It Has A Nice Beat, But Can You Dance To It?

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Bashing Palin

The “Take the high road” candidate, Barack Obama, has released his latest campaign video – a frontal assault on Sarah Palin. I don’t link to No Quarter often – or lightly – but they have the video and they are livid. Usually a good time for a link.

Fact: Sarah Palin has considerably more executive experience than Barack Obama. Furthermore, she has had more executive experience in a much shorter public life than the junior Senator from Illinois.

Opinion: Barack Obama is not smart to have approved this message.

Can it be interpreted as being anti-women? Well, duh.

Can it backfire and highlight his lack of executive experience? Well, duh.

Think hard, folks. Think hard.

Winners, Losers

Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, Debra Saunders points out the biggest loser of all in this interminable campaign season: “Conventional Wisdom“.

The biggest loser in this 2008 election is obvious even before the first vote has been counted: conventional wisdom. Remember last year when Hillary Rodham Clinton was considered the shoo-in for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, after which she was supposed to waltz into the Oval Office? Also in 2007, Beltway pundits had written off John McCain’s chances of winning the GOP primary because McCain had angered his party’s base by pushing an immigration bill that extended the path to citizenship to illegal immigrants. The knowitalli had crowned former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the sure thing — or, in fey moments, erstwhile New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. They wrote off McCain as a “dead man walking.”

The great thing about covering politics is that you continually learn new things about the American people. And no matter what pundits — yes, including me — write in newspapers or assert on cable TV, the voters in the end have their say.

Please, go read the whole thing. Saunders points out many of the weird things that have happened, things that belie the “Conventional Wisdom” of the pundits. (Nor am I saying that I am immune to this, having fallen into the same traps – assuming Hillary Clinton would be the nominee, for one.)

Right now, the media’s “Conventional Wisdom” is that Obama is a shoo-in to win on Tuesday. Given their track record in this election cycle, one has to wonder.

One also has to ask a simple question. How much of the “Conventional Wisdom” being pushed by the press in the waning days of the campaign is meant to deliberately suppress votes against their chosen candidate? How many voters will be discouraged by the nonstop barrage from the firmly-in-the-tank media?

The danger of that media strategy, of course, is obvious. How many of the supporters of the media’s candidate will fail to show up at the polls if they think the election is in the bag?

Sleep well, knowitalli.

Crushing Average Americans

Think Obama’s plan to redistribute income (point taken from commenter Dorf) is scary? No? Well, maybe you’re able to rationalize that it will only be taking from “the rich”. (Which means you have not been paying attention to the ever diminishing definition of what constitutes rich from the Obama camp. It’s down to $120,000 and dropping fast.)

This should get your attention: Obama plans – fully intends – to make energy prices skyrocket. Those are his own words about his own plan.

You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.

The earlier comments about coal are part of this: Obama fully intends to destroy the coal industry and bankrupt anyone who builds a coal plant in the US.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.

So all you coal producing states out there, prepare to see your economies destroyed as the grand Obama plan goes into effect. Because they will be. Completely.

If a sharp rise in gasoline prices caused as much havoc and pain as happened just a couple of months ago, how much will be wrought if the cost of electricity skyrockets? How many more will lose jobs because their companies can’t afford the energy costs? How many people will lose their homes when they can no longer afford electricity and the cost of a mortgage. How many seniors on fixed incomes will have to chose between food and electricity?

Worst of all, the people who will be the most crushed by these prices are the very ones Obama purports to care about. The middle class will be destroyed by this. The lower income people and seniors on fixed incomes will be utterly devastated.

The Obama plan would crush average Americans. There is no other way to describe it. And again – those are his own words describing his own plan.

Think hard folks. Think really hard.