The candidate who couldn’t win did; How Barack Obama won the presidency

The Republicans were beat BADLY, and now they will spend the next few years licking their wounds while trying to figure out how a far-left radical named Barack Obama could beat an experienced and well respected national hero like John McCain. My personal opinion is that “the fix was in” the moment he was put on the ticket, and the “forces that be” within the United States put together a political machine that not only broke the rules, but crossed ethical and morals lines which shouldn’t have been crossed. Never before have I seen a politician and his supporters go to this extreme to win an election, and I found it downright disgusting that they got away with what as much as they did. We are now seeing the beginning of what can only be described as a dark chapter in modern American history, but before we start preparing for the 2010 midterm elections, or even the 2012 Presidential elections, let’s see where we went wrong…

The Candidate – John McCain is head and shoulders above Barack Obama. There is no one in this presidential race that could compare to John’s strength of character and loyalty to his country… BUT this wasn’t a race he could win with his dedication to fair play and common decency. Did we see any of that from either Barack Obama or Joe Biden? I don’t think anyone can defend how they villainized McCain, Sarah Palin and supporters like Joe Wurzelbacher this election, and John shouldn’t have allowed it to happen. It showed weakness, weakness which David Axelrod played to. Having painted Hillary and Bill Clinton as racists, the Obama campaign had pushed McCain into playing safe, far too safe to be effective against a Chicago-styled political machine.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright should have been the subject of character attacks since Obama was put on the Democratic ticket, but not just him. Since Barack had relied upon the strength of Trinity United Church of Christ to help him get elected to the Illinois Senate in the first place, than Republicans should have used this long time connection to tear his Presidential campaign apart. McCain campaign workers should have confiscated church bulletins which had reportedly republished Hamas newsletters, and distributed copies to various agencies, let alone video tapes of his sermons preaching this kind of hate. The “Maverick” however crippled his own campaign by not taking such serious actions. You wouldn’t have seen Rudy Giuliani holding back like that, nor would Fred Thompson have been so respectful to a man who didn’t deserve it. Matter of fact, by treating Barack Obama as a “respected equal”, a term I am using very lightly, he helped justify him to sceptical voters.

What good came out of picking him? Well thanks to John McCain, Republicans have found Sarah Palin, the rising star of the conservative right. The media couldn’t destroy her, she proved to be even more popular than Barack Obama, and if the Republicans want to embarass Democrats next election, they would either nominate her or at the very least, have Palin as a running mate. If you ask me though, I would put her as the Presidential nominee and have Giuliani as her running mate, someone capable of getting their hands dirty. He took on the Mafia, indicted the head of the Five Families, he won’t bend to David Axelrod’s politics.

The Media – The main stream press played a destructive role to the McCain campaign. Every scandal that should have destroyed Obama’s presidential bid, they suppressed, they spun, they refused to allow any serious coverage to, knowing the damage it would do to “The One”. Even now, after the election is over, they are still fight to protect his image and preserve their victory. Chris Matthews, in an uncharacteristically noble attempt to regain any credibility, made mention that “The One” wasn’t as clean as many would hope, made reference to the fact that he went against his word and didn’t take public financing. Keith Olbermann, in response, attacked Matthews, refused to let his co-anchor tarnish Obama’s reputation. NewsBusters covered this story, and have a video of the incident between Matthews and Olbermann if you wish to watch it.

Brian Williams also took time out election night to attack Joe Wurzelbacher, something Rick Sanchez did as well earlier in the day, turning an interview with the Plumber himself into a character assassination. Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, and David Gergen and Roland Martin on CNN were trying to paint Obama as a “Centrist” especially after he was been elected, trying to make Barack more “marketable” to those who voted against him. All these efforts show their overwhelming support for the Democratic candidate, something McCain should have pointed out earlier in the campaign. Giuliani and Palin excited crowds with speeches at the RNC this year outlining the gross media bias, and when Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson villainized Sarah Palin in two disgusting interviews, the Republicans should have turned around and outted them as the partisan hacks they truly are. When Dan Rather reported on President George W. Bush’s military record, the Bush campaign fought back, exposed his bias, and sent a message to the rest of the MSM. They knew not to cross the line, the knew that doing so would cost them their credibility, but we didn’t see that this time around. It was worse than these news stories though…

