I write from the Town Grove while listening to the estimable Hal Lefferts and his terrific afternoon show, The Wednesday Tune Fest (WTF), on WHDD-FM 91.9. It’s great to hear Hal’s voice on the air again (and his eclectic blend of electric and acoustic music). Now all we need is for Doug Harell to return and revive the outstanding Doug & Pony Show. Where is Doug these days anyway, Marshall?
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Well folks, we are witnessing the presidential campaign of your and my lifetime. We have a 71-year-old presumptive Republican nominee — a flip-flopper of Kerry-like proportions — allying himself with a dreadfully unpopular president. With an equally unpopular war, an economy in need of repair and gasoline prices at near $4 a gallon just about everywhere, it would appear to be a banner year for Democrats and, in particular, the Democratic nominee for president.
But wait! The Dems are on the verge on nominating an untested young pup with a thin resume about whom most people know little. He gives a great speech but has been exposed by his primary opponent as an empty vessel into which millions of Americans are pouring their dreams and aspirations (and money!). Worse yet, he has been a miserable failure at attracting the votes of blue-collar types who form the base of the party.
He speaks mostly in platitudes such as “Hope we can believe in” and “Yes we can!” When he does speak substance, he often reveals himself as an out-of-touch elitist with scant understanding of a huge sector of the electorate whose votes he asks for. And as the campaign progresses, he will be exposed as someone well to the left of the political center of this country.
And he will lose to the old man who thinks it would be fine to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years. You heard it here. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory …
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1 Kathy Lauretano // May 24, 2008 at 2:21 pm
You are very accurate in your description of Obama. He is a smooth talking but insubstantial product of the corrupt Daley-Cook County Democratic political machine.
On the other hand you expose yourself to be a kool-aid drinker of left-wing talking points and propaganda in your description of McCain, ridicule of his age, accusations of flip-lopping like Kerry, and twisting of his words regarding “100 years in Iraq.” Try researching what he actually said and meant, and then start thinking for yourself. “Warmonger” - do you know how how weak you are glibly throwing that cliche around?
Better yet, get over your “Bush-Derangement Syndrome.” He won in 2000 fair and square in spite of Gore’s attempt to steal the election. The Supreme Court decision was 7-2 with sound legal reasoning. Suggest you go online and read The American Thinker Jan. 5, ‘04 The Myth of the Stolen Election by Richard A. Baehr very carefully to help cure your case of BDS.
What Gore put this country through in 2000 was criminal and the consequences of it have been the persistent vicious, rabid BDS that has made any semblance of of basic civility or bipartisanship to accomplish anything in the country totally impossible.
Like Nixon or not, when the Dems stole the 1960 election from him in Cook County Illinois and Texas, he controlled his ego and rebuffed all the far-right nuts screaming for him to take it to court. He refused to tear the country apart over it, knowing the damage that would be done.
Al Gore’s ego is and has been so out of control for most of his pompous life that he just could not resist the screams of the far-left to adopt and inflate their paranoia into a Constitutional battle that served no one’s best interests but his own. The man is an idiot and disgrace.
And by the way, John McCain has passionately butted heads with Bush - and still does as there are many things they do not agree on and never will. Spare me rhetoric about him “aligning” himself with Bush. They co-exist on a few issues with good cause.
We should all be so lucky at whatever our ages to have the sharpness of mind, education, experience, health, insight, compassion, common sense, independence, moral and physical courage, determination and humor that John McCain has at age 71.
And I can say all that about McCain when he was not my choice for the Republican ticket by a long shot. I’ll take his blunt speaking, vast experience and fundamentally strong, long tested character for the Presidency any day of the year over the two Marxists - pretty and hollow Obama or ruthless, totally dishonest, power-hungry climber Hilary.
Talk about wrecking the economy….
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