Well alrighty then...let's get it on...Bama and Huck
I've been trying to decide how I feel about the outcome of the Iowa caucus. I feel good about Obama's win. I'm glad ole Hillary finished behind Edwards....OK not by much but never the less.. I hate that Huck beat Mitt by such a large margin...of the two, I think Huck is the more dangerous, but I am happy that Giuliani sucked hind tit.
Let's face it, Huckabee will be the Republican candidate for the presidency and that is scary. It's scary because of the threat of putting God in office. If elected, Huck will work to convert our form of government from a democracy to a theocracy. And he has plenty of supporters who feel the same way. The evangelical vote is his. It is his and nothing can change that, but the danger is that too many Christians who do not understand the threat of the bastardization of the First Amendment to our Constitution will give him their vote because he is a Republican and a Christian. CNN reports: "In Iowa, entrance polls of caucus-goers showed that 3 out of every 5 Republicans were self-described born again or evangelical Christians. Huckabee beat Romney by better than 2-to-1 in this voting bloc. Among the rest of Iowa's Republican electorate, however, Huckabee finished a distant fourth behind Romney, McCain and Thompson." So what we have here is a battle of the evangelicals and the rest of America. If the non-evangelical Republicans vote Republican in the election, just because they feel they must vote Republican, we could have a very big problem stopping Huckabee. I think the best chance we have to keep Huckabee out of office is Barack Obama. He is a Christian too but he's not looking to take God to Washington. Hopefully, Republicans who can see through Huck's plan to unite church and state will cross the party lines and vote for a Democrat and Obama has a shot at pulling those votes. I don't think Hillary or Edwards have that ability to pull cross over votes.
The political pundits are giving McCain and Romney better odds in New Hampshire, a historically conservative libertarian state. Will Hillary and Edwards show better there? We have a long way to go until election day 2008, but Iowa has always been the indicator of who will become party representatives for the office of President. My bet is that Obama, the man promising CHANGE will prevail. He defines the word change in several distinct ways...among them are his color and his age. The message I see in his victory yesterday is that we are sick of what has been going on in our country. We are sick of the Bush era and the blatant disregard for our laws and procedures, the lies, the deception, the bigotry and the defiant, dictator like behavior of our President. Change looks good. Change looks refreshing and promising... Obama = change.
A record number of voters turned out in Iowa yesterday. That demonstrates that we want big change. So who's it gonna be? Who will be the candidates for the presidency? My money is on Obama and Huckabee. Obama represents change and a fresh start. Huckabee represents theocracy and it's crippling, narrow minded, un-evolved, dogmatic, faith based ball and chain of judgmental supremacy. I'll take the fresh start.
a c slim
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Slim, sir >
As I wrote you this morning, it's a historic matter of cause and effect. I examined a Bush-based political scenario that goes like this:
1) Alfalfa™ is the worst president in American history. Period. His sorcery is yet incomplete.
2) Mismanaged leadership (on an unprecedented level) has produced many observable effects and a large number of unintended consequences (blowback).
3) This unintended blowback will, in turn, produce a quantum change in the national Zeitgeist.
4) Among my observations is an electoral predilection toward "change" not unlike the contrary mood of our stressed nation 70 years ago. A precedent was set when we dramatically acted against Depression-hampered Herbert Hoover and his Republican cronies in 1932. This is the Zeitgeist that elected FDR and allowed the New Deal to take hold.
5) Ergo, anything can (and will) happen after the polarizing reign of Bush (the lesser) – including the metaphoric emergence of a black man riding a white horse… or an old hag riding her husband's coat tails… or even an Elmer Gantry from Hope, AK.
6) The winner will be the one who can best tap into the disgusted mood of a dummied-down but uber-angry American electorate. It takes a consummate communicator to do such a masterful thing.
7) Of the available choices, Barack Obama best fits the personal description and historic scenario. He will be the next POTUS.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010408J.shtml
"The results helped answer a question that has lingered for nearly a year: Would a desire for experience in a time of war outweigh voters' desire for change in national leadership?
According to the media survey of Democratic caucus-goers, just one in five considered experience to be the most important factor, compared to more than half who said an ability to bring "needed change" mattered most. And among those who embraced change, more than half backed Obama while Clinton and John Edwards split most of the rest in that category.
For the New York senator, the results stood as a sharp rebuke by voters to a central argument of her candidacy: that she, more than her rivals, was prepared to assume the responsibilities of the presidency.
Surveys have long found that Clinton, the second-term senator and former first lady, was viewed as the most experienced and best-qualified to lead on matters of national security and war.
But voters instead endorsed Obama's primary argument for "turning the page" in Washington, an argument that essentially painted Clinton as a status quo candidate."
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* * * * * REMEMBER - The original problem - the catalyst for this scenario - the cause of our national and international calamity ... Bush. He and his goons still have 11 months to further this historic sorcery. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
"faith based ball and chain of judgmental supremacy". That's a mouthful