Maggie's Farm

In 1857 the author Alexandre Dumas in his work Le Monte Cristo coined a masterfully enduring and aptly descriptive phrase, now used the world over:

Vous connaissez sa maxime, lorsqu'il veut découvrir un secret quelconque: cherchez la femme; dans ce cas la femme n'a pas été difficile à trouver
which translated means:

You know his maxim, when he wants to discover an unspecified secrecy: seek the woman; in this case the woman was not difficult to find

The world performed it's magical shorthand and the phrase became simply:

cherchez la femme .....seek the woman.

Michelle will do her part in alienating large parts of the electorate that originally fell in love with BO. His eroding support is now the subject of political scientists attempting to understand the race issue. Well it's not race it's BO. I would have several other African Americans in the WH in a heartbeat, it would do the nation good, but BO is the wrong one.

Michelle's big gaffe is coming...cherchez la femme.

alot of work and I get SPAM...baloney....I worked for 40 minutes preparing a piece and SPAM shows up..their must be a reason but damn,damn,damn.

Some interesting political science/psychological experiments on voters and race outlined in this article from the New Republic. An portion:

What, then, can the political psychology of race tell us about the current primaries and the coming general election? Clearly, Obama gained some votes in the early primaries from college-educated Democrats who liked the idea of an African American candidate transcending the historic conflict over race. And, if he had not been running against a popular female candidate, he might have won more support among white women. But Obama also lost voters to racial prejudice.
One indication is the exit polls. The percentage of voters who backed Hillary Clinton (or, earlier, John Edwards) while saying that the "race of the candidates" was "important" in deciding their vote is a fair proxy for the percentage of primary voters who were disinclined to support Obama because he is black. That number topped 9 percent in New Jersey; in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two crucial swing states, it was more than 11 percent. And that's among Democratic primary voters, who are, on average, more liberal than the Democrats who vote in general elections.
Obama's connection with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, which exploded into the news after the Ohio primary, may do lasting damage to his candidacy by undermining his attempt to transcend race. Wright's words tie Obama to the stereotype of the angry, hostile--and also unpatriotic--black who is seen as hating both whites and white America. Wright turns Obama into a "black candidate" like Jackson or Sharpton. And, as a black candidate, Obama falls prey to a set of stereotypes about black politicians

New Republic ************

Dear Santa,
Please allow this to go through without SPAMMING me.

Thx BD..I've learned to put everything on the notepad ..if it's worth saving I put iy in Word..apparently the system doesn't like an ending with a command, in this case the URL for New Republic..but I added the **** and it went through..either that or Santa's working overtime.

also should be a portion , not An portion

Thx again

BTW the article is very good on the testing of voters reactions to how race plays a role....

H

Hey man, no apologies. She's had to live with BO for years now.

Here's the reason to vote for McCain.

If the Democrats win the Presidency and control both Houses of Congress, with the Senate in super majority position then it is doubtful given their current political philosophy (socialism and redistribution of wealth) that we will see the Republic remain as the Founding Fathers intended.

The remaining branch of government, the Supreme Court will come under the Democrats full control, which means the Appellate Courts will also. Here is the key:

With a super majority in the Senate the Democrats will enlarge the Supreme Court from it's current number of nine judges to fifteen, perhaps even twenty one. The newly appointed judges will all be young socialists willing to toss the concept of Stare Decisis out the window and begin rulings anew.
By so doing the Democrats can assure that if they lose the super majority or the White House in 2012 they will have set up a system that they have used for the past sixty years, legislating through SCOTUS, except this time the outcomes will be assured.

Socialism in full bloom will replace the last vestiges of a republican form of government. This means an entirely new interpretation of the Bill of Rights. There will be no way to stop this from happening and SCOTUS with young socialist in the chairs will rule for many, many decades.

What it means to business is more regulation, taxation, and the state taking over industries they deem most "vital", which will be defense,energy,agriculture, you name it.

This country in four years, under those circumstances would be changed forever. That is what the Democrats will do for it assures them perpetual control of the government no matter who is elected in the future until the stars align the opposition in a position to undo the changes. That is highly unlikely to happen.

Phil G. produced a very accurate summation of my theory.

Sometime you must play defense and this is one of those times. Conservative causes will be lost forever if they hold out to only play offense with McCain quarterbacking.

But if my scenario, which could easily, very easily come to pass, we'll never see the Bill of Rights mean anything again in our lifetimes and there will be nothing to check the socialists from instituting every program they can to bring us closer to a totally socialist country. We'll become known as Baja Canada.