Says Rasmussen poll:
Obama 42%
McCain 38%
Barr 6%
Nader 4%
HT Brad Funkhouser
That's a race where the two third party men would make better presidents than the front-runners. A very strange and unpredictable year.
If McCain stumbles early....
Michael Barone, a real pro when it comes to the nuts and bolts of politics, agrees with my analysis that the Obama/Clinton race is a statistical dead heat; that Hillary is likely to lead in the popular vote at the end; that Obama's delegate lead is a fluke; and that an equally-compelling argument for Hillary can be made.
Drudge has linked to the hitherto obscure story about Obama's apparent plan to regulate our daily caloric consumption. It's in red letters.
HT Jim Brownfield
The pagan chairwoman of the Republican gang in Georgia worships at the shrine of McCain Invictus. (Thanks to Kitty Carr.)
Jim, your comments calling out Obama's Hate Americans First platform are exactly right. Obama also spoke before the Detroit Economic Club one year ago, and he lambasted automaker execs for being so irresponsible for.......making.......cars.......that guzzle gas. Our oil dependency is jeopardizing our planet, said Obama. Amazingly, he goes on to blame "global climate change" for "drought, famine, forest fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons." As if these are all modern phenomenons. And of course, "rapidly melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will raise global sea levels high enough to swallow up portions of every coastal city around the world." The fossil fuels we burn "are setting off a chain of dangerous weather patterns that could condemn future generations to global catastrophe," said Obama. It was only at about this time that Obama ditched his V-8 Chrysler HEMI for a Ford Escape hybrid, so he could deflect the very legitimate claim of being a two-faced fraud.
That is why Barack Obama must be elected president, they say. He will end the "age of oil." In fact, he will do much to stifle the age of prosperity and the advancing quality of life that capitalism and markets have provided for Americans. He will do all he can to make us less prosperous and comfortable, because in ObamaLand, that's just not fair. The Third World'ers just won't stand for our progress and increasing comfort, and neither will he.
I can see an Obama dictatorship banning vehicles that don't conform to his latest policy platform; limiting food supplies to the people that can pay for it; and launching a program to forcibly end the era of the comfy "72-degree house." That any presidential candidate is talking about this stuff (such as "we are eating too much") is, as you said Jim, completely insane.
I wonder if such a statement means that Obama and his global warming alarmist cohorts in D.C. have given up their fine dining and expensive food habits? Nah. Does this mean an Obama White House will make do with boxed macaroni & cheese and frozen dinners instead of a very large staff of Chefs and food preparers and the highest-quality food anywhere? Of course not - the Kings will continue to live like Kings, and the rest of us will have our food rationed and our furnaces tapped into by the government.
Paul Mulshine on the libertarian US Senate candidates the Republican elites hate: Murray, and the would-be LP candidate who may threaten McWar: Bob.
Said Oliver Twist and it may become our national slogan under President Obama.
I commented yesterday on his bizarre reference to his intention to control how much we eat but still couldn't believe my ears. Now, I have a second source.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said."That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
That's the only mention of his statement on Google News.
Today's quote is even worse. Not only is there a presidential candidate suggesting that the federal government should control how much we eat, but he says that other countries will set the standards.
A few days ago, I was going to post about how the global warming thesis provides the basis for totalitarian government. I rest my case.
Barack Obama, World First!
