Last week as Mitt Romney’s post-debate surge first took hold, Democrats comforted themselves by pointing to swing state polls that showed President Obama still holding comfortable leads that ought to have ensured his election. A week later, the fluctuating numbers in the key battlegrounds of Ohio, Virginia and Florida as well as several others that must now be considered up for grabs makes it obvious that the gap between Romney’s rise in the national polls and the outlook in the Electoral College has shrunk. The Democrats’ assumption that several important states in various parts of the country could remain comfortably in their grasp while Republicans gained ground in the national polls was illogical.
As the Real Clear Politics Electoral College Map shows, the president’s seemingly overwhelming advantage in terms of states that are solid, likely or leaning in the Democrats direction is evaporating. It currently shows Obama with 201 Electoral College votes and Romney with 191 with a whopping 146 in states where the average margin in recent polls is less than five percent for either candidate. But with Romney steadily gaining ground even in states that few serious people thought would even be in play, like Michigan and Pennsylvania, the ebbing confidence among liberals is justified. The question now is what, if anything, the president can do to reverse this momentum shift that appears to be on the verge of sweeping him out of the White House.
The most obvious answer is for Obama to be seen to beat Romney in either or both of the remaining debates. But, as history shows, decisive wins or loses in these affairs such as the one Romney scored earlier this month are the exceptions. So long as both men show up prepared, look interested (something Obama failed to do on October 3) and don’t make any glaring mistakes, it isn’t likely that either side will reap that much of a benefit.
There is the chance that some “October surprise” will pop up abroad that will reinforce the president’s status as commander-in-chief. Should some of those who assassinated the U.S. ambassador to Libya be killed or captured before Election Day, it may be that this will reinforce the Democrats “bin Laden is dead” theme and give the president the boost he needs even if that also prompt some “wag the dog” cynicism about the action.
But the Libya debacle illustrates that incumbency brings perils as well as advantages. It is likely that the president will spend the next three weeks continuing to try to dodge questions about what he knew about the consulate’s requests for more security and the fact that there was no demonstration about a video prior to the killing and when he knew it. Libya also contradicts the claim aired in his re-election ads that America’s enemies have been beaten.
This should encourage Republicans, but if there is anything we should have learned in the past two months it is that this election is not so easily predicted, as the pundits would like. The unexpected shifts in the polls after the conventions and the first presidential debate illustrate the fact that the nation is still nearly evenly divided. Romney has some more ground to make up in states like Ohio, where both candidates and their running mates are a constant presence. But unlike the situation earlier in the campaign when it was understood that it was Romney that had to act, now it is Obama who must find a way to alter the direction of the race.
How important was Obama's rout in the first debate? In my opinion, here's how: n nIf Romney loses both the remaining debates, the election will be a nail biter and either man may win. n nIf Romney wins one of the remaining debates and loses one, he wins the election with 300 electoral votes. n nIf Romney plays to a draw in both debates, he wins with 330 electoral votes (including Michigan). n nIf Romney wins both debates, he gets 400 electoral votes and the election, PLUS unanimous Congressional approval to execute Plouffe, Axelrod, and Cutter at dawn on January 21, 2013, for continually irritating the nation for a year. After the election even the Democrats will vote to rid themselves of the pests. n nI said a month ago that undecided voters and a lot of Democrats were looking for ANY reason at all to show Obama the door, that 5–10 percentage points of Obama's support at the time was shiftable. Romney gave them MORE than ANY reason. So far he's got 5 points; as many as 5 more are rapidly coming within reach. It will be like a chain slipping link by link from off a table: slowly at first, then accelerating. n nThe first debate was the equivalent of opening wide all the windows in a room full of smoke.
