I couldn't help but notice the stark contrast between the atmosphere surrounding McCain's speech in Louisiana and Obama's speech Tuesday night.

 

If lucky, McCain was talking to maybe a couple of hundred less than enthusiastic "supporters" and Obama delivered another eloquent oratory before twenty thousand passionate , exhuberant followers excited by the prospects of a change from the stagnant and failed leadership of the last eight years.

 

Mr. McCain, looking every bit of his 91 years, struggled to read the teleprompter in his stale, unenthusiastic address that political analyst Jeffrey Toobin called the worst he had ever seen.

 

The entire campaign season has seen Democrats rush to the polls in record numbers. Some 35 million or so I believe voted for either Hillary or Barack this primary season. Turnout on the Republican side has been dismal by comparison. Not to mention, in a change from the usual, the energized Democrats have raised far more money than have the downtrodden Republicans.

 

The elderly McCain is the best the Republicans could muster this season. And I mean that sincerely. McCain was the best choice, and frankly, the only choice. None of the other undesirables would have been even remotely competitive against the dynamic Obama or the tenacious Clinton. The prospects of that dynamic dream team has Democrats the country over in donkey heaven.

 

Democrats are excited, energized, and once the battle wounds heal, will be gloriously united in the fall. Republicans are apathetic, lathargic,and divided over whether to offer lukewarm suport to their presumptive nominee or just forget it and stay at home in November.

 

Tuesday offered up for all to see a poignant and stark contrast between the mental state of the two parties. Contrasting the rock star concert feel of Obama's twenty thousand, you had the sad, emotionless funeral parlor feel of McCain's gathering of a few dozen sympathizers. The drab green and outdated backdrop was appropriate only in the way that it symbolized the elderly McCain's envy at the throngs of energeic and passionate supporters his Democratic opponent would speak to later that night.

 

The Republican Party is in utter disarray, demoralized single-handedly by one of the most unpopular presidents in history. The Republicans so wanted to run from Bush that they will offer their nomination to the pre-Civil War era McCain, a man that is forever linked with names like Kennedy and Feingold, and is about as far from a core Republican as I am.

 

Even Democrats have to feel for poor McCain. He simply came along after a terribly unpopular and inept president and fate has chosen the aged one to try to compete against a younger, smarter, better spoken, and more charismatic Obama. Even McCain's attempts to woo the clueless and crazy evangelicals has failed. After courting nuts like Hagee and Parsley for over a year, both have now unendorsed John Van Winkle. When you are a Republican courting conservatives and Willie Cunningham unendorses you, it's just not in the cards for you.

 

With the White House all but certain to be occupied by the first black president, the Republicans will lament not only the loss of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but more Congressional seats as well. In an ironic twist on Reagan's Trickle Down Theory, look for the party of Jefferson to increase its stranglehold on both houses of Congress.

 

Yes, it is a great time to be a Democrat, not the in-name-only kind, but true Democrats. Not only are Democrats sending the Crawford Cowboy back to Texas, but we are going to install in his place an innovative new mind, 100 points higher in IQ. I take great joy in the fact that, for the next eight years, my Republican counterparts will be faced with the prospects of not only a political southpaw in the Oval Office, but quite possibly a return of Bill and Hillary to Washington as well. Can it get any better than that for Democrats who love to kick Republican butt?

 

Oh, BTW, in the 1 in a million probability that the Obama Express is derailed by, say, the revelation that he has had an out -of-wedlock love child with Father Pflegler, then enjoy the next 4 years with President McCain, a man whose views are probably closer in line with mine than with the majority of Republicans. I love the fact that the elephants get to choose between the left-wing Obama and McCain, a close friend of John Kerry and the man that Kerry may have even considered as a running mate in '04.

 

Ah, the GOP. Thanks to the mental invalid who has run the party into the ground, the GOP is no longer "Grand," for sure. Juxtaposed against the backdrop of a dynamic and energized Democratic Party, led by a history-making African-American and a history-making female, the once Grand Old Party just looks Old...very Old. With a centurion heading the Republican Party , the stale and out-of-touch GOP has been relegated to nursing home status. The Great Emancipator, Abe Lincoln, would be crying in his beard if he knew that his party and its nominee,his good friend John McCain, had been transformed into nothing more than a Geriatric Old Party.

 

Yes, it's a great time to be a Democrat!!!

Math: feel better now?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's also a great time to be George Soros.

I've been a registered Democrat for 40 years and I won't be voting for the democratic ticket this year.

 

Oh Bahama and Queen Hilliary just don't do it for me.

