bumper sticker: "There is a place for all god's creatures, next to the mashed potatoes." - seen at Furr's restaurant at Ben White and Lamar. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- why Obama won't win 1. He has no accomplishments - zip, nada, none. Not in the Illinois legislature and not in the US Senate. No bills, no nothing - except running for president. 2. Three years straight he was voted the most liberal US Senator. He is more liberal then Dukakis or McGovern, two bigtime Dem presidential losers. 3. All he can talk about is raising taxes. He's going to tax utilities $250,000,000,000 ($250 billion) to support alternative energy and global warming iniatives. Are utilities built on gold mines? That money comes out of the people who buy energy and they already pay through the nose. 4. You don't get elected promising a $1,000,000,000,000 tax hike (trillion is a big number). The middle class have the money in America and you can't get a trillion dollars taxing 'the rich'. Income is what is taxed in america, what you earn every day, the rich have their money in land, houses, yachts, stocks, bonds, paintings, etc. 5. Obama is the candidate of generation Y, unfortunately, most of them are not old enough to vote. Baby boomers will control this election. 6. Hispanics support Hillary, who isn't running. A 64 year old hispanic man (no fruitcake either) told me Obama was Muslim. Micheal Bloomberg, mayor of New York, wrote an article in the NY Times titled 'Jews must stop spreading the rumor Obama is a muslim.' Bloomberg spreads the rumor by putting it in the Times. The Nation has an article entitled "Being Called a Muslim is not a Smear." This smear links Obama to terrorism and it is bad news. 7. Israel does a lot that is wrong in the middle-east and they fear even-handed treatment by the USA. As a caller to a radio talk show said one day "Israel is toast if Obama is elected." I tend to agree with that. If Obama loses hispanic and jewish support, that is the democratic base. 8. Obama does some kook things, like refusing to wear a flag pin, or wearing a flag pin for a day if a veteran gives it to him, then taking it off. He has some ex-Weatherman pal (60's radical group that killed several people - You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.) His wifes says "America has a compassion deficit." ( and $45 trillion in unfunded entitlements) and "For once in my life I'm proud to be an American." The dems lose the bubba vote. On the plus side for Obama: a.) Nixon said an incumbent party needs 'peace and prosperity' to win a presidential election. McCain has neither. b.) Obama always leads in the polls. That person usually wins. c.) Obama raises more money then McCain, $2 to $1, but Obama has opted out of public financing, so McCain gets $80 mil Obama does not. d.) What Obama says about winning the south is true, but he needs to register a lot of new democratic voters. I think it is 8 years away. |