How Obama Won
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by rickya

This was an election that was impossible for any democrat to lose. Even if the Democratic candidate was Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel – they still could have won. McCain was working against overwhelming odds. Obama enjoyed many advantages:

1. Biased Media

This is his biggest advantage because every other advantage Obama had was anchored on it. His weaknesses were downplayed, his strengths mythologized, his opponent’s weaknesses magnified and his opponent’s strengths caricatured. Any potentially explosive clips or videos are buried while his opponents are thoroughly attacked. The mainstream media has served as his most effective PR firm/attack dog. In fact, with this, he doesn’t even need to place ads. The MSM is doing it all for him.

2. Economic Meltdown

This was what changed the direction of the game. In the beginning of the race, McCain started behind but was able to catch up and take the lead. In past races, that trend could have propelled McCain to a victory. It was the economic meltdown that stopped his momentum and completely reversed the trend. Note that at any other time, an economic meltdown would not have helped Obama. Had it happened in the primaries, Hillary would have clobbered him despite his advantages. Had it happened after the elections, it wouldn’t have mattered.

3. An unpopular incumbent

This president has lower approval ratings than Nixon. The hatred of Bush has so solidified that no known democrat could have lost against any republican. Only Obama was vulnerable despite his advantages because he is such a lightweight.

4. Race

The historic nature of his candidacy has helped him generate excitement that no other narrative can match. It is to the Republicans’ credit that they were able to match the mythos surrounding Obama with McCain’s heroic past. Because of the historical nature of his candidacy, his inexperience and naivete was largely ignored. It also lead to race-baiting where all criticism of Obama was painted as racist.

5. Misogyny

In a stroke of political genius, McCain solidified his base by getting Sarah Palin as his running mate. This served the double purpose of highlighting Obama’s inexperience while attempting to capture disaffected democrats. Misogyny aided by an unresponsive MSM reared its ugly head and it helped damp enthusiasm for Sarah Palin. Misogyny also helped Obama win the Democratic nomination.

6. Financial Advantage

By circumventing election laws, the Obama campaign managed to maintain and increase its financial advantage throughout the campaign. For McCain, a biased media and Obama’s illicit financial advantage was just a fatal combination.

With all of this, it is important for all of us here to understand that we fought a good fight. With all of his advantages, Obama almost lost the election had it not been for one single factor – THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN. That is testament to what we have accomplished here. Prior to the economic problems. McCain was on an upswing and was already leading the polls by 3%. That is because of us. Be proud. Even we cannot overcome such tremendous odds.

Remember, for any other candidate, this should have been a cakewalk. Any two advantages I listed above could have created an unstoppable juggernaut after the Democratic convention and would have propelled any Democrat to the White house. That Obama actually fell behind is proof that we have been effective. It was the economic meltdown that did it for him, that’s all. In the end, this is not a win that Obama can be proud of.

(http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2008/10/14/3)

everyone better prepare for an expensive winter.

But now the iconic handbook, 217 years after its inaugural publication, is stepping into the heated debate over climate change. What it forecasts is “global cooling.” It’s coming not just for next year, but for the following 50, give or take.

“Absent from most headlines about global warming is a discussion of measures suggesting that the warming has ceased and a cooling may have begun,” climatologist Joseph D’Aleo writes in the newest edition.

For two centuries now, almanac editors have relied on celestial signs to fill the book’s newsprint pages. And with as many as 3 million readers, their views may have something to do with what polls show to be a continuing skepticism about climate change among some Americans.

(http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/images/ZURICH.pdf)

there’s no one else to blame here but the biased mainstream media. the media itself has declared that their bias was for the good of the country (as posted at Gateway Pundit). do any of you believe that?

the stock market has now experienced the worst ever 2 day drop in 21 years. then Obama comes into the white house next year and will pass his “wealth redistribution” tax increase. I would bet that he will not fulfill his promise of a tax cut but would only increase taxes twice in his term. first will be the return of high taxes on the rich, then the expiration of Bush tax cuts in 2010.

then Obama’s cap and trade will take effect and energy prices will skyrocket as he had stated. add a new moratorium on oil drilling that democrats want to pass again and you will see a return of record level oil prices as speculators pushes the price up and as OPEC continues to tighten the tap on oil production.

the oil situation will be excacerbated by a total pull out of American forces in Iraq. as it stands, the US want to leave a fast reponse team in Iraq, Obama wants a total pull out. Iraq is now producing around 2 million barrels of oil a day, if that production declines as a result of terrorist attacks in Iraq, the OPEC cuts in production will have a bigger effect in the oil supply and speculators will push prices higher again…that’s guaranteed.

then we have Russia that is pushing to create an OPEC type cartel for Natural gas. Russia has been negotiating with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Natural gas produces so they can have control of global Natural Gas prices. as Obama and his poliburo (the New People’s Democratic Party) closes the tap on US oil and Natural Gas production and Coal, we will have a major energy shortage. No amount of Alternative Energy expenditure will bring alternative energy online to meet the demand and will suffer for it. efficient alternative energy is decades away, in the meantime, our new president elect will have a warm white house to keep him and his family cozy during a forecasted harsh winter (the almanac is forecasting colder winters for the next ten years) and NASA has confirmed that sun spot cycles have decline, pointing to colder weather in the next few years.

