Riding high, Obama rallies fans

Sunday 12th October, 05:50 AM JST

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adaydream at 01:37 PM JST - 12th October

No matter what people have to say, george bush will be out of office soon and Barack will be in. < :-)
timorborder at 03:27 PM JST - 12th October

Have tried to keep an open mind with regard to the high drama which is the US election.

I think McCain has been shafted by his own party as a bit of payback. The teaming with Palin is going to sink his Presidental bid. Also, I saw a clip of his "arab" moment the other day in Minnesota. Actually felt sorry for the guy. By and large, Obama and McCain have tried to maintain a level of decorum in the race, however, both must shudder when they come up against rednecks like the old grandma in Minnesota who accused Obama of being "an arab." Perhaps it is time that the right to vote be based on some form of intelligence test (only joking). I should also say that McCain was looking rather old (tired). Either it is the stress of a long campaign, or his age and background are catching up with him. Reckon the old fella should be sitting on his back porch with a beer in his hand, rather than trying to get elected to a very stressful job.

Then again, although Obama seems to be the flavor of the month at the moment and will probably end up in the Whitehouse, there might be clouds on the horizon. In addition to trying to clean up the absolute mess that America's worst President ever will leave behind (a huge deficit, a tanking financial system, a morasse in Iraq, etc), I am not quite sure if Obama will still smell squeeky clean once the feds have finished talking to this former campaign donor in Chicago. Perhaps it is all a front.

So there you have it, in electing the next US President, voters have a choice between a very old man and a young chap who might have some skeletons in the closet.
coulrophobic at 03:53 PM JST - 12th October

'...both must shudder when they come up against rednecks like the old grandma in Minnesota who accused Obama of being "an arab." '

How should they react when Obama's pal Whoopi Goldberg is on national TV (the View) asking aloud if a McCain victory would automatically mean the appointment of judges who would actually have the authority and the earthly power to restore slavery?

"do I have to worry about becoming a slave again?"

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/09/12/whoopi-worries-about-becoming-slave-again
WilliB at 05:20 PM JST - 12th October

Raila Odinga, Louis Farrakhan, and Mahmood Ahmedinejad join Madonna, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Michael Moore, and the collective Hollywood chiqueria in rooting for Obama. Interesting times ahead.
SezWho2 at 06:26 PM JST - 12th October

coulrophobic,

There's still a difference between pointed comedy and hateful ignorance.
SezWho2 at 06:29 PM JST - 12th October

USNinJapan,

Presidents have fans. Why shouldn't Presidential candidates?
coulrophobic at 06:40 PM JST - 12th October

"There's still a difference between pointed comedy and hateful ignorance"

I would have to agree.

Some of Goldberg's movies have their comic moments.

The View, however, is unrelieved hateful ignorance.
SezWho2 at 07:11 PM JST - 12th October

Well, I've never seen The View, but I think unrelieved hateful ignorance would be consistently trying to denigrate a person, especially when combined with willful exploitation of any information regardless of source.

A case in point would be the New Zealand blog. It offers two pieces of evidence which are conflicting. The "photographic proof" clearly states that Obama was New-Party endorsed as equally clearly distinguished from New Party members. Now, if "page 2" (not shown) states that he is a New Party member, we have conflicting information.

There are a number of possibilities:

(1) the blogger is not giving us the straight skinny about page 2;

(2) the writer of page 2 was not giving readers the straight skinny about Obama's membership;

(3) the writer of page 2 made an error--perhaps an enthusiastic error--which the editor did not catch or let slide;

(4) page 2 is accurate but the caption on the picture is poorly worded.

I'm not sure if you've seen page 2 or not, but the blogger has an obvious agenda. (And why should a New Zealander be so exercised about this anyway?) If you choose to accept this at face value, that's fine. But there is very small value in contradictory information and when the most damning information is not even put into evidence there is almost none. Now the Power Line blog might show more, but at the time of this writing is inaccessible.

In any event, Obama won that election as the Democratic Party candidate, not the New Party candidate. He was promoted for the seat by a Democratic state senator who aspired to the House seat of a Democratic Representative whose seat had been vacated. You can look that up.
McC72 at 09:02 PM JST - 12th October

Timorborder,

Why do you add the word ''jokingly''? What you said was perfectly right and no need to apologize. There should be some serious form of IQ test to voters. Imagine such an un/ill-informed person's vote becomes the deciding vote.
SuperLib at 02:03 AM JST - 13th October

Oh I have a feeling that Obama for President is becoming a very real thing as each day passes....
goodDonkey at 02:37 AM JST - 13th October

coulrophobic said:

and the most unexperienced presidential candidate in American history in the White House.

Lincoln had less experience than Obama has as a presidential candidate.
Wolfpack at 05:55 AM JST - 13th October

Sen. Obama has every right to be confident - if not overconfident. Sen. McCain's campaign has unilaterally disarmed itself because he is afraid to be called a racist. Gov. Palin has been less reticent about pointing out the truth about Sen. Obama's tolerance for racist's but the MSM has attacked her with straight out sexism because of it. Let's face it, if McCain had attended a racist and anti-American church for 20 years, the Obama campaign, the Democrat party, and the media would ram the racism charge down his throat every day. It isn't fair but that's the way it is. America is turning into a European country. Demographics, massive illegal immigration, and the liberal public education system has brought us to this point. Obama should be very confident.
SezWho2 at 10:18 AM JST - 13th October

Wolfpack,

Are you saying that Trinity church is a racist, anti-American church? If you are, I don't think that is correct.
Sarge at 10:26 AM JST - 13th October

Sez, The Trinity United Church of Christ isn't rascist or anti-American. They just have a congregation that comes every week to listen to a hateful, rascist preacher.
SezWho2 at 08:09 AM JST - 14th October

Sarge,

I think that if you interview Wright's congregation you'll find that he was not a hateful, racist preacher. And if you interview people who were not in his congregation, they would have very little idea as to what Wright was all about.