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A Man of Seasonal Principles (Charles Krauthammer)
realclearpolitics.com ^ | July 04, 2008 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 07/04/2008 6:13:59 AM PDT by kellynla

You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism." So why is he back to sporting pseudo-patriotism on his chest? Need you ask? The primaries are over. While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats that delivered him the caucuses -- hence, the Democratic nomination -- Obama not only disdained the pin. He disparaged it. Now that he's running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back. His country 'tis of thee.

In last week's column, I thought I had thoroughly chronicled Obama's brazen reversals of position and abandonment of principles -- on public financing of campaigns, on NAFTA, on telecom immunity for post-Sept. 11 wiretaps, on unconditional talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- as he moved to the center for the general election campaign. I misjudged him. He was just getting started.

Last week, when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, Obama immediately declared that he agreed with the decision. This is after his campaign explicitly told the Chicago Tribune last November that he believes the D.C. gun ban is constitutional.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton explains the inexplicable by calling the November -- i.e., the primary season -- statement "inartful." Which suggests a first entry in the Obamaworld dictionary -- "Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."

Obama's seasonally adjusted principles are beginning to pile up: NAFTA, campaign finance reform, warrantless wiretaps, flag pins, gun control. What's left?

Iraq. The reversal is coming, and soon.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; election; obama; poitics

1 posted on 07/04/2008 6:13:59 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

“inartful = Obambi flipping off MoveOn.org

If I were a Clintonista, I would be pissed.


3 posted on 07/04/2008 6:21:26 AM PDT by y6162 (u)
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To: kellynla
once he gets there he will have to figure out what he really believes. The conventional liberal/populist stuff he campaigned on during the primaries? Or the reversals he is so artfully offering up now? I have no idea. Do you? Does he?

Of course we know. Obama is probably the most leftist clown ever to seek the office of the Presidency, and that includes such figures as George McGovern, Gary Hart, and John Kerry. And that's saying something.

The man will be a complete disaster. God help our Republic.

4 posted on 07/04/2008 6:21:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: kellynla

An Obama supporter was on H&C last night, and he said Obama was saying whatever he needs to say in order to win. That winning is the priority, and once he wins then he can worry about bringing the far left back into the fold.


5 posted on 07/04/2008 6:45:27 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: kellynla

Maybe by November the white half of him will have burned a cross on the lawn of his black half—and then he’ll get the Klan vote!


6 posted on 07/04/2008 6:46:45 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: kellynla

Do you all recall BEING THERE — the oddly great Peter Seller’s film about an empty vessel of a man absorbing the popular culture from TV and dishing it out to the people, guided by political hacks who believe they have discovered a nascent messiah? I believe we are seeing something similar. The difference is, of course, that Obama is not an empty vessel. He is a little, damaged man like Chauncey Gardner, but one with a nasty streak and dangerously leftist instincts. This man has been adopted by the Democrat establishment as he emerged — first as the front runner and then as presumptive candidate. Now they are repackaging him as a viable, mainstream candidate. The false facade is under construction as we watch. The question is this: what will emerge after victory? A butterfly or a moth? I suspect a moth.


7 posted on 07/04/2008 6:50:54 AM PDT by FlameThrower
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
and then he’ll get the Klan vote!

He already has the Klan vote....1) Mutual hatred of Israel and Jews and 2) Klan thinks that an Obama presidency might help push us into their long sought after race war.

8 posted on 07/04/2008 6:51:37 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Barack's mesmerizing speeches are little more than oratory Three Card Monte)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Maybe by November the white half of him will have burned a cross on the lawn of his black half—and then he’ll get the Klan vote!

LOL! That reminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles, where the sheriff takes himself hostage - maybe Mel was having a prescient vision of BO...

9 posted on 07/04/2008 7:04:56 AM PDT by Who is John Galt?
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To: kellynla
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I got too personal, HUH? We don't won't any such polls conducted or advertised that might show racism in the black community, do we? Racism only exists in the "white" community. That is why we have the Black caucus, BET, Black Chamber of Commerce, etc, etc, ad nauseum!

Now I get "Comment removed by moderator" - again, I guess.

10 posted on 07/04/2008 7:30:42 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: Cincinatus

That is where you are wrong. He wont be a disaster, because the DBM will be right there cleaning up every mess and blaming someone else. Namely Republicans. It is going be Tass and Pravda all over. And with the fairness doctrine the alternative media will be collectively shut down. Pray for our country.


11 posted on 07/04/2008 7:36:37 AM PDT by crazydad
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I think it more likely that the Black 6.25% will be lynched by the white 50% and the remaining 43.75% that is Arab slave trader will “artfully” take over.


12 posted on 07/04/2008 7:37:17 AM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
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To: TexasRedeye; Admin Moderator

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I got too personal, HUH? We don’t won’t any such polls conducted or advertised that might show racism in the black community, do we? Racism only exists in the “white” community. That is why we have the Black caucus, BET, Black Chamber of Commerce, etc, etc, ad nauseum!

Now I get “Comment removed by moderator” - again, I guess.


