This limb is still pretty shaky, but I’ve decided to stay out here anyway.  And last week’s Obama grand tour has added, I think, considerable weight to my prognostication that ‘08 could well be a landslide election for John McCain.

This is not, in my mind, owing to the immense popularity of McCain, but more to the immense grandiosity of Obama and his sycophantic media retinue.

I counted four separate articles this morning, from different news outlets, all using the word, “hubris,” to describe Mr. Eurobama’s tour last week.  My personal favorite is J. R. Dunn’s in today’s American Thinker:  http://www.americanthinker.com 

But this one from Canada’s Globe and Mail, has the best summation of Obama arrogance on his now thoroughly discredited Iraq position:

 

He (Obama) did offer unqualified, insistent opposition to the Petraeus surge in Iraq, which turned the war around to the point that some of its most relentless critics now maintain “it cannot be lost.” In other words, on the one definitive issue, post-invasion, on his country’s most important foreign involvement, the one decision the inarticulate and sublimely unhip Texan in the White House made alone, and got right, Mr. Obama was perfectly, publicly wrong.

 

We know Obama was wrong; Obama must know he was wrong.  The whole world knows Obama was wrong and President Bush was right.  But, for the life of him, Obama cannot admit what every other person knows.

Even when Katie Couric risked being forever banned from Obama’s presence by nearly badgering him last week for a straight answer on his failure to believe the surge could work, he steadfastly refused to give even an inch.

A man, who simply cannot, despite all evidence to the contrary, admit that he was wrong, cannot accept any responsibility for having made a mistake, and cannot move with a reality that conflicts with his opinion, isn’t fit to take on a powerful position, much less the most powerful political position in the world, the Presidency. 

Obama charisma, meet American common sense.  Even a 12 year old can spot the difference between a puffed-up egomaniac and a man of substance and integrity.

For all the criticisms that can rightly be aimed at John McCain, he stands head and shoulders above most when it comes to substance and integrity. 

And, on Iraq, McCain understood and promoted the need for more troops on the ground way before the insurgency was even mounted against us, even before Al Qaeda brought in thousands of Jihadi warriors over the border from neighboring countries.

The war, itself, has now shrunk in importance as an issue in this election, only due to the fact that we are within a hair’s breadth of proclaiming out-and-out, mission-accomplished victory. 

But the significance of the fact that McCain was bulls-eye accurate on the war and his opponent was equally wrong, but lacks the humility to say so, even to the benefit of our troops and our image in the world at large, will not be missed by American voters.

We’re a whole heap smarter than the media thinks. 

We can see a fraud a mile away.

And I can see a real possibility of a McCain landslide forming in the minds of the American electorate.