The debates were more than slanted in Obama’s favour. All three debate moderators came out in support of Obama after their lack-luster performances, but no mention was made by the McCain campaign of this. One of them even had a book dedicated to Barack Obama, so why wasn’t anything done to prevent them from derailing these debates? Why couldn’t moderators be selected who didn’t have such obvious bias? It was a mistake for McCain to sit back and watch as this all went on, and it frustrated his supporters. The weak minded fell for these games, and John didn’t do anything to change their minds. He let uneducated and easily swayed voters believe what CBS, PBS, MSNBC and CNN tell them without offering any resistance. How many people know of Bernadine Dohrn? Sure they know of Bill Ayers, but many don’t know that him and his wife Dohrn still wish for the destruction of various American institutions. How many know of Rashid Khalidi and his antisemitic streak? Obama has been friends with this man and his Jew-hating wife Mona for years, but no one seems to know of this. What about Raila Odinga? Forget Vladamir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Barack is already friends with Kenya’s future tyrant, a man who supports radical Islam in his country and around Africa. That alone could have cost Obama the election, except no one knows about it. When you let your opponent have that much control over the spread of information, there is no way to win. This, more than anything, was the cause of McCain’s loss.

Campaign Financing – The Republican campaigns of the past were known for their ability to raise money. The Bush campaign’s “war chest” was feared by Democrats, various liberal groups spoke against it, discussing how it was a sign of Republican corruption… But where were they when Barack Obama out-fund-raised all previous Presidential campaigns? McCain-Feingold has accomplished what it was set to do, tie the hands of Republicans and allow for Democrats to LITERALLY buy an election. Barack Obama is the first President since Richard Nixon to refuse public financing, and it wasn’t “for the good of the country”, it was because he knew he needed to out-spend McCain in order to win. With all the money he raised, he could provided for the poor and downtraughten like he said he would, too bad though his history of donating to charity (or lack there of) doesn’t show him to be so kind.

Wake up America, he bought what he wanted, the question now is what he will do for those who gave him the money. We saw this with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, we saw this with Fannie-Mae, don’t expect his administration of “Hope and Change” to be anything but paying back the favours that got him elected. With all that money, he out-spent McCain two, three, four times as much depending on the state. Campaign commercials which even the Washington Post couldn’t believe, campaign events which would make Hitler, Stalin and Mao blush, and let’s not forget his “Obamamercial”, a complete waste of money which highlighted his own megalomania. It is hard to ignore the hypocrisy of the “Hope and Change” candidate taking the oldest road into power, gaining admiration and respect of overly naive voters simply because he has more “green” then they do. It is amazing, watching these people flock to him they way they did, somehow ignoring his overwhelming flaws because he of the size of his campaign’s “wallet”. McCain should have seen this, he should have been able to see how Barack could gain justification for his Presidency through money alone, but he didn’t.

Instead of challenging this, McCain stuck to his principles and went with public financing instead of relying upon the Republican’s natural ability to vacuum up campaign donations. The problem with this John is that neither Obama or Biden have principles, neither of them have lines they will not cross, and we have seen their worst during this election. Once again, I am dumbfounded that anyone could ignore attacks by their campaign and supporters on Sarah Palin’s children and her abilities as a mother, let alone their vicious and still continuing assault on Joe Wurzelbacher. Money was and is the symbol of Obama’s lack of morals, and the Republicans should have challenged him on this. He traded political favours in the Illinois Senate to gain campaign donations and other favours, he sold out his own “white” family to publish a disturbing and very “Mien Kampf”-ish book which made him a modest profit, and who knows where even half of that money he raised for his Presidential campaign actually came from, especially seeing that more then $200 million of it is foreign donations, some of which has been traced back to Palestinian controlled Gaza. McCain should have gone back on his promise to take public financing to prevent Barack Obama and his supporters, who ever they maybe be, from buying the Presidency.

