Yes Mr. Carville, and maybe that analysis of Sarah Palin is playing a part in why the AP is in danger of getting dropped by many newspapers.

I love how all of Obama's people keep making these ominous warnings and no one calls them on the racism of it. Because, yeah, I don't think they're saying a whole bunch of Caucasian liberals are going to be up in arms if Obama loses--do you?

It doesn't matter if Obama has a consistent five point national lead going into the election--it matters if he has a consistent five point lead in the right states. Maybe Mr. Carville et. al. need to be mailed a copy of the Constitution.

I don't think the title of your post is the logical conclusion of the speech you've quoted. If a guy goes into an election with a 5 point lead, it's gonna be a big surprise if he loses. People may look for reasons why this will happen. Some (including zombie liars) will assert that there has been a fix made. Remember Al Gore?

Let me just quote Dennis Miller on Carville:

James Carville, a snake oil salesman who actually looks like a snake. Is it just me or is this guy harder to watch than sausage being made? Huh? Carville's got more nervous tics than a Belfast parking valet.

This guy looks like a Muppet that was accidentally washed in hot. You know, I would be much more receptive to Carville if I ever got the sense that he possesses anything even remotely resembling the ability to reason. But there is never any discussion about anything, it's all just yanking the pull-starter on that ugly garlic knot of a head of his and watching him turn into a satanic Chihuahua under a strobe light.

Bryan,

Um, no actually, if someone goes in with a 5 point lead in a _national_ poll, they're still within striking distance.
The reason people swore the fix was in with Al Gore was because many people could not accept that an ignorant bumpkin from Texas had beat the Vice President of what was perceived as one of the most popular administrations in history. In reality, A. Gore didn't lose because he didn't carry Florida--he lost because he didn't carry his home state and B. Ralph Nader was fairly well known among the elderly as a stand up guy rather than the political idiot we see now which is why he got the percentage he did in Florida.

In Obama's case, I think the only reason he's up 5% in the polls at all is because he's running against John "I poke the base in the eye regularly" McCain and President Bush is doing his best to make sure no one believes there's _any_ difference between conservatism and socialism.

As a person who was halfway willing to vote for McCain up until the last couple of weeks (come on down Mr. Barr!), I can totally understand the gain in polls. However, I think it's hardly an "insurmountable" lead--and I for one think these statements are both racism themselves as well as a form of voter intimidation.

Dude, I don't understand why you insist on harping on this theme. If Obama loses you bet your ass race will be one of the reasons cited, if he wins because african american voters in Ohio, North and South Carolina come out to vote in insane numbers, race will be cited. Hi, welcome to political punditry. These people are paid to fill airtime with talking.

So, if he wins that'll prove racism in America is over, right? Right?

year, NDS, sited it will be - but by whom?

So, if he wins that'll prove racism in America is over, right? Right?

I'm sure there are those who will claim that, then again, change the channel and you'll hear something else. That's how it goes.

I think that Mccain was brain-washed while he was a pow and that he is slipping back into what they want him to be with the statement "my fellow prisioners" anyone else think that was strange????

Blah blah blah, remember when Lieberman lost and the Holocaust came back?

This racism thing is such nonsense and Barack more than anyone has been using it since day one. I'd say it's his crutch but I'm sure that's racist. and I'm reluctant to diminish those who use an actual crutch.

By the way, did you hear what Jesse Jackson said about Barack and Israel today? The self hating but liberal loving Jews that vote for this fool are really in for an eye opening experience (a deserved one at that).

ari, if you add one for every time Obama has mentioned his colour and take one away for every time McCain mentions he was a pow, you're looking at a serious minus number.

Yes but one did little but be born it and the other willfully endured it. Since when is being born something (and not having gone the Michael Jackson skin-bleaching)an achievement? It's not like he had the choice of opting out and didn't. Besides, look at the choices Barack has made and look at who he associates with - these are not proud, honorable men. These (Ayers, White, Jesse Jackson) are the very worst of society. A criminal, a racist hatemonger and a douchebag. What's so impressive? I'm completely missing it.

Bryan, Obama doesn't have to mention race, because his surrogates are doing it every frickin' chance they get. If the race issue dooms Obama, it won't be because of his skin, it'll be because of the backlash against this transparent, ham-handed attempt to manipulate voters.

I think I love Ari.

"This racism thing is such nonsense and Barack more than anyone has been using it since day one."

Obama is the biggest con artist masquerading as a politician that I have ever seen. (And I count the intermittent episodes where Al Sharpton putatively ran for office.) The one constant in his campaign is that if he lays down some lofty principle that his administration will follow, his campaign will immediately violate it and blame the stink on his opponent.

The best that we can hope for is that Obama wants to be President for purely narcissistic reasons, a la Bill Clinton. The worst that we might get is some nightmare combination of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon.

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