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Mr Obama suffers the curse of Gordo I see that Gordon Brown has come out in favour of Mr Obama winning the White House.
For Mr McCain, this must be a hopeful sign. As Guido Fawkes likes to point out, Gordon “Profiles in Courage” Brown has a track record of cursing any cause he attaches himself to.
Of course, I can see why Brown might relate to The One. Both of them have never done a stroke of work outside of politics in their lives.
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I may be wrong (I usually am) but Obama’s campaign has that “past the tipping point” feel about it all of a sudden. A few months ago I was sure he would win. Now I feel certain he’ll lose. As if his grandiose acceptance of the nomination was his “Sheffield Rally”. There’s just this feeling that he’s peaked. Maybe I’m just swep’ up in the “Palin Factor”, I dunno. But it just feels like Obama has lost the initiative and will never regain it. Like Gordon Brown, really.
I hope for an Obama win, but I’m inclined to agree with Ian B.
Ian B hits the spot – after months of ‘It’s time for change’ yer average US voter has decided it’s time for change. Tee hee.
QT, I hope for a McCain win for the simple reason that Obama Bin Laden will be the worst loser of all time and spend the rest of his life whining that the election was stolen from him by racists.
Getting back to the topic, is it possible that there is a correlation between Team GB’s relatively good Olympic medal count and the fact that The Goblin King never mentioned with Olympics, didn’t wish them luck and didn’t go to the opening ceremony?
The McCain campaign has finally hit its stride. Some of the current crop of TV campaign and radio ads are out-of-the-park winners and the McCain/Palin stump speeches are on-message, like an ice-pick to the skull. Reduce Taxes, Reduce Spending and Drill Till It Hurts.
Obama is wallowing in a mess of Change-iness and Hope-itude, saddled with a VP pick who is about as inspiring as cold oatmeal. He’s falling into the same trap as the one that sank Kerry, of running against the past Presidential term. We’ve heard nothing new from him for weeks except for desperate reaction to McCain/Palin – and even that is poorly-timed and tone-deaf. Yesterday, he used the expression ‘lipstick on a pig’ to describe McCain/Palin. It’s fine old American turn of phrase – but it looks like a direct personal insult to Governor Palin. Tone-deaf, stupid – whoever scripted this phrase for him needs to go back to leafletting the mall in Galesburg, IL.
It’ll be McCain by 100 EC votes or more. It gives me no joy to say it, and I agree that the wailing that we will hear form Obama will put all previous sore-Democrat-loser events in the shade. But I’ll take it.
llater,
llamas
And here you go. In less than 12 hours, McCain/Palin has a TV commercial out that skewers Obama for his ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZd_Y_D-RaA
They’re hitting every mark, they’re on-message and they’re hitting voters right where they live. It’s theirs to lose now.
llater,
llamas
Obama is losing it big time. I am so going to enjoy his fall from grace.
Let us assume that the Marxist background of Barack Obama is all the evil lies of people like – well like me.
The most hopeful possibility (dismissing everything else as the “lies of right wing fanatics like Paul Marks”) is that Senator Obama will be another wild spending President – like George Walker Bush. Senator “Joe” Biden is certainly a wild spending type (the third worst voting record in the Senate – number one worst is “The One” himself).
So it would actually be Obama/Biden who would be “more of the same”.
No wonder Mr Brown likes them.
As for the rally – it was not Denver, it was Berlin that was the start of the problem.
Ranting about the entire world and mocking Reagan’s “tear down this wall” with “tear down the wall between rich and poor”.
All before 200,000 demented screaming Germans.
It did not go down well with many people in the United States.