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Old August 27th, 2008, 01:17 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:09:56 -0500, George Cleveland
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4EN7ibO1ec

Geo. C.


http://www.gallup.com/poll/109846/Co...rom-Obama.aspx

The whole "four more years"/"Bush's third term" is little more than a
large number of Dems swiftboating their own ticket. If Obama and his
circle had come forward and said "We won't be perfect, but we'll be
better than McCain and here's why..." I'd offer Obama wouldn't be
dropping in the polls, including EC tracking, during his own convention.
Instead, he's beginning to sound like just another lying-out-his-ass
pol, and his claims of "high-road politics" when his obvious surrogates
are tunneling under the low road ain't helping his case at all. Bush is
out, regardless of whether his approval rating is 95% or .95%. People
get it - Obama and crew hate Bush and crew. Fine. But beating the guy
who isn't running ain't exactly a major accomplishment, and as a
campaign strategy, well...

And when "middle America" hears about how McCain is bad because he has
the same party affiliation as Bush, they tend to remember that Obama has
the same party affiliation as the folks who control Congress, of which
he is a member, and which they dislike even more than Bush...right along
with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, and Teddy Kennedy...and
at the end of the day, he picked a guy of McCain's generation, who has
been in politics about as long as McCain, and who said McCain would make
a good Prez and Obama was still ****ing in his Pampers, in a tacit
admission that he needed some old guys who actually had some experience
showing him where the controls are.

Anyhoo (no, it isn't App State v. LSU...not yet, anyway...) - Here's the
current line: If the election were tomorrow, McCain wheeled over all
reasonable picks, 51-49, if McCain picked Romney, McCain 53-47, and if
the election were in 2 weeks, Obama continues as now, and McCain picks
the wildcard Lieberman and it is presented well, it could go
55plus-45minus, even 60-40. If Powell would get on board as veep, or
just campaign _hard_, 60-40 could be a ceiling for Obama. OTOH, if
Obama and company would shut the flock up about "four more years," and
point out how they differ from McCain, rather than Bush, they might pull
it out.

TC,
R