Saturday - August 16, 2008

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT?  DON’T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS SAYS THE MAIL’S LITTLEJOHN.

I HAVE SELECTIVELY EDITED LITTLEJOHN COMMENTS.
Go to the link for everything.  This guy is always worth reading.

On Main Street, America, Obama’s grandstanding in Europe went down like a bucket of cold sick.
In Peoria and hundreds of other similar towns, what they saw was not a President-in-Waiting but an uppity kid with delusions of grandeur.

On our side of the water, there’s an assumption that if you act as if you’ve already got the job, it’s yours by right.

Not so in the USA. They might loathe the incumbent, but they revere the office. Obama’s presumptive glad-handing of foreign leaders was seen in many quarters as an insult to America itself.

Wonder boy Barack may be Europe’s choice for next President but that counts for nothing in the swing states he has to win if he is to enter the White House.

America remains a deeply small ‘c’ conservative country. Obama’s other big mistake was to sneer at ‘ frightened’ Middle Americans whom he accused of ‘clinging to God and guns’. It might play well with the liberal media, but it doesn’t play in Peoria.

Doubts about Obama started to surface towards the end of the primary process. He lost seven out of the last eight contests, many of them blue-collar states which he’ll need to win to become President.

He’s even in trouble in rust-belt Michigan, next door to his home state of Illinois, despite Detroit’s depressed economy, which has shed almost half a million jobs under Bush.

McCain has played a canny, low-key game, not least because he lacks Obama’s budget, boosted by millions of internet donors, and because the networks have decided that Barack is the only show in town. The Republican’s use of advertising time has been well-targeted.

Watch out for those Clintons!

Never mind McCain. Obama’s biggest problem is the Clintons. They haven’t forgiven him for outsmarting them in the primaries and are planning to hijack the convention in Denver. Hillary still thinks that the Presidency is her birthright. Billy Bob seethes with barely-disguised hatred and racism.

Clinton supporters intend to turn the convention into a rally for Hillary.

Keen observers who watched her graceless ‘concession’ speech back in June will have noticed she announced she was ‘suspending’ her campaign for the White House, not abandoning it.

Now she’s claiming disingenuously that if John Edwards had been exposed as an adulterer earlier in the campaign, his votes would have gone to her and she would now be the candidate.

While Billary will ostensibly support Obama, they are willing him to lose with every fibre of their being.

A McCain victory is her best chanceof another crack at the Presidency in four years’ time. If Barack wins convincingly, she’s toast.

And I wouldn’t give much credence to her joining the ticket as Vice-President.

Obama may have a bit of Lady Di charisma, but he’s bright enough to have absorbed her ‘three people in a marriage’ lesson.

Hillary could yet return to haunt Barack like Glenn Close emerging from the bath with a carving knife at the end of Fatal Attraction.

Tellingly, one of the Clintons’ most effective attacks on Obama during the primaries was the notorious ‘3am’ advert.

This showed a phone ringing in the dead of night as children slept in their beds.

The message was: if America is attacked, who would you want to answer the phone - Obama or Hillary?

Don’t be surprised if the Republicans re-run it. And the answer will be: John McCain.

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Posted by Drew458     on 08/16/2008 at 10:25 AM   
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