There is a reason Coulter, Limbaugh, etcetera are trying to get Hillary elected

[mudesi]

They are scared to death of Obama.

Obama is like nothing I have ever seen before in my lifetime. This man is the real deal. Not only is he going to win the nomination and the presidency, but he is going to go down in history as probably the greatest president the country has ever elected. Better than JFK, better than Lincoln, I'm talking #1 here - Numero uno.

Fitting that it comes after the worst president in history, isn't it?

Obama is made of teflon. Go ahead and throw as much dirt and grime and mud at him as you please. It will slide off and he'll come out smelling like a rose. His political instincts are sharper than a laser beam. I just saw him give a speech where he completely tore Hillary Clinton a new one, but he came out totally likable. He then proceeded to tear into John McCain, and again the charisma oozing out of him was so thick you couldn't cut into it with a chainsaw.

This is a natural born leader here, people. If Obama told you to jump, you would ask "how high?". The Republicans are trying their damndest to bring him down, but they just can't do it. Their cheap tactics don't work, as Ms. Clinton has so clearly demonstrated in the past month.

Accuse him of plagiarism? He'll shrug it off with a joke and the crowd will cheer him on. Attack his mailers? He'll call you a whiner in the most brilliantly indirect way and the crowd will clap their hands in delight. Run a fear mongering ad? He'll run one of his own within hours, completely shutting you down.

Bring up his middle name. Bring attention to a picture of him in a turban. Go ahead! Take your best shot! Obama will bounce it right back out there and hit you right between the eyes. The Republicans are shaking in their boots. Coulter: Vote Clinton! Limbaugh: Vote Clinton! But their followers are not listening. They are voting for Obama because Obama has become an unstoppable freight train.

He is raising millions of dollars through individual internet donations. He is taking the east, the west, the north, the south, the red states, the blue states, the Democrats, the Republicans, the conservatives, the liberals, the rich, the poor, the men, the women, the young, the old, the whites, the blacks, the Hispanics, the Asians, the caucuses, the primaries, the American people.

We are witnessing history in the making here, folks. More than 20 disastrous years of conservative and Republican rule has left America on the brink of collapse on a scale of Roman proportions. The economy is about to cave in on itself with two wars sucking the wealth into a black hole, the global community has never had a lower opinion of America than it does now, school shootings are happening with an alarming increase in frequency, more and more people are falling into poverty and losing their health insurance, corporations are making record profits while jobs ship overseas, the level of corruption in Washington has reached previously unimaginable levels, criminals running things and getting away with it thanks to complicit enablers.

Millions of Americans are positively thirsting for something else. Millions of Americans have had it up to here with the nonsense of the last 20 years, and especially the last 8. They are hoping for something to change, and here comes this one man named Obama, standing tall, standing proud, booming with a powerful and confident voice "YES WE CAN!". And the people are responding. They are turning out in record numbers. They are volunteering. They are voting.

This is not the same old tired political campaign we've all become accustomed to. This is something else entirely. This is a movement, a turning point, a revolution. The Republicans have burned their last bridge, and now they have nowhere to escape. Their desperately feeble attempts to stop the tidal wave that is Barack Obama is about to be met with a large dose of reality - It's all over for them. Just look at the number of people voting in the Democratic primaries compared to the Republican ones. They're not even comparable.

Like I said, I've never seen this before. I think come November, this board is going to be bouncing off the walls with glee. It doesn't matter if you're a Clinton supporter or an Obama supporter. When Obama wins and becomes the first black president of the United States, it will be the end of the Republicans for a long time. His victory will represent a new beginning for America. Eight years of Obama followed by eight years of Democrats followed by eight years of Democrats followed by eight years of Democrats.

I see a future of liberalism in this new century. We should be excited.

[thunder rising]

1. it is "The Revenge of Howard Dean" :-)

[morningglory]

11. Woo hooo! Good comment! n/t

[rpannier]

2. Nice thought

But it looked that way in 76.

It looked that way to the republikkans in 2000

Politics is very fluid and 8 months is an eternity and 8 years might as well be a milennium.

We haven't even won in NOvember and you're planning 24 years down the road.

We were a shoo-in in 80... It was Reagan and people laughed.

And it was a sure thing in 88.

One step at a time.

[hfojvt]

16. we were a shoo in in 1980?

Since when? I didn't think Carter was even gonna win the primary, much less the general election. Not that I was all that well informed at 18.

