U.S. election, 2008
In the
2004 election,
the Democrats decided to run as
weaker on national security
in a time of war.
Around the world, all the people who wanted America to
lose the war,
or who didn't
care,
preferred the Democrats.
The Democrats lost,
and I wondered if they would
learn the lesson of 2004
- that they needed to move to the
right,
and propose someone who would take the war seriously.
Sadly, no, is the answer.
In 2008,
the Democrats decided the answer was to move further left.
Again,
as in the 2004 election,
all the people who want America to lose,
or who don't care,
preferred the Democrats.
Again, it seems that
the Republicans are far more committed than the
Democrats are
to victory in the global War on Islamism.
And yet, incredibly and sadly, it worked!
In the wake of a sudden and unexpected
huge economic crash
in Sept 2008,
the American people elected a left-wing defeatist
to prosecute this war.
God help us all.
(Left)
George McGovern,
the anti-war Democratic candidate who lost in a landslide in 1972.
From
this documentary.
(Right)
Barack Obama,
no different to George McGovern, except he won!
(
George McGovern himself supported Obama.)
Background
- U.S. election, 2004
- It turns out my 2004 advice was wrong.
To win, the Democrats needed to nominate an absolutely crazy leftist,
not just a mild leftist.
-
U.S. elections
- Some interesting facts:
-
If McCain had won,
he would have been
the first prisoner of war to be President
since 1837.
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If McCain had won,
it would have been
the first time the Republicans had won
without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928.
-
If McCain had won,
it would have been
only the
second time since 1948
that any party got 3 in a row
(the only time this happened was George Bush in 1988).
- Hence it is still the case that:
- Republicans have not won
without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928.
This will hold to at least 2012.
- Only once has any party got 3 in a row
since 1948
(George Bush in 1988).
This will hold to at least 2016.
Former candidates
- Rudy Giuliani
- Hillary Clinton
- Would Hillary have been better than Obama?
Her advisers included the likes of
Madeleine Albright,
Richard Holbrooke
and
Sandy Berger
- the same group
that allowed the global Islamist threat grow under Bill Clinton.
- We ended up getting Hillary anyway - as Secretary of State,
in which role she has gone
along with President Obama's apologetic, defeatist foreign policy.
Probably Obama pushes her left of where she would be if she was President.
Obama seems clearly to the left of Bill Clinton.
Whether Hillary left alone as President would be closer to Obama or Bill is now unclear.
-
Nile Gardiner judges Hillary as Secretary of State, 2 Nov 2010.
"The last 21 months have been a period of marked US decline, both at home and abroad ...
It is hard to think of a single foreign policy success this administration has achieved with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at the helm. Its hallmarks have been the appeasement of America's enemies, groveling apologies before foreign audiences, the undermining of key alliances, and an embrace of supranational institutions that undercut US sovereignty."
- All the wrong people like Obama:
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The political positions of a Panther poet (pay to view),
an absurd puff piece by Belinda McKeon in the Irish Times, April 26, 2008, about the vile
Amiri Baraka,
New Jersey's "Poet Laureate".
-
Baraka said in a
"poem"
that the Jews of New York knew about 9/11 in advance:
"Who the Beast in Revelations;
Who 666;
Who decide;
Jesus get crucified;
...
Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers;
To stay home that day;
Why did Sharon stay away?"
In response to this, the Governor of New Jersey ..
abolished the NJ Poet Laureate title! (Yes!)
- John Derbyshire reviews Baraka's "poem".
And replies with a hilarious poem of his own:
"Who praises despots, wreckers of nations;
Murderers, despoilers of innocence - Kabila, Lumumba, Lenin, Che;
...
Who believes the most transparent driveling anti-Semitic lies about 9/11;
...
Who put one over on the guilty white liberals at those fool Art Councils;
Who's an illiterate moron".
Who!
- Amiri Baraka quotes
- More quotes:
"Most American white men are trained to be fags. ... The average [white person] thinks of the black man as potentially raping every white lady in sight. Which is true, in the sense that the black man should want to rob the white man of everything he has. But for most whites the guilt of the robbery is the guilt of rape. That is, they know in their deepest hearts that they should be robbed, and the white woman understands that only in the rape sequence is she likely to get cleanly, viciously popped."
- He glorified crime:
"[The white man] owes you anything you want, even his life. All the stores will open if you say the magic words. The magic words are: Up against the wall mother fucker this is a stick up! ... Let's get together and kill him my man."
