Posted on 05/30/2009 8:45:38 AM PDT by yongin
Admittedly, I was one of the moderate conservatives who was wooed by Obama during his PR campaign to become the country's next president. Sadly, even though I was still unsure of my vote until the week before the election, I know better now. I truly had no idea he would turn out to be the radical tax and spend liberal he's revealed. Since the beginning of his presidency, Obama seems more interested in making policies and decisions that grab headlines than those in the best interests of the country. The announcement of his whopping $3 trillion budget, trailing the $800 billion bank bailout, was shocking and yet the media seemed to rally around him. The president wants to do everything at one time, national healthcare, economy, taxes (wealth redistribution), clean energy, infrastructure, education and more. He acts very king-like, expecting Congress to endorse everything he floats their way, but his high octane PR strategy--loaded with smiles and good oratory may be fading.
Mr. Obama spends money like its coming out of his own piggy bank and expects Congress to rubber stamp his agenda at every turn, which they have been doing except when it came to the closing of Guantanamo Bay prison. This is when the pie in the sky headline grabbing Obama style of governing met reality. Mr. Obama asked Congress for $80 million to build a new prison (it's just more money to pile on the ginormous debt) but they paused, scratched their heads and couldn't just go along with this brazen request without more details from King Obama. Even more hilarious was when the administration said it would just relocate these terrorists to state prisons but governors stopped that bad idea --- "not in my back yard." Even FBI Director Mueller nixed the idea as highly risky because terrorists could easily plot attacks on the US from within prison, recruiting other terrorists, organizing, fundraising etc.
Before this miscalculation, the President listened to his faithful servant Rahm Emanuel and released CIA memos about harsh interrogation tactics used on terrorists under the Bush administration. Many people including Defense Secretary Gates thought this was a bad idea and would endanger our troops needlessly not to mention reveal interrogation methods to our enemies. Once again, the president got great headlines from the partisan press which bashed President Bush and the interrogation methods he endorsed during his administration.
But as the reality of keeping this headline grabbing story going began to sink into President Obama's head, he started walking backwards on the topic weighing the risk in the reality of the situation. This is when the administration had Attorney General Eric Holder tell the media that the Justice Department wasn't going to prosecute former Bush officials. Shortly after this, the president announced he wouldn't release photos of detainees being interrogated. Why engage in any of this in the first place? Releasing interrogation memos and detainee photos only harms our intelligence community and puts American's at risk. Incidentally, the Wall Street Journal was the only paper to relentlessly criticize the administration about taking this action.
These recent events, the planned closing of Gitmo and "CIA-gate", have made the president look very inexperienced and unpolished in his ability to lead the nation and only widened the partisan bickering in Washington. Oh, yeah and Speaker Pelosi's memory lapse over when and what she knew about waterboarding looks sloppy, as if she's trying to hide the truth. It doesn't help the president and certainly doesn't look like change we can believe in or need.
On a side note the president's comments about his nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, are also cause for pause. He said he picked her because she would show empathy. While Supreme Court justices are human and bring experience to their work, they're tasked with finely reviewing cases, considering the Constitution and using their intellect to arrive at rulings. Emotion isn't part of the job. Even more disturbing are Judge Sotomayor's comments that judges make policy.
It seems like the president's image is unraveling in recent months and we're getting a look at the real Obama underneath the PR, razzle, dazzle veneer he sports so well. I think Americans are growing weary of the sparkle, shine and high-spending policies this president is selling and want to see something more. Every week he is on TV holding a press conference for this or that announcement on funding, bailouts or programs to expand government exponentially. As my father exclaimed recently, "when does he have time to run the country, if he's on television everyday." This is a question to be pondered. Team Obama may have won the presidency through an innovative public relations campaign but winning over the confidence of Americans and setting the country on the right course will require careful thought, temperance and bipartisan collaboration.
A smile and eloquent speech won't make it all right.
She doesnt swallow?
Crystal, here’s your sign.
Obama is not a speaker; he's a reader.
“No conservative voted for Obama. Not a single one, anywhere in America.”
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Thank you! I have said the exact same thing on FR and was told by at least one that I “just didn’t understand” but some real conservatives did vote for him. Poppycock, I say, claiming that a conservative voted for Obama is like claiming a cow gave birth to twin bulldog pups. Any real conservative who was unable to hold his nose and vote for McCain just didn’t vote.
“I consider myself a moderate conservative too”
OK, I’ll bite. What is a moderate conservative?
Isn’t that what Arlen Spector was before he became a Democrat? Or not?
Is it something like a conservative liberal?
Sorry if I sound confused. Maybe you could help me out?
< shakes head >
It's not as if Obama himself hadn't given signals like.....
.....his socialist statements
.....his terrorist buddies
.....his hate filled racist books
.....his anti-Constitution as it is written statements on video and audio recordings
Anybody who didn't see this coming is pretty stupid.
What's that line about if you're 40 an not a conservative?
Crystal is obviously doing crystal meth.
You weren't REALLY paying attention now were you?
Typical. After all that was known,, she let her Libido vote for her. All her excuses are BS.
I jumped off a 50-foot-high building the other day. A bunch of people were telling me it would hurt, but they were just biased.
So, when I jumped, it hurt like hell and it broke me into pieces. They were right.
Even when you have been around for a while, you learn something everyday. Or every election.
No, he didnt make her fat, but she *was* fantasizing about that.
A “moderate conservative” is most likely a registered Republican who bought the feminazi line that abortion is “private,” just like it “says” in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. (I’m still waiting for someone to point that one out to me, or explain to me how you translate “right to kill an innocent child” from “right to LIFE, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”)
Maybe it's like a conservative leftist.
> I agree. I don’t need sack cloth and ashes from them, but I want them to say, “Yeah, I was a moron. I was so stupid I shouldn’t be allowed to vote again. I’m sorry.”
I disagree. I think the article is actually quite brilliant. It will persuade many more stupid people not to vote for Obama next time than any amount of scolding from people like us ever could.
There are alot more stupid people in this world than there are Conservatives. Unfortunately stupid people also get to vote. Far better it is that they recognize their stupidity and vote properly the next time.
Remember that someone very famous once said “if they are not against us they are for us.”
“The president wants to do everything at one time, national healthcare, economy, taxes (wealth redistribution), clean energy, infrastructure, education and more”
Sounds to me like she is less opposed to his agenda per se, than she is to his doing it all at once.
Watch it. He's an eloquent reader.
A ‘moderate conservatives’? ...Is this analogous to OJ looking for the real killer?
I think a moderate conservative is someone who is willing to call themself conservative and accept the social stigma of that label. If they say they are conservative, to the liberal media, they are. They can then support Obama, porkulus, GM takeover, whatever, and still be considered conservative, but the moderate kind.
Then, you, Crystal, are a bloomin' idiot!
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