Posted on 06/21/2008 5:16:14 PM PDT by The_Republican
June 21, 2008 -- Awash in campaign cash, Barack Obama this week announced that he's opting out of the public-financing system for presidential campaigns. He'll be the first general-election candidate to do that since the system was set up.
This gives new meaning to the notion of "politics of change."
"In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public-financing system in the 2008 election," he wrote in November. "My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fund-raising truce, return excess money from donors and stay within the public-financing system for the general election."
So much for that.
This isn't the first time Obama has, um, "changed" political lanes:
* He ripped Hillary Clinton for months for voting to list Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization. Days after Clinton conceded, Obama flipped and said he supported the definition.
* Obama repeatedly vowed to meet with various heads of terror states - most notably Ahmadinejad of Iran - "without preconditions." Then, with the nomination in sight, he zigzagged: "There's no reason why we would necessarily meet with Ahmadinejad. He's not the most powerful person in Iran."
* In October, he supported NAFTA expansion. In March, campaigning in the Ohio primary, he called for a "reopening" of the trade pact's terms. This week, he called his own primary rhetoric "overheated" and said NAFTA has had a positive effect on the US economy.
* Yesterday, after signaling opposition to nuclear power, he told Democratic governors he's open to expanding it.
Change, yes.
But "change we can believe in"?
That remains to be seen.
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Change is something that everyone can find appealing. But the devil is in the details.
Obama reminds me of a preacher sometimes. But, just because someone has the cadence and mannerisms that enable one to speak well doesn’t mean he favors policies that most of us would support.
I think a lot of these changes are going to come about because he’ll find the ignorant, formulaic leftist positions that he’s adopted part and parcel are going to paint him into a corner when he’s challenged by the need to think about things.
Obama's change is not really change at all, it is more turnig back to the old tired socialistic, marxistic ideologies that have already been proven disasterous by history.
he want to go back and in so doing he would bring diaster.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
“Change We Can Believe In” (please see tagline)
Change...hmmm...kinda like endless revolution. Where have I heard that before.
I certainly can’t believe in this change.
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