Thu, 10/23/2008 - 8:29pm — lambert
"As we enter the home stretch, Senator Obama is winning voter groups that no Democrat has carried in more than four decades," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Polling Institute at Quinnipiac University. "If these numbers hold up, he could win the biggest Democratic landslide since Lyndon Johnson in 1964."
It's the economy, stupid!
What's your bet on when "progressives" will hold Obama's feet to the fire? I'm guessing 2013. Or maybe the midterms after that.
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weird--
it's like those 2 paragraphs were from a totally different story.
Feet to the fire?
Ha.
The sham primary has already receded our consciousness. Ya know, just like the 2000 election theft. The media controls everything. They choose our presidents, choose our wars, choose our "economic rescue" bills, etc.
Who needs good policy?
We'll have the awesomest president ever. Besides, we can't afford it--bipartisanship and all.
It'll be good for the soul, and our president needs us!
You can thank George W. Bush,
Dick Cheney, and the neocons, and Hillary Clinton, who did her fair share of getting people interested enough in the election to vote and John McCain, whose time has passed him by.
This is nothing Obama did (oh, yeah, he supposedly gave a good speech, but is probably the weakest candidate we've ever had in terms of experience). He's just the newest political plaything.
It is the economy, stupid. And Obama is going to find out just how much "fun" being president is.
Maybe McCain Really Is Goldwater
With the difference being that Goldwater was a real dogmatic conservative. And, Obama really is shaping up to be the next JFK. Unfortunately for us, that's not a good thing. I mean, Biden has, in his usual hyperbolic tone, promised us that Obama will face a manufactured crisis to 'test' him. It's not hard to imagine, then, that our Bay of Pigs 2.0 will be Pakistan or Iran.
Yeah, this presidency couldn't have happened to a better man. I wish him the best of luck with this play-thing presidency.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Next JFK is NOT a good thing
Gad, my New Yorker and New York Review both came today, and all Manhattan is giddy.
You know, if LBJ had been President in 1960, and JFK Vice President, we might have been better off. Civil rights legislation for sure, and just maybe no VietNam -- none of that best and brightest nonsense.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
But "we" deify all "our" presidents
"We" conveniently stop talking about the illegitimacy of their election wins or their bad policies.
"We" and "our" can refer to Dems or GOPers.
I'm not so sure
I don't think LBJ would have handled the Cuban missile crisis well.
Lest we forget, Lyndon Johnson knew a thing or two about vote fraud...
...for the rest of us
...for the rest of us
Buy would...
But would LBJ beat Nixon? Are you believing all these polls? I'm not too sure. Why is Obama still looking for money? Why isn't he paying his bills? Something about an appearance in Newport News.
peter
Wow
The inspired truly did a great job, they converted all the un inspired. Who would have thunk.
Lest We Forget...
...that Kennedy most likely won because of voter fraud. Two words: Joe Kennedy. We'll see if Obama can beat the record of the registered number of deceased voters in Illinois, this year. :) I'm not sure, though. Daley is not nearly the dictator his father was.
But, if there be any team up to answering the question of "how many Chicago graveyards do you have to troll to win the presidency" Obama and Daley the Younger are more than up to the task.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Peter Brown called to say, "You can make it OK"
"You can get married in Gibraltar, near Spain."
Christ, you know it ain't easy...
...for the rest of us
...for the rest of us
Yeah, wasn't there a crazy scene at the Dem Conv in Chicago
and the lights went out just before JFK was nominated? I thought there were some shenanigans with the delegates in that situation. I must research...
I love this job!
I love this job!
Chicago? JFK?
I don't know what event you have in mind, but JFK was nominated in LA. Hubert Humphrey was nominated in Chicago (1968).
Completely OT, but Kennedy's acceptance speech in 1960 is well worth a read (or a watch).
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