The door to door polls of "likely voters" have consistantly shown Obama losing by 8% – Herbert Hoover sized – for pretty much, the same reasons. nThe Democrats sole Machievalian goal of "reward your friends and punish your enemies" has this nation's economy in the tank. nWere I a Democrat, "The most Americans EVER in poverty and on food stamps" because of Obama-Pelosi-Reid's "crony socialism" would embarrass me. THIS is your great Socialist Utopia?? Give me the free market and a federal government I barely think about any day.
Great writing. Great observations.
While I would love to see Romney win, and the biger margin the better, I dont see a 400 electoral vote as a possibiity. I am apolitical scientis, which is relevant about once every 4 years and the math for a 400 point victory or even 300 plus electoral count is very slim. I think with regard to your greater point however that one more ROmney debate victory will seal the election for him. Should he win both we will hear the liberal whining all the way to the bitter end for Obama. n I do beleive your central premise was right on spot though. A large percentage fo people were waiting on a reason to vote either for Romney or against Obama and the first debate opened that door for them. I will hope your slipping chain metaphor proves correct.
The campaigns will give us good clues how seriously they are taking some of the public polling: what their itineraries are. If Obama and Romney start to visit Pennsylvania and Michigan(not including fund raising efforts), you know the internal polling is worrying Obama and encouraging Romney. How much time they spend away from the big three of Ohio, Florida, Virginia and move to some of the smaller swing states is also helpful to read what their major worries and hopes are. This is also true for the VP candidates and surrogates.
If it's a rout, Obama will first lose New Hampshire and then Pennsylvania and then we can go to bed early. He has to have these two states to win and both are completely in the Eastern time zone.
I'll be watching CT, too – if McMahon wins or is very close, and if Obama only pulls in the low 50s as polls are showing, that will be good news.
I hope we soon see Obama campaigning in California and New York.
"This should encourage Republicans but if there is anything we should have learned in the past two months it is that this election is not so easily predicted, as the pundits would like." nI don't think pundits ever had a real sense of this election, since the forces driving it (just like 2010) are largely beyond the ability of pundits to understand, since they tend to live in East Coast urban enclaves. (I remember guys like Krauthammer back in 2009, as the Tea Party was growing and Democratic congressmen were getting heckled at town hall meetings, predicting that all of this would harm Republicans.) Liberal pundits tend to view the people as morons who can be manipulated by liberal propaganda. Conservative pundits, on the other hand, since they probably know few "real people", tend to discount their ability to see through that propaganda. nI've been confident throughout that Romney will win and though the race certainly isn't over and I may be proven foolish yet, it is nice to see the punditocracy catching up.
My faith has always been in the "common sense" of the American people. They know they're not "better off" than four years ago. In fact, they've lost half their savings. The economy in my 65 years on this world has ALWAYS been the determining factor in Presidental elections. This year will be no different. "God's word is eternal."
It's that faith in common sense that has kept me positive. And I think we've seen plenty of examples of it in the past three years, beginning in VA and NJ.
I used to have faith in the common sense people too. But the more I look around the younger people among my family and friends and in the town I live, I am very discouraged. Most of them get their political information from late night comedy shows. One liners and insults! Pathetic!
Exactly, the 2008 campaign was more like a season of "American Idol" than anything else. n nOf course the danger for Obama and the Democrats is the constant necessity for something NEW and DIFFERENT among the same demographic that elected him. After four years in office, Obama is past his sell-by date. n nMoral: If you live by the sympathies of an audience with a 13-episode sitcom attention span, you die by same.
I was not going to vote for the presidency this year because of my personal history with both private equity LBOs, and, specifically some of the stupid "Big Ideas" that Bain Consulting sold to too many big corporations in the 1990's. n nHowever, the Romney I heard/saw at both the CGI and the first debate convinced me that Romney's enthusiasm for free market capitalism is sincere. So, altho I still disagree with most of the GOP platform, still believe Grover Norquist is a threat to America, but also have no confidence that the new Democratic Party believes in anything except identity politics, Romney has earned my vote. It also helped that I never trusted Obama on Israel after May, 2008. n nSo, regardless of who wins, everyone will still blame the Jews, especially if they answer those exit polls. n n
If you think Grover Nordquist is a threat to the USA – what do you think about George Soros? I think Soros is one of the most dangerous people in our country, he is the one pusing this socialist agenda that is wrecking our economy. You won't hear Grover talking like a blame America First person. Soros you will.
