"He's representing everything I stand for!"
Posted on 07/05/2008 1:16:06 PM PDT by grundle
Edited on 07/05/2008 1:55:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Obama has shifted to the right on unwarranted wiretapping, Israel, free trade, gun control, the death penalty, faith based programs, welfare reform, the Iraq war, abortion, the Patriot Act, campaign finance, and the Cuban embargo.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4264994.ece
July 4, 2008
Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash
The Democratic nominee's policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals.
By Gerard Baker
Change, it turns out, wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Having campaigned for the past year as the agent of transformation, the man who would lead an historic shift in America's political direction, Barack Obama is discovering that there is quite a lot he likes about the way things are.
Since securing the Democratic nomination a few weeks ago, the only change coming from the Illinois senator has been in what he seems to stand for. Last month he dropped his opposition to a Bill before Congress that would give telecoms companies immunity from prosecution for carrying out illegal wiretaps on potential terrorist suspects.
He told a cheering crowd of Israel's supporters of his fervent commitment to the security of the Jewish state and added, for good measure, that an “undivided” Jerusalem should be the nation's capital. He said that he likes free trade after all, and that his primary campaign pledge to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement was a case of “overheated rhetoric”.
Last week he expressed support for a Supreme Court decision that struck down a ban on handguns and opposition to another that outlawed the death penalty for rape of a child.
This week he promised to expand President Bush's faith-based organisations initiative, a programme that channels funds to religious groups so that they can deliver social welfare services, which the Left regards as a heinous blurring of Church-State separation.
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-shifts-on.html
Obama Shifts on Welfare Reform
July 01, 2008
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Gregory Wallace Report:
Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul "slashed the rolls by 80 percent." Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2243536/US-election-Barack-Obama-wobbles-on-withdrawing-Iraq-troops.html
US election: Barack Obama wobbles on withdrawing Iraq troops
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 12:20AM BST 04/07/2008
Senator Barack Obama has rushed to clarify his position on the Iraq War after he appeared to wobble on a commitment to withdraw US ground troops within 16 months, a central plank of his candidacy.
The Democratic presidential nominee used a press conference to say that the timetable was not set in stone and that he would adjust his plans based on conditions on the ground when he visits Iraq later this month.
On his website, Mr Obama promises he "will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months".
But he told journalists in North Dakota that those policies could be "refined" in the light of what he finds in Iraq.
"I've always said the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability," he said.
"When I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I'm sure I'll have more information and will continue to refine my policies."
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=9490
Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. (IL)
Voting Record
03/02/2006 USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization HR 3199 Y
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11217.html
Obama move irks reform allies
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
6/19/08
Barack Obama’s shift away from a public financing program has drawn fire from Republicans, but it’s also irked his sometime allies in the good government community.
They had come to see the Illinois senator as a budding champion for their efforts to reduce the role of special interest money in politics. And they praised his announcement last year that his presidential campaign would “aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee” under which both would accept taxpayer money in the general election.
So they were disappointed with Obama’s Thursday announcement that he would opt out of the public financing system and torn over his efforts to frame the move in the language of the campaign finance reform movement.
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http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080705/COLUMNIST14/807050328/-1/COLUMNIST
July 5, 2008
In August, Mr. Obama called for easing the economic embargo on Cuba. When he was running for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he indicated he favored lifting it entirely. But in a speech to the Cuban American National Foundation May 23, Mr. Obama said he'd maintain the embargo.
Rat politicians sell out the wacky lefties who get them nominated just like the Pubies sell out the conservatives.
Scrag ‘em both.
He hasn’t shifted ANYTHING, he is just lying to the American public in order to HIDE who he is and what he stands for in order to get elected.
How is kow-towing to a foreign power ‘conservative’?
He’s surprising even me. He’s now trying to throw the ultra-liberal left under the bus after essentially getting the nomination to try and now weasel the right.
One slippery dude, he is.
He stands for nothing except to get himself elected. That’s why he voted “Present” so many times. To try and pretend to either side he was covering “for them”.
