The Repeat Cycle — Obama Inevitability Plays Out as a Dull Rerun
Throughout the Spring and into the Summer, the Obama campaign was assuring us of the inevitability of his nomination within the next twenty-four hours.
The Obama team urged us to do the math and insisted that further resistance was futile. In the weeks that followed, however, Hillary Clinton continued to rack up primary victories in state after state. With the finish line clearly in sight, Obama stumbled and struggled.
As events turned out, the nomination contest continued almost to the start of the Democratic National Convention. Relying upon arcane party rules and a brokered deal to deny full voting rights to disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan, two states that dared to advance their primaries in defiance of the well established tradition of the party promoting the primacy of Iowa and New Hampshire, unless Obama was awarded delegates from the two states that had been carried by Clinton (full disclosure: owing to the party rules controversy, Obama gambled and did not file as a candidate in Michigan).
Eventually, after decrying Clinton’s efforts to appeal to super delegates for their support in order to secure the nomination, Obama was forced to reverse himself, once again, and lobby the same super delegates for the necessary votes to put
him over the top.
Despite his early commanding lead, Obama could not win the game in regulation and had to play into overtime. For the first time in decades, Americans
were nearly treated to an actual convention roll call vote that was more than a mere formality.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Didn’t we hear this all a few short months ago?
Now, Obama’s handlers are claiming that their candidate is bound to be a certain winner on election day. Just look at the polls! While you’re looking be
sure to ignore those other polls that show McCain creeping within striking distance of Obama. By the way, forget about voting on election day. Haven’t you
heard the election is all over. Obama has already won three and a half weeks before the polling places open their doors.
Thousands of new voter
registration cards collected by ACORN have turned the tide as Elvis Presley, Bugs Bunny
and Daffy Ducky have been added to the polling lists. If their registrations aren’t challenged successfully by the disenfranchising bullies in the
Republican party, these bona fide voters will all be requesting absentee ballots.
Will you just forget about William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn? Didn’t you know that Ayers is simply a kindly guy who lives in the neighborhood like Mister
Rogers. Pay no attention to ticking bombs attached to the trolley as it travels down the tracks to the Kingdom of Make Believe which is where we will be
sure to find Obama’s heretofore undisclosed academic transcripts, legal scholarship, medical records and real estate closing papers. Stop asking about that
birth certificate!
I told you it’s a deadlock cinch. Just like the Chicago Cubs were destined to win the World Series by virtue of being the best team in the National League. Los Angeles had to concede on account of their poorer regular season
record. It’s in the bag! We’re negotiating a major media buy. It’s over.
McCain must be punchy. He does not know when it is time to lay down. The old veteran thinks that he can stay on his feet and this will be a fifteen round
fight. What in the heck does Zogby know? What is a Zogby anyway? Is it like a bialy? Where can Axelrod get a good knish in Kenosha?
Let’s put a finish to this election cycle before the Federal Elections Commission completes its investigation of the foreign campaign contributions and
the checks from undisclosed donors. Hurry up, will you? I want to be out of here before Tony Rezko begins to sing from the Metropolitan Correction Center.
Do you still think that it would be inappropriate for the Reverend Jeremiah Wright or Reverend Michael Pfleger to lead the invocation on inaugural day?
Somewhere above the idle chatter of the mainstream media with their tingling extremities, I hear a television set playing a commercial with a quacking
duck. Yogi Berra is sitting in a barber’s chair and he puts down his newspaper which contains a headline prediction of an imminent Obama victory. Berra
mumbles “It’s like déjà vu all over again” as he throws the paper to the floor. As the scene fades, Berra adds “It ain’t over til it’s over.”
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Dan Kelley is a regular contributor to the Chicago Daily Observer
I was just on the phone with a Canadian who is getting ready for their equivalent of our Thanksgiving day celebration. Of course politics came up in conversation as they also are preparing for their elections.
He thought I was going to vote for Obama because I am from Chicago and that most everyone in Canada knows that the election is all wrapped up. I burst his bubble by telling him that the fact that he is from Chicago Illinois has sealed his fate when it comes to him and his followers trying to obtain my vote. It’s not just that he is a Democrat, he is from one of the, if not the most corrupt city and state when it comes to politics for both Democrats and Republicans.
When I brought up a number of the subjects your article references he had no idea that these issues are even out there. Funny what the press picks up and what they don’t. Are we seeing a modern day Dewey? Hmmm
President
Dem 51%
GOP 40%
results from October 2000 Gallup.
why is acorn stealing votes in Conn.? I thought it was DEEP BLUE?
Yes, That one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmOUP0U5PNk&eurl=http://www.thatone08.com/
2000 ? You mean the year Al Gore won the electoral vote and Fraud in Florida decided the election.
Obama won’t win a state, who will vote for a communist muslim?
Great article.
There need to be more with the integrity to point and laugh at the naked poser emperor.
I’m a Canadian, and very interested in the U.S. election, because the result always impacts Canada.
I certainly don’t think that it is a “given” that Obama will win – in fact, I am rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket and think they have an excellent chance to be the next President and Vice-President. I am also rooting for Republicans running for House and Senate seats.
GOOD LUCK! FIGHT HARD!
The Markey is TANKING because they think Obama is coming!!!
Who is Barry Soetoro??
We are Conservatives here. We will vote for the McCain/Palin ticket (mostly due to Palin).
We have to defeat the socialists. I cherish my freedom.
Let’s keep up the fight against the Socialist
2,000 (as in 2,000 Flushes):
Do you refer to Florida where:
-Gore never had a majority after repeated recounts?
-Gore attempted to disenfranchise the absentee ballots of military voters to secure an illegitimate means of stealing the election?
-Gore attempted to disenfranchise the absentee ballots of military voters to secure an illegitimate means of stealing the election?
Thanks for reminding us of that tactic used by the Gore Campaign.
Expect some of the same things to be tried if it is a close one by the Obama people.
If Obama wasn’t such a dangerous narcissist this election would be as entertaining as an Oliver Stone movie.
You gotta love Obama’s denial of his associations:
Question: What do you have to say about accusations that your relationship with William Ayers was more than of neigbors?
Obama: I thought he was a rehabilitated terrorist.
Question: When Rezko was given $100,000,000 to
renovate 30 buildings for low-income housing, 11 of which were in your district when you were a state senator, weren’t you aware that he hadn’t even changed so much as a light bulb.
Obama: There’s more to being a state representative than staying on top of housing.
Question: When you endorsed the Giannoulias
kid for state treasurer, the Chicago political machine had backed off of him because of his ties to mobster Michael “Jaws” Giordano, didn’t you think your endorsement might be trouble.
Obama: You, uh, see, uh, this is what you guys, uh, do. Rather than talk about ACORN you, uh, drag out the, uh, Greek-Mafia card.
QUESTION: What can you tell us about ACORN.
Obama: Listen. When I trained ACORN activists it was with the clear understanding that voter fraud would only be committed within the state of Chicago.
QUESTION: Is there anything else you would like to deny?
Obama: Let me make it clear that in the 200 times I attended Reverend Wright’s services I only heard him preach the gospel and never say anything anti-american. I’m as surprised as anyone to learn that he started doing so when left the church.
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