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.
McCain was hand picked by the MSM to be a dupe for the election. I never got the impression that he had any desire to win.
“What the heck is a moderate conservative?”
John McCain. Hell, he probably voted for 0 too.
Crystal was warned time and time again. she ignored the warnings. Like thousands of others loaded with white guilt.
She struck a nerve in a bad way!
...”I truly had no idea he would turn out to be the radical tax and spend liberal he’s revealed.”...
Two comments here. First, is Crystal Wright black? That would explain her vote for Obama as one purely of race. In my view, “independent” voters do not exist - independence is another way of saying uniformed until it’s too late. Second, Crystal Wright is a lazy moron to make the quoted statement. Anyone who delved into Obama’s past and “record” beyond the lies and hype put out by the so-called MSM would have known that this clown positioned himself as a “moderate democrat”, a charade aided and abetted by a criminally complicit media. Uninformed fools like Ms Wright hurt their own interests and those of the USA in their ignorance.
Bush 1 was called a “moderate conservative” when he ran against Reagan, by NPR.
I sometimes wonder about these polls though. They can choose to poll all democratic voting areas and come up with the result they want. I don’t trust anything anymore. Just the fact that absolsutely Nobody in authority or the Supreme Court will bother to deal with the very important issue of whether this fraud is legally Amercian born so that he could even qualify to run for President. There is also the HUGE Acorn cheat machine. Who really knows how many millions of votes he got from non-existent or dead people? Corrupt to the core. The very worst choice that America has ever made. The consequences will be brutal. He is tearing down Amercia’s defenses daily. He’s steam rolling over the masses and it really will take a revolution to undo it. He’s done enough damage in 3 months can you imagine what a year or two will bring??? Shudder!! CO
Stop! You’re killing me!
How can anyone be a moderate conservative?
I think what you mean is that you’re a clueless doofazoid with a full set of “living” principles who thinks Meghan McCain could be the next Oprah.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Methinks Crystal Wrong doesn't really regret voting for Obama.
She is just upset that he is being ostracized for "moving too fast".
She badly wants all the stuff she listed, she just wants him to get it all for her in a slower way, so that Joe taxpayer's buttocks aren't pockmarked by the government sucking all the money out of his wallet too quickly.
She wants the old "boiling frog" approach to make sure old Joe doesn't jump out of the pot and ruin it all for her.
Thanks, Crystal......READ and LISTEN next time, OK????
these asshats are like unicorns...only ever found by the media
Let’s define moderate conservative:
I don’t believe in all that Christian or Old Testament behavior stuff they throw in there.....that is all it is ever about.
Period.
I'm sorry but that is nonsense. It was clear during the campaign who Obama was and what he was going to do. It was equally clear who McCain was and while McCain wasn't by any means who I would have picked as the Republican candidate, that is what he was. In any event the choice was between McCain and a leftist/racist. McCain didn't make them vote for Obama.
However, the meltdown of the financial markets may have clouded the issues and PO'd folks enough to allow the unthinkable to happen and that should be investigated as to weather it was, in any part, due to artificial manipulation for political purposes.
I wonder if Christopher Buckley has buyer’s remorse, also.
you're telling us that they would have supported a real social conservative but since one wasn't running they opted for a far left radical instead?
man, must be one weird family when it comes to logic discussions..
At some point..”the Worst Economy Ever” with 4.5% unemployment and 2.0% inflation is gonna be looking mighty good.....
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You should make that your tag line. Notice you don’t hear any complaints about Bush anymore?
no idea? come on, he told us for 2 years what he was going to do.
There is no such animal as a "moderate conservative".
Fool comes to mind, however.
It's a Dick Cheney who thinks that the way you fight Islamic terrorism is to hire a bunch of third rate TSA inspectors and excopst to be counterintelligence specialists to go looking through sock dwawers and old lady's underwear. It values suspecting the integrity and decency of good old American taxpayers, while shooting your friends with a shot gun because you don't know how to shoot straight. It helps that you cannot figure out what you are aiming at.
It's a George Bush who wakes up too late and discovers that Dick Cheney can't actually shoot straight or tell the difference between friend and taraget and that "hey help us out with $750B" Paulson isn't a paragon of stand or fall on your own personal worth conservatism.
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