It Isn’t Just Me…..

………….who thinks Obama will lose big time. Spengler has a marvellous column that as far as I can tell hasn’t received a lot of attention. Its title, How Obama Lost the Election. Of course it’s a lot easier to chime in now with this stuff and I know I’m one of them there cock-eyed optimists, but all along I just couldn’t see Obama getting elected. In a long campaign such as the US election, you need a little more than charisma, high flying speech making and white guilt to sustain yourself, sooner or later people will notice there’s nothing there.

From the Spengler column:

Obama will spend the rest of his life wondering why he rejected the obvious road to victory, that is, choosing Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee. However reluctantly, Clinton would have had to accept. McCain’s choice of vice presidential candidate made obvious after the fact what the party professionals felt in their fingertips at the stadium extravaganza yesterday: rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain’s selection was a statement of strength. America’s voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.

That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event. Obama is the most talented and persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality. American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd, like animals. They can smell insecurity, and the convention stank of it. Obama’s prospective defeat is entirely of its own making. No one is more surprised than Republican strategists, who were convinced just weeks ago that a weakening economy ensured a Democratic victory.

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Don’t you get a bit tired of all the ‘didn’t see that one coming’ over the choice of Sarah Palin? Well we know the Dems didn’t see it coming, Obama probably thinks, as with the surge, nobody anticipated it. So how to explain this editorial , published before her speech at the convention, on her knowledge, importance and governorship of oil and gas rich Alaska? Some people besides John McCain and the GOP were aware of her. Worth reading the whole thing of course but I liked this passage, specially vis a vis her supposed inexperience, no wonder she’s disparaging of Obama’s Community Organizing.

Palin’s also given Congress something it can do now — remove restrictions on drilling for 30 billion barrels in the Chukchi Sea and all the natural gas of Beaufort Sea in Alaska’s offshore. As governor, she’s already gotten the environmental impact work out of the way so shipments to the Lower 48 can start in as little as a year or two. “Congress can do that for us right now,” she told IBD.

Palin knows energy. She’s already figured out how to deliver energy to the U.S. without Congress — by championing state legislation to create a 1,712-mile natural gas pipeline across Canada to the U.S.

It was a major feat, negotiating with the Canadian government, educating lawmakers and getting the public behind her. In a decade, the $30 billion project will ship 4.5 million cubic feet of gas a day from the North Slope to Houston’s air conditioners, Iowa’s farm machines and Boston’s winter furnaces.

There’s little doubt this is the kind of leadership the U.S. needs. Not only will getting serious about Alaska help the economy, it will also help our allies in Europe and the Far East whose economies are severely battered by high energy prices and who are seeing some of the most direct threats from the petrotyrants.

John McCain’s pick of Palin shows he’s serious about energy — and about securing America’s future. Congress mustn’t ignore Alaska any longer. Petrotyranny is moving beyond economics and becoming a national security issue. Alaska is a big part of the answer.

My bold. Why would McCain not pick her for his running mate?

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This one’s doing the rounds so you may have seen it already:

“What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama?”

“One is a well turned-out, good-looking, and let’s be honest, pretty sexy piece of eye-candy.

“The other kills her own food.”

From Chicago Boyz.

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