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Posted on 10/17/2008 4:31:07 PM PDT by Liz
--SNIP--Obama knows Middle America harbors deep suspicions of him.....he has jettisoned position after position to make himself acceptable. His "flip-flops" testify most convincingly to the fact that Obama knows that where he comes from is far outside the American mainstream. For what are flip-flops other than concessions that a position is untenable and must be abandoned?
Thus, though he is the nominee of a party in thrall to the environmental movement, Obama has signaled conditional support for offshore drilling and pumping out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
While holding to his pledge for a pullout of combat brigades from Iraq in 16 months, he has talked of "refining" his position and of a residual U.S. force to train the Iraqi army and deal with al-Qaida. On Afghanistan, he has called for 10,000 more troops and U.S. strikes in Pakistan to kill bin Laden, even without prior notice or the permission of the Pakistani government.
Since securing the nomination, Obama has adopted the Scalia position on the death penalty for child rape and the right to keep a handgun in the home. He voted to give the telecoms immunity from prosecution for colluding in Bush wiretaps.
This onetime sympathizer of the Palestinians now does a passable imitation of Ariel Sharon. No Democrat has ever come out of the far left of his party to win the presidency. McGovern, the furthest left, stayed true to his convictions and lost 49 states. Obama has chosen another course. Though he comes out of the McGovern-Jesse Jackson left, he has shed past positions like support for partial-birth abortion as fast as he has shed past associations, from William Ayers to ACORN, from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his fellow parishioners at Trinity United.
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It’s hard to read Pat anymore, did he make any comparisons to Hitler and WW2 as he usually does? By the title of it though he’s probably right, it looks like people are starting wake up and see the marxist for what he is. Btw I read on another post that Joe the plumber brought up Barry’s lack of a birth certificate on a radio interview today. The man is almost singlehandedly destroying the fraud.
It’s been awhiel since I’ve said this, but Go Pat Go
Excellent post. Barry is an empty suit the global Muslim initiative has slipped onto the US Ballot in hopes of a takeover—what did he promise in return for the money? Sharia law here?
Just waisted a click on FR ... who the f*** cares what Pat Buchanan has to say about anything???
Watta guy.
Give the man a prize. Just don’t expect to see him on the cover of Time. :)
Man does Joe ever scare the MSM. The Seattle Times gave him both barrels today. Wish they’d exert 1% of the effort on “exposing” Obama that they have on going after a regular guy who has the AUDACITY to question the Messiah.
We need to keep supporting each other to get the message out....
List of Obamamama’s flip-flops here——good ammo to use with undecideds.
So right.
Right now the country is being exposed to Obama the centrist presidential candidate, champion of mainstreet America. While doing his best at covering his own track record for Obama, the liberal politician. No doubt about it. IF, Obama gets elected, he will declare a mandate and push for:
~higher income taxes
~increased government spending
~expanded social engineering
~more government intervention
~income redistribution
~protectionist trade policies
~push higher corporate taxes
~environwacko energy policy
~lifting ALL abortion limits
~cut and run foreign policy
God help us all.
Your post sounds like an excellent letter to the editor.
God help us all—————amen.
What they're doing is attempting to intimidate any other potential Joe the Plumbers out there. This is what will happen to you if you dare to speak out and question the chosen one. Those running the Seattle Times are nothing but bottom feeders.
Talk about flip flopping....take a look at this from his state Senate days.
Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.
May 20, 2008
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/05/20/obama-had-a-ready-explanation-he-goofed/
(from LA times) Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed. “I was not aware that I had voted no,” he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he “intended to vote yes.”
Some lawmakers say the practice also offers a relatively painless way to placate both sides of a difficult issue. Even if a lawmaker admits an error, the actual vote stands and the official record merely shows the senator’s “intent.”
On March 19, 1997, he announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6: “I was trying to vote yes on this, and I was recorded as a no,” he said. The next day, he acknowledged voting “present” on a key telecommunications vote.
He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. “I pressed the wrong button on that,” he said.
Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. “I pressed the wrong button by accident,” he said.
But two of Obama’s bumbles came on more-sensitive topics. On Nov. 14, 1997, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside.
The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two “yeas” to spare — including Obama’s. Moments after its passage he rose to say, “I’d like to be recorded as a no vote,” explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
Is that punctuated correctly?
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