"Rape the white girls. Rape their fathers. Cut the mothers' throats."
"We [blacks] must eliminate the white man before we can draw a free breath on this planet".
- Anyway, we discover that (of course) this brain-dead hate-monger supports Obama.
"Obama's entering in a different fashion to Rice and Powell and we hope that there can be enough influence by progressives, and by the Afro-American people, to see that his course is somewhat different."
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The world wants Obama to win, survey, Sept 2008.
-
This is not necessarily a point in favour of Obama.
This survey would include many, many people who
hate America
and want to see it lose the war.
- In Kenya, 87 percent support Obama, 5 percent support McCain.
- In Nigeria, 66 percent support Obama, 11 percent support McCain.
- In UAE, 46 percent support Obama, 13 percent support McCain.
- In Indonesia, 46 percent support Obama, 11 percent support McCain.
- In Lebanon, 39 percent support Obama, 27 percent support McCain.
- In China, 35 percent support Obama, 15 percent support McCain.
- In Egypt, 26 percent support Obama, 13 percent support McCain.
- In Turkey, 26 percent support Obama, 11 percent support McCain.
- In Russia, 18 percent support Obama, 7 percent support McCain.
- Lots of funny comments from uninterested and unimpressed Americans
here.
- One good reason to vote for McCain:
The Guardian will be cross if Obama loses.
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The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for, Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, September 10, 2008.
-
He says if Obama loses:
"A generation of young Americans - who back Obama in big numbers - will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all."
That would be great!
Republican majorities forever!
- Seriously, imagine being so immature as to conclude that
"politics doesn't work"
just because your guy didn't get elected.
- This Guardian leftie says:
"if McCain wins in November ... it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start - a fresh start the world is yearning for."
Oh calm down.
They can always put up another leftist defeatist in 2012 and see if that works any better.
- The Guardian is probably
the most pro-jihad newspaper in the English-speaking world.
-
Freedland wants Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush jailed for "war crimes".
The flag of
communist Cuba,
with a picture of communist killer
Che Guevara,
on the wall of a Barack Obama campaign office, Texas, Feb 2008.
From
here.
It's not that Obama
supports foreign totalitarianism.
It's more that people who appease or support foreign totalitarianism
support Obama.
Interview with Maria Isabel who hung the flag:
No apologies.
"I hope that the new presidency in the United States... I pray for the safety of Barack Obama, and I pray that he can shift the United States attitude to this question.
...
So as we come towards the November elections, and the real prospect of a significant victory for Obama, everyone will have to re-find their footing, and these puppet presidents and corrupt kings may discover that the ground has moved under their feet, Allah willing."
- The disgusting jihad supporter
George Galloway
supports Obama.
See transcript.
Obama wins
It was 50-50 going into Sept 2008,
when there was a
sudden and unexpected
huge economic crash,
after which Obama won comfortably
(53 - 46).
God help us all.
- 2004 exit polls
- 2008 exit polls
- Most important issue:
- Economy
- 63 percent.
- Iraq - 10 percent.
- Health care - 9 percent.
- Terrorism - 9 percent.
- Energy Policy - 7 percent.
- 86 percent of those who support the Iraq War voted for McCain (13 percent for Obama).
- Probably 60-something percent of my profile
(married, white, middle-aged men with children)
voted for McCain,
and 30-something percent for Obama.
- So there should be no big surprise that I supported McCain.
It might be rare in Europe, but
the average person like me in America was a McCain voter.
- 57 percent of whites age 30-44 voted for McCain (41 percent for Obama).
- 57 percent of white men voted for McCain (41 percent for Obama).
- 55 percent of whites voted for McCain (43 percent for Obama).
-
More whites voted for Obama
than voted for Kerry!
So much for the supposed American "racism" that the European media has been banging on about all year.
- 54 percent of military veterans voted for McCain (44 percent for Obama).
- 54 percent of married men with children voted for McCain (45 percent for Obama).
- 52 percent of married people voted for McCain (47 percent for Obama).
- The majority of those over 40 voted for McCain.
- 48 percent of men voted for McCain (49 percent for Obama).
- 27 percent of gays voted for McCain (70 percent for Obama).
- 23 percent of atheists voted for McCain (75 percent for Obama).
- 22 percent of those who oppose the Iraq War voted for McCain (76 percent for Obama).
- 21 percent of Jews voted for McCain (78 percent for Obama).
-
Obama's many associations with anti-Israel radicals seem not to bother American Jews.