Agree!! Does anyone every read the history of Soros?
Obama lost this election months ago….
And the other night Biden reinforced his loss. What a jerk!
We are rapidly approaching the final day of decision in November, the day which may very well irrevocably set the course of what America will look like in the 21st century. n nIt is difficult to say much of lasting impression in one post. But, in my life, I have witnessed American traditions, the very essence of what America was founded under, come under assault for the past few decades by a ‘progressive’, leftist, politically correct ideology. American traditions are continuing to be being ripped apart, shredded beyond recognition. I shudder at the thought that the America I grew up in will not last beyond my lifetime, will not be passed along to the coming generations, with it’s principles and character intact. n nThe so called ‘intellectuals’, the pundits of the left, profess that all powerful nations rise, are ascendant for a time, and then fall back, as they follow the inevitable life cycle of all nations. They say America’s time has simply passed, that we really are no better than other nations, that there is nothing particularly special about the United States, and really, there never was. We are just one nation among others, and it is only our narrow, nationalistic pride by which we make claim to the concept of ‘American Exceptionalism’. n nIndeed, our current president has stated these very sentiments. He has stated that America is special, but, so too, is a nation such as Denmark. There are differences, but America is just another nation, no better or worse than others. There is nothing exceptional about America. n nThese sentiments are incorporated in his oft heard foreign policy of “leading from behind”, a phrase which is murky, though it appears safe to presume this phrase assumes that the days of American leadership in world affairs has passed. n nWhen the Pilgrims set foot on the shores of a vast, wilderness continent almost 400 years ago, the American character and nation began to be forged. The American character was hacked and carved out of taming the wilderness, taking a vast wilderness of great potential resources, and building upon it a land so productive, so innovative, so unique in it’s concepts of individual freedom and enterprise, that it quickly surpassed the material achievements of all other nations of the world. n nThe new American character soon bridled from being ruled by it’s mother country, Great Britain, from across the sea. This new American people, forged by self-reliance in a wilderness, were not content to be ruled by a King and a ‘House of Lords’, and rebelled against the greatest military power of the era, and won it’s freedom due to it’s great daring and tenacity. The founding fathers, risked their very lives, by signing the Declaration of Independence, as they surely would have hanged if the rebellion had failed. n n(con't below) n n
Part II (con't from above) n nThe Founding Fathers fashioned a new concept in the governance of men. The new concept was that government is from and by the people, and that the best form of governance is the one which governs least, while providing protection to all men to pursue their happiness under a rule of law, where a common man is equal to an heir of fortune under that law. There were no barriers or distinctions of class in this new nation, America, and every man could rise as far as his efforts and talents might take him. n nYes, the founding of the nation included the institution of slavery. But, a few decades later, that imperfection was largely cured by the blood sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Northern soldiers, a sacrifice so great that over ten million additional Americans descended from these slain Northern soldiers would be alive today if they had not fallen in battle. n nThis was the foundation of the American nation and it’s storied freedoms. From it’s founding, people flocked to it from older nations, where nothing like these freedoms existed. n nIn these past decades we have seen a movement arise which intends to “transform” the American ideals, the American character, and the American nation and it’s laws into something very different from it’s origins. This movement looks to the socialism of Europe and elsewhere as it’s model, in spite of the established record of many, many decades that these states of maximum government control inevitably flounder and fail, as they have done with the former Soviet Union, and as they are doing now in the socialist states of Western Europe. The American progressives look to these countries as models, in spite of the inevitable record of corruption and abuse of power which these powerful, centrally controlled governments always devolve into. n nThe progressive movement ignores the long, unprecedented record of rapid, enduring economic success, and evolving justice and rule of law the American nation has shown over it’s 200 year history, as not being good enough. The progressives ignore this astounding record of success, and insist that America must continue to be ‘transformed’ by ever growing government. n nThe tenants of the progressive movement of the democratic party have always professed that large, centrally controlled government, is best for governing men, thus overturning the proven principles of limited government, under which the American nation and people were founded and forged, and lived under during most of the long history of our nation. n n(con't below) n n
