McCain.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/06/concern-for-obamas-down-trend.html
He also needs to tap Hillary for VP. - Reply to this comment
- Bush worked hard to divide up Israel. It did not work and things did not turn out well for the leaders who tried to divide Israel.
Obama claims to be a Christian ! I think he may be reading the Bible ! ! !
Does McCain claim to stand for an undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel ? - Reply to this comment