Barack Obama’s Race – Let’s not pretend otherwise, this election was won mainly because of Obama’s race. He is THE affirmative action President, someone appointed to a position because they are a visible minority. This is why the Press supported him, this is why he had such pull with the black community, this is why so many political strategies weren’t tried and so many other failed. Do you think for one second the Republicans wouldn’t have thrown “everything including the kitchen sink’ at him if he was “Bernard O’Donald” and not Barack Hussein Obama? It boggles the mind how anyone could buy into this political correct garbage in a Post-9/11 world. We have seen what this naivety can bring, we have seen how race-baiters like Jessie Jackson, who was reportedly crying when Obama won, abuse this flaw to further their own radical agenda, so why didn’t Republicans do anything about it? It was wrong to think that by ignoring legitimate avenues of attack, that they would somehow not be called “racist” this time around, as they have been for years now. Someone should put out an infomercial going over the history of the Republican party and they rights they championed for blacks in America…

Since race was his strength, why not turn it against him? Every time he talked about his ethnic Kenyan roots, there should have been a campaign advertisement about his support for the Kenyan tyrant Raila Odinga, and how Obama even backs him now after Odinga’s supporters slaughtered of more than 1,500 Kenyan Christians. Every time he opened his mouth about understanding the “struggle of blacks in white America”, people should have been discussing his relationships with Jeremiah Wright, James Meeks and Louis Farrakhan, black radicals who hate what America stands for. Every time he mentioned the racism of his opponents, they should have played a portion of the audio version of Dreams From My Father, showing his obsession with “black liberation” and his deeply rooted bigotry. Every time he was compared to Martin Luther King Jr, they should have discussed how the Civil Rights leader didn’t hold pro-abortion positions, discussed how he stood against the “segregation” Obama espouses, and that he was a Republican, not a race-baiting Democrat. How hard would that have been?

Instead of letting Barack and the Democrats control the discussion on race relations, Republicans should have shot back and reminded Americans that it wasn’t the Civil Right Era and that much of the race based policies that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr fought against were enacted by Democrats and a Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson. They should have researched and exposed his relationships with black radicals, and even connected him directly to Islamic terrorism by raising his relationship with Rashid Khalidi long before the final days of the election. Knowing that this man could justify anti-Israeli actions taken by groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, the same kind of actions we saw on September 11th of 2001, voters wouldn’t have thrown their support behind him like they did yesterday. Thrown in an in depth analysis on Black Liberation Theology, and he isn’t this transformative figure who will unite the races, he is just another “black power” radical. Why Americans couldn’t see this to begin with is beyond me…

The Bush Factor – President George W Bush’s poor public image was another reason why the Republicans were fighting an uphill battle this election. Let’s state the facts, not this fiction the Press has been feeding Americans for years, President Bush was a more than decent Commander-in-Chief. Sure he had overspent and expanded the national debt, but he steered America through some of the country’s worst times, starting with the IT collapse and 9/11 attacks. The War on Terror is what made George Bush unpopular, a war which many, including Bill Maher and John Stewart, supported just a few years ago. Forgetting that Bill Cinton had started a few international conflicts on his own, including the disastrous Somalian conflict and the misguided operation in Kosovo, many painted Bush as a “war monger”, something which anti-American radicals used to support their terror campaigns around the world. Let’s also not forget that his tax cuts, which actually generated job growth (and a decline in the unemployment rate) and GDP growth, were also villainized by Democrats who claim to be fighting for the “working class”. All in all, no matter the facts, the “truth” about Bush’s presidency is very negative.

In the last week or two of the campaign, John McCain began using this “I am not George Bush” line, something he should have been doing since he received the Republican nomination. No matter how false the message was, “four more years of Bush” caught on. Let’s ignore the fact that Barack Obama marched lock-step with his party more often than Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, let’s ignore that “The One” hasn’t shown the leadership necessary to be President, no matter what the facts are, the “truth” in this election was that John McCain was more of the same while the now President-elect was a new direction. The pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate helped silence that message a little, but not enough. The damage had been done already, and it didn’t help with such an uneducated mass of voters.

There isn’t much that could be done here. Much like with Gerald Ford’s loss to Jimmy Carter, he was blamed for the sins of Richard Nixon. It wasn’t Ford who made a fuss at Watergate, but he sure did pay a price for his predecessor’s mistake. In such ensuing chaos, we do see that Americans will blindly elect anyone who isn’t from the “guilty” party. I guess we can take solace in the fact that it took Jimmy Carter to produce Ronald Reagan… Let’s just hope Obama doesn’t due irreversible damage by the time the next election roles around and a Republican is elected.

