"Krauthammer Gives The Race To Obama By Greg Sargent - October 3, 2008, 10:24AM

One thing to watch for: Prominent conservatives essentially conceding that the race is over. This morning, none other than Charles Krauthammer waves the white flag:

Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he's a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In the foreign policy debate with McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama held his own -- fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president.

As if that weren't enough, Krauthammer also compares Obama's temperament to that of Ronald Reagan, causing no shortage of wailing and gnashing of teeth at McCain's Arlington HQ. Not exactly the message the McCain team wanted from conservative megaphones on the morning after Sarah Palin's big makeover debate"

from today's talking points memo

Holy shit

Take that statement home for the weekend, Mikey. Don't hang it in the closet next to your thailor thuit and leather duds, I mean try it on for size. Best get used to it now, because Obama is no Ronald Reagan, and you're going to be hearing this expression a lot if he wins in November......

Was on a billboard in Massachusetts in 1972 that said ‘don’t blame us--we voted for McGovern.’ Blame for some reason is always the one thing there's an abundance of. I somehow doubt that Obama will be Nixon.

You know—the reality is you’re losing. Not because McCain is bad (he’s not) or because Democrats or Republicans are intrinsically evil (they’re not—nothing is inherently good or bad but use makes it so) but because the we’re reaping the results of the past two decades of shitty economic policy. It happens to be on a Republican watch when it’s melting down.

The result is that people will vote for anything different, reasoned or not, better or not. That’s how Americans vote. Over stupid shit. They voted for Bush because they were grossed out over Clinton’s blow job and wanted to have a beer with W. That’s how this country votes.

Two things you have to fear—the economy blows this thing Obama’s way (cf Michigan) and you don’t really know the size or shape of Obama’s support (web 2.0, non-traditional information consumers, non poll accounted for voters).

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong… but if you’re a betting man, that’s the way to go.

on both sides of an issue statement so as not to turn out completely wrong when all is said and done. Imagine that.

Last night he said that Biden beat Palin on the issues and Palin beat Biden on image . . . and it's image that counts in politics. Still the vp debate is over and now it is back to McCain and Obama.

Obama is formidable and had they let him season as they should have for another four to eight years then he would have naturally built up a substantial leadership resume rather than the artificially hyped faux leadership image created and backed by the pro-Obama national press. It's the artificial nature,and his propping up by the national press, that is preventing Obama from just walking away with this election as he SHOULD be doing after the utter dissaster that has been the Bush Administration.

But when all is said and done Obama is a political rookie with vast potential that was brought into play at least four years too soon for prime time politics, and that's what's giving McCain a real fighting chance.

If there is any possible way for the DNC to shoot itself in the foot they find it and they found that way when they deliberately backed Obama rather than Hillary Clinton.

He MAY win, but if so it will be by a vote squeaker and he won't enter office with the mandate that he should own. not that it will matter because if he does win then he will enter office with a rubber stamp Democratic Party dominated legislative branch eager to do his bidding.

So it will be the flip side nightmare of irresponsibility and self-indulgence of the previous eight years only with a Democratic Party spin to it. It's always bad news for the nation when one party dominates and you know it.

to be (ever so slightly) more presentable among reputable folks, but "substantively" (to use the term with ill-advised, reckless abandon of all pretense of accuracy) and ethically indistinguishable.

Hello ankle-biter. How's snacking down there?

Demcon:

Hello ankle-biter. How's snacking down there?

Morning,demcon. sigh...I see the bots are on hysteria mode and melting all over the board again. my my my...that so called lightweight,unthreatening litttle Sarah Palin certainly has them in a tizzy again,eh?.

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anti-Palin spin of the rabidly pro-Obama national press corps and honestly believed that she was a political lightweight who was going to fall apart on stage last night.

Collectively they are horrified that she did quite well and that the McCain campaign is not finished. Now they are coming to the bitter realization that for the first time in his life Obama has to bring home a win entirely on his own merits [well, with the aide of the national press corps, of course; but then that is a given] and Obama STILL can't close the deal.

Recall that these were the people who believed that this campaign was going to be a cakewalk for whatever democratic candidate survived the nomination scrum pile. It never dawned on them that the nation may not be ready to elect a first term senator with radical leftist ties during these hard economic times.

I noticed that [just as I predicted yesterday] already these political airheads are declaring the race essentially won by Obama/Biden and are having a pre-victory celebration before the voting is finished. It's as if they truly believe that political realities are meaningless and that wishing 'makes it so.'

These are the same people who were convinced that John Kerry was going to win in 2004.

Palin managed to get across the fact that she is very common sense on issues like Gay rights and then she went a step futher to make sure she reassured the public she has many diverse people among her own family and friends, thus reassuring the public she is a tolerant human being which is the antithesis of the crazed right wing religious zealot the left has tried to portray her as.

She's one smart cookie.

She even challenged the left wing media to bring up the debate's key talking points. Of course they won't which will only prove her point about their selective negative portrayal of her.

She's quite good and accomplished a great deal in reaffirming just why indeed her Executive Experience in an Energy Rich State matters..McCain made a formidable choice in choosing her.

And so today, this is why we are seeing this panic state among some of the worst of the Koolade crowd.

Take care for now demcon....see you here soon.

Keep up the Good fight and always ....remember to

have fun!

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Collectively they are horrified that she did quite well and that the McCain campaign is not finished.

Not really. Yes, she did better than expected; no, nobody's horrified that she did so well.

These are the same people who were convinced that John Kerry was going to win in 2004.

Compare and contrast current polls with Kerry's numbers at around this time in 2004:

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Numbers like 46/45, 49/49, 48/45.

McCain could still win: if I recall correctly, Nixon was ahead by 10-15 points in early October in 1968 and just barely squeaked by. But he's got a difficult task ahead of him.

And so today, this is why we are seeing this panic state among some of the worst of the Koolade crowd.

Who exactly is panicking?