Chicago Sun-Times - Predicts That Fear Will Prevail and Obama Will Lose

[Median Democrat]

Chicago Sun-Times predicts that despite the polls, Americans will succumb to the smears and lies, and vote for McCain and Palin:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/greeley/1247262,CST-EDT-greel29.article

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His rivals perceived that they had to destroy him. Early on, the way was prepared for their attacks by the haters on the Internet. He was a Muslim, he was anti-Semitic, no one knew who he was or where he came from. He didn't look like a proper American. For many people these arguments were decisive.

The next assault came from his fellow Democrats. He was too quick, too disciplined, too well-organized to disappear as he should have. Therefore the litany of contempt began. He lacked experience. He was not ready to be commander in chief. No one knew how he would act in time of crisis. He needed more seasoning. Others had worked for similar causes in the heat of the day. They were entitled. All he had ever done was give one good talk.

Looking back at the last year, it is astonishing that he survived to the Democratic convention. But he surprised everyone. He established a national organization that mirrored the Chicago precinct system, he raised a large treasury by appealing on the Internet. He answered questions and objections with grace. So his madcap clergyman was summoned, and then a friend who had been a member of the Weathermen terrorist group long ago.

His opposition to the war and more recently his plans for the economic crisis were popular and effective. His response to these challenges had to be erased from the agenda.

If his opponent was going to do him in, he would have to attack Sen. Obama's character, a favorite strategy of Republicans for the last 20 years. He was a celebrity, as shallow as the pop tarts. His eloquence was phony. He was an extreme liberal, he was a socialist, he was a terrorist. He was a threat to the American way of life, he was not like the rest of us. He was not a patriotic American. In a time of crisis the country needed a proven, patriotic American.

In other words, he faced the same race card that President Nixon played in 1972, only the card had another name now -- "experienced, patriotic, American."

Whether the card will trump his talents and charm remains to be seen. It probably depends on the votes of younger Americans as the phenomenon of cohort replacement changes the tone and agenda of the nation.

Is the race card, appropriately renamed, as powerful as it used to be? Whatever the polls may say, I think it still has enough power to tip the election in the Republican direction. And then Sarah Palin will be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

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[HughMoran]

1. Thanks for sharing

Not! :eyes:

Why bring this shit here?

:eyes:

:thumbsdown:

[Benhurst]

2. The coverup is starting. Brace yourselves for our third

stolen election in a row. I trust the thousands of lawyers Obama has gathered have a plan to effectively challenge the results.

[Median Democrat]

7. If McCain Wins, It Proves That Either The Election Was Stolen Or...

The American people have lost the capacity to govern themselves, since they can so easily be manipulated by fear and hate to vote against their own interests.

[BeHereNow]

10. That's what I'm thinking... all this crap about "tightening" is the clue.

Two words:
Karl Rove.

I think they are going to steal it again.
Question is, what will the majority, who voted for Obama,
do this time?

NO way in HELL, can any one tell me the majority in
this country is voting for four more years of the Bush dynasty.

If I am wrong, then I don't want to be an American anymore.
In my mind, the ONLY way McCain will take office is through
election fraud, because I just CAN'T believe the American people
are THAT stupid.
BHN

[amborin]

11. i don't think

2004 was stolen

the outcome should have been so overwhelmingly robust that Kerry would have won 90% to 10%

the problem is the electorate: too stupid, too uninformed, too easily manipulated



and:

when i click on a news story about the election on my yahoo web page, i don't like that i see this below the story:

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more smears geared toward the coal regions

[azmouse]

15. Would you all just stop it?!

This election WILL NOT BE STOLEN.

Christ! Get a backbone!

[Starry Messenger]

3. Where's that survey again? n/t

[Happyhippychick]

4. Another post that is in the tank for McCain? Why?

[Binka]

17. Haven't You Figured That Out Yet? n/t

[Happyhippychick]

35. Yeah, I was being sarcastic. Should have used the dripping sarcasm smiley.

[Happyhippychick]

36. Yeah, I was being sarcastic. Should have used the dripping sarcasm smiley.

[malik flavors]

5. Sounds like a possibility to me.

[nyhuskyfan]

6. That card came off the table when Palin was selected

Palin is a far more scary proposition. The one weakness Obama really did have was a bit of inexperience (after the 2004 convention, I thought he'd be a great candidate for 2012 or 2016, never thought he'd rise as quickly as he did). But you can't attack that weakness in one breath and pick a VP candidate who lacks both meaningful experience and intellectual depth.

