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October, 2008 |
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It's Time to Vote, Don't You Think? |
Let’s Vote
By Al Owens
Harry Truman got himself reelected just two weeks, and two days after the day I
was born.
Back then, I was a Republican. (I didn’t quite develop any real capacity for
rational thought until I reached kindergarten)
There I was, drooling in my crib, when I opened the Morning Herald on November
3rd, 1948 – and I read that terrifying headline: TRUMAN SURPRISES!
It was enough to make me swallow my pacifier.
I’d fallen into the trap of believing the latest Gallup poll. That Thomas E.
Dewey, the Republican governor of New York, would become the new president of
the United States.
I didn’t know, until I could learn to read whole sentences, that the polls had
been wrong.
Those Gallup people hadn’t anticipated the undecided vote, would eventually
decide to vote for Truman.
Gallup had made the decision to stop counting potential votes a week before the
election. It was the biggest polling blunder in the history of presidential
polls.
Tuesday will mark the 16th presidential election since I was born. As I write
this, Barack Obama is leading John McCain in just about all of the major polls.
And there are probably as many polls as there are people. I don’t care. There is
only one poll that really matters. The Al Owens Pulse Beat/Common Sense Poll has
Barack Obama up by 100% over John McCain. You do the math.
If you don’t, I will. I didn’t conduct any extensive telephone surveys to arrive
at my conclusion. I just looked in the mirror.
On election day, Obama will have withstood 552 days of questioning about: flag
pins, his birth place, his “missing” birth certificate, his ex-preacher Jeremiah
Wright, Bill Ayers, his supposed Muslim background, his accused ties to the
“Chicago” style politics, his ‘lipstick on a pig’ comment, his supposed
“socialist” intentions, his alleged “plagiarism,” his (somehow) negative
celebrity status, his wife’s rumored “hatred” for America, his oft-mentioned
“lack of experience” in light of his inability to answer 3 AM phone calls, his
misreported refusal to salute the American flag, his newly defined deficiency
for once being a community organizer, his falsely reported ultra-liberal
inclinations, his unfairly claimed arrogance, his suddenly negative gift of
inspirational speechmaking and, of course, the fact he is Barack Obama.
Yet, most of the polls (the ones other than mine) show he could whip John
McCain’s butt.
No amount of phony bluster that Obama will turn our country into a fourth rate
power, has stuck.
John McCain and Sarah the Shopper are going down – and they’re taking their
fellow Republicans with them.
‘Tis a pity.
That “Joe the Plumber” nonsense is just another example of how their political
campaign is really showing voters how chaotic their administration would be.
They’ve simply lied about the fact that the Obama campaign has “investigated”
their precious “Joe.” (His full name is really Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. I’ve
never heard Obama or one of his surrogates even mention that, or the numerous
flaws in the “Joe the Plumber” resume)
They’ve even gone so far as to say that “Joe,” when confronting Obama told him
his plan “sounds like socialism.”
Once again, there’s videotape of the entire meeting between Obama and
Wurzelbacker. “Joe” never used the word socialism, or socialistic or anything
like it.
When “Joe” did surface at a McCain rally, though, he agreed with a questioner in
the audience when he advanced the notion that a vote for Obama would be a vote
for the “death of Israel.”
“I'm going to go ahead and agree with you on that,” Joe, er Samuel replied.
Even Fox News, of all people, was appalled by such conclusions at a political
rally.
Fox’s Shepard Smith confronted “Joe/Sam” about his attack on Obama.
‘Barack Obama has said repeatedly, time-after-time, that there is nothing more
important than the United States friendship with Israel. He could not have been
clearer about that in his positions and in his speeches,” Smith said.
“Joe/Sam,” evermore the McCain loyalist, indicated he’d formed that opinion
based on everything he’s heard.
Ironically, he’d probably heard that right on Fox News.
Edward A. Owens of Uniontown is Webmaster of “Red Raider Nation: Where Champions
Live.” E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net
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