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The Democrats fail to change since 2004


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, for some reason, 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, prefer the Democrats. Again, it seems that the Republicans are far more committed than the Democrats are to victory in the global War on Islamism.

This is a bad situation for the Democrats to be in, but they have got themselves into it again. The result, I suspect, is that they will lose again.

"It's clear that the Democratic Party believes a radical left candidate is their best chance to win the White House this year." - Charles Johnson, 31 May 2008, on the Democratic Party's decision to risk everything and nominate a far leftist rather than a centrist.


   
(Left) George McGovern, the anti-war Democratic candidate who lost in a landslide in 1972. From this documentary.
(Right) Barack Obama, the second coming of George McGovern?
(Amusingly, George McGovern supports Obama.)



Obama is the candidate of choice at "anti-war" protests.
They believe he is on their side. Are they mistaken?
From Anti-War Protest at Los Angeles on March 15, 2008.




Background



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John McCain



McCain's torture by the communist Vietnamese war criminals.



McCain sums up the choice on Iraq:

  1. McCain wants victory, an end to casualties, and then it doesn't matter if troops stay on as in Germany and Korea. He wants the troops home after winning, and he argues that we are winning.
  2. Obama, on the other hand, just wants the troops home. He doesn't care if that means America loses the war. He doesn't care if that makes a waste of all their sacrifice. He doesn't care if that means Iraq descends into genocidal hell and becomes a radical Al Qaeda state. He doesn't care if that means the jihad is emboldened all around the world, and millions flock to join a winning cause. He just wants the troops home.




Barack Obama

The left-wing defeatist Barack Obama would, I believe, be a disaster as President.

America and the West would be weakened, its enemies emboldened, and the War on Islamism prolonged.

While it would be a nice statement to have a black President, hopefully Obama will lose.




Probably true.
From cafepress.com.



From cafepress.com.


   
Image from George McGovern's myspace page.



The "Yes We Can" song. The Reagan version.
From here: And other mix:
From Cuban-American Pundits.
Libertas: "Obama's no Reagan. Reagan inspired talking about the greatness of America not the greatness of "change," Reagan talked about the promise of America, not the promise of "hope." But the biggest difference is that Reagan was always talking to us as fellow Americans not as his followers. Reagan was about America. Obama's above wearing a lapel flag. Reagan was an optimist about America. Obama's a doom and gloomer."




America-haters support Obama




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's radical, anti-American church

Obama, being young, sexy, black, and left-wing (it would never have happened if he was right-wing), got a free ride from the media for most of his campaign.

But finally, in March 2008, the media (both "old" media and "new" media) did their job, and we got a proper look at Obama's background. It turns out that for 20 years he has been attending a radical, anti-American church, where the most appalling hard-left, black separatist, political vitriol against America has been spewed from the pulpit on a regular basis.

The preacher at Obama's radical anti-American church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright (and search), who married him, baptised his children, who seems to have brought him to Christianity in the first place, and who he has credited many times in print and in speeches as an inspiration, turns out to be a nasty, hard-left, America-hating fanatic. Wright says the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill black people. "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color." He says the U.S. government sells the drugs that destroy black communities. He says the U.S. had 9/11 coming because of its terrorist policies. "and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." He says America is responsible for world terror, wars and poverty: "America is still the No. 1 killer in the world". "We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty." He says the U.S. and Al Qaeda are the same thing "under a different color flag". He says the U.S. government knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen. He calls the USA "an oppressive society" against blacks. He tells his audience (including children) to regard the police as corrupt. And on and on, with endless grievance against the whites, as if Obama isn't richer than most of the whites in the world (Obama is far richer than me, for example). Wright himself drives a Porsche and is moving into a 10,000 square foot mansion.

Wright says about America: "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no matter how hard you run Jesse [Jackson] and no black woman can ever be considered for anything outside what she can give with her body." Rather ignoring: (a) that Obama is being seriously considered for president, and: (b) that the Republicans appointed a black woman as Secretary of State. Apart from all the anti-white whining, Wright is just so obviously stupid and poorly read it makes you wonder about the intelligence of anyone who would follow him.

It is very sad. Obama was meant to be the post-racist candidate, the one who was over the past and wanted to move on. The one who was grateful for his privileged Ivy League education and his wealthy millionaire status. The one who had no interest in the whining grievance culture, victim mentality and race confrontation of previous black Democrat candidates like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. And now we discover that Obama's mentor is exactly that type of person. And Obama exposes his family to precisely that type of mentality week after week. In my opinion, no one who attends Wright's church is fit to be US President. And most Americans will agree with me. Obama's presidential run is probably doomed.




Clips of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appalling sermons.



Another compilation of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.



Obama on the cover of his own church's (Rev. Jeremiah Wright's) appalling Trumpet magazine, Mar 2007.
See extracts from this radical, hard left magazine.
Image from here. See full size.



Nation of Islam crackpot and hate-monger Louis Farrakhan on the cover of Trumpet, 2007.
See full size.
Image from this roundup of covers, which says: "Besides Wright himself ... I found only one person who put in as many cover appearances as Obama in the bulletins I currently have available. ... That person would be 'The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan' "
Hate-monger Al Sharpton also appeared on the cover in October 2006.




The Democrats fail to change since 2004

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 as a result, they will probably lose this election too.





"Six degrees of Barack Obama" (and here).



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.




"Where is the audacity of hope when it comes to backing the success of our troops all the way to victory in Iraq? What we heard last night was the timidity of despair."
- John McCain, Feb 2008, on Obama's plans for Iraq.

"I am also dismayed that he never talks about winning the war — only of ending it. But if we don’t win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president."
- John McCain, 21 July 2008, on Obama's plan for "ending" the war in Iraq. Also here.



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