Jews in America are blindly liberal
and almost never vote for the more pro-Israel candidate.
Gays
and
atheists in America seem to be more pro-Israel than Jews.
- 4 percent of blacks voted for McCain (95 percent for Obama).
-
In contrast to the willingness of whites to vote for blacks,
isn't this slightly embarrassing?
Shouldn't blacks try to be a little more colour-blind?
Who each county voted for.
From
Newsmax.com.
About 70 million for Obama.
60 million for McCain.
See
full size.
Ultimately, the Democrats have
not spent the time since 2004
wondering how they went wrong,
and
why they lost the election.
They have not changed at all.
And now they have been rewarded for that.
From
thepeoplescube.com.
Said Al-Qaeda in this 2007 spoof:
"Let there be no doubt: Our failure in Iraq would be a strategic and moral catastrophe not just for al-Qaeda, but also for the Democrat Party, as well as our natural allies in the anti-war movement, media, academia, and trivial entertainment industries. If Iraq avoids civil war and becomes secure for business, it will be a tremendous victory for America - and nobody wants that".
- Nancy Pelosi
- Nancy Pelosi
visited Syria
in 2007, and
wore the Hijab.
-
Syrian pro-democracy reformists are horrified by Pelosi, Apr 04, 2007:
"A Hijab is NOT a confirmation of the rights of women in the Middle East but rather a symbol of their suppression.
...
Pelosi just reversed the work of the Syrian civil society and
those who aspire for women's freedom in the Muslim countries
many years back with her visual statement.
...
Assad could not have been happier because Syrian women, seeing a US official confirming what their husbands, the Imams in the Mosques tell them, and the society at large imposes on them through peer pressure will see in her wearing a Hijab as a confirmation of the societal pressures they are constantly under.
...
The damage Speaker Pelosi is causing with her visit to Syria will be felt for many years to come."
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The Trouble With Islam by ex-jihadi Tawfik Hamid, April 3, 2007
- "it is ironic and discouraging that many non-Muslim, Western intellectuals
... have become obstacles to reforming Islam.
Political correctness among Westerners obstructs unambiguous criticism of Shariah's inhumanity.
...
The tendency of many Westerners to restrict themselves to self-criticism further obstructs reformation in Islam.
...
When Westerners make politically-correct excuses for Islamism,
it actually endangers the lives of reformers
and in many cases has the effect of suppressing their voices."
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Syrians bolstered by 'good American' Pelosi, May 2, 2007.
Of course by "Syrians" they don't mean the Syrians that support democracy and human rights.
They mean the Syrians that support the regime.
One said her trip
- "bolsters the regime with the Syrian people, and it shows that isolating Syria won't work."
"She was enormously popular here, a hero.
This is the best thing that has happened here,
if it proves [Assad] was right not to give concessions."
- The idiot Nancy Pelosi "urged"
Syria to stop supporting the jihad in Iraq,
release the Israeli soldiers held captive in Syria,
and end Syria's support for terrorism.
Why would Syria do any of that?
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After Pelosi's Syria Visit, Dissidents Cower, Katherine Zoepf, May 15, 2007
- "perverse as it may seem to some American liberals,
it is the Syrians who are most sympathetic to their progressive values
who have been most critical of Ms. Pelosi's attempts to begin a dialogue with Syria's government."
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The Islamist enemy loves Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in general, 5 Apr 2007
- Islamic Jihad enemy fighter
expressed hope that the Democrats will continue winning elections:
"If the Democrats want to make negotiations with Syria, Hamas, and Hizbullah,
this means the Democratic Party understands well what happens in this area
...
I hope she wins the next elections"
- This enemy fighter is
hopeful that the Democrats will bring about American defeat in Iraq:
"Al-Batch expressed hope Pelosi and the Democratic Party will pressure Bush
to create dialogue with Syria and Middle East "resistance movements"
and prompt an American withdrawal from Iraq."
- "Bush and Dr. Rice made so many mistakes in the Middle East.
...
But I think some changes are happening for the Bush administration's foreign policy
because of the hand of Nancy Pelosi. I think the Democratic Party can do things the best.
... Pelosi is going down a good road by this policy of dialogue"
says this enemy totalitarian who hates democracy and human rights.
High praise indeed.
- A Hamas enemy leader shows how the Democrats encourage the jihad to keep going
and even escalate:
"Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip,
said the willingness by some lawmakers to talk with Syria
'is proof of the importance of the resistance against the US'."
So step it up, is the obvious conclusion.
