Obama will bring us into a whole new era of hope and peace and cute fuzzy kittens!
Posted on 02/15/2008 7:32:15 AM PST by jdm
Barack Obama may find that overpromising and underdelivering will leave openings for political opponents to score real points, especially when the opponent has a clear record from which to punch. Obama has tried to argue that he has the most transparency between Hillary and himself on earmarking, but compared to John McCain, that sounds like damnation through faint praise:
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is on track to become the Democratic presidential nominee, and he's getting the attention his accomplishment deserves. Thursday, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, and the Republican National Committee treated Obama like the front-runner he is and attacked him -- for not being transparent when it comes to disclosing his earmark requests. ...
In the year Obama has been running for president, he has made government transparency a central campaign pledge. That was his strategic decision. But there are consequences when you campaign saying you would do one thing as president, but don't do it as a senator.
One might guess that Obama is a model of disclosure. He is not. He has been improving. But he has gaps, and Thursday's blasts from the Republicans showed they have no reluctance to exploit an Obama weakness. ... The Obama response has been that they disclose more than Clinton, a reply I think shows calculation, not conviction. The goal for Obama is not just to stay a step ahead of Clinton. Now he's got to deal with McCain.
This will be a critical point in the upcoming election. Barack Obama has run on the message that he wants to change Washington politics. Indeed, "hope" and "change" have been almost all we've heard from the Obama campaign, and his success in these themes show just how much the American electorate agrees that DC has to change its methods of operation.
But who will be the candidate who can deliver that change? Will it be the Senator who promised transparency in earmarks but didn't deliver, not even in the short time he's been in Washington? Or will it be the Senator who doesn't earmark at all and promises to veto any appropriations bills that have earmarks?
Obama promises a lot on transparency, and on occasion, he has delivered -- as he did on the Coburn-Obama Act that created a federal database of government expenditures. McCain, on the other hand, has always delivered on earmarks, fighting them and eschewing them entirely. Obama may be better than Hillary Clinton, but that just puts him with 75% of his colleagues in the Senate. McCain provides a stark contrast to business as usual.
B.O. believes in the hope to change the future, and don’t forget that he believes we can change the future of hope, as well, he hopes we believe in our future to change and, one more thing, he brings needed change for our future to believe in hope. -Wb
I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE!!!! YOU SPEAK POWERFUL TRUTHS BROTHER!!!! ALL HAIL OBAMA!!!!
Um, what the hell did you say?? I kinda got caught up in the moment.
I guess we'll just have to dub this cr*p "hope-speech". So the libs gave us, PC speech, hate speech, and now "hope-speech". Tell me I'm not living in some sci-fi world of stupidity?
He hopes our future includes his socialist policies as well!
Obama is for the future, because the future is ahead of us, and is not the past, which is behind us. The future is tomorrow, tomorrow the sun will rise, today we live for tomorrow, and the past is just so yesterday.
And all of these years I thought the future was behind us.
You’ve got to put your behind in the past.
I looked and it is already there, But, thank you anyway.
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