Even Barney the first dog doesn’t like the treatment of his master President Bush by the media. In the above video you can clearly see him take out his anger on a Reuters reporter who fails to ask his permission before petting him.
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I decided to put together a two part series discussing why Obama won and why McCain lost. Although I like rooting for the underdog (which means I was rooting for McCain I knew that he hardly stood a chance against Obama. Its not that Obama had a great message. In fact McCain and Obama differed only on foreign policy, taxes and healthcare. Of course there were other few differences but those were the major ones.
So why did Obama win? Two main reasons were the fact that he was able to explain his point better and half the voters voted out of fear and not because of substance. As I said before Obama is one of the most eloquent speakers to run for the Whitehorse and while McCain was not as bad as many people made it out to be he did not stand a chance against Obama.
So the real reason why Obama won was not because he had a superior message, its because he was in the right place at the right time. Had it not been for the credit crisis Obama would not be our 44′th Commander in Chief.
And don’t let anyone tell you it was the young voters who brought Obama victory because although more young voters were involved than previous elections they did not turn out in the record numbers everyone had predicted.
Simply put Obama was lucky. Am I happy he won? Yes and no. I am happy that I’ll be able to prove a point but I am not happy about some of the policies he will implement.
Tomorrow I’ll deal with [part 2] which deals with “why McCain lost.”
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