Hey, Texas, you’re addressing the wrong guy..you should be posting your comment to the Admin Moderator. LOL


13 posted on 07/04/2008 7:38:25 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Cincinatus
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“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.

1 minute satirical Obama video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6b-kWncI4

Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.


14 posted on 07/04/2008 7:41:30 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: kellynla

Sorry ‘bout that. I bet the admin moderator gets the message and this time I’ll be banned! Not politically correct enough, I guess.


15 posted on 07/04/2008 7:47:38 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: kellynla

Here’s what CK says in his column today:

Obama spokesman Bill Burton explains the inexplicable by calling the November — i.e., the primary season — statement “inartful.” Which suggests a first entry in the Obamaworld dictionary — “Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial.”

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Here’s the way I put it on 6/29/08:

L.A. Times Forgets to Tell Readers That Obama Supported the D.C. Gun Ban
Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:15:14 PM · 9 of 11
savedbygrace to Free ThinkerNY

(Quoting Free ThinkerNY) But even though the earlier Obama quote and the “inartful” comment have been bouncing around the Net for 24 hours

(I replied) It’s inartful to Obama because it made it too obvious he’s flip flopped on the issue.

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CK’s way of saying the same thing is much more artful. ;-)


16 posted on 07/04/2008 7:48:52 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Who is John Galt?
LOL! That reminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles, where the sheriff takes himself hostage - maybe Mel was having a prescient vision of BO...

This whole thing is beginning to remind me of Blazing Saddles, except in the movie, Sheriff Bart was a man of integrity.

17 posted on 07/04/2008 7:54:57 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

He is a one-man Corsican twins!


18 posted on 07/04/2008 8:09:29 AM PDT by kenavi ("My mudder thanks you, my fodder thanks you, and Obama thanks you!")
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To: Cincinatus

Be not afraid. Once McCain kicks his campaign into high gear and exposes the far left Marxist for what he is and the press dutifully presents Obama as an unrepentant Marxist, all will be well. You can sleep soundly.


19 posted on 07/04/2008 8:13:19 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Well, the Madeleine Kahn character was prescient enough for all BHO's female supporters. The fainting and swooning in both cases leads many to the "where there's smoke, there must be fire" thought.

The chicks' and the intelligentia's libidinous reactions suggest he's all they need, to an even greater degree than WBJC.

BHusseinO is even more Left than the rumored Kurintong Peyronie's factor, but BHO's bend would presumably be more artful.

HF

20 posted on 07/04/2008 8:13:24 AM PDT by holden
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To: shibumi

I think you’re right.


21 posted on 07/04/2008 8:24:48 AM PDT by abclily
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To: kenavi

Funny.


22 posted on 07/04/2008 8:30:53 AM PDT by karnage
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To: kellynla
"There appears to be no issue that Barack Obama is not willing to reverse himself on for the sake of political expedience. This is the change he promised , This reality of his so called change, shows him to be a typical lying liberal politician."

"You can be sure there will never be any clear answers from Obama on any critical issue. He is quite comfortable taking positions that contradict each other. Sadly, his inconsistent and dishonest positions are perfectly acceptable to his Obamabot cult members, who blindly follow him."

Instead of the change candidate, Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, will be known as the Ooops Uh Flip-Flop Candidate, who couldn't tell the truth!

Quit your whining about my Flip Flops, Waffling and Lies, you God Loving, Gun owning and Bitter White Racist Patriots!

Damn Pajama Media. They won’t let me get by with my lies and flip flopping.

23 posted on 07/04/2008 8:51:09 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: kellynla
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24 posted on 07/04/2008 11:09:09 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: kellynla
I'll wait til he rips off his mask and shows he was... gasp!> Ronald Reagan all along! I'll live just for the pleasure of the seeing moonbats go howling to the moon at the final betrayal.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

25 posted on 07/04/2008 12:42:59 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: kellynla

I think I’m going to vomit.


26 posted on 07/04/2008 1:29:00 PM PDT by expatguy ("An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - New & Improved - Now with Search)
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To: Cincinatus
Obama is probably the most leftist clown ever to seek the office of the Presidency, and that includes such figures as George McGovern, Gary Hart, and John Kerry.

Hi Cincinatus. Long time, no see.

That is saying something, but you are correct. We have never had a candidate who is so loved by the people who are actively trying to destroy our country. Obama is the moral equivalent to running Tokyo Rose during WWII. It is unbelievable.

27 posted on 07/04/2008 4:08:20 PM PDT by Zevonismymuse
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
...Sheriff Bart was a man of integrity.

Easier to find in an entertaining movie, than on a ballot, unfortunately...

28 posted on 07/05/2008 1:30:33 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("Sometimes I have to break the law in order to meet my management objectives." - Bill Calkins, BLM)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism." So why is he back to sporting pseudo-patriotism on his chest? Need you ask? The primaries are over. While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats that delivered him the caucuses -- hence, the Democratic nomination -- Obama not only disdained the pin. He disparaged it. Now that he's running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back.
I guess that explains that excoriating op-ed in the NY Slimes.
29 posted on 07/08/2008 10:38:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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