Charles Krauthammer (!) has declared that Barack has "got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament.  That will likely be enough to make him president."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203043....

Sadly and wrongly their is still considerable racism in the US (more than fair amount at that). Although I am truly really surprised at how well Obama has come through all this negativity and won the nomination. However, don't rely on the polls. They mean nothing. Time and time again the Dems are supposed to clean house and then November comes and they lose the election.

I think if McCain holds his own, as to my surprise he did in the first debate, in these two next ones it may be enough to edge out Obama in the election.

The difference is this:

All 10 out of 10 Democrats will complain, say the country needs change, argue continuously for the democratic party and for their nominee and yet only 1/2 will actually register and then go ahead and vote (I know, when I chose the democratic nominee in the past I didn't vote once and there was nobody to blame but me for that. As a result I consciously made it a point not to complain for another four years. How could I? ..yet many Dems would).

All 10 out of 10 republicans will vote. In fact they will be there early volunteering their help at the booths.

I vote on the person and who surrounds them, their intentions, their and their close associates track records, and then take into consideration what my gut feeling tells me (the gut rarely, if ever lies as you all know ).

I don't vote on a particular party.


Ian

ACORN will assure that 15 out of every 10 dems vote in the key states, and the main stream media will still portray them as being disenfranchised.

RIFFY, WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THIS NEWS?

I'm against it!

He's nothing more than a puppet of the DLM!

He's wrong!

You're wrong!

But he also says this:

"Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes?"

LJ.

Quote:

Fleabit?

This editorial endorsement of Barack from The New Yorker is a little long, but a well-reasoned evaluation of the two candidates.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors?yrail

Yes Corgi, but you are still upside down and the blood rushes to your head, LOL!

" Me? I got two houses and am very happy, thanks so much. Our banks and lending institutions are the envy of the world at the moment. And dont forget, it's Spring here, so them skirts are getting shorter and them beers are tasting sweeter. "

Corgi .......  you REMAIN ....... : " THE KING !!! "


J.

Context is, indeed, everything.  Here's the merger of BOTH pieces of text.

"Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he's a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In the foreign policy debate with McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama held his own -- fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president."

Bama's got a good team this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1JmUEMQ6zY&e