Obama over McCain? Don't bet on it!
The MSM has been trying of late to paint Barack Obama as the inevitable winner of a Fall contest with John McCain.
But that isn't necessarily the way it's going to play out.
First, as many polls lately show McCain winning a contest between the two men as show Obama winning it. And while the media conveniently forget this fact, Barack Obama is largely an unknown quantity to the American people.
His numbers against McCain are those of a rock star running against a well-known politician. But however much the Democrats and the MSM might prefer it, Obama will not go unvetted forever. His record is not without vulnerabilities. And when all is said and done, he remains a third-year senator who has spent comparatively little time in Washington, instead focusing on traveling the nation and running for president on what is effectively the resume of a member of the Illinois General Assembly. It's tough to make the case that Obama is qualified for the White House.
Then, too, there is little doubt that Obama- for all his talk of bringing people together- is in fact the furthest Left of any Democratic presidential nominee in memory. His policies, by and large, are out of the American mainstream; there may be a reason why he spends so much energy on soaring rhetoric, as Hillary is wont to complain, and so little on substantive discussion of the issues. Selling extremism is going to be a tough task for a man running against John McCain- whose critics seem most unhappy with him because he's a moderate!
It's highly unlikely- try as they might- that the media will come up with much that can damage McCain and is not already on the table. But Obama's adventures in scrutiny have yet to begin. Yet make no mistake: Obama will be formidable. Americans tend to elect optimists as president, and one of Obama's major strengths is his Reaganite ability to make our future sound bright and to enable us, as a people to feel empowered.
But even if we take the most optimistic of the current polls from Obama's point of view, for a basically unvetted candidate like Obama to have a lead of five points or so over an opponent whose opponents have been prospecting in his back yard for skeletons as long as McCain's opponents have been just isn't all that impressive. As soon as Hillary is safely out of the way- and it shouldn't be long now- the media are going to have no choice but to be reluctantly putting Obama under the microscope. The rock star charisma will begin, inevitably, to wilt under scrutiny of the man- it always does, no matter how impressive the man may be- and that five point lead will melt like an August snow.
And face it: sooner or later Obama- who has absolutely no credentials in the area, and apparently no clue, either- is going to have to come up with a foreign policy other than making nice-nice with monsters and hoping for the best.
HT: Real Clear Politics
But that isn't necessarily the way it's going to play out.
First, as many polls lately show McCain winning a contest between the two men as show Obama winning it. And while the media conveniently forget this fact, Barack Obama is largely an unknown quantity to the American people.
His numbers against McCain are those of a rock star running against a well-known politician. But however much the Democrats and the MSM might prefer it, Obama will not go unvetted forever. His record is not without vulnerabilities. And when all is said and done, he remains a third-year senator who has spent comparatively little time in Washington, instead focusing on traveling the nation and running for president on what is effectively the resume of a member of the Illinois General Assembly. It's tough to make the case that Obama is qualified for the White House.
Then, too, there is little doubt that Obama- for all his talk of bringing people together- is in fact the furthest Left of any Democratic presidential nominee in memory. His policies, by and large, are out of the American mainstream; there may be a reason why he spends so much energy on soaring rhetoric, as Hillary is wont to complain, and so little on substantive discussion of the issues. Selling extremism is going to be a tough task for a man running against John McCain- whose critics seem most unhappy with him because he's a moderate!
It's highly unlikely- try as they might- that the media will come up with much that can damage McCain and is not already on the table. But Obama's adventures in scrutiny have yet to begin. Yet make no mistake: Obama will be formidable. Americans tend to elect optimists as president, and one of Obama's major strengths is his Reaganite ability to make our future sound bright and to enable us, as a people to feel empowered.
But even if we take the most optimistic of the current polls from Obama's point of view, for a basically unvetted candidate like Obama to have a lead of five points or so over an opponent whose opponents have been prospecting in his back yard for skeletons as long as McCain's opponents have been just isn't all that impressive. As soon as Hillary is safely out of the way- and it shouldn't be long now- the media are going to have no choice but to be reluctantly putting Obama under the microscope. The rock star charisma will begin, inevitably, to wilt under scrutiny of the man- it always does, no matter how impressive the man may be- and that five point lead will melt like an August snow.
And face it: sooner or later Obama- who has absolutely no credentials in the area, and apparently no clue, either- is going to have to come up with a foreign policy other than making nice-nice with monsters and hoping for the best.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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Well, Bush fooled me, and this 'liberal' won't this time. I'm casting my vote for Obama in november.
Perhaps you were misled by some of those dishonest ads, but the suggestion that John McCain is in any sense a liberal is downright silly. His opinion differs from that of most conservatives on a comparatively few issues. He is the poster child for fiscal conservatism. And to call him an "old fool" smacks more of the rhetoric of a sore loser than of a thoughtful voter.
Of course, you lose all claim to being thoughtful- or even having any contact with reality- when, having absurdly dismissed McCain as a liberal, you tell us that you intend to vote, if he's nominated, for the most radical Leftist nominee any major American political party will ever have selected, Barak Obama. That intention alone is enough to prevent any reasonable conservative from taking the rest of what you have to say seriously.