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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Jun 26 21:09:03 2008 Or...flip-flopSo Senator Obama, who is running a presidential campaign of "change" aimed at reducing the influence of special interests and lobbyists in Washington, has a federally registered lobbyist leading the host committee for the Denver convention at which he'll be nominated, and was having his vice presidential candidates vetted by a man who took more than $7 million in loans under a special "Friends of Angelo" program for associates of the chief of sub-prime lender Countrywide. Oh — and the vice presidential vetter also served on the board of UnitedHealth, which granted its chief executive $1.4 billion in stock options. All the while Mr. Obama campaigns against sub-prime lenders and outsized executive pay. Mr. Obama dismissed the concerns about the vetter, James Johnson, as a "game" that was "overblown and irrelevant" — until the political heat got too hot, and he dumped Mr. Johnson. [you gonna get single payer healthcare with cronies on his team? haha] It's starting to look like a pattern. Call it the Obama straddle. He pals around with anti-Israel figures like Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi, then shows up at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to announce that Israel's security is "sacrosanct." He's called for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq within six months of taking office, but his Iraq adviser wrote a paper calling for keeping 60,000 to 80,000 troops in Iraq through 2010. He says he won't shop at Wal-Mart, yet his top economic adviser praises the company as a progressive success story. He said of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother." And then when he came under more political pressure, he proceeded to disown not only Rev. Wright, but also the Trinity United Church of Christ, which he proceeded to quit. He ran as an opponent of Nafta in the Ohio primary, yet he sent an aide off to reassure Canada it was just politics, and now that the general election is upon us, he's assuring everyone that free trade is a cause in which he believes. He claims to represent a new post-partisan politics that will bring America together, yet his policies are hard-left: the largest tax increase since World War II and an abandonment of the cause of freedom in Iraq. Not since Senator Kerry was for the money to fund the troops in Iraq before he voted against it has a single Democratic presidential candidate managed to be on different sides of so many issues. It'd be one thing if Mr. Obama were just an ordinary politician; Americans expect their politicians to be political. And it's more important to be on the right side of an issue than to be consistent. But Mr. Obama's campaign and his backers are billing him as an almost messianic candidate. There's a point at which Americans are going to start wondering about what his core beliefs are and whether he has the backbone to lead a great nation. ------ count 'em. |
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