McCain keeps pushing on Obama breaking his word about public financing

Ganpat Ram

There is always hope even for the worst sinner, and the article by Dick Morris over on Realclear Politics advising McCain how to puncture Obama proves it.

Refreshing to have Dick Morris talking sane, balanced sense for once.

However, I feel advising McCain is a wasted effort. He is as unperceptive politically as a rock.

I am a Clintonite who will vote McCain, but I have lost hope in his winning.

I have never seen such a slow-witted, unimaginative leading contender for the presidency as McCain, with the possible exception of Bob Dole.

What is crazy is that McCain's chances are actually very good - if only he would grasp them.

Despite the suffocating media sycophancy toward Obama, his being promoted as God walking on earth, the American public, miraculously, still remains grimly skeptical of him. In most polls his lead is narrow.

What McCain desperately needs to do very very very soon is to demand what Obama was doing all those twenty years sitting in a church whose pastor made fascist hate speeches against America- and taking that pastor as his family's spiritual adviser.

This is a frightening detail about Obama - it shows how utterly bogus and unreliable are his claims to patriotism.

But McCain has virtuously ruled out campaigning on that critical issue. Just like Clinton.

He will suffer Clintion's fate.

The people who insanely glorify this slick Chicago huckster will have to suffer the consequences of him in office. In a year they will be utterly disillusioned.

Obama's troubles will begin when he has won, not before.

2012 should be a good year for Al Gore to run for the presidency. America will be so disgusted with both the brainless Republicans and the crooked Obamites !!!

No wonder he is looking pleased with himself these days.

TGF UKIP

There's going to be plenty more ammo for McCain but I would think this ad could run and run right through to Nov 4th.

Tom

One other poster recommended this - and it is great.

It explains why Obama is happy to keep the focus on cultural debate (ie race and Wright) since that spares him having to talk about policy:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/obamas_new_strategy.html

THX1138

If you want to see a man change his mind look at this/

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BPyKpcivQYQ

Extreme flip flopping

RMH

Is the Unity thing not worth reporting on then?

Obama and Clinton doing a joint thing and doing it very well.

Hell no..........

Ganpat Ram

Obama is far from being a clever guy.

He is simply a very mediocre Chicago politico, his head a ragbag of trite "identity"-mongering cliches.

He has been able to use the tyranny of PC culture in tne US which makes it difficult to fight a Black candidate without being accused of racism - as happened to Clinton.

PCism has disabled the vigour of US politics, and Obama is the beneficiary.

However, how long can this bubble last?

The US people by and large remain skeptical of Obama: he has only a narrow lead in most polls. The fashion-driven media crowd are crazy about him. But how long does fashion last?

He will come into office on a wave of cheap euphoria. He, the great avoider of clear answers, will suddenly be made to give them. He, the man who never takes responsibility and always talks himself out of situations, will suddenly be required to give hard answers.

It won't be easy for him.

The US public can be very indulgent to some people when they are running for the presidency - that is why the US gets bad presidents. But once in office, the US political system watches what presidents do and say ruthlessly. That is why the US is a free country.

"What did the President know and when did he know it?" Senator Sam Ervin's ruthless question to Nixon will haunt Obama. No more slippery answers, once you are in the Oval Office !

We shall see.

In four years the US will be desperate to be rid of Obama and his smooth evasive talk. That will be Hillary's chance or Al Gore's - provided they do not make the mistake of becoming Obama sycophants.

Ian C

Ganpat Ram, I think that you are too pessimistic. This year's race has not even begun and Obama is busy boring everyone to a 2% lead. Unless he has alot of clear water going into the conventions he won't win.

Ganpat Ram

So great is the intelligence of Obama that I am concerned that the USA should recognise this as fully as it deserves.

He should be crowned Emperor Obama the Great in a ceremony modelled on the coronation of that other hugely gifted man, Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic.

Emperor Bokassa's coronation ceremony, complete with carriages drawn by white horses in all the healthful, steaming heat of Bangui, is an event still cherished in the capacious memory of Africa.

Who among us will forget how the grateful citizenry of Bangui rent the welkin with lusty cheers as, lined up under the sagging palm trees amid their rotting huts, the carriage swept by them, their Imperial Majesties waving graciously. Particular note was taken of the scarcely-earthly grace of the svelte Empress (weight: only 3 tons)?

So overwhelming was the grandeur of this ceremony, that the very hippopotamuses on the regrettably muddy Ubanggui-Shari river on which Bangui's noble if gently deliquescing hutments stand, could not repress magnificent yawns.

Here is an event, set in that very ancient land of his roots - Africa! - that Obama will be thrilled to replicate in Washington. The Empress Michelle Obama will show no less graciously than the Empress Bokassa.

This coronation of Emperor Obama, certain to glisten with a particularly grateful sheen at the top of the world's social register of glittering occasions, will serve to inaugurate an extremely desirable trend: America's shaking off of its woeful provincialism and its adoption of an only too needful willingness to learn from that first instructor of all mankind: Africa !

"Africa, Land of the Sun,
The King of Continents,
The Ancient One !

And now - O what unbearable Drama !
Thou - Land that Spewed forth - Obama! "