The Federal Bailout – As I discussed in Destroying the economy to win votes, the failure of the first bailout was a political move. It wasn’t simply to let the bill fail to “pork-up” the next one, but to let Obama champion the second bailout to give him credibility on the issue of the economy. He gave his speech, the bailout passed, Democrats declare that it was Barack who saved the markets, and “The One” climbs in the polls… Looking at it now, it was probably this incident that doomed the McCain campaign. So what happened and what could have been done differently?

To start with, the failure of the first bailout and the over one trillion dollars lost shortly thereafter was attributed McCain, a sign of “weakness”, “proof” that he couldn’t be trusted to handle this situation. At the beginning of it, Harry Reid attacked John for showing up and trying to negotiate a bailout that both Democrats and Republicans could support. Instead of seeing this as proof that McCain could cross the aisle for the sake of the country, the media took an approach similar to that of Reid’s, blaming the “Maverick” for this whole situation. It seems they were willing to blame Republicans for the collapse of Fannie-Mae and Freddie-Mac as well, something liberal actor Alec Baldwin couldn’t even believe. Instead of pointing the blame at Democrats for creating this mess, seeing as how Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and the Congressional Black Caucus were the masterminds behind this fiasco, the MSM decided that it was President Bush’s fault for not preventing this disaster. So let me get this straight, Bush tried to prevent this along with a slew of other Republicans, including John McCain, but for some twisted reason they are to blame since they couldn’t push it past Democrats who were taking money from Fannie-Mae? I guess I have to be a Barack Obama supporter to understand that…

In any event, how could this have been avoided? The Republicans had only two strategies. The first one being that they should have thrown all their support behind McCain, passed this bailout and then took full credit for it while reminding voters that it was the Democrats who caused the housing market collapse. The “icing on this cake” would be that while McCain was showing leadership, Barack Obama was “phoning it in”. He should have even canceled the first debate, which turned out to be a disaster with that awful moderator, and went on TV following the bailout passing and discuss how putting the country before the election was important to him. The second strategy would have been to distance the McCain campaign from the bailout, vote against it, give speeches on the Democrats role in disaster, and tie Barack Obama directly to it by stating his relationship with Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson. The fact that the McCain campaign couldn’t choose one strategy and stick to it, hurt him. Barack Obama and other Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, cost the tax payers $700 billion, and they got away with it while he and Republicans were punished for their “sins”… Don’t ask me how it happened, it just did…

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Knowing all this, what can we do to prevent this sort of thing from happening again? Well firstly, let’s not starting blaming and attacking either of the candidates. To clarify, this is not something we can blame one person for, so let’s not try. I have spent much of this article pointing the finger at John McCain, but let’s remember that hindsight is 20/20 and we couldn’t have known that many of these choices would come back to haunt him. Would I have done somethings differently? Of course, but the Republicans had the odds stacked heavily against them thanks to a heavily biased media. Even the most damaging pieces of evidence were covered up, spun or simply ignored by the MSM to protect Barack Obama. Returning to a previous example, while many voters knew of Bill Ayers, few saw him as a former domestic terrorist, or as a dangerous anti-American radical. MSNBC and CNN reporters referred to him as a respected college professor, or at worse, a “Sixties Radical”, refusing to even acknowledge that his actions cost lives, that he has said on numerous occasions he doesn’t has remorse for what he, his wife Bernadine Dohrn, and others did, and that Ayers and other Weathermen have said they would do it again if the situation demanded. No Republican can be blamed for the Press not doing their job…

