Drudge is teasing big to a Gallup poll of likely voters showing McCain only down by two, which is within the margin of error. I think that's about as credible at the NYT/CBS poll showing Obama up by 14, but still, it raises an interesting question: What if McCain manages to win this thing after all?
Seriously, what do you think would happen? I think the left would howl with rage. I'm only being slightly hyperbolic. They will be so angry and disappointed that it will be very, very hard for President McCain to get anything done. The mood in the country will be tense and miserable for a long time. To have gotten so close to power, and to have such a good candidate, and in such a favorable Democratic year, and to lose? Really, it's hard to imagine how they'll react.
But let's try. If you're an Obama supporter and your man loses this race, how will you react? How will you feel? How will you feel towards McCain and his voters? I'm not asking to be polemical; I really want to know.
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And when Obama wins, what will the right do? Have some ethics and morals; I know people like Kathleen Parker are shocked, shocked to find out that the right is full of personalized, violent ravings, but since the fall of 2001, the right has been calling anyone who is not a part of their side anti-American and worse. When Obama is President, the right is going to rend garments, gnash teeth and scream about how the election was 'stolen,' how 'Obama' is illegitimate, etc., simply because anyone who is not part of the right is by their definition wrong in every way. The right will be ungovernable, willingly, and if this post is a question about the future fabric of this country, then have the intellectual honesty and moral courage - which should be a minimum - to address it.
With all due respect, those who are blaming this financial debacle on the Republicans -- are you stupid? Bush is no leader -- not my idea of a good president -- the only thing I credit him with is not having another terrorist attack. Since my husband was in the Pentagon on 9/11 and terrorism came close to home, I whence I speak.
Both Republicans and Democrats are corrupt -- no argument about that -- and venal. But this particular scandal was Democrat caused. the Community Reinvestment act, begun under Carter and expanded under Clinton forced banks to make NINJA loans -- No income, NO jobs, NO assets. They knew they were playing with fire -- but Fannie and Freddie -- quasi government agencies used as piggie banks for Desm, bought up the bad loans and traded them -- and made off l ike bandits while the housing prices soared. When things same to a screaming halt -- the financial house of cards collapsed. Christopher Dodd got sweetheart loans and he was amongst those who benefited from the Fannie Freddie scam. Barney Frank kept yelling at Republicans that NO OVERSIGHT WAS NECESSARY -- they tried to get oversight in 2001, 2003, and 2--5 -- I saw the videos my self (taped on CSpan) Frank said as late as this summer, that ALL WAS WELL. His lover was an EXECUTIVE IN FANNIE MAY -- AND HE WAS WRITING THE LAWS. The reason people don't know this is because the media is covering their backsides -- not without a cause. Obama's group, ACORN was amongst those that bullied banks into making this risky loans. He was also the 2ND LARGEST RECIPIENT of Fannie lobby funds, even though he was only a junior senator.
Republicans WERE WIMPS -- THEY kept trying to get oversight and were blocked by the Dems -- BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THIS CASE BEFORE THE PEOPLE. But because they were called "racist" for wanting this oversight, they backed down because they were more afraid of the "r" word than they cared about the American people.
Obama is handsome. Suave. Smooth -- but he cares about one thing only -- OBAMA. Look at his record. Look at how he changed his positions -- and lied -- again and again. He's got the style -- the swagger -- and the "coolness." But we've seen leaders before with charisma -- who can lie smoothly and make out that the other guy is always at fault. We're about to elect an American Idol -- with control issues.
I hope this does not happen. Just like McCain left behind POW's in Vietnam, he will no longer think about you when he gets in. He had a chance to continue the serach of missing POW's and chose not too. Delores Alfond could have been reunited with her brother and other POW's could have been with their family if McCain would have continued to serach for lost POW's. He will not benefical to this counrty just like Bush was not. People who have lost their jobs and homes should not vote for him at all. I am tired of people being blind to his voting record with GB. If you vote for McCain, you should be the one to suffer behind his corrupt policies not me.
The thought of a civil war could take place because McCain is a racist. He has approved racist comments being robo called to potential voters, he promotes racial out burts from his followers, he uses scare tactics to get people to vote for him. This is his by any means necessary to win. It concerns me that people want unity in america but they promote racism. How are they different from the terrorist over seas? Until there is unity in america, everything that we stand for will fall.
I think McCain could have gone on to forcibly conscript every single able man to Afghanistan, Iraq and possibility the invasion of Iran with no right of conscientious objection, like Turkey. Civil rights would have been banned and his administration would have been fueling China's draconian communism like never before. Finally, McCain would have stopped search engines from indexing the whitehouse.gov website altogether, unlike Obama.
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