Why the Debates Don’t Matter
Posted on September 28, 2008
According to the latest (9/28) Rasmussen Poll, Barack Hussein Obama now enjoys a 57% approval rating among American voters. What does this mean? It means that those Friday night debates didn’t change a thing. It means that no matter how poorly Barack Obama acquitted himself that night it makes no difference. That revealing “America is the greatest nation in the world, BUT…” statement doesn’t matter. That embarrassing soldier’s bracelet gaff doesn’t matter. His recently exposed contemptuous betrayal of our courageous military in Iraq by his behind-the-scenes attempts to manipulate our troop withdrawals for his own selfish political agenda doesn’t matter. Rezko doesn’t matter. His undeniable twenty year relationship with Reverend “Goddamn America” Wright doesn’t matter. His angry militant anti-white America wife’s outrageous admission that for the first time in her lifetime she is “finally proud to be an American” doesn’t matter. His suspicious ties to Islamists and Muslims don’t matter.
Don’t you see? None of it matters. He is as impervious to stain as OJ Simpson was impervious to justice.
There are no present or future revelations, no matter how powerful, no matter how damning, that will derail this speeding train. 57% of America approves. 57% of America has spoken, and they have said that nothing, absolutely nothing that we have uncovered, or may uncover in the future, makes a damn bit of difference to them. 57% of America will not be dissuaded from their choice. 57% of America approves.
How does this make you feel? How does this make me feel? Outraged? Impotent? Resigned to failure and defeat?
I once had a friend who was determined to commit suicide. We loved this friend and we tried everything we could think of to dissuade them. But every argument we made fell on deaf ears. They were just determined. And nothing we could say, or nothing that we could think of saying, would make the slightest difference. And in the end, despite all of our well-intentioned efforts, despite all of our entreaties and all of those well-reasoned arguments, we lost the battle and we lost our friend.
That’s how I feel.
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Unfortunately I totally agree with you and it sickens me day by day. The savior, the anointed one, the devine spirit, Lord Obama can obviously do no wrong. Nothing we can tell the brain dead people of America will dissuade them from making the biggest mistake in American history.
Our country is dying and it depresses, angers, and in some ways confuses me. Why people want to transform the greatest country on earth into a Socialist “utopia” is beyond me. My only assumption is that they truly don’t believe this IS the greatest country in the world. These treasonous, perverted, economically inept people want “change.” They want the “change” Emperor Obama will bring, they want to “change” this great nation and everything we represent. They want to destroy Capitalism and every trace of it around the world.
The primary reason I firmly believe we will lose in Nov. is because they will cheat. They will (and already have i.e. Acorn) lie, cheat and steal to win this election. The ends justify the means entirely for these people and nothing will stop this Communist Revolution in their eyes. They will cheat, and Mccain will try to win with the “nice guy” routine, we all know what will work. I really am scared of our future as a nation. I am scared for our saftey, I am scared for capitalism, I am scared for my families future.
In my opinion we are fighting the biggest civil war in history. It decides whether or not this nation will prosper of fall. With the left manipulating the people and Obama at the helm, I predict the latter. Take care, and feel free to visit my blog. I am just another lone individual trying to fight the good fight. Maybe one day people will listen.
Really, an OJ comparison?
Suspicious ties to muslims? Really?
Do you use his middle name to try and paint cast doubt on him by comparison to Saddam? I notice you don’t use McCain’s middle name in posts.
To attack someone based on their views is perfectly fine. To attack someone on based on prejudices because you don’t agree with their views…well…that is just awful.
We must somehow convince the Republican Party
to fight back on economics. Barack Obama and the Democrats are criticizing the Republicans for our economic problems, but most of these problems were caused by the Democrats themselves. It is frustrating to watch the Republicans not know to (or how to)fight back good and hard on economics.
I remain convinced that if the Republicans would fight back in television and radio ads and in stump speeches and tell the American people the truth that both the credit crisis and the energy/economic slowdown/rise in unemployment crisis have been mostly caused by damaging and unsound Democratic Party policies and that the Democrats will do even more damage in the future if they control both Congress and the White House.
The solution is an aggressive economic campaign by McCain and the Republican Party starting NOW if they wish to win both the White House and Congress in November.
We voters must only vote for Republicans for every office as the only way of defeating the Democrats. We must especially resist the siren song of third party candidates who cannot win and can do nothing but take votes from Republicans and help put Obama and the Democrats in power.
To Lava – what a lame and overused response. To accuse me of prejudice is stupid. My very real fears about Obama are based on long and hard research, not on simplistic prejudice. But you obviously haven’t done the research so you must rely upon these useless cries of racism to defend your defenseless position.
