WHAT'S AN OBAMACON? Just A Minute for Friday 6-27-08

IT’s FRIDAY --- Where has the time flown?

Now we get to settle down for those nice long, HOT, DRY (argh) days of July and August…July I can usually manage… but August… I think back to the days of visiting Grandma and Grandpa in South Carolina – Or driving 600 miles plus to visit my other Grandma in Alabama – where we had to bring water out of the well in those 4 foot long buckets… and chip ice off the sawdust covered cake in the smoke house… and the flies would get in the car and ride with you – even with the windows down… otherwise you’d smother! Those were really HOT days… My only rescue was Watermelons… My uncle Clarence near five forks -- always had a big patch – we just seldom got them cooled… but they were sweet in the shade of the mimosa trees out in the yard and my cousins and I inevitably had a seed spitting contest which I never could win. My older male cousins had an advantage… they practiced with tobacco juice.

But I’m off the subject. Last Wednesday was “MittWok” – so my Michigan friend e-mailed me … Midsummer’s Eve… which for some reason is the first Wednesday after Summer actually begins when the sun crosses the equator and starts it’s northward journey. Wipe the sweat from your brow… it’ll soon enough be Christmas shopping time – and Halloween is just next week. (Just kidding… it just seems like the stores have got Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all mushed together now. I’d rather enjoy them leisurely one at a time… and let’s let the 4^th of July come first!

Today’s Just A Minute explains what is an Obamacon – and a bit about how we got’ em… and who they are. We are – according to some pundits – likely to see a landslide change in the Fall… but then “some pundits” are sometimes wrong in a big way. The most pleasing news I got this week was someone reminding me that in the gas crisis of 1978 (or whenever it was) when expectations finally got back in line with reality and the price of crude dropped back to normal gas prices dropped thirteen percent in a matter of days. OK… will somebody please push the same button again?

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WHAT’S AN OBAMACON?

Just A Minute – What’s an Obamacon? Has the word crossed your eyes?

Actually it came into existence from the UK last January when the British Press coined the term describing conservatives contemplating voting for Obama.

Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel are two looming on the horizon for John McCain. Powell, first-term secretary of state for George W. Bush and Chuck Hagel retiring after two terms as a Nebraska senator have not actually endorsed Obama… but they give signs of major disenchantment. Powell never was much of a conservative and it’s not likely Hagel will endorse. But some sources predict Powell will probably pick his own time to enter Obama's camp. Hardly anyone will give you odds either one will support McCain although both supported Bush in 2000 and ’04.

Bruce Bartlett was a mid-level official in the Reagan and the first Bush Administration. He dissed George W. in a book which says he bankrupted America – but Bartlett avows he’s “not ready to join the other side.” But his shots at the current President seem to characterize Obamcons.

They just give me an ill feeling.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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