I would also like to address these new attacks on Sarah Palin. I read this on Michelle Malkin’s blog last night, that a few campaign staffers are now criticizing her, leaking information to the press about how she wasn’t “smart” or “professional” in the closing days and after the election. I would expect this kind of bullshit from Press agents attached to the McCain/Palin campaign, not staffers themselves. Palin is not to be blamed for any of this, you hear me? She was the reason John McCain came as close as he did. You see the SNL ratings? The crowds that turned out to see her? The ACTUAL reasonable following she had (not this “Cult of Personality” that surrounded Obama)? She scared the Democrats just like Ronald Reagan did. She wasn’t a hollow figure, she wasn’t easy to assault, she IS genuine, she truly loves her country, and she is far more determined that any of them will admit, THAT is why she terrified them, THAT is why they were so vicious towards her. If I wasn’t a supporter of both Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson, I would say we should skip the next nomination race and simply put Sarah at the top of the ticket for 2012. If these back-stabbers who are attacking Palin were actually loyal to the Republican party, this would worry me. I believe Sarah Palin is going to be an important figure for years to come, so let’s treat her with respect…

What can we do now that Barack Obama weaseled his way into power? Oppose him. As Kurt over at Flopping Aces said,

When Obama fails to act to defend America and its interests and allies, or violates the basic common-sense principles of national security and foreign policy, we will of course be unsparing in our criticism.

Do I believe that he will need defending from the left? No, but I do believe that we may have to defend some of his actions for the sake of others. If he supports increasing military funding, we support him, remembering to limit our “friendly fire”, only criticizing when he says something or does something that falls in line with his far-left radicalism. Anytime he discusses “bridging the racial divide” or about ending racism, we remind people about his connections among the “black power” community. Anytime he discusses troop withdraw or reducing military spending, we remind people about his anti-military positions. Anytime he discusses helping the middle class or “working Americans”, we remind people about his plans to “spread the wealth”. We write down every mistake he makes, every law he passes, we research every piece of legislation that gets voted on… We do this so that when the Republicans are back in power, they can undo most of, if not all the damage he will have done. Once again, with China and Russia moving away from socialistic economic policy, I don’t know why so many in the United States, especially uneducated college students, would want to give these same failed polices a shot…

If you love your country, don’t sit by and watch this man and his Democratic colleagues destroy it. We are now the opposition, lets act responsible, but lets make sure we can’t be ignored.

UPDATE: Flopping Aces’ Mike’s America is covering a story about Obama undercutting campaign workers. What did I say about his lack of charity? Well I guess we can chalk this up as his second broken promise…

UPDATE: I don’t understand why it took Evan Thomas, the editor of Newsweek, this long to realize Barack Obama’s “Cult of Personality”. Yes it is creepy Evan, and yes he is obsessed with his own self importance. I believe his nomination speech about how his election is what “we have been waiting for” shows precisely what kind of man we are dealing with. He is a textbook megalomaniac…

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin will be on Fox & Friends tomorrow, and I suggest you all watch it. Hot Air usually has the video up later, but still, I recommend you turn your TV on at about 7:30 Eastern for it. She will be discussing “Oprah Unleashed”… The video of “O” on her show today celebrating Barack Obama’s victory is already up on Michelle’s blog, give it a watch. No one was fooled by her claim, especially when she had Michelle Obama on her show a little while back, so she can cut that out right now… I would also suggest she put a “leash” on her “pride” because she looked downright scary… Crazy much Oprah?

UPDATE: If you didn’t catch it, Hot Air has Michelle Malkin’s appearance on Fox & Friends up already. I have to say it is rather disappointing to not see her on The Factor anymore, but after this election, I have to say that even I wasn’t impressed with the way Bill O’Reilly was acting. It would have been nice to see him stand up for Michelle during the Geraldo Rivera incident, especially since Rivera is such a tool…

UPDATE: I was on Michelle Malkin’s blog when I came across this. She has a point, I honestly don’t see the reason why Obama is obsessed with his temporary role as President-Elect. Why not take some time off, especially after a year of campaigning? It also doesn’t help that he was poking fun at Nancy Reagan, especially when she is in the hospital. What irks me is that he can get away with something as tasteless as that, when we can’t question him on his own words without being called a racist or something…

UPDATE: I was following this story over the weekend, but I doubt that anyone other than those who have been critical of Obama would even give it a second look; Louis Farrakhan “unleashed” and speaking about being “free at last” now that Barack Obama has been elected. As always, Michelle Malkin has it covered, even reporting on the Pfleger’s sermon this weekend. It is nice to see all the radicals have crawled out from under their rocks for all to see…

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