Posted on 07/08/2008 9:43:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly.
• He says he believes in a Second Amendment right to bear arms. • He now opposes late-term abortion. • He suddenly is a devotee of using faith-based institutions to deliver public services. • He now says that he won't raise Social Security taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. In the primary, he said he'd eliminate the threshold entirely, including on people making as little as $100,000. • He recently opposed the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio. • Now he says he's going to consult with the military before pulling out of Iraq.
But so extensive a list of flip-flops, all in the past few weeks, begs the basic question: Was he lying before when he was a liberal, or is he prevaricating now?
Even if Obama means what he is saying as he moves to the center trying to win the general election, the fact is that he will be forced to move very far to the left should he become president, forced by the liberals in his own party.
If Obama wins, it's more than likely that he will take office with a Congress filled with Democrats and liberals. Most probably, the Senate will have at least 55 Democrats (including pickups in Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire and Alaska). And there might be as many as 62 (possible Democratic pickups include Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Kansas and North Carolina). The House will, of course, be solidly in Democratic control.
Faced with the same situation in 1993, as he took office as president, Bill Clinton found no alternative but to move dramatically to the left, shelving for the moment his promises...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Please, is there anyone out there who believes otherwise?
Obama sprints rightward to cover his bases and to secure the centrist and moderate vote, but everyone knows that his record points toward his principles being far to the Left of 70% of the American public.
I do … then again; I’m a totally ignorant person. IQ less than room temperature, last in every class I ever participated in and full of myself. Yes I believe in all that is Obama, my messiah. /s
As with ALL of the left, Obama is a liar.
I pray America doesn’t have to find out the hard way.
McCain, on the other hand, while pissing off the right, is at least honest about his intentions IMHO.
I wonder if he really believes he is convincing people on the right. Heck I wonder if he IS convincing some people on the right. I feel sorry for them. Has America fallen this far?
Like raising the capital gains tax since 50 Hedge fund managers made billions of dollars and forgeting that 100,000,000 Americans own stock. Ya Barack your a really smart guy.
Kill the economy by raising taxes. Why do you think the market is tanking ahead of the election. Investors are getting out before you have you chance to steal all of their money.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=po7J0f5TMrQ
“. . . last in every class I ever participated in and full of myself.”
Well then, you can’t be one of the YOUNG Obamamessiah dolts. There is no “last in the class” anymore. Everybody gets a ribbon.
McCain is wanting to take an approach that is not receptive to the base. I will support him in as much as I believe the jurists of the Supremes are this election cycles issue.
An Obama Presidency with a willing democrat Congress could possibly destroy America.
I guess I’ll hold my nose and vote for McCain, then go outside and throw up.
I'm looking for and advocate, the sheeple stampedeing over the wolves.....
“I will support him in as much as I believe the jurists of the Supremes are this election cycles issue.”
A future “President McCain” will most likely be facing a Liberal-Democratic controlled Senate who approve or disapprove of federal judicial nominees. There is no way in he!! that McCain will be able to get a Conservative on any Federal bench —even if he wanted to. It’s not going to happen.
Duh.
Let’s see it. The rule is http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/senateconfirm.html
I’m glad you didn’t post that. LOL
Why waste perfectly good puke?
Yes - sheeple who stopped thinking in grade school. And it appears our country is filled with them!
You’d rather have Obama’s nominees?
My Dad, the lifelong Democrap came up today and guess what?
He told the wife and me that he is voting for McRINO!
Now if Queen Beatch Hillary were the nominee, I KNOW he’d vote for that Socialist.
Glad to hear he won’t vote for “Milhous”.
I have seen stuff that indicated a lot of the ‘RATS can’t hold their nose for Barack the Magic Negro.
Just a little first-hand knowledge of at least ONE ‘RAT goin’ against the party and voting for McRINO ...
Oh! And my wife will be getting citizenship very soon
and said that she will vote for McRINO, too!
