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Re: The Perfect Stranger


Oh, and by the way...

In Krauthammer's latest column, he says:

"Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus, who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone.

"Then, seeking a game-changer after the Democratic convention, Mr. McCain threw blind into the end zone to a waiting Sarah Palin. She caught the ball and, despite a few fumbles, invaluably solidifies his Republican base.

"When the financial crisis hit, Mr. McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring he'd stay away from the first presidential debate until the financial crisis was solved.

"He tempted fate one time too many. After climbing up on his high horse, Mr. McCain had to climb down. The crisis unresolved, he showed up at the debate regardless, rather abjectly conceding Barack Obama's mocking retort that presidential candidates should be able to do "more than one thing at once."

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"In an election in which all the fundamentals are working for the opposition, (McCain) feels he has to keep throwing long in order to keep hope alive. Nonetheless, his frenetic improvisation has framed his rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool.

"In the primary campaign, Mr. Obama was cool as in hip. Now Mr. Obama is cool as in collected. He has the discipline to let slow and steady carry him to victory...He understands that this election, like the election of 1980, demands only one thing of the challenger: Make yourself acceptable. Once Ronald Reagan convinced America that he was not menacing, he won in a landslide. If Mr. Obama convinces voters he is not too exotic or green or unprepared, he wins as well.

"In the foreign policy debate with Mr. McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr. Obama held his own – fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential.

"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." (Obama)'s got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president."

Even Charles Krauthammer see what is obvious: Barrack Obama is going to win this election. And he's going to win because he's displayed the kind of leadership ability, and calmness in the face of adversity and chaos, that John McCain has not. Instead, McCain has, in Krauthammer's words, thrown one Hail Mary pass after another, hoping against hope that one of them would get caught. As any sports fan knows, you only throw a Hail Mary when you're desparate. And it usually gets knocked down by the defense. And as a result, you lose.

John McCain is going to lose this election, and Barrack Obama is going to win. And that's a good thing for all of us.
 

 
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