The entire campaign season has seen Democrats rush to the polls in record numbers. Some 35 million or so I believe voted for either Hillary or Barack this primary season. Turnout on the Republican side has been dismal by comparison. Not to mention, in a change from the usual, the energized Democrats have raised far more money than have the downtrodden Republicans.

 

Not trying to take away from your thunder or anything, lol. But don't you think that the main reason there was a large difference between voter turnout was because there was such a contested race on the democrat side which made more democrats want to come out and voter? You are probably right with a lot of your analysis, but by the time the primaries got to KY and many other states the Republican candidate had been decided for months.

If Obama and Billiary are the best the Dems could come up with, then both parties are equally hurting. Let's not act like the Dems have given us better alternatives.

It's also a great time to be George Soros.

 

From reading Leave Us Alone, I disagree with math!

 

It's a fine time to be a conservative!

 

Yes, it is a great time to be a Democrat, not the in-name-only kind, but true Democrats.

Yes, it's a great time to be a Democrat!!!

First of all I sorted through your novel; and obviously mislead speech after being fired up by Obma's speech last night. I saw that as well and noticed a few things...........

1.) His slogan is "Change", but what is the change? He has never said that.

2.) He is a typical/steroetype politician, says whatever the crowd that he is talking to wants to hear.

3.) He can read a tela prompter

4.) Of course the crowd was energized, they were probably all drunk and it was Obama's crowd.....a lot of misled and very impressionable young people.

5.)As far as the "True democrat" statement, I can tell that you are probably young bc there is not a True Democrat in Washington today and there hasn't been for quite some time. What you are referring to a true Democrats or True far Left Liberal Wacko's....Obama, Clinton, Boxer, Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy, and a whole line of others.

6.)You have called the Republican side "old" and the Dems have Sen. "KKK" Byrd form W.Va sitting or sleeping (not sure which) at his desk and podium, that fossil can sleep standing up. :lol:. Not to mention one that has had some severe health problems lately that I honestly and sincerely feel for so I won't bring him into it other than this mention.

 

So to all of the "Energized Dems".....Pot, Meet Kettle. You are just younger, not different. Now, thre is my sermon.

Math: feel better now?

 

 

:lol::lol::lol: I hope that he does. He may now have developed carpal tunnel.

 

 

Oh Bahama and Queen Hilliary just don't do it for me.

:thumb::thumb: Me either, this country does need some changes but they are not it.

If Obama and Billiary are the best the Dems could come up with, then both parties are equally hurting. Let's not act like the Dems have given us better alternatives.

Again I agree, the Obama/Clinton/Clinton ticket (if that is what it will be) is not an answer to anything except letting the terrorist nations celebrate a victory and accept the invitation to attack the U.S. even more, it would be made easy for them.......again.

 

It's a fine time to be a conservative!

Also a fine time to be a conservative Democrat:thumb: and there are still plenty of those out there. They just tend to not rant and rave making the Democratic logo out of themselves.

Edited June 4, 200818 yr by oldrambler

It gives me nightmares to think of Obama as the president of this country.

It is a great time to be a Democrat.

 

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The only good that may come out of a Socialist Obama presidency would be a repeat of the Carter fiasco. That would all but insure he would be a one termer adn we would have the other party back in the oval office in 4 years.

So anyone know where the best place in Canada to move to is? If what math just said is 100% accurate I plan to relocate there around November.... I figure if I am going to live in a county with numbers of enemies and a millitary that is about to be stripped, I might as well live somewhere where my tax money will be kept within the country and not in Africa.

 

So what do you all think? Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, or Manitoba?

It is a great time because it was just about 43 years ago that the civil rights bill was signed by Lyndon Johnson. I never thought I would see either a woman or a African-American nominated by a major political party in my life time.

 

I remember Shirley Chisom's run for the presidency when I was a freshman in high school. I thought the best I would see would be Jesse Jackson's bid. On the Republican side I would have like to see what J. C. Watts could have done but I don't think the country was ready yet.

 

I even thought back to the time I was denied the opportunity to go to a certain school I wanted to go to because of the color of my skin. I remembered the times I was stopped by the police because I wasn't in the so called right place.

 

As I watched the returns last night, I thought back to what my mom and dad always told me. That no matter what a person's background is, in this country, anything is possible if you are willing to work for it.

 

I just wished mom and dad and my two brothers had lived long enough to see this day come.

 

So please forgive me if I take the time to celebrate this momentous occasion.

1.) His slogan is "Change", but what is the change? He has never said that.

 

He's referring to what you will have left in your paycheck after all your money is spent on welfare and foreign aide.

The latest polls show that Kentucky voters are McClain 58%, Obama 37%. Kentucky may be lagging in some areas, but at least it gets this right. I'm just scared to death that he can't win nationwide. John will have a very difficult time with all of the liberals and Bush haters.