Well, she said she would vote for me, but I can sway
her to vote for McRINO, I know. :)
Interesting take on your dad’s thinking about the Empty Suit.
Can you enlighten me on the term “Milhous” concerning Obama? I’m seeing that more and more.
My formative years were when Nixon was around, so I associate “Milhous” with Nixon, as that was he middle name.
well, McCain just leave the nominations open then. Having a lib retire still makes the court better!
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Sure.
A while back when the Conservative Talk Show guys (and ALL Conservatives) were being hammered for calling Obama by his middle name "HUSSEIN", Mark Levin shot off a list of all the GOP nominees in recent history and the common use of the media including their middle names in references during the election season. When he cited Richard "Milhous" Nixon, he immediately declared he would call Barack "Milhous" Obama from now. And he has stuck by that to this day.
We are from the same time frame, as Nixon was the first President I voted for back in '72, btw ...
Obama will be an outright Jimmy Carter-esque disaster.
Obambi is left of 90% of the US public — but the MSM allows him to get away with lying about it.
This should be in breaking news. < \sarcasm> ;-)
Some dude on O'Reilly's last night said Obama was a centrist.
Obama can’t carry the blue collar dems or the old school dems.
But I fear that McRino has the same problem.
Oh well
: )
:(
I didn’t mean to make you sad.
Meek, Thanks for the explanation—it makes sense now. Somehow I missed the reference from The Great One.
1972 was my first election as well—voted for Nixon too. In 2002 I got the chance to visit his Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, CA—it was an awesome place. My wife’s brother used to fix the HVAC system in his house in Upper Saddle River, NJ—no one else could, and Pat Nixon would only let him come out and work on it!
But I really want to see President’s Reagan’s library someday. I miss him. The more time passes, the more I realize what a gem he really was.
Mount Rushmore material, really. All by himself.
Not a problem.
I think there are a lot of folks like my Dad that just
CAN’T drink that Koolaid for the Obamassiah and
he will get flushed down the terlit on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday this November. :)
You bet! :^DI think Reagan was the BEST President in the 20th century. Actually, the best ever, imho. :)
We NEED another one like him to come along. The SOONER the better, imho.
Right after he passed away, I made up THIS pic:
Not to be ugly or anything, but notice how I conveniently worked Jimmah Cahtah OUT of that pic??? (He was to Ford's left in that pic). :)
Glad you got rid of Carter in that picture.
Now I must stop before I tell you what I really think of Peanut Man!
hahaha!
I think a LOT of us feel the same about Mr. Peanut!
He is the ANTI-Reagan...the very WORST President ...
EVER !!!!
And the very worst FORMER President to boot of course!
Both candidates have problems with a large part of their respective base.
I will vote for McRino because of the big picture but I fear too many will stay home.
So I keep praying about the whole mess.
Oh, I’m SURE there will be those sitting on their hands
and staying at home.
I just hope it’s not so many we get Milhous the Magic Negro
for Prez!
I’m with you on that one brother. Hopefully Obummer will PO enough conservatives to get them to the polls.
I just wish we had a candidate that would inspire them to the polls.
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Yep! Another Reaganesque candidate would have been nice.
Instead we get Dumb & Dumber butting heads.
Let's see now. Since I've been eligible to vote (and voted EVERY year!):
1972: Nixon canned the war-wienie McGovern
1976: Ford's pardon of Nixon got us Cahtah
1980: Cahtah gets TROUNCED by Reagan
1984: Reagan re-elected BIG TIME beating Mondale
1988: Bush I gets elected, beating Ducarcus (Dukakis)
1992: Bush's "Read my lips: no new taxes" lie gets us Kringtone
1996: Kringtone beats Dole
2000: Bush beats algore
2004: Bush beats John "I served in Vietnam" Kerry
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Nope, I can't think of an election quite like this one. I just can't get enthused to vote for McRINO but I sure can't let the Socialist Obama get anywhere near the White House.
Me too.
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