Part III (con't from above) n nThe progressive movement, as it has evolved under the democratic party, has already ‘transformed’ the American nation dramatically. The power of government has grown dramatically over the past many decades. American citizens are confronted with such a myriad number of laws and regulations that it has become difficult to engage in any economic activity without the risk of running afoul of some rule, and being subject to ruinous government retribution. n nThe number of highly compensated bureaucrats which govern our daily lives would astound Americans of earlier generations. And, the cost of government has escalated beyond any scale which would have been thought possible in any earlier era in the history of our nation. Worse yet, the ever escalating government of the past many decades has REFUSED to subject itself to the same bounds of fiscal responsibility and fiduciary responsibilities to the citizenry which all American citizens and commercial enterprises are bound to show under penalty of law. The government and it’s bureaucrats are largely exempt from the same scrutiny which the people and enterprises they govern must adhere to, scrupulously. n nAs one obvious example, an insurance company must actually have the financial assets to meet it’s estimated obligations covered by insurance policies, and businesses must have financial assets adequate to cover guaranteed retirement benefits. Yet, the government has no such similar restrictions of fiduciary responsibility, and can simply borrow money to cover similar obligations such as government employee pensions or social security benefits. n nThe result of this massive growth of irresponsible government has been the accumulation of massive debt, such that it now threatens to throw the nation into financial panic and economic collapse, unless this massive debt can, somehow be brought under control. Yet, the progressive movement shows no signs that it is serious of doing so, as ever bigger government requires ever bigger money. The progressive movement simply will not envision a government smaller than that which now exists, thus the only way ‘forward’ is through greater and greater government control. n nWhen the financial and economic crisis due to our enormous debt does inevitably come, and it will be here quickly, as is readily apparent to students of fairly simple math, the progressive movement will surely use the crisis as the new cover story to further ‘transform’ the nation into new plans of more governmental control over the people and the economy. n nWe are told by the progressives that we are endangered by a warming climate and a rising ocean, while they ignore a rising ocean of debt which is on an inevitable path to drown the American people and nation in an economic deluge of historic proportions. n n(con't below)
Part IV (con't from above) n nWe have reached the historic point of epic decision. We can continue along the path of the democratic party progressive’s of ‘transforming’ the nation into a massive, centrally controlled society, where even our own personal health decisions will be subject to unappealable veto power by bureaucratic boards of experts. We can allow our national debt to go untamed, and to quickly sink us and our economy into an economic morass, during which the government will use the inevitable crisis to further tighten our chains. We can allow the government and it’s willing allies in the media to further subject us and our children to constant, unending propaganda to facilitate their control over us. n nWe can allow all of this and more to continue. n nOr, we can vote this November to begin the process of unraveling the chains of government, while we still can. n nThe process of ever growing, and always irresponsible government, has been existent for many decades now. It is the process which has brought us the gargantuan debt, so large that we can barely comprehend it, now; so large that it will soon entirely engulf and consume us. n nWe all know, we all have seen that this is what has been going on for many decades. If you are an older citizen, you are aware of it in profound ways. You have seen it growing your whole life. If you are a younger American citizen, you are, obviously, less aware of what has been happening to America over these past many decades. Yet, you are likely aware of the vast difference between the promise you envisioned and hoped for under the new leader of the progressive movement, Barack Obama, and the actual