Obama Gets the Coveted Al Qaeda Endorsement-Kinda

[guido911]

I know it's meaningless. I just wanted to tweak Hoss and PM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

[USRufnex]

Obama Gets the Coveted Endorsement of the Rest of the World-Kinda

Global Electoral College
What if the World Could Vote?
http://www.economist.com/vote2008/

And an endorsement from the stodgy conservative British yawn-yawn magazine, The Economist.

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12516666&source=features_box_main

"...the Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as "agents of intolerance" now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right."

[mrburns918]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Obama Gets the Coveted Endorsement of the Rest of the World-Kinda

http://www.economist.com/vote2008/

And an endorsement from the stodgy conservative British yawn-yawn magazine, The Economist.

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12516666&source=features_box_main

"...the Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as "agents of intolerance" now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right."

Just saw this earlier and it got me pondering whether Obama is the first Democratic nominee to receive so much Republican (and Conservative) support.

Any thoughts?

Mr. Burns
Bob Barr for President  

[USRufnex]

I think you can find the answer's from that same article in  The Economist....

"Somehow Ronald Reagan's party of western individualism and limited government has ended up not just increasing the size of the state but turning it into a tool of southern-fried moralism."

I don't think many of the rank-and-file moderates in the Republican Party appreciate being subjugated to the rhetorical flourishes of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber... including George Will...

October 30, 2008
Careless with the Constitution
By George Will
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/palin_and_money_doing_mc.html

South Carolina conservative columnist Kathleen Parker should have been Sarah Palin's soulmate, but......
http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/10/24/mavericks_tragic_flaw

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by guido911

I know it's meaningless. I just wanted to tweak Hoss and PM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Most anything you post anymore is meaningless, Gweed.  It's falling in lockstep with the McPalin campaign pretty much.

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You need to move on from channeling FB/FOTD.  I've noticed a marked reduction in traffic on this forum.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by guido911

I know it's meaningless. I just wanted to tweak Hoss and PM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Most anything you post anymore is meaningless, Gweed.  It's falling in lockstep with the McPalin campaign pretty much.

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You need to move on from channeling FB/FOTD.  I've noticed a marked reduction in traffic on this forum.

So says Hossbama.

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[mrburns918]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

I think you can find the answer's from that same article in  The Economist....

"Somehow Ronald Reagan's party of western individualism and limited government has ended up not just increasing the size of the state but turning it into a tool of southern-fried moralism."

I don't think many of the rank-and-file moderates in the Republican Party appreciate being subjugated to the rhetorical flourishes of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber... including George Will...

October 30, 2008
Careless with the Constitution
By George Will
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/palin_and_money_doing_mc.html

South Carolina conservative columnist Kathleen Parker should have been Sarah Palin's soulmate, but......
http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/10/24/mavericks_tragic_flaw

True, but seems like they should have figured this out back in 2000. I still think it was much worse during the 2000 Republican primary and lead to my decision to no longer support the Republican Party.

From an Republican endorsement standpoint, is Obama the most popular Democrat ever?

Mr. Burns
Bob Barr for President

[USRufnex]

Well, not sure what kinds of stats are available on that sort of thing... but I always thought the print media was pretty conservative...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875230
NEW YORK (Updated Wednesday) We're in the homestretch! And the Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for daily newspaper endorsements. The Democratic team now leads by 234 to 105, a better than 2-1 margin and an even wider spread in the circulation of those papers -- see full tally below as of today. The circulation of the Obama-backing papers stands at over 21 million, compared with McCain's 7 million.

Obama's lopsided margin, including most of the major papers that have decided so far, is in stark contrast to John Kerry barely edging George W. Bush in endorsements in 2004 by 213 to 205. Obama, with 231, has already easily topped Kerry's number with many more yet to be tallied.

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Anybody remember, "The End of History"???...... well, guess who's comin' to dinner?

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2008/nov/03/00020//

[USRufnex]

From Martinsville, IN..... hardly a liberal bastion...

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by guido911

I know it's meaningless. I just wanted to tweak Hoss and PM.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Most anything you post anymore is meaningless, Gweed.  It's falling in lockstep with the McPalin campaign pretty much.

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You need to move on from channeling FB/FOTD.  I've noticed a marked reduction in traffic on this forum.

On the subject of lockstep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxJ7t3U3TDg

Does McCain have this sorta crew?