If you click on my name it will take you to my site. You are welcome to see for yourself the reasons why I think Obama would be a disaster for America, pages and pages of them.
But of course you won’t do this, just as you won’t do any research. It’s so much easier to just call us names. To hide behind your foolish and irresponsible Race Card.
Nah, don’t do this to yourself. This kind of freak-out is what Democrats do. It’s part of why none of them show up at the polls on Election Day. Notice how the first debate got lower Neilsen ratings than in the past few election cycles. The very fact that the lefties support Obama shows that they don’t care enough about politics to spend ten minutes vetting their candidate. On election day, the Republicans and the angry angry PUMAs will cast their votes, because they know why this civic duty is important. The college kids who are Obama’s main support? I think they’re more apathetic this year than ever before.
We should NOT spread this defeatist attitude, it does NOT help our democracy.
Thank you Drew D., and I will definitely visit your site. Just look at some of these comments, like the one from Joe Clark. This is typical of some or the responses I’ve been getting. I’m a weak-kneed defeatist, a propagandist for the left, one responder even called me a Tokyo Rose. Do these people read English? Do they live on the same planet? Don’t they get it? Do they really think that by insulting me these problems just go away?
Joe C. accuses me of “freaking out” and tells me not to do this to myself. I am not doing anything to myself. I’m not freaking out. I am trying to come to grips with how Barack Obama — after everything that has come out about him — can still be so high in the polls. I’m sorry if you don’t like to talk about this. I’m sorry if this seems weak and defeatist but it’s the truth. A great proportion of the American people don’t give a damn about any of these scandals, no matter how damning they may be. And these people are voting.
Now maybe I’ve got this all wrong. Maybe I’m just being an alarmist. Maybe McCain and Sarah will walk all over them on Nov. 4th.
I have never wished harder to be wrong.
I didn’t say you were a propagandist for the left. Just that the news of McCain’s demise is somewhat premature. Remember 2000? 2004? If you believed the media, GWB2 was the stupidest and most widely-hated person on this continent, and yet we elected him. Obama will lose, don’t you worry.
At my university a real live Presidential candidate came to campus on Friday. You could have sat 10 feet from him and talked to him directly. This was Ralph Nader, who will get 5 or 10 million votes in November. Hardly any students or professors attended! (The audience was mostly area residents.)
There’s no way I’m voting for Ralph, of course, but not to take advantage of an opportunity to talk directly to a candidate a few weeks before Election Day shows an enormous apathy about politics among the college kids. Just like every other election year. This year, the Democrats won’t even get the female vote. So, it’s just my opinion, but right now the best thing we can do is be optimistic and speak with pride about our support for McCain.
Joe Clark is tellin’ it like it is.
Oh, I don’t know. I wouldn’t draw any grand conclusions from this. Obama is benefiting from the same desire for change that the country wanted when Clinton ran. Nothing really stuck to Clinton either.
If Obama wins, we’ll have a few weeks of oh, isn’t it historic, isn’t it wonderful, haven’t we shown what a great country we are. And then for the first time in his life, he’ll actually have to do something real. He’ll have to make decisions, some of them really big ones. And he’ll probably mistake the country’s mood as indicative of a desire for some revolutionary remaking and overstep immediately, just like Clinton did.
More than just about any time in my life (and I’m not a youngster) I think this is a really tough time to be President and will remain that way for awhile. If he wins, Obama might end up looking back at these pre-election approval ratings with a lot of nostalgia.
…”right now the best thing we can do is be optimistic and speak with pride about our support for McCain.” That’s “tellin’ it like it is”?
I have just written four damning articles exposing Obama’s ruthless treachery in Iraq and how this major political scandal has been — and will continue to be — buried by our leftist MSM. One of these articles was published by the Chicago Sun Times, and the others all received thousands of readers, one had close to 4,000 readers on my site alone. These articles, and all of those other substantiated and incriminating articles by all of those other authors who have tried their best to expose this charlatan have made no – absolutely no difference to 57% of the American people. And you don’t like me writing about this? Well tough.
Any one of these notorious revelations about any other candidate in recent history would have been the end of the trail. They would be finished politically. But none of this affects Obama.
Whether you want to talk about this or not, this is what we are facing. Calling me names won’t change it. Calling me a defeatist doesn’t bring that fify-seven percent down one point. And if the only strategy you have to combat this travesty of democracy is to “be optimistic and speak with pride about our support for McCain”, then God help us all.
What a load of old rope! Obama socialist? Communist? Give me a break!
There’s not one socialist thing about him. Even Milton Fredman’s boy says he likes him.
