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Obama's Changes Raise Issue: Can You Believe in Him?
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 11, 2008 | Mort Kondracke

Posted on 07/12/2008 6:50:49 PM PDT by FocusNexus

Maybe the biggest question of the 2008 presidential campaign is "Who is Sen. Barack Obama really?" Of late, the mystery is deepening.

It's customary for presidential candidates to move to the center for the general election after they've pandered to their party's base in the primaries -- but the Illinois Democrat has claimed not to be your customary candidate, but someone who was going to usher in a new politics.

He has eloquently promised "change we can believe in," but lately he's changing his tune on so many issues it's becoming a legitimate question: Can voters really believe in him?

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; flipflops; kondracke; obama

1 posted on 07/12/2008 6:50:49 PM PDT by FocusNexus
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"Who is Sen. Barack Obama really?"

A marxist empty suit

Can voters really believe in him?

No.

That was easy!

2 posted on 07/12/2008 6:55:28 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: FocusNexus

No-Oh-bomb-us Under da bus Hussein


3 posted on 07/12/2008 6:55:56 PM PDT by shineon
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4 posted on 07/12/2008 6:56:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Obama=Typical Chicago Politician with the added bonus that he’s a marxist commie....all thrown in for no extra charge.


5 posted on 07/12/2008 6:56:31 PM PDT by Invictus
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“Then there’s his position on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he said during the primaries — and continues to say on his campaign Web site — should be renegotiated. But lately he’s said that statement was “overheated.”

It seems he wants it both ways — satisfying the anti-free-trade AFL-CIO on the one hand and a passel of pro-trade New York investment bankers on the other.

And, finally, there’s Iraq. It’s been a bedrock principle of his campaign that he would pull all U.S. combat troops out within 16 months of taking office. Last week, in one press conference, he said he might “refine” that schedule.”

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6 posted on 07/12/2008 6:57:48 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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Is this guy the real deal, or an eloquent phony?

Mort, he is neither real nor eloquent. He is typical Democrat political hack whose clumsy move to center show his total inexperience and ineptitude as a leader.

7 posted on 07/12/2008 6:58:01 PM PDT by A message
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Can voters really believe in him?

BHO is a political disciple of the Saul Alinsky method which is driven by consequentalism; that is to say The Ends Justifies The Means, even if the "Means" means lying.

IIRC Islam hold the same value for "truth telling" to infidels.....

8 posted on 07/12/2008 7:00:19 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (What value does Black Liberation Theology hold in a post racial Republic?)
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Who is he really? A militant anti-American and an abject marxist.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

9 posted on 07/12/2008 7:09:49 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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10 posted on 07/12/2008 7:11:02 PM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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He has eloquently promised "change we can believe in," but lately he's changing his tune on so many issues it's becoming a legitimate question: Can voters really believe in him?

No, that's not it at all. Kondracke's not with it. It's not Obama's fault if some of his supporters read something into things which he didn't mean. According to his campaign, he's been saying the same thing all along - people just haven't been listening to him very carefully.

Obama's for change. And that, as they say, is that.

11 posted on 07/12/2008 7:14:39 PM PDT by BusterBear
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I believe Obama today. I'm not sure I'll believe him on Jan. 20th.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

12 posted on 07/12/2008 7:18:00 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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He’s a lying sack of s***, communist, mooselimb.


13 posted on 07/12/2008 7:18:20 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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uuummmmmmmmmmm... NO!!!
14 posted on 07/12/2008 7:40:21 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/NYARLATHOTEP'08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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15 posted on 07/12/2008 7:42:18 PM PDT by counterpunch (John McCain - For the LOVE of Country)
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That photo of Obama eating pancakes just begs to be photo shopped.


16 posted on 07/12/2008 7:49:54 PM PDT by patriot08
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Official rolling papers of Obama '08

17 posted on 07/12/2008 7:57:25 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (Barack Obama is lika a bowl of chili - - he's full of beans.)
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**Can You Believe in Him?**

No, and the Obamaniacs won’t be sending any more money either!


18 posted on 07/12/2008 7:58:55 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Obama teleprompter animation Chump Change poster Teleprompters for dummies
19 posted on 07/12/2008 8:52:38 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Obama Adopts “Bold New Approach” to Iraq War

In what the media are hailing as “an incredibly nuanced take on a very sticky problem,” Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Obama announced a “bold new approach” for dealing with the war in Iraq.

Under Obama’s plan, he will “confer with the commanders-on-the-ground in Iraq to ensure a militarily sound strategy is followed.” At the same time, “performance benchmarks that the Iraqi government will be required to meet will be monitored.”

Erstwhile supporters of the Illinois senator expressed outrage at what they are calling a “sell-out.”

“Conferring with the Army brass and monitoring benchmarks are the Bush policies for this war,” complained Danner Kline, a self-identified staunch supporter of Obama. “Obama’s practically denouncing and rejecting every progressive voice in the country.”

Kline says that while he is disappointed in Obama’s turnabout, he will still vote for him “in the hope that he is just lying in order to get elected.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


20 posted on 07/12/2008 9:05:12 PM PDT by John Semmens
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