dismal results of these past few years. n nIt is easy to blame circumstances you inherited, but the history of America has always been dynamic economic performance, and our experience has always been that the greater the economic downturn has been, the greater, the more vigorous the economic recovery will be. This simply did not happen these past few years. This has been the non-recovery recovery. It has been unprecedented. n nIf Barack Obama and his progressive administration is reelected, the further transformation of America into a centrally controlled government, will enter into high gear, and, very possibly, America will never be able to turn back from being a nation of overwhelming government control. A second Obama administration will most likely be historic, and the nature of the American nation will finally, be unalterably changed into the desired outcome envisioned by the progressive movement, as they craft ever more, new government initiatives in response to the coming stupendous debt crisis. n nNow is our best chance, likely our only chance, to refute and turn back the tide of the irresponsible, out-of-control government, which has been growing year after year, for decades, slowly transforming our once nation of free men into a vast, centrally controlled nation and economy. n n(con't below) n n
Part V (final) n nIf America is to be RESTORED to the great nation it has been for most of the past 200 years, if the American people are to take back their long existing freedoms, the right to chose their own life path, to pursue their own happiness, without overbearing governmental interference and growing control, we MUST decide NOW to begin the process of Taking Back America, of Restoring America to it’s founding vision. n nIf we act now to Take Back America, if we vote the new Romney/Ryan administration into office, along with as many Republican congressmen, congresswomen, and senators as possible, we will embark on the great adventure of turning away from the massive progressive democrat experiment of the past few decades, the experiment of ever growing irresponsible government, of ever growing debt, and the ever present propaganda needed to justify it all. n nIF we do ACT to Take Back America this November, I do believe that we will be poised on the brink of a new adventure, the adventure of a new American century, where once again, everything is possible in America. Once again, everything will be possible for the American nation. Where we will be energy independent within a few years. Where we will restore our manufacturing base. Where America will be vibrant in creating jobs. Where America can be free to start new adventures, unencumbered by the nay sayers of the ‘progressive’ leftists, such as in space, or in the Arctic. n nFinally, the world will breathe a sigh of relief, as American leadership is welcomed back, and once again recognized and respected as the stalwart champion of justice and humanity in the world. n nWe can make the future bright again, if we return to our roots, to our traditions, the historic optimism and dynamism which has always operated throughout our history, the handiwork of a free and enterprising people, unencumbered by overbearing government. We CAN begin to RESTORE and TAKE BACK America. The decision is ours. n
Thank you for saying all that needed saying so badly.
We need a new president. Romney is it.
Obama's blame game loses election for Obama. n n Obama trying to shift the blame for Libya over to Hillary is not smart at all. nBut, being a good teleprompter reader is not a sign of smarts. nObama is trending downward in all the nbattleground state polls, and this Libya fiasco will start affecting nthe polls next week. Romney 301 Electoral votes. n nI think Obama's CYA antics backfired. Some one should tell the fool nit's not wise to try to CYA with a crown of thorns cactus. (Hillary)
Momentum? If voters do not get dementia , they will remember the impact of Obamacare, taxes, huge regs on business, the film '2016', scandals x 4, borders, no energy plan other than green glop, and a foreign policy which disses our friends and kow tows to our enemies and oh yes, Egypt and Libya just recently. That alone should tell common sense voters: this crew can lie, spin do what it wants via the MSM but they will not change. They will be big taxing, big regs liberals who believe in socialist baloney. If that is want Americans want , then the Mo will go for BHO. I pray not. Commentary is making a case for what could happen. I pray it will not happen to save our republic.
Someone needs to sober this place up. Stop popping the corks!! At least wait until the second debate is over in order to see what Obama does and, whatever theatrics he tries, and if Romney can deftly parry and counter punch. I'm hopeful, but as Yogi said, "it ain't over till it's over."
I am hoping Obama will do a Biden imitation. Preying he will lose his cool and start acting out. The stress must be unbelievable. Also he is an ex smoker and needs his nicotine fix.
