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February 29th, 2008 at 11:05 am

Is 2008 the New ‘68?

in: Election 2008, Opinion, Presidential Candidates

Richard Geno of ChronWatch has an excellent article up comparing this year’s Presidential campaigns to those of the 1968 Presidential election. Geno compares Hillary to Hubert Humphrey and Barack Hussein Obama to Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. Both failed to get their Party’s nomination. Humphrey beat McCarthy in the fight for the nomination and Kennedy fell victim to an assassin’s bullet in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Like Kennedy and McCarthy, Barack Hussein Obama is running as the 100% anti-war candidate according to Geno.

Barack Obama is playing the role of Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy. Both Kennedy and McCarthy took stands early in the political season to be 100% anti-war. Barack Obama has done the same thing. Sticking close to the Hollywood script, Barack has two last names that are both memorable–Hussein and Obama (or as Teddy Kennedy first introduced him a few years ago: Osama).

Isn’t it ironic that Teddy “The Lush” Kennedy is one of Barack Hussein Obama’s strongest supporters in the Senate?

Clinton is mired in a campaign fight that seems she cannot win. Like Humphrey in the General in ‘68, she can’t seem to get enough traction to over-come Hussein Obama’s charismatic hold on his rabid followers. If she cannot win big in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, she may as well drop out. As Geno puts it…

The stage is set for two campaigns. First, the Young Turks of the Democrat Party (in this case played by one man with two names) running against the Old Guard who claims to have 35 years of experience. Then, the winner will face a runoff against the person who would be the oldest first term president in U.S. history.

Like the hold Jim Jones had over his Kool-Aid drinking minions in 1978, Hussein Obama has rock star status and like almost all rock stars is ready to fizzle out as he begins to face a different opponent in the real race for the Presidency. He has been able to ride a wave of support largely based on his rhetoric and empty platitudes. Once the people realize that he is vastly underqualified to become the leader of the free world he will go the way of the Betamax and 5 1/4″ floppy disk.

What I’m really wondering is if Hussein Obama can survive the recent revelations about his ties to terrorists? This nation has been at war with Islamic Terrorist since 2001. Terrorists have been at war with us since 1994. He is allied with a domestic terrorist named William Ayers. He received an endorsement from Louis Farrakhan which he refuses to reject. Where is the public outrage?

Also like ‘68, there is a massive protest being planned for the Democratic Convention in Denver this August. Anti-war protesters are trying to “Recreate 68“. What I wonder is Denver going to get out of control like Chicago did? Geno wonders as well…

All we need is a mayor from Chicago named Richard Daley, and we would have the stage set for the wildest convention since 1968. Amazing as it seems, we do have a man named Richard Daley as the mayor of Chicago. Can we expect riots in Denver in August?

If Denver’s mayor is inept like Daley, they will.

Enter the Nixon Character - John McCain. McCain has many of the Party Faithful disillusioned. His “checkers” incident is a string of anti-Conservative pieces of legislation. McCain-Feingold which quelled free speech and favors Democrat backed Unions and 527 groups, McCain-Kennedy which would have (if passed) granted amnesty to upwards of 20 million illegal aliens, and McCain-Lieberman which would pose huge punitive taxes on companies in the name of “global warming“. The right was hoping for a Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan type and we got Richard Nixon instead. Or actually, Gerald R. Ford.

McCain has a lot of work to do to win the hearts and minds of Conservatives; but he seems disinterested in doing it. He had an opening when the New York Times printed that slimy article about him. A piece so distasteful that their own Ombudsman denounced it. But McCain didn’t take advantage. He had to go on CNN and denounce Bill Cunningham for using Barack Hussein Obama’s full name 3 times. Wrong move Johnny.

I’m moving in John’s direction but we need more out of him or I’m voting for another John on November 4th. John McClane (h/t: Ace of Spades).

Note:

Richard Geno has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and also has a master’s degree and Ph.D. He is a life coach, the author of the book, “The Balanced Life Experience: A Roadmap to Having It All,” and president of the Conservative Forum of Silicon Valley, whose website is: www.theconservativeforum.com

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  • 1

    I think it’s funny that anyone can take the Obama-the-antiwar-candidate claim seriously.

    Libertarian Jason on February 29th, 2008
  • 2

    I never said that I believe that he is truly anti-war. What I meant is that he is perceived as anti-war.

    Gribbit on February 29th, 2008