Krauthammer nails it....seriously!

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Thursday February 26, 2009 · 10:12 PM PST

2009/02/26 · 22:12

Sometimes it takes a look at what the opposition thinks of Obama to really understand what a great moment in history we are in with President Obama. In his review of last night's sppech Krauthammer concludes what I have felt all along. Obama wants to fundamentally transform the way the American economy to be more like the European model. While Krauthammer obviously disagrees with Obama's approach his column reads like a simple stating of Obama goals rather than the normal blather of right wing talking points.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/...

Obama will create the middle step that will lead ultimately and inevitably to single-payer. The way to do it is to establish a reformed system that retains a private health-insurance sector but offers a new government-run plan (based on benefits open to members of Congress) so relatively attractive that people voluntarily move out of the private sector, thereby starving it. The ultimate result is a system of fully socialized medicine. This will likely not happen until long after Obama leaves office. But he will be rightly recognized as its father.

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 8:50 AM PST

2009/02/18 · 08:50

Kudos to president Obama for tackling the mortgage crisis head on. There are many things in his proposal that I like but I see some potential practical and political pitfalls. I think a major problem is going to be who gets the refis and who doesn't will be a major issue. I like the plan for the govt to underwrite a refi for everyones mortgage to a 3 or 4% rate. The problem with today's proposal is it still relies on incentives to mortgage servicers and the people who don't get their mortgage fixed for whatever reason are going to be pissed.if we are going to do a true "bailout" of homeowners then bail everyone out and fix the way mortgages are done for the future. If I was a Republican instead of whining about the cost of the plan I would say it's unfair to people who have equity because they paid 20% down.

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 6:19 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 18:19

http://thepage.time.com/

"Thank God she's not going to have to be president from Day One. McCain's going to be alive and well."

It's a good thing we can take Joe Lieberman at his word that a 72 year old cancer surviver won't kick the bucket or god forbid get killed the way others have in office. Thanks Joe for the reassurance.

Thank you John McCain

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 3:17 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 15:17

No snark
McCain just called on his supporters to be respectful at his town hall.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

"We want to fight, and I want to fight, but we will be respectful," McCain said to boos at first. "I want everyone to be respectful," he then said and people began to clap.

In response to a later question he added, "You can be respectful and point out facts," as he called on his supporters to point out facts to their neighbors but be respectful.

*** UPDATE *** McCain just added, "He is a decent person and a person who you do not have to be scared as president of the United States."

Whatever political motivations were behind him saying this I'm glad he finally said it.

The news!

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 5:53 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 05:53

I'm pathetic but I to have to admit I couldn't sleep over this "news" from yesterday and the intrade rumor. Turns out it was that McCain would do a Bill Ayres web ad. WOW SHOCKING! shame on me and all of us for buying into this garbadge. As the Who made famous I won't be fooled again.

http://www.politico.com/...

Sure enough, it's Bill Ayers.

The McCain campaign is launching a web ad accusing Obama of trying to hide his ties to the 60s-era radical.

"Too risky for America," the ad concludes.

The idea here is to keep Ayers in the mix without spending precious dollars to put real points behind it on TV. Republicans know that cable TV stations will play the spot for free, regardless of it being a web ad.

Now lets see if I can go back to sleep

Obama starting to surge in daily tracking polls! update!

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 9:25 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 09:25

Stop the panicing over state polls!!!!! Because they lag behind national polls. When McCain or in reality Palin starting surging in the national polls it was silly to point out that places like http://www.fivethirtyeight.com still showed Obama ahead. What happened was that the state numbers hadn't caught up to the bounce yet. Well so far it may be early but I think this weekend I felt the tone and trajectory of this race change. From the Palin crash to the market meltdown my gut feeling was that Obama would be back to his pre-convention slight national lead by the end of the week. Well guess what! it might be happening sooner than that, R2000 has Obama up 4, Rasmussen has him only down 1 despite changing party ID numbers due to increased GOP enthusiasm and drum roll please............Hotline's tracker will show Obama UP 4 today, Gallup also down to 1 and says Monday was one of Obama's best days!!!!!

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are you a sick tracking poll junkie?