Man!, oh, man!, oh, man!…..I definitely agree with that statement. n nDon't get over-confident, my fellow conservatives. We'll celebrate the morning of November 7th. n nRomney, and simple common sense, 2012
I like the common sense theme emerging here.
"Obama Needs a Momentum Shift Now?" Funny, but as of October 15 I don't see this at all. This morning's RCP average shows Romney national lead keeps slowly evaporating to just 0.2%. And the other average trackers (Pollster, PollTracker) show Obama is in the lead again. n nLooking at the battleground state polls, exactly what did Romney gain thanks to the most lopsided debate win in recent history? (according to the polls, that is) Well, in addition to North Carolina, he is now ahead in Florida as well. And Colorado is essentially a draw now. Obama's margin in the remaining battleground states is slightly down, but he remains narrowly ahead in most polls. Unless the polls shift in his direction, Romney will lose. n nBTW, I find it interesting that Romney's ceiling in national polls continues to be in the 47-48% range if we look at the polling averages. E.g. his best ever showing in the RCP average was 48% on October 9 (he is currently at 47.3%). That's 1.3% below Obama's peak performance so far. Romney is actually doing worse than McCain and Kerry in this regard.
Yeah – Obama's got in the bag. His campaign is flawless, and it feels like 2008 all over again. nHope and change.
> Yeah – Obama's got in the bag. His campaign is flawless, n> and it feels like 2008 all over again. n nThe answer to your rhetorical claims is no, no and no again, of course. It is not 2008 anymore and everyone knows that. What you conservatives forget is Obama does not HAVE to recreate the 2008 magic to win … he starts with a significantly bigger and more diverse coalition, from a 365 EV baseline. He can afford to lose millions of votes and still prevail. There are fundamental demographic reasons why the GOP struggles to compete in states such as Nevada despite the awful local economy. n
The RCP average went down a full point because of a new ABC/WaPo poll showing Obama up 49-46%. However, the poll's sample mix is 35% democrat, 33% independent, and only 26% republican. Meanwhile, Rasmussen's latest survey shows that 36.8% of the public self-identifies as republican as of September, compared to 34.2% of the public that self-identifies as democrat. The 36.8% identifying as republican is 3.6% higher than a survey at the same point in 2010. n nIn short, the ABC/WaPo poll is showing you a result that is illusory at best, and deceptive at worst. If you are basing your confidence on this poll, you are leaning on a splintered reed.
But But But, this can't be happening! Noooooo! Don't forget that the demographics make victory inevitable. We got the blacks, the Hispanics, the Asians, the under 25s. Its a lock, that Romney would need 60% of the white vote to beat us. Totally impossible. Never been done. There are more "people of color" and white people are on the verge of extinction! Besides we gave them all amnesty and stuff.
Astute posts above! My own feeling is that the debate did not by itself move any mountains in Romney's direction. Instead, it served to assure a small percentage of voters who were nominally supportive of, but uncomfortable with, Obama that Romney was nothing like the preposterous caricature the Democrats had spent the summer painting. The debate gave those people a reason to switch sides, and what we have seen since is not so much a "bounce" for Romney, but a small—and sustainable—change that puts him slightly ahead, with the extra advantage that Obama is precariously averaging only 46 percent support a mere three weeks out. n nBeyond the polls, I sense enormous enthusiasm on the part of Republicans and Anti-Democrats* to send Obama packing, so I suspect that the discouraged and demoralized of 2008 (many of whom sat out the election) might well form an electorate more akin to those of 2004 and 2010 than to that of 2008. If that does come about, the levee will break, and Romney will defeat Obama easily. n n(*Although my grandfather served in FDR's cabinet, and in my foolish youth I voted for George McGovern and Jimmy Carter, I realized at some point after Ronald Reagan that I had not really become a Republican, but an Anti-Democrat. The Republicans may be infuriating, but the Democrats are impossible and now pose an existential threat to American liberty.)