[demokatgurrl]

18. Yes, it seemed to but why

didn't McCain drop by aboug 20 points after that? Because "we" (Americans, real and otherwise) are stupider than I would ever have thought possible.

[rebel with a cause]

31. Or because the poll takers are playing their cards right and

making sure the race stays tight so they can sell their polls. If Obama was running away with the election then no one would care about the latest polls, no one would care about what the talking heads were saying, and etc. Obama may lose but if he does, I don't believe it will because of the people, instead I would say that 'mischief is afoot'.

[demokatgurrl]

19. Yes, it seemed to but why

didn't McCain drop by about 20 points after that? Because "we" (Americans, real and otherwise) are stupider than I would ever have thought possible.

[nyhuskyfan]

26. The electorate isn't that volatile these days

Seems to me that most people have chosen sides. There's only about 20 percent of the country that is capable of swinging either way, so a 10-point swing is seismic, and the McCain slide was around 15 total (up two to down 12).

Granted the economy had a lot to do with that, but you can see a dramatic plummet in the Palin favorability ratings going on at the same time. Serious times demand serious candidates.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

8. "whatever the polls may say"

Where are the numbers to back this up exactly? I can play this game too. There is a reverse Bradley effect and Undecideds break for Obama 100% and he wins 400+ electoral votes...

[AlexinVA]

9. This is not a Sun Times editorial

It's the opinion of one columnist

[IsItJustMe]

33. Get the frick out of here with that right wing shit.

[regnaD kciN]

12. This comes from Andrew Greeley...

...a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and author.

Greeley is known as quite liberal on religious issues, somewhat less so on political and economic ones (he was one of the Scoop Jackson-like "moderate, anti-Communist Democrats" in the '60s and '70s). More to the point, he is not a young man, and spent most of his years in the Chicago working-class Irish-Catholic white areas where racism is virulent. I think it's understandable that he, having experienced such racism first-hand for many years, would feel that racism will wind up trumping all else for most voters, just as my very Democratic mother, in her late 80s, worries that the "Bradley effect" will give McCain the election. Both of them have experienced white prejudice against blacks for most of their lives -- but whether their experience is true for the majority of voters considerably younger than them remains to be seen.

[icnorth]

13. Why don't you send this to Baron Conrad Black,

Sun-Times former owner. Lord Crossharbour's current residence is located at the Coleman Federal Correctional Institute in Orlando, Fla. I'm sure he would be pleased to read something that would brighten his day.

[onefreespiritedchick]

14. And, the reason for this post is????

This is the opinion of one columnist, whom I wholeheartedly disagree.

[AtomicKitten]

16. I vote no on this notion.

[Median Democrat]

20. I Do See This As The Ultimate Fear v. Hope Election - Are Americans Cowards?

Will McCain/Palin/Rove be successful in scaring Americans into voting for them with wild charges with no basis in fact?

[AtomicKitten]

21. Answer:

[Indenturedebtor]

34. Lol that is teh awesome! :D n/t

[Cha]

23. I vote NO.

YES WE CAN!!

[AtomicKitten]

29. that is without a doubt

my favorite Obama vs. baby pic

:hi:

[Cha]

30. Mine too..I just can't get

over it! :hi:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. YOUR POST SUCKS

~

[Thrill]

24. If that happens it will be a sad day in this country and around the world

But it wouldn't surprise me if it happened

[WeDidIt]

25. LIAF

[EFerrari]

27. Bullshit.

[redqueen]

28. Greeley's going to be getting some interesting emails

come Wednesday.

[Darian]

32. Predicting hate will overcome hope?

Not going to happen. They only get to live in their delusions for 2 more days.