476 votes Vote Now!

are you a sick tracking poll junkie?

yes

397 votes

79 votes

Enough Already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sunday August 17, 2008 · 11:17 AM PDT

2008/08/17 · 11:17

Stop it with the fucking Obama bashing! Maybe we ought to face a couple of facts, Obama or Hillary or Edwards was never going to win a "landslide" win. Many of the people who disapprove of Bush when push comes to shove would have voted for him again if he was on the ballot in 2008 over the dem alternative because the GOP knows exactly what buttons to push to get their troops in line. If Hillary was the nominee can you imagine the ad about the sniper fire contrasted with Mccains pow hero stuff! This is and will always be a battle for every last vote to win, and if we don't out peform our turnout norms among black/young white voters Mccain is going to win. Generic dem always does better than the guy thats named once the attacks come so lets work our asses off and win the 51-48 race this time instead of whining about how obama should be blowing the old white guy out. 2 years ago who would have imagined anyone like Obama would even have a fucking chance now were wondering why it's not a cakewalk, please.

Obama up 9 in Gallup

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Sunday July 27, 2008 · 10:08 AM PDT

2008/07/27 · 10:08

His biggest lead ever in the daily tracking poll!
http://www.gallup.com/...

Normally I don't put much stock in these daily movements but McCain's team seems to be really panicing. Perhaps their internals are as bad as this poll and they are worried Obama is on the verge of closing the sale and putting the straight talk express out of it's misery.

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 11:12 AM PDT

2008/06/04 · 11:12

I kind of like Rendell despite the fact that he can't sometime keep his mouth shut. Sometimes you need the guy that says what needs to be said and Rendell is a guy that does that.

http://thepage.time.com/

"Generally a lot of politicians don’t like to put somebody like that on the ticket. You know rule one for the Vice President is make sure you never upstage the President, right?... Hillary Clinton in some ways couldn’t help but upstage, even if she was trying not to."

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 1:17 PM PDT

2008/06/03 · 13:17

If Obama and his team conclude for whatever reason that he is far more likely to be elected president with her then he will pick her. I know it is not popular around here but I could live with it if I have to. I hope he does not have to pick her but we as Obama supporters do need a reality check that the popular vote and our party is split about 50/50. I wish it wasn't so and I wish Hillary had not run a shameful campaign filled with subtle plays on racial resentment and the like BUT Obama has to win. I think we should steel ourselves to the possability that Obama's campaign concludes that the "good" Hillary outweighs the bad. I know this isn't much of a diary but I think this point of view needs to be out there from an Obama diehard.

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Hillary as veep

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Hillary as veep

if it makes Obama much more likely to win it's ok

83 votes

would rather risk it even if Obama concludes he would be more likely to win with her

63 votes

Electability and how Obama can win and Clinton can't

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Friday April 25, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/04/25 · 09:59

Here's a few thoughts on electablity: would like to hear some reaction. This is not a polyanna Obama has it locked up diary, he has some problems BUT I think he will still win.

First and foremost Hillary can not beat McCain because to be blunt as James Clyburn put it most black people will take the way she would "win" personally. The media which loves her now because she's keeping the drama alive would immediately taint her as stealing the nomination from Obama with the help of insiders in smoke filled rooms that worked for husband. Millions of black/young Obama voters would converge on Denver to protest and plunge the party into civil war. The good thing is most supers know this so at the end of the day Obama will be the nominee EVEN if they think he will likely lose the general. To be brutally honest even if one buys the Hillary argument that Obama is unelectable one can not escape the fact that the way she would become the nominee would render her unelectable as well so in reality our safest choice is Obama. This does not mean he doesn't face major problems in the fall.

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Obama gets what v/sMcCain

71 votes Vote Now!

Obama gets what v/sMcCain

over 55%

33 votes

50-55%

36 votes

45-50%

2 votes

Democrats are idiots

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Wednesday April 16, 2008 · 9:37 PM PDT

2008/04/16 · 21:37

Lets see we have one candidate in the race that has 58% of Americans believing that they are not honest and trustworthy. That candidate's only path to the nomination is proving that she's by far the more electable so that party bosses give the nomination to the candidate who is distrusted by the overwhelming majority of the population.

To prove that the other candidate is not electable, the distrusted candidate becomes the stand in for the Republican candidate but the frontrunner can't really make the same case against the the desperate loser because he needs her voters in Novemeber or else the nomination is worthless. This is called political suicide and the idiots remaing nuetral are responsable for this. When one candidate's only motivation is to destroy the frontrunner while the frontrunner can't really fight back for fear of alienating the other supporters with his own "electability argument" this is what you get.

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will the party stop self destructing before it's too late

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will the party stop self destructing before it's too late

yes barely

33 votes

no dem party leaders are this stupid

68 votes

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Thank you John McCain

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way to go Ed Rendell!

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Democrats are idiots