RUSH: Obama is nothing new. He's Carter without the cardigan.
Obama Offers Carter's 2nd Term; Conservatives Look to the Future
Posted on 05/18/2008 10:30:13 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
From this story:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by announcing a symbolic return to Iowa that day.
Iowa was the scene of the Illinois senator's first victory in the 2008 presidential nominating race, and his campaign noted Saturday it is "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."
Polls show Obama leading in Oregon, where 52 delegates are up for grabs, while Clinton is ahead in Kentucky, a state with 51 delegates that has a similar demographic to West Virginia, where she won a thumping victory Tuesday.
His campaign says he needs just 17 more pledged delegates won through state votes to reach a majority of 1,627, not counting the "superdelegates," party officials who can vote either way at August's Democratic national convention.
Using a baseball analogy, Obama said May 8 that if after Tuesday's primaries "we have a majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and its the ninth inning and we have won."
The official finishing line is 2,025 delegates, including superdelegates.
During a rally in Roseburg, Oregon, Saturday, Obama presented himself as the front-runner almost without question, attacking presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on foreign policy, the environment and healthcare.
Reviving Friday's furious row sparked by President George W. Bush's suggestion that Democrats wanted to appease terrorists, Obama said that not talking to North Korea and Iran had only made those states stronger.
"I want everybody to be absolutely clear about this because George Bush and McCain have suggested that me being willing to sit down with our adversaries is a sign of weakness and sign of appeasement," he said.
He also attacked McCain's plan for a gas tax holiday to cope with rising pump prices, which Clinton supports, as well as his other environmental plans, saying the Republican had consistently opposed fuel efficiency standards.
"For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," he said.
Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
The Illinois senator also argued that the differences between his healthcare plan and that of Clinton "pale in comparison to the differences we have with John McCain," whose proposals would only work "if you're healthy and wealthy."
The escalating rhetoric between Obama and McCain has evoked the kind of campaign battles more common in the immediate run-up to an election -- and emphasized further Obama's pole position in the Democratic race.
But Clinton has vowed to keep fighting until the end of the primary season on June 3, and campaigning in Kentucky Saturday, she defended the plan for the gas tax holiday and accused McCain of having no idea how to fund it.
"Senator McCain said let's give everybody a gas tax holiday but doesn't want to pay for it. I think I've got the best plan. Let the oil companies pay it out of their excess profits," she said.
I think he has big ears. But he is tall and thin, and has all his hair. For some women that’s enough. (You know, like many men will go for big boobs and long blond hair, and not even notice that under the make-up she looks like a fish.)
Too bad Rush is away until Wednesday...but Mrs. Clinton just did another cartwheel.
I hope Mark rips this guy a new one
There is a large contingent of the American public whose capacity for critical judgment goes about as far as Simon's opinion about this week's contestants. The hired thugs of the NEA have done their work well the last thirty-forty years and turned the education system into a kennel for raising lap dogs and worker bees. The motto of "Change we can trust" in reality boils down to: "We Rule, you drool."
Watch the crowd behind Boyobama next time he's on the stump--vacant, glassy-eyed, witless.
Since when has that bothered them? They're still congratulating themselves on the win-win effect of outlawing DDT to save the birds' eggs AND countering overpopulation in Africa as millions die of malaria as a result.
“FWIW, the appropriate recognition of limits on appetites is profoundly conservative.”
But telling others to do the same is profoundly liberal.
It’s the same old tired Communist dream of utter stagnation.
“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” - Michelle Obama.
Now we know what Michelle meant about ‘move out of your comfort zones’.
You may have a point racial guilt. It is a good angle because he is as stupid as a post when not reading from the prompter.
I just do not get it either. Even when he is reading what someone else wrote for him, I think he sounds like an idiot.
“and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said.
As though we are required to listen to what every other country says. This proves what a globalist and anti-American he is.
Thanks for links. Both were much less than the retail shop.
I just got an SKS.
An AR-15 will be next.
I hate these people. I dont just dislike them I Hate them! They are my enemy.
I gotta settle down. Sheesh
Our Country is on the edge
From your mouth to God’s ears.
“FU Obama”
You know, I thought long and hard about a response to this, but I really couldn’t come up with anything better than you did. :-).
Carter II.
And I don’t give a damn about the rest of the world’s opinion.
We can’t keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.-Obama
Courtesy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
NOT a mental picture I needed. ;)
Hey Obsamma, EAT S#IT!
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