-
The left encourages Islamist terror to keep going
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Peace Corps Part of Edwards Terror Plan, June 8, 2007
- Six years after 9/11, John Edwards still believes poverty
(rather than Islamism)
is the cause of Islamist terror.
-
"The plan Mr. Edwards presented ...
calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending. He said investing in those areas would shore up weak nations and help ensure that terrorism does not take root there. That, he said, would allow the country to stop potential terrorists before they even join the ranks."
- Someone with a brain responds:
"The president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Clifford May, said he was "skeptical" of Mr. Edwards's proposal.
"Humanitarian aid is a good thing. I approve of that. But it doesn't really have much to do with the causes of terrorism," Mr. May said. "Mohamed Atta, the lead terrorist on 9/11, was based in Germany, was well-educated. The causes of terrorism are several, but poverty is not one of them.""
- Democrat
Harry Reid, Apr 2007, says about Iraq:
"I believe ... that this war is lost".
-
Articulate and eloquent soldiers reply to Harry Reid.
"I am a US Army Reservist.
...
I
certainly hope you can sense the pride I have in my unit and my service.
That pride will soon be stripped from me in defeat.
...
The Democrats have wanted Iraq to become a Vietnam for George Bush from
the start. You, sir, finally have your Vietnam parallel. This war has
been pure politics for you and the Democrats. You have now conceded
defeat when the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and Airmen
have not.
...
From the beginning you and your ilk have sat on the sidelines, our
sidelines, declaring the immorality, illegality, and the futility of
your country's efforts. In emergency medicine there is an old saying; if
your patient believes he is dying, he probably will. Your stance on Iraq
will prove to be just that sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
...
We are winning this war. Just look at the signs. The enemy cannot safely
wear uniforms, they cannot confront us directly, and instead they hide
amongst and target unarmed civilians. When they succeed in blowing up an
unsuspecting marketplace, they can count on you to dutifully deliver the
big sound bite about how the civilian body count is direct evidence that
the war is lost. Then you tell the same enemy that all they need to do
is kill more civilians and wait, kill more civilians and wait, kill more
civilians and wait."
- More soldiers reply to Harry Reid
-
Al Qaeda in Iraq are pleased.
They follow the western news, and they
quote Harry Reid approvingly:
".. This comes on the heels of an important statement by House Majority Leader Harry Reid
who previously said,
"The Iraqi war is hopeless and the situation in Iraq is same as it was in Vietnam."
...
This is how the cross worshipping occupiers and their henchmen live. Their morale continues to collapse as the result of the increasing strikes of the Mujahideen, carried out by the grace of Allah.
...
The signs of victory can be seen and the cross worshipper's defeat is obvious and progressive, all praise be to Allah."
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DNC Imam controversy
- Prayers at the Democrat winter meeting, Feb 2007,
are led by a radical Shia Islamist, Imam Husham Al-Husainy.
- The Imam melts down on the radio
trying to avoid answering whether he supports Hezbollah
and Iran.
-
Democrat Congress
passes resolution in 2007 setting 2008 deadline for Iraq withdrawal.
-
Bush vetos it,
but Bush will be gone soon,
and the resolution sends a message to the Iraqi jihadi "resistance"
to keep going,
and even escalate.
If only they can hang on for another year or two,
the Democrats will give them victory.
-
Enemy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri loves it:
"This bill reflects American failure and frustration"
-
The left encourages Islamist terror to keep going
Open supporters of
Shia Islamic Fascism
and the killing of
Sunni Muslim civilians
and the killing of
U.S. soldiers
at the
2008 Democratic National Convention, Aug 2008.
See
full size.
From
here.
Al-Sadr, of course,
tortures and murders gays.
Ouch. That's got to hurt.
A nice dig at
Obama's career
v.
McCain's career.
Counter protest at the above.
Trailer for
One Bright Shining Moment,
documentary about George McGovern's anti-war presidential run in 1972.
McGovern lost the election in a landslide,
but his side ultimately won on the war.
America gave up, abandoned its allies to communist darkness,
and the communists killed millions of people.
"John McCain was ahead of Barack Obama when
the September meltdown
occurred. Had the financial panic not transpired until December, there was a 50-50 chance that McCain would have won ... In that case, we would be talking now about the continued Democratic propensity for self-destruction by nominating liberal northern presidential candidates like Obama, Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, and Mondale."
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Victor Davis Hanson, May 08, 2009, on McCain's bad luck.
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