See… I’m still working on learning English, then you lay all the French stuff on me.

who uses the nom de plume of the Star Wars character.

Ed Morrissey

Speak American Ed. Just say pen name for heaven sake. If I wanted to lean a foreign language it wouldn’t be French.

I don’t think most Americans are stupid, I think most Americans are just not obsessively following the news like we do here. Their decisions can only be as good as their information. With the horsesh!t the MSM is providing them, it’s no surprise a lot of people appear ready to make a horsesh!t decision.

hump1201 on October 7, 2008 at 7:05 PM

Keep dreaming, I took a poll in my city and it turns most people really are idiots(I also work around a few).
You can almost tell by looking at them before they speak.
They all have that Richard Wolfe or Jonathan Alter liberal look. I think the liberal take over of the public school system 30 years ago is bearing fruit.
If you are a loser or have loser like tendencies you tend to vote democratic.
I live in Arkansas and was raised in Oklahoma on the Texas border and what once was a land filled with manly men has been over run with beta males. All three states will stay red but the trend is very very bad.

They will be helped for while by the MSM convincing them that everything is rosy now the the One is in power. … I don’t know how long that bliss will last …

neuquenguy on October 7, 2008 at 7:45 PM

Hmmm, what you propose would be fascinating to watch if it happened but I reckon the high they will get from the MSM (if any) will be shorter than the one they could get from inhaling once in the presence of a lit reefer. Good news doesn’t sell newpapers.

In the end, with voters livid over the cost of the financial crisis, I somehow don’t believe that they will turn to a man who will raise taxes, spend hundreds of billions more, and has never had a leadership position in his life.

Very astute and true Ed. I have heard that Obama’s desired spending is around 800 Billion. That, and he says he will reduce taxes for 95% of Americans? No way. Let’s hope the electorate understands this too.

Massive political apathy? Overtime for psychiatrists? Violent protests? Extra hedonism? More political activism? Suicides? New political movements? More responsibility? Less responsibility? Or, perhaps, nothing noteworthy or significant?

According to the traditional script, when the messiah doesn’t deliver the anticipated results he gets crucified.

YiZhangZhe on October 7, 2008 at 7:40 PM

They will be helped for while by the MSM convincing them that everything is rosy now the the One is in power. No more bad economic news, the war will finally be on the verge of being won, no more stories of misery or poverty, the filibuster proof congress will now be trully bi-partisan, yadayadayada. I don’t know how long that bliss will last but will keep them going for a while in their blessed oblivion.

Just stay away from the Biden botox! That was scary.

Mesay me never knewed no terroristic Billy Ayers, yessa, no.

… [the people who] somehow think their life will be transformed will find that weed won’t be cheaper and that their lives will not be magically lifted. They will continue to fail at life. They will continue to be miserable and unhappy…
CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM

A similar thought has been in my mind for a while … when somebody as insubstantial as Mr Obama promises ‘change’ it is easy for voters to project their own desired changes onto his prospective presidency. Some of those changes will be mutually exclusive and so there will, presumably, be a lot of disappointed people even if Mr Obama somehow manages to be a half decent president.

Then what?

Massive political apathy? Overtime for psychiatrists? Violent protests? Extra hedonism? More political activism? Suicides? New political movements? More responsibility? Less responsibility? Or, perhaps, nothing noteworthy or significant?

According to the traditional script, when the messiah doesn’t deliver the anticipated results he gets crucified.

Disturb the Universe on October 7, 2008 at 7:27 PM

Oops. Sorry. I went all Yoda on you. The Jedi was Obi Wan. I saw the pic of Yoda and started channeling him.

Well stated! Bravo…

CC

First, have a good debate Obama did not. What he needed to do did not he. Reassuring be. Shaky his gestalt was.

“Any pessimism now is dumbness,” he said as he appeared to me recently. “A few weeks ago every swing state was coming McCain’s way and he had a national lead. And some polls showed him four points and six points behind in New Jersey and New York. And now all that has gone away? Politics doesn’t work like that. The American people, even in the midst of an unprecented economic crisis, don’t react like that for any sustained period. Those patterns can reassert themselves.”

A wise Jedi he may be, but Obi Wan? The syntax is all wrong. Here’s how Obi Wan would have said it:

Dumbness any pessimism now is. McCain’s way every swing state a few weeks ago coming was. A national lead had he. Four points and six points behind in New Jersey and New York some polls showed him. Away all that has gone? Work like that politics does not. Even in the midst of an unprecented economic crisis, react like that for any sustained period, the American people do not. Reassert themselves those patterns can.

Please Mr. Custer
I don’t wanna go
There’s a red man waitin out there
ready to take my hair…..

or something like that.

Not exactly PC.

Terrye on October 7, 2008 at 7:06 PM

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

Now, that said, if I wake up Nov 5 to find what’s his name in office, I will still be happy every day. I will still prosper. I will still fish offshore. I will find a way, whatever the “new boss” does or says to be happy and make my life a good one. On that same day, the liberal jerkwads that somehow think their life will be transformed will find that weed won’t be cheaper and that their lives will not be magically lifted. They will continue to fail at life. They will continue to be miserable and unhappy… if truth be told, probably more so since they continually look to government for things that government can never provide. Government does not provide a sense of self worth and accomplishment.

CC

Time to panic? Not for young Jedis

I believe all the young Jedis were slaughtered.

I sense a great disturbance in the force. It’s as though billions of tax dollars were crying out all at once.

That song might be before your time. I remember I was a kid when it came out and I have not been a kid for a long long time.

Please Mr. Custer
I don’t wanna go
There’s a red man waitin out there
ready to take my hair…..

or something like that.

Not exactly PC.

How many fair minded and hard working people do you who think it’s ok to hang out with terrorists, felons and racists? Probably not many. How many of those same people REALLY know about Ayers, Rezko and Wright? They probably have some idea about Wright, maybe have heard the name Ayers and have no clue who Rezko is or why he’s relevant.

Just the other day at work a non-political guy who follows current events asked me if I had seen that CSPAN footage with the crats defending FM/FM and Raines. He told me they’re really screwed if more people see it. Thre are a LOT of people who pay less attention than him, so that gives me hope.

Have faith in the American people, folks. One of the captions on the site today said something about ‘information wants to be free.’ If the information gets out there (and that is up to us) then McCain will win next month.

And if not then I look forward to meeting some of you at the reeducation camps!

I saw this at AJ’s:

It seems McCain is not the only one who took a hit in the public eye on the financial bailout – Obama is also starting to lose ground. Two recent polls show the erosion. First is a Democracy Corps poll I noted in an earlier post, which has some interesting internals. On key issues Obama has lost his edge:

That is a precipitous drop going from +7 to +2 (basically a tie) in only a few days. I am not surprised to see this “a pox on both your houses” attitude hitting the public. The ‘bailout’ did not give immediate gratification and stop the hemorrhaging on Wall Street. Dick Morris was right when he predicted the race would tighten, though I doubt even he thought it would be this quick. If Obama loses his edge on the economy he probably cannot pull out a win. Morris may be right on another angle here – Obama peaked too soon.

All that said, I still agree with Ross Douthat. As a left jab, the attacks on Obama’s character via Ayers, Wright, etc., are fine. But we’re down big on points right now and need an economic right hook. Where is it? – Darth Allah

Leave that to McCain, my Dark Master. He will deal with the Obi-ONE on this issue. Darth Palin will attack him on the others. Darkness will prevail. – Darth Rash

(sound of ominous mechanical breathing as dramatic music fades in and reaches crescendo)

ManlyRash on October 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM