[Peace-discuss] After you've gone & left me crying...

[E. Wayne Johnson]

 >>Horse-race politics" (= who's ahead? - as in sports teams)
...betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not 
staked.

It looks like a(n) (easy) win for Obot over the Romulan from here.

The would-be supporters of the broadly yet intensely despised HC have 
been warned off already
as being disastrous to an otherwise narrow but certain Democrat victory.

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 >>"I don't think about Sarah Palin," Obama told Baba Wawa last week

The Black King was dreaming about Sarah.
In his dream Sarah was dreaming about the Black King.
And that dream, the Black King was dreaming about Sarah...

On 11/27/2010 1:05 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> ["Horse-race politics" (= who's ahead? - as in sports teams) is one of 
> the ways we're conditioned to avoid talk about real politics (= whose 
> interests are being served? - as in classes) in this country.  But 
> understanding how our rulers are manipulating the political class is 
> the beginning of thinking about how to oppose them.  Otherwise we're 
> likely to be sold another bill of goods, like Obama. Here Alexander 
> Cockburn speculates about what's going down with the next US 
> presidential election.]
>
> ...The 2012 battlefield could turn out to offer the voters a choice 
> not of three but of four serious candidates. The last time this 
> happened was in 1948, which saw a fierce contest between the Democrat 
> Harry Truman and the Republican Thomas Dewey, and also, on the left, 
> the Progressive Party's Henry Wallace (formerly FDR's vice president) 
> and on the right the pro-segregation Dixiecrats, led by Strom Thurmond.
> The wild card for the Republicans is Sarah Palin. She has made it 
> clear she's contemplating a run for the nomination, and not a week 
> goes by but that the Republican high command gnashes its teeth at her 
> enduring popularity with the party base, which is unfazed by Palin's 
> gaffes with which the pundits and late-night comedians have such 
> sport. The latest is her designation of North Korea as America's 
> trusted client and ally.
> But pundits and late-night comedians don't turn out in primaries and 
> caucuses, and Palin's supporters do. It's to the low and middle-income 
> populist Republicans that Palin is playing when she snaps back at 
> former first lady Barbara Bush who told Larry King she hoped Palin 
> would stay in Alaska. Palin promptly played the class card: "I think 
> the majority of Americans don't want to put up with the bluebloods." 
> She may not know much about the Koreas, but Palin can be a sharp 
> counterpuncher.
> If Palin does make a strong showing in the early primaries and the 
> frantic Republican leadership cannot find an opponent tasked with 
> overwhelming her and beating Obama, then we could see another 
> independent making a challenge for the Republican/independent 
> constituency.
> And who would that be? The man with the money and the ambition for the 
> role is the present mayor of New York, 68-year old Michael Bloomberg, 
> the tenth richest man in the United States, who quit the Republican 
> Party in 2007.
> Last month, the Committee to Draft Michael Bloomberg announced it was 
> renewing efforts to persuade Bloomberg to wage a presidential campaign 
> in 2012. Bloomberg's repeated denials of any intention to run are not 
> taken as gospel.
> An Obama-Feingold-Palin-Bloomberg donneybrook would make the 2011-2012 
> political season one to look forward to. "I don't think about Sarah 
> Palin," Obama told Barbara Walters last week when she asked him if he 
> felt he could beat the Alaskan, who had earlier told Walters she could 
> beat the President in 2012.
> Mr President, you lie! Of course you think about Palin. Each night, as 
> you and Michelle kneel at the bedside in prayer to the Disposer 
> Supreme, you jointly implore him to ensure Palin wins the Republican 
> nomination. Obama knows who came from behind in that 1948 four-way 
> race: the Democrat, Harry Truman.
>
> Read more: 
> http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/72028,news-comment,news-politics,alexander-cockburn-white-house-2012-whos-ready-for-a-four-way-race,2#ixzz16SItN1gj 
>
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