Everyone needs to get out the vote for Romney regardless where they live. If you are a Romney supporter in NY or CA, help to get out the vote in swing states for Romney. Do not sit idle while America declines and Romney's victory on Nov. 6 is the only event which can stop this decline!!
How does a sitting President change 4 years of failure? How doesn't one change failed policies that have given us the worst UNEMPLOYMENT since the great depression, and MORE DEBT than in the history of the world, with 3 weeks left to go? Obviously Obama is RIGGING a few numbers, but he can't change the reality for 320 million Americans of massive unrelenting UNEMPLOYMENT and Economic Decline! It might be that the Failed President would share a detailed plan to make things better, but OBAMA has no PLAN, except More DEBT, More UNEMPLOYMENT, More Foodstamps, More Government, More Division, and More DECLINE! However, Obama has proven there is nothing he won't do to try and get reelected. I just hope Gov Romney is prepared for the kind of sewage Obama will throw as he gets more and more desperate!
The only way Democrats can put Obama over for another 4 is by stealing the election; but the election cannot be stolen if it isn't close. Don't make it close. Make it a landslide against Obama Biden. Without landslide repudiation Democrats have a chance; a chance they don't deserve. Vote.
Dems are stealing the election and country
It was actually the failed Policies of the Democrats in congress that caused this. (Barny Frank owns this housing debacle. GW tried 17 times to get congress to tighten up the mortgage problem but Barney went full steam ahead.
There is still a wildcard in the race, and I am NOT talking about schemes hatched by Democrats. So long as Romney holds his own in the debates—and with the facts and Obama's record on his side, he certainly has all he needs—no goofy "discovery" by the Dims is going to be effective. They pretty much shot their wad with the 47% tape. If that didn't work for them, and clearly it has not, nothing short of a full-color 3D sex tape will. They're out of ammo. They must pin their hopes on TWO extraordinary (and extraordinarily unlikely) debate performances by the president, and I think they know it. n nWhat I worry about is Al Qaeda. The cave men are not quite through with us, I fear, especially not after the boost that the reaction around the world to their September 11 attacks gave to their prospects, as they see them: they are back on the board. The only place on earth that has not given them the response they crave since then is the USA. Here the media minus Lara Logan are content to agree with the DNC that, having been placed on double secret probation by Barack "Dishonor before Death" Obama, Al Qaeda's best days are over. The media will need a court order, it seems, before covering the debacle overseas—apart from sidebars conveying not much more than a sense of regret over those unfortunate, sigh, "bumps in the road." Zawahiri is likely amazed at how puzzled many Americans still seem to be concerning the threat they face. He will want to clear up all our doubt and confusion as soon as possible. n nWhat the reaction of the nation will be to other attacks by the crazy, bearded ones before the election is difficult to say. One hopes that whatever it is, it will not be determined by either fear or, worse, possible effects on the presidential race in Ohio.
The Liberal press never vetted Obama and feed American voters a media created idol instead of a person with no experience that spend his life trading on his color while being tutored and educated by Marxist, racist and blame American first Liberals. n n As a consequence we elected without a doubt one of the laziest, most incompetent, American hating President in American history!
"Mommental" indeed. So far it was character assassination, false narrative, demonization, misrepresentation etc + a negative record. nWill the American be gullible and stupid simultaneously? nNow we know that he is for a far left society (neo-communist) and heavily associated with Muslim extremists (MBs). nFundamentally unamerican values. nThis being said, CAPITALISM to survive needs to be modified to reduce significantly the differences between the extremes without involving the government.
Well for heaven's sake don't say that out loud! I want those scumbag Chicago people to go on thinking they only have to phone it in and their home free. 4 more years of them and we might as well outsource our defense to the Russians and the Taliban.
No, but they can get out of your way and let you do what you do without interfering. That's what we want, and we have not gotten with our current president.