I hate to say it, but the world is a much, much scarier place than it was a year ago.

Wow! The first accurate foreign policy statement you have ever made.

Is there some kind of wingnut blogger record for the number of anti-Obama pieces? You have to be close to it.

JP, there might be, but it will never reach the number of Palin Wardrobe pieces on Blue.

Nicely done. JT
Let me add to the picture in your crystal ball. India will not stand for a scenario like that playing out in Pakistan. If they feel that the military in Pakistan is out of control they may be tempted to attack preemptively to send a message to radical Islamists countries in the area including Iran. India's balance in the area has been carefully cultivated by the US. And they may not see a weaker US in the area as a good partner able to hold up it's end of the bargain.

There has still been no comment by the Obama Administration regarding the accounts of the Chicago unit of the national civilian 'police force' known informally as 'ACORN Soldiers for Obama' gunning down two dozen protestors, including a Chicago Tribune reporter who was covering the opening of the new William Ayers Campus of the University of Chicago.

The protestors, were fired upon by order of the commander of the unit Jerrod 'Dr. D' Johnson, who justfied his actions stating that "Lies cannot be tolerated against the One!".

The Chicago Tribune has not yet printed the story, but they have stated that the reporter killed was suspected of disloyalty and most likely involved with the protestors. They also stated that printing a story about a rumored shooting without clearance from the 'First Amendment Desk' of the Tribune, and the Office of Fairness within the local ACORN unit, was against Tribune policy.

To preserve U.S. Jobs Obama issued an ultimatum to India today, demanding that they expel all U.S. citizens and cut all commercial ties with U.S. business. The ultimatum gives India just 30 days to comply or the U.S. will release weaponized hoof-and-mouth disease upon the cattle of India.

What spurred this ultimatum was the outsourcing of highly paid government and university jobs to unskilled workers in India. Obama simply can't abide having all his fiends unemployed as he's afraid they might go back to making bombs and he now lives in the target zone. That security threat justifies this action.

You folks have to wait for the White House Press secratary Helen Thomas to get to all that stuff.

You gonna save these for late October 2009 so we can see how you did? You know, some sort of side-by-side JT's predictions v. reality?

Parthenon, I delete NOTHING. You can go back to the very first article I ever posted here, and (with the exception of spelling/typo/grammar fixes) I do NOT go back and delete or rewrite anything.

So, pending a hardware meltdown, this'll still be here.

But this isn't a prediction, per se; it's more of an exploration into a plausible set of scenarios. Will it happen this way? I doubt it. Could it? I think so.

J.

If you're correct, or even remotely so, I'll be the first over to say congrats. (And then possibly run for cover.) As I try to base my opinions as closely as I can on what appears to actually work (as opposed to what should work or what I'd like to work), if you are on the money for 2009-12, I won't be voting to reelect President Obama.

She's at it again.

jp2 = FOOL

Again, Parthenon, this wasn't a prediction, but an extrapolation of things I think possible and plausible. (With the possible exception of Biden at Thatcher's funeral, and the sheer fantasy about the nuke going off north of the Marianas). I'd be astonished if any of it all came to pass.

The real test is not how much of it comes true, but how much of it COULD come true -- is it consistent with what we know about Obama, his policies, his stated positions, his history, and world events?

I think it is.

J.

And one year and one day after his inauguration the sky fell and the right wing internet(s) ceased to work.

i remember before the iraq war when right-wingnuts, citizens and govt officials alike, invented one apocalyptic scenario after another, whipping themselves into ecstatic neocon frenzies. it was really quite shameful and silly, but also tragic as it assured the bu$h war could be pushed upon us all

now lets watch them do it again with the election.....

yawn. wont work this time

yaaawwwwnnnnnn........

and international pieces). They of course are the best-case scenarios and I hope an pray that we are lucky enough to have things play out as well as you suggested here, should Obama be elected.

I also hope and pray that we never get to find out what an Obama Presidency would be like. Things could end up a lot worse than you are predicting.

Wow Jay Tea, those are some pretty rosy scenarios you laid out there (both the domestic and international pieces). They of course are the best-case scenarios and I hope an pray that we are lucky enough to have things play out as well as you suggested here, should Obama be elected.

I also hope and pray that we never get to find out what an Obama Presidency would be like. Things could end up a lot worse than you are predicting.

"i remember before the iraq war when right-wingnuts, citizens and govt officials alike, invented one apocalyptic scenario after another,"

peabody what you remember was the MSM estimating (before we went into Iraq) that we would have thousands of casualties shortly after we invaded Iraq.

retired - maybe you saw some commentator on hannity say that, but the MSM never did

if you wanna press your pint, google something up... go ahead, lets see it

http://www.dailyvanguard.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=9b52f4a2-b36d-4809-abaf-34ab786bba6d

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8163906_ITM

http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=KC&p_theme=kc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F8B9FB3203A3D1E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

That is about the best I could do with the 5 min I was willing to actually try to comply with your request. Hard to shift through a million articles talking about iraq war casualties.

It could get ugly here domestically with more federal government intervention and the redistribtion of our hard earned money.
But no matter who wins the election they certainly get no prize or 'win'. They would have a mess to cleanup. I just hope whomever it may be can handle and will professionally handle anything that happens here on our soil
-- preferably they do as good a job as has been done since 9/11 in preventing anything serious from happening here on our land.

retired - im not sure if 5 long days or weeks would help you find something relevant

you said the MSM made dire predictions of heavy casualties. the linked articles you have posted above are instead posing thoughtful questions regarding how mounting numbers of US dead will affect the domestic support for thge war

of course, bu$h and co wondered the same thing before they decided not to let any of the thousands of caskets be photographed

and since your post was supposedly intended to be a counterpoint to all the fantastical dire predictions neocons were making about WMDs and iraqi nukes blowing up american cities, its an even bigger miss

Another overpaid troll.

All your questions in the world won't give you answers. At least you will have that silly dollar sign to keep you company. You don't work for the MSM do you? If so, you must know who the real fall guy is. If not, too bad. What? No creepy looking smiley face for retired?

lamedusa - you werent trying to sound smart there, were ya..... LOL

=]

heres a basic intelligence test: do you think mccain has a snowballs chance in hell of winning?

ahahaha. if you answered anything other than no then its time to stir something deadly into your kool-aid and take a niiiice big swig

More mindlessness. Do you get paid if you get a commenter to post a link?

heres a basic intelligence test: do you think mccain has a snowballs chance in hell of winning?

You've been spending too much time on that other message board with The Tooth.

wrong answer! start drinkin, fukko!

moohahaha

and for christs sake, leave the posting up to the folks who can hack it and make valid discussion points. you simply cannot

wrong answer! start drinkin, fukko!

More testy, infiltrated name-calling. :)

"valid discussion points..."

Or you don't get paid. Try to leave before the bar closes. Can't wait to hear more of your "valid discussion points". You must be trying to get McCain elected, as well.

wow i never saw someone get pissy about "valid discussion points" before

but then again lamedusa is a special breed of stooopid!

ahahaha

Hahahahahaha. Good predictions.