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Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
Sat Dec 21, 2013, 07:21 PM Dec 2013

How some people can be wrong, and some people can be correct

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/why_barack_obama_will_not_win.html

Obama will not win the Presidency......
from, .."The American Thinker"

August 11, 2008
Why Barack Obama Will Not Win
By Steven M. Warshawsky

There is palpable anxiety, even despair, among many Republicans and conservatives over the possibility that Barack Obama will be elected president this November. This anxiety is being fueled by the mainstream media's fawning coverage of Obama's every word, while shamelessly downplaying John McCain's campaign;..................................


I don't share this anxiety. For months now, I have been reassuring my right-leaning friends that Barack Obama will not be elected president. If I were a gambling man, I would buy lots of McCain stock on Intrade. Why am I so confident that John McCain is going to win the election? In short, because Barack Obama is not an acceptable choice to lead the country. Let me explain:.....

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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2007/12/12/election-2008-prediction-obama-wins-by-5-percent-we-will-all-be-dep/


Election 2008 Prediction: Obama wins by 5 percent; we will all be depressed
from..."Phillip Greenspun's Weblog"

December 12, 2007 @ 10:12 pm · Filed under Uncategorized


In the great tradition of pundits, I will put forth a definite prediction for the 2008 Presidential election here. If the prediction proves true, I will publish a gloating posting in November 2008. If the prediction proves false, I will never refer to it again

The Republicans will lose the 2008 election. People are tired of war. Churchill was victorious in World War II and nonetheless his party was voted out of power in 1945 because, presumably, Churchill reminded the British of their sufferings against the Germans. The Administration and the media have characterized what we are doing in Iraq as a war and the press coverage has communicated that we are losing that war. Thus the Republicans remind Americans not only of war but of losing a war.....

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What is the point?

A lucky few will guess right about the future, and most of us will guess wrong. I didn't think Obama had a chance in a thousand in 2007, and neither did most of us. The idiot Republican on top..well I suppose he lost all of his money. Six and a half years ago, who could imagine that we would be discussing the roll out of a moderate health care plan for millions who have no insurance at all that is backed by the federal government. That the same plan had been ruled constitutional by this Supreme Court, and as many as one million had tried to sign up in the first few months? Who knows who will be President in 2016? I haven't got a clue.. Not me. That is three years away...




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