I don't suppose the report will do a lot more than swing anothe point or two in the Obama direction. The kooks on the right see abuse of power as a good thing and not a bad one, and they'll also be outraged that anyone would dare to try to enforce a law when it's not in their favour.
What do you with a country when a third of its population is pathological? (And not just the US, of course.)
What do you with a country when a third of its population is pathological?
Need any more analogies? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
ET doesn't exist to incite violence in any form. There's quite enough of that elsewhere already.
Just thought I'd make that clear.
Acts of violence or acts of survival?
Will be interesting to see how the ET attitude evolves as the hunger pangs develop. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
As it is, the current narrative in the press is, "It's over, but we just aren't allowed to say so yet because it's impolite since people haven't voted." Obama's moving fast towards a double-digit lead with everyone except -- who else? -- Zogby in the polls (+7 Ras, +10 Hotline, +12 Kos, +10 Gallup, +11 Newsweek). And he's now consistently hitting 51/52, while McCain is still sinking on the trends. 43 always felt like his pre-undecideds-breaking sweet spot to me. Maybe 44. But he's down to 41/42 and still falling. Among registered voters, Hotline's got him falling to 39.
If this keeps up, the narrative is going to turn into, "Should the Reps cut off McCain and Palin to save their House and Senate seats?"
The debate, the stock market crash and the backlash seem to be giving Obama an extra bump. Like AT said (I think) last week, it's turning from a strong win into a slaughter. My guess is that another couple days of this will put Georgia and West Virginia in the "Competitive" category, if they're not there already.
Maybe McCain gets it. It would explain his bizarre choice of places to appear. He keeps campaigning in Iowa, even though the closest he been to Obama in forever is 8 or 9 points, and every recent poll has him losing by 10-15 there. He's not even bothering in North Carolina or Florida anymore. The RNC, which basically is the McCain campaign here, seems to have pulled out of Virginia. Three states he can't lose.
Either he's praying for a new, supercharged Bradley Effect that magically saves the red states or he's on the verge of giving up. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
