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Prospects for 2008
 Before
you pull that lever for Barack Obama, latest darling of the liberal media, ask yourself a
simple question: At this point in our
history,  can
we afford to bestow the nation’s highest
office on a suicide bomber?
I know,
I know. The Clinton camp is denying it had anything to do with the story
ascribed to them by Insight magazine, an offshoot of the
Moonie-owned Washington Times, that Obama attended a
radical Muslim school in his formative years. And if you believe that, I have
some choice real estate in downtown Baghdad you may be interested in.
This
story has “Clinton” written all over it. Which is not to say
it’s necessarily false. These people know how to dig up dirt on their
opponents. That’s the devilish part of it. We can’t dismiss the
possibility that Obama, if elected, would self-destruct at the very moment of
his inauguration, taking the Chief Justice and other dignitaries with him.
Before
you call me prejudiced, ask yourself honestly if you would feel entirely at
ease boarding an airliner with this guy. How does he even get through airport
security with a name like Barack Hussein Obama? Half the
people who check you out at the airport look like al-Qaeda operatives anyway.
Yes,
the 2008 presidential race is already in full swing. And these are some of the
thorny issues the American voter will have to face in the months ahead.
There
are other issues to consider. Just what are Hillary’s qualifications for
the presidency, anyway? If having been Bill Clinton’s main squeeze
qualifies you, why not Monica Lewinsky? Since we last heard from her, she
has been studying at the prestigious London School of Economics. So much
for the idea that she is a silly floozy. She has acquired undeniable gravitas.
All she needs now is an exploratory committee. She already has the chief
qualification for a world leader: name recognition.
Obama
has other problems. Al Sharpton points out that he is not really
“black,” in the sense that none of his ancestors were slaves. At
least not in America. Nor has Obama taken a position on the Duke University
lacrosse team and Tawana Brawley, or whoever she is.
![[Breaker quote for Prospects for 2008: Presidential hopefuls galore]](2007breakers/070123.gif) Bill
Richardson, a governor,
has also entered the race, claiming to be Hispanic. So has John Edwards,
though, uniquely among Democratic presidential hopefuls, he doesn’t
claim to be anything, except maybe an Iowan.
On the
Republican side, several dozen candidates have announced plans to form
exploratory committees. All of them are white males, claiming only a single
qualification: none of them is named Bush. One admits that his name is
McCain, and he has set himself apart from all the others by urging that more
young Americans be sent to Iraq. When the incumbent leaves office,
American troops will still be there and Donald Trump and Rosie
O’Donnell will still be at war. Trump is a Sunni, O’Donnell a
Shi’ite. Can’t we all just get along? Not just yet.
One
issue unites all the candidates of both parties: Nobody wants to revive the
U.S. Constitution. For those voters who may be interested (a tiny splinter of
the electorate), the quaintly named Constitution Party will be on the ballot in
some states. If it wins, the U.S. Supreme Court will overrule the election as
unconstitutional. This may seem paradoxical, unless you consider that the
entire Constitution grossly violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
If
Hillary wins the presidency, an old principle will kick in: Buy one, get one free.
Buy Hillary, and they’ll throw Bill in with her. Not only that, but
we’ll get some of that White House furniture back. No other candidate
can match this offer. Of course we should demand a pledge that she
won’t let Bill rent out the Lincoln Bedroom this time.
In
addition, Hillary may have trouble getting her agenda through Congress. Even
when the Democrats controlled it, it rejected her national health-care plan.
So with a larger Republican majority, she would probably fail again. A vote for
Hillary may therefore be a vote for gridlock, which is about the best we can
realistically hope for now.
It has
been observed that not since 1976 have we had an election with neither a
Bush nor a Clinton on either party’s ticket. Think about that.
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