You lot really don’t get it. People are sick of your hardcore fundamentalism and telling them, in effect, that they are mostly stupid for wanting to throw out the Republicans was just as pointless as liberals telling them they were stupid for letting Bush get in.
Fr every so called ‘gaffe’ you can point to on Obama’s side I can show you two on McCain’s side, (and I’m not even sure that all of Obama’s gaffes really are all that). The point is that in American politics when one side comprehensively fails, you throw them out. The Republicans have comprehensively failed and they will be thrown out.
The country is in a shambles, mainly because instead of governing from the center as he promised, Bush governed for special interests, and got us into a dumb and expensive war which we’re unable to get ourselves out of but which is costing us thousands of lives and serious injuries, and did nothing about energy independence, and let Pakistan help Osama Bin Laden escape and let Wall Street do whatever it pleased because “the Market Rules OK”. Clinto left us with a surplus and Bush has left us with a debt which will probably be unmanageable.
Bush didn’t just fail liberal America. He failed conservative America too.
Now I don’t yet know for sure whether Obama will do a better job, but it’s hard to imagine he could do a worse job than Bush. At the very least, he will make Americans seem a bit less stupid and a bit more ready to fix problems than make new ones. He seems a decent guy — someone I’d be proud to have as President.
I think it’s disgusting that you are badmouthing him.
And by the way, the mother of that boy whose bracelet Obama talked about says she was proud of the way he handled it ….
PS One last point
I remember when Mondale debated Reagan in ‘84. Mondale absolutely shredded Reagan in that debate. It was a sight to behold, and Reagan looked like the incompetent he was, but Reagan ended up winning 49 states.
So you are right about one thing: When the country has made up its mind, the debates don’t matter.
Ignore the trolls. We CANNOT give up hope. We can’t. There is no reason to assume that these polls are genuine. This person cannot be allowed to become president and it’s our job to talk to everyone we meet and explain his anti-democratic, anti-rationalist, anti-American positioning and associations to them. Stay together and have facts and sites for them to visit at your fingertips. Keep pulling the plug on this guy. And it’s not impossible that the McCain campaign has an October surprise for US! If they bring out a well-crafted expose using the research we’ve all been working on for months, McCain can slam into first place. Dazzling revelations. People freak out. McCain wins.
Don’t give up. Just…don’t.
Man, we’re on the same side here.
Listen, for the uninformed masses, voting against Obama right now is like arguing against global warming. They don’t know who Obama is, they just know that “everybody” is voting for him. I can’t buy a TV commercial or organize a protest, but I *can* wear a McCain t-shirt, post articles and links on my Facebook profile, and make my support for McCain obvious. In sunny LA a lot of people are surprised to hear a sane friend say good things about Republicans. I’d like to think that I’ve convinced some of them: that Obama’s not trustworthy, that McCain isn’t a fundamentalist evangelical Bush clone, that a woman doesn’t have to feel guilty to like Palin. I may be naive, but I really believe that optimism and the confidence that you’ve made the right choice is more convincing than protests and TV ads.
Thank you Mosse. I am not anywhere near giving up, but I am concerned. And ignoring these concerns doesn’t give me any comfort. Your words are encouraging though, and I still think we can pull it off.
The coincidental timing of this whole financial crisis stinks to me. Who does it benefit? What party does the average American associate with Wall Street shenanigans? Certainly not the Democrats.
I sure hope we have an October surprise. I’ve heard some good rumors.
Thanks again.
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Thank you Joe Clark. I’m certainly not looking for any new arguments — especially amongst friends. I agree that optimism is important and I believe that your optimism is important.
This damn election is different than anything I’ve seen. This one really has me worried. Most of the time all I think about is how to fight them and how to win. I work every day, 12-13 hours a day, seven days a week on this, and I haven’t lost heart yet. But those numbers today really upset me, and I admit it.
I don’t know what we can do but, we just cannot let this guy win.
“…voting against Obama right now is like arguing against global warming. They don’t know who Obama is, they just know that “everybody” is voting for him.”
Well said JC. I wish I could disagree with your analysis but I can’t.
Someone is a little behind the curve here.I just want to point out an example.Mrs.Obama never made the statement “I’m finally proud to be an American”.That statement was taken from a sound byte that was edited and put out by Fox.Unedited, the statement was “I’m finally MORE proud to be an American”.It doesn’t take genius to pay attention to what’s going on in the world,and to see what’s right.I will not vote period,until such a time that we get rid of “The guy with the most money wins” way of electing,even for a guy who isn’t a war-mongerer and actually knows how to fix this god awful mess that the current status quo has got us into.