As I’ve said in other posts, don’t believe all of the green nutcases global warming scare tactics. we are in for a colder decade and with higher energy prices, the country will have to endure a harsh reality.

I’d like to remind everyone that the last president to raise taxes in an economic downturn a stock market crash was Herbert Hoover. then the great depression followed.

the country will have to brace itself for the perfect storm that’s about to rattle all Americans to the core.

But there is something else that shouldn’t be discarded: THe REPUBLICANS. Many of them with public voices hated McCain to start with undercut Plain; and McCain during the economic crash.

The more I look at the date I believe Obama won this election thanks to (a) The Republicans (there were MANY that voted for Obama) and (b) Independents that usually vote Republican.

It was not higher registration or higher turn out. Maybe there were more Dems. But there were 2 M votes LESS than in 2004. That means that if there were “a lot of new/youth vote” there had to be more than 2M “old voters” that stayed home.

Today I caught the last few minutes of the first part of Tom Ashbrook show “On point” on NPR (called
“Republicans Survey the Ruins”). He had many republicans calling into the show telling they voted Obama and why. One of them was particularly interesting “Tommy the truck driver” from VA.

He said he voted Obama b/c he essentially was pissed off at the deficits and spending and felt the GOP had abandoned its fiscal responsibility etc. and that the only way to get the GOP back was to make it go all the way to “rock solid bottom” …
The show guests then went on and on how the GOP had
“to pay less attention to Joe the Plumber and more to Tommy the truck driver” … (why not both, I do not know)

I really didn’t understand Tommy’s rationale (Obama will control spending? I don’t think so) other than he thinks Obama will create a surplus and return the Economy to Clinton’s times. And that is teh thing w/Republicans. They hate the Clintons and publicly
trash them but privately they have enjoyed the benefits of his Administration where individually counts the most to them: their pockets. It is incredibly hypocritical.

Tommy the Truck Driver from VA made me mad. And he was NOT the only Rep. that voted for Obama.

This is the link to Ashbrook show (”Tommy” came towards then end of 1st hour)
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2008/11/future-of-gop/

Sen McCain
I am a black, democratic female former Hillary supporter not voting for Obama. I want you to win but I feel you have not made a strong case for your presidency especially since the economic meltdown. You have allowed Sen Obama to lay the blame completely and squarely on the repubs with absolutely no responsibility for the dems. THE PUBLIC IS BUYING HIS SPIN HOOK, LINE AND SINKER because you have given no counter argument. My research indicates that the dems are mostly to blame. YOU MUST LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THIS OR RISK LOSING THE ELECTION BADLY.
Your campaign needs to stress in as few words as possible the following:
1. Fannie Mae (FM) and Freddie Mac (FM) backed mortgages mainly caused the economic melt down.
2. Through Acorn’s community and legal activities, banks were forced to make risky loans to, in many cases, unqualified buyers. These loans were backed by FM & FM.
3. Sen Obama was one of the attorneys of record who sued one of these banks (Citibank Federal Savings Bank) in Chicago in federal court.. He won. The legal outcome of the case was that banks had to give these loans to these buyers without sufficient collateral. These loans were underwritten by FM & FM.
4. Through his action and inaction, Sen Obama bares a heavy responsibility for the stock market losses impacting 401ks, retirement, and other income.
5.In 2005, Sen John McCain attempted to prevent this melt down through needed legislation. Sen Obama did nothing.

You need to run an ad, talk about, stump speech, etc this idea under a new theme I suggest for your campaign: “LEADERSHIP: PUTTING COUNTRY FIRST”.

Everything I have heard you advocate can be put under this new theme and contrasted with Sen Obama’s lack of leadership on every issue.

Attached you will find documentation for the items listed. Please pay particular attention
to the video labeled (a) House of Lies: Covering Your Fannie,. Who Really Caused our Economic Crisis and (b) Democrats in Their Own Words Covering Up FM & FM.

Note: I could not e-mail the files normally so I provided the following links. Your You tube ad is contained in the last link. IT IS GOOD BUT WEAK AND NEEDS TO SAY OBAMA IS TO BLAME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5z9lD4C2Io&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_652267

http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/detail.php?id=10112&search=source|general;caseCat|FH;orderby|caseName;

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/27/consumer-rights-league-obama-acorn-and-the-subprime-mortgage/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y5R7kyIeYo&feature=related

Bush is/was a puppet. Obama is the NEW puppet. It’s that simple.

That was how serious I was in showing my utter contempt for the dishonorable, phony, race-baiting Obama, the half black man who plan to “stand with the muslims should the political winds of war shift in an ugly direction”.

Hillary should have been the president elect, but the media had kept quiet on Obama’s caucus frauds and let him steal the primary and with help from the perfect storm he eased into the office.

Amendment XIV

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The ERA is just another identity politics trick to create a permanent voting bloc from an aggrieved class which can never rise above a constant state of victimhood lest the voting bloc dissipate. This is the same political game played by black leaders like Jesse Jackson. maintain the victimhood even when it doesn’t exist to maintain in power and control over the voting bloc. Unless women aren’t persons within the meaning of the 14th amendment, then the perceived need for ratification of the ERA is totally meaningless except as a means of promoting permanent victimhood.