I thought Obamas supporters were in favor of “change”
This guy is turning into a serial flip-flopper, just like the “Boston Dangler”, John Kerry..
And then he’ll shift right back to the left once elected.
Yes, you’re right. He’s just pretending to change his views. He never had any real principles.
Expect a hard left the day after the election.
Well, it’s enough to upset liberals!
Probably.
The liberals know that Osama needs to swerve way over to the right if he wants to get elected. The liberals know that nothing has changed. He’s still a left wing extremist no matter what he says to the morons in “the media.” They know it too.
He promised change and, sure enough, he changed.
Whoops! I meant Obama. I don’t know what I was thinking. These next four years are going to be awfully confusing.
“That’s not the Barack Obama I knew.”
He’s only shifting to the center to win the necessary electoral votes. Immediately after his election, he would be claiming that his victory, no matter how narrow, was a “mandate for change” to socialism. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been singing that tune since Nov. ‘06.
Yep, listening to his latest TV commercial, he sounds at least as republican as McCain. Obama passed welfare reform all by his onesies??? Who knew!
‘He hasn’t shifted ANYTHING, he is just lying to the American public in order to HIDE who he is and what he stands for in order to get elected.’
EXACTLY!
Yes. All Dims know this. The question is how many “independents” and “moderates” or even conservatives will be taken in...
Why don't they come out and tell us they are Communists ? it would save alot of money and hair pulling and it don't make them as big of liers as they really are !
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When I hear the left say “Obama is just running for Bush’s 3rd term” I’ll believe that a shift has taken place.
"He's representing everything I stand for!"
Barry Hussein is simply a typical Marxist...a completely unprincipled, hypocritical, shameless liar. He hasn’t shifted a thing. Anyone who believes this utterly empty suit would embrace a more conservative agenda upon entering the White House, is a fool.
He has not shifted to the right; he’s just faking it. And his Marxist enablers are pretending to object as part of the deception.
I waiting for him to declare himself “white” since his mothe was white and his grandparents who helped raise him were white.
He’ll do it he thinks he’ll gain votes from it.
“He said that he likes free trade after all, and that his primary campaign pledge to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement was a case of ‘overheated rhetoric’.”
Dismantling the North American Free Trade Agreement was the only ‘rhetoric’ that came out of his mouth that I liked!
Looks like he and Mc-Globalist have more in common than meets the eye.
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“If the sickly looking puke keeps going, he’ll be more ‘conservative’ than the phony RINO candidate, McCain.”
Indeed!
He can easily shift back, and will.
Wasn’t aware of that...* note*
“...he is just lying to the American public in order to HIDE who he is...”
I agree!
Politicians DO change, but not over a period of months. I am saddened by the fact that cheap rhetoric has such sway over people. It is PATHETIC. When campaign talk is in conflict with prior behavior, only a complete MORON would believe the talk. If you interviewed someone for a job, and their promises and supposed motivations were at odds with their record, which would you believe? Exactly.
Show me stuff that counts. How did they govern? How did they vote? What enemies have they made? Who are they indebted to? If they are fresh to public office, show me their opinions from before they started running for office, and their employment performance.
What are the chances of getting this posted on the Daily Kos and/or The Huffingrton Report?
"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.
I know he’s faking it.
Thanks for telling me.
BHO (pronounced Bee Ho) has already suckered in his whack job base on the left.
Now he’s aiming for the dumbed down independents in the middle of the road (where all the road kill lays).
Next (I predict) will be trying to convince as many of the conservatives as possible to stay home.
Rats will say and do anything to get elected.
That’d why they’re called rats.
Yeah, he's all things to all men alright. He's a marxist when it suits him, and a conservative when it suits him. He's a swell chameleon, the Obeymaossiah.
It’s great that Obama is starting to see the light.
The man will say anything to assuage the masses, in order to get elected. Then he’ll do exactly what he can get away with, after he’s elected.
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