Here’s the Huckster on Jay Leno: "People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off."
Cute, but no cigar. Rather, as Cobb puts it, when the world is going to hell, we look for someone with a good hand on the wheel of the whole American handbasket. And that’s not likely to be the guy we work with.
Slate’s Mickey Kaus finds journalists already are admitting that the O man will likely get a free ride from the MSM, because they’ll be afraid to criticize a black man. Sounds exactly right to me. They painted themselves into a PC corner a long time ago and won’t be able to get out. My money says Obama cannot be elected president for a variety of very good reasons, all of them involving his politics and his junior status, and none of them involving his race. But his race also is one reason he won’t be elected. Presidents are elected by the most consistent voters, who are the older white folks, not the so-called youth vote (which has never been reliable yet) and they won’t be able to shake their old ingrown disdain for black people, which is strengthened daily by rap, gangsta behavior and the hip-hop culture in general. That Obama ain’t like that will be a relief to them but it won’t change their attitude. Just a fact, folks, live with it. Now, as these older white folks of my parent’s generation die off–and they are dying off every day–the dynamic will change. How it will change remains to be seen.
Via Instapundit
So Huckleberry, the shuck, and Obama, the jive, win in Iowa. Does it matter? I doubt it. Huckleberry does not appeal to most Republicans and Obama, whose anti-war views will appeal to a majority of Democrats, and therefore could get him nominated, ain’t likely to get elected. My two cents, anyway.
UPDATE: Cobb has a good analysis. He calls it his emotionalism, but it sounds logical to me. Except that he would not vote for Huckleberry if he was the nominee. I can’t believe he will be, but I could never vote Democrat as the party and its leaders are currently constituted. Important, also, to recall that Reagan lost Iowa in 1980, and Dukakis did in 1988. Didn’t stop either one from being nominated.
You know, that book that occasionally gets flushed. Allegedly gets flushed. Well, it makes steam…
"If a person replaces most of the water in his body with Koranic water, his body begins to emit steam which contains the Koran. This creates a halo of steam around him, containing the Koran, which fends off Satan."
Holy steam, Batman. (Translated from Dubai TV, via MEMRI and Mick Hartley.) You can’t make this stuff up.
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Beldar, our favorite "trial" lawyer–even if he is in Houston–says it’s time for us Texans to shell out for our fav GOP candidate, even if it ‘s just $25. In order to have any say in choosing the nominee, that is, since the choice is likely to have been made by the time the Texas primary rolls around. He’s for Fred, of course, and makes a good case. I may be just a little too liberal for Fred since I still like Rudy. But I agree with him that the Reps are going to run the table on the Dems next year, whichever candidate is chosen.
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In case you didn’t get your presents on Tuesday. Looks like they could be late. Real late.
(Lifted from Soobdujour.)
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 