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May 6, 2008
Final Countdown
It could be a day of despair for Hillary.
Early polling and tallies show that she is set to lose NC by a large margin, but probably win Indiana.
Unbelievably, despite radical Ayer's ties to Obama and his close friendship with a black supremacist, Obama will probably pull out a large victory tonight. Mr. Man and I got a taste of the obscene and sick rationalisation that Obama supporters practice when we were out last night. We were running an errand and decided to have dinner at a nearby restaurant. Two booths back, we could easily hear a woman and her mental contortions as she explained her support of Obama to a like minded friend.
Struggling to remember the name, she asked her friend "What was Cheney's company?" to which the other replied 'Halliburton'. So suddenly Cheney owns, runs and is responsible for Halliburton today? I could make out parts of the conversation here and there about 'oil' and 'war'.
Then she talked about Obama and laughingly (and snottily) asked what was the last time you agreed with your pastor on everything? Ha ha! was her lighthearted response to her own question.
So on the one hand you have the Vice-President, who was CEO of Halliburton from 1995 - 2000 but isn't part of their business dealings now, and you have Obama, who counts as a close friend a preacher filled with hate who thinks America created the AIDS virus to kill blacks (stand in line... many gays still blame it on the GOP and Reagan) and somehow, in his 20 years of attendance at the church this pastor preached at, Obama heard nothing that made an alarm bell go off. Naive, a liar or bad judgment; none of them good traits in a President. Marry that to friendships with members of the Weather Underground and known communists and agitators, and you begin to see a pattern of extremism on the part of Obama, particularly when he labels people like Ayers as 'mainstream'.
But somehow Miss Angry Liberal doesn't see a problem with that and goes through all sorts of gymnastics to downplay the seriousness of these associations, but tags Halliburton as 'Cheney's company' 8 years after he stepped down and puts all sorts of blame and responsibility on his doorstep for what Halliburton has (or hasn't) done. A big stretch, wouldn't you say?
This willful ignorance about Obama is one of the more frightening things about his candidacy and is one reason why I prefer Hillary get the nod. At least if she ended up beating McCain, the GOP would rally and harangue her to keep her in line. Obama is a player, a dresser, a smooth political customer and is capable of ANYTHING, whereas Hillary at least sniffs the political winds and adjusts her sails accordingly, which could be a good thing in this instance.
It looks as if it will be Obama getting the nod and God help this country if he wins.
Posted by hanyap at May 6, 2008 4:06 PM