Posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
"To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." —Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007
That was then: Democratic primaries to be won, netroot lefties to be seduced. With all that (and Hillary Clinton) out of the way, Obama now says he'll vote in favor of the new FISA bill that gives the telecom companies blanket immunity for post-9/11 eavesdropping.
Back then, in the yesteryear of primary season, he thoroughly trashed the North American Free Trade Agreement, pledging to force a renegotiation, take "the hammer" to Canada and Mexico, and threaten unilateral abrogation.
Today, the hammer is holstered. Obama calls his previous NAFTA rhetoric "overheated" and essentially endorses what one of his senior economic advisers privately told the Canadians: The anti-trade stuff was nothing more than populist posturing.
Nor is there much left of his primary season pledge to meet "without preconditions" with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There will be "preparations," you see, which are being spun by his aides into the functional equivalent of preconditions.
Obama's long march to the center has begun.
And why not? What's the downside? He won't lose the left, or even mainstream Democrats. They won't stay home on Nov. 4. The anti-Bush, anti-Republican sentiment is simply too strong. Election Day is their day of revenge — for the Florida recount, for Swift-boating, for all the injuries, real and imagined, dealt out by Republicans over the last eight years.
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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 Patriot Racists!
Nice trolling there, Obamabot!
The lose the war to win a moral victory only appeals to the idiots who are in the minority on this board and in the voting world.
Obama
Deeply religious...part Muslim, part Christian, and now part Hanumanian?
and friend of Tort.
Awesome post, thxs...
“Who do you want to pick SCOTUS judges—Obama or McCain?”
That is irrelevant, if Obama is POTUS, he will pick the judges that he wants. If McCain is POTUS, he will pick the judges that Pat Leahy will allow....you know that.
LA LA LA LA LAL LALLALALALALA-— I’m not listening I’m not listening I’m not listening....
A dem majority, possibly a super majority, with the architect of the Gang of 14 leading the way.
We’re getting carbon copies of Souter/Stephens no matter who wins the White House.
Using SCOTUS as a reason we have to vote for McQueeg is entirely bogus.
BTW: who was going to sue the telecoms again?
From Flip-Flop in ‘04, to Flim-Flam in ‘08.
From Flip-Flop in ‘04, to Flim-Flam in ‘08.
From Flip-Flop in ‘04, to Flim-Flam in ‘08.
“If McCain is POTUS, he will pick the judges that Pat Leahy will allow”
The most bizarre arguments from isolationists. Leahy voted against Alito, McCain voted to confirm Alito. Barr stands no chance, nor did Ron Paul. Some have trouble getting over this.
“If McCain is POTUS, he will pick the judges that Pat Leahy will allow”
The most bizarre arguments from isolationists. Leahy voted against Alito, McCain voted to confirm Alito.
Your argument only confirms my point.
I think Obama winning in 2008 would be an utter disaster,..one we would not be able to recover from...more Liberals on the Supreme Court would totally rewrite the Constitution......
This is a DNC talking point: Convince the conservatives who dislike McCain that we’ll be better off in the long run with Obama. I notice you have arrived recently, as have most of the others reciting this mantra.
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