[rpannier]

25. In many quarters Reagan was initially viewed as a weak candidate

It was not a given in many people's minds that he'd get the republikkan nomination

I remember people saying it would be CIA George that would get the nomination.

When it was definately Reagan people said he was way too conservative.

He would divide the Repubilikkan Party.

Like you, I was much younger...I was 16 and living in California.
But those were some of the things I vaguely remember

[hfojvt]

26. Being older, I still remember the 1976 primary

Reagan almost beat Ford then for the nomination so I think he was a heavy favorite in 1980, although my mom liked George HW. Those people were right though - Reagan was too conservative. He turned my parents and myself into Democrats.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Now that's preaching!

I hear ya! :thumbsup:

[Yael]

4. Excellent post!

K&R

[Capn Sunshine]

5. well the main reason as I see it is Hillary has been their meal ticket

and somehow their bullshit doesn't work against Obama, which they find irritating and ominous for their futures

[sofa king]

6. I like the optimism.

But I myself can't help wondering why on earth a fascist criminal cabal would hand over the keys to the most powerful nation on earth to, well, anyone. I don't think they will, not willingly.

The Democrats in Congress have taken a lot of flak for doing the smartest thing they can possibly do with the Bush Administration: treat them as dangerous criminals still on the loose, close off their options for causing further mayhem, and offer as an escape route the prospect of leaving office without risk of criminal prosecution.

But there's no guarantee they'll take it, and there is no limit to what evil the Bush Administration is prepared to commit in order to keep its power.

Their previous criminal actions have always tried to dovetail multiple objectives into a single act. This year, their objectives are 1) neutralization of all political opposition, including that of John McCain; 2) re-sparking the fear and pliability of the American public, as they enjoyed for several years after 9/11; 3) the continuation of their despotic rule.

You want to be optimistic? Then you have to hope for one other unpalateable thing: you have to hope that Dick Cheney dies, this summer, before the first cross-party Presidential debate.

[riverwalker]

7. well said, well said

Lots of us feel the same way lynyrd, we are witnessing something we thought we would never see (and I have lived a long time).
I hate the cynicism around here. We should be dancing and rejoicing like lunatics to have a candidate like Obama.
Reminds me of when you leave open the door to a chicken coop, and the chickens could run free but don't understand what that open door is about, cuz they have been cooped up for so long. So they sit inside in the chicken poop and fight over chicken feed.
Hey, people, the door is fucking open.

[Omega3]

8. they found someone corruptable enough and have brokered a deal with BHO

[DemGa]

9. C'mon Hillary gets the bulk of DEM votes -- The Base

All these right-wingers have to do is destroy Obama's standing with repugs and indies -- and he's THROUGH.

That's a far easier adversary than Hillary.

[GarbagemanLB]

14. How's the weather in fantasyland?

[eridani]

10. If we can deal with the upcoming economic/ecological shitstorm

Of course with large numbers of Americans willing to act collectively to solve all those problems, we stand a much better chance of coming through it.

[From The Left]

12. The GOP is Terrified of Obama. They Know Hillary Is the Weaker of the Two

[stop the bleeding]

13. No shit

good post btw

[jlake]

15. You sure do have high hopes for someone who has accomplished very little to date

and appears to be just as bought and slimy as any other politician.

[From The Left]

18. Obama Has the Same Experience as Did John Kennedy

When he was elected. Hillary's eight years in the senate? Half a billion in earmarks for NY. La-Di-Da.

[jlake]

19. JFK didn't turn out so well..... he wasn't a very good pres and the RW managed a coup.

[From The Left]

21. Most people would disagree with your remark

[mudesi]

22. Are you saying the RW killed him?

:tinfoil:

[jlake]

23. Yes, me along with 80% of other DUers.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. It's as plain as the nose on your face . . .

another thread said Tush Limbaugh was urging all of his Texas listenrs to vote Hillary. That should tell you everything you need to know about who's the candidate the Rethugs fear the most.

GObama!!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. there is a reason so many Repukes are voting for Obama!...wish you peeps would make up your minds!

[krkaufman]

24. Their support of a Hillary nomination has less to do with Obama ...

... than it does with the fact that Hillary would energize Republican voters who may otherwise be demoralized by the McCain candidacy. And they believe that a return to a Clinton Presidency will help them regain relevance and ratings.

[jackson_dem]

27. Rethugs flipped Missouri to Obama by voting 75-21 for him

He has romped among rethug ringers in our primaries.