The first black President of the United States will have neither a Civil Rights background nor even a slave ancestry.
He will win as a Democrat with so many paleocon votes that it will not matter that the Israel Lobby was against him.
The first woman President of the United States will not now be a member of the feminist generation.
And no one who fought in Vietnam will ever now be President of the United States.
Ponder these things.
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Had a quick ponder. John McCain fought in Vietnam, so there's actually a very good chance that someone who fought in Vietnam will be President of the USA.
ReplyDeleteHe's not going to win.
ReplyDelete"A good chance"? Pull the other one! The redneck rump is nowhere near as large as that. And he's not really one of theirs, anyway.
The Republicans are sitting this election out, same as they did in 1996, the last time they ran a candidate who had really been dead for several years.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be close, and I claim no special insight, but I reckon McCain has a slightly better chance of winning than Obama does. It's not just rednecks that vote Republican, you know.
ReplyDeleteBut who else would vote for McCain, with Obama on offer? Only people who just want war, war, war. And he isn't even going to give them that. His best hope is disaffected racist Clinton supporters.
ReplyDeleteThe paleocon vote will be crucial this time. Taki has already declared outright for Obama, and the rest of them have mostly come as close as they dare. After all, why would they tell anybody to vote for McCain, for Bush without even the social conservative rhetoric?
I like that comparison to Bob Dole. Dole kept going on - in 1996, FFS! - about his record in World War Two.
ReplyDeleteBut at least most Americans, including his own party, had supported that war by the time the US entered it and right to the end.
Most Americans were against the Vietnam War by the end, that was what ended it. And McCain's own party was against it from the beginning.
"Taki has already declared outright for Obama".
ReplyDeleteIt's all over, then.
It's a sign. He often says what the rest of them are thinking.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, why on earth would the Old Right vote for McCain. "Invade The World, Invite The World", as 'The American Conservative' rightly dubbed him.
This is also the first time since Israel became an American political issue (it hasn't always been one) that support for the Likud line, regardless of who is in government in Israel, will be put to the test of a Presidential Election. It will be very interesting to see the outcome.
Fox News is already reduced to playing a clip of George Galloway endorsing Obama. How many Americans have ever even heard of George Galloway? That is how desperate the War Party is to get out its core vote now that its real preferred candidate is out of the race.
In other words, they know it's all over, but they want to make it look like it was ever a proper contest.