Posted on 07/05/2008 2:34:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin.
Again.
During the primary campaign, he rarely did, explaining that he'd worn one after 9/11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism."
So why is he back to sporting pseudo-patriotism on his chest? Need you ask? The primaries are over. While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats who delivered him the caucuses -- hence, the Democratic nomination -- Mr. Obama not only disdained the pin. He disparaged it. Now that he's running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back. His country 'tis of thee.
In last week's column, I thought I had thoroughly chronicled Mr. Obama's brazen reversals of position and abandonment of principles -- on public financing of campaigns, on NAFTA, on telecom immunity for post-9/11 wiretaps, on unconditional talks with Ahmadinejad -- as he moved to the center for the general election campaign. I misjudged him. He was just getting started.
Last week, when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, Mr. Obama immediately declared that he agreed with the decision. This is after his campaign explicitly told the Chicago Tribune last November that he believes the D.C. gun ban is constitutional.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton explains the inexplicable by calling the November -- i.e., the primary season -- statement "inartful." Which suggests a first entry in the Obamaworld dictionary -- "Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."
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I think so. The MSM wants Obama and is determined to elect him.
Of course he will. rats know Osama will say what ever it takes to get into office. This is change we can believe it. It's part of the new paradigm. This isn't the same old politics. Flip Floping is the very definition of "change," and Osama changes his position from day to day.
He’s a globalist for the Democrat Party. Opposite of the globalist for the GOP.
He gets away with it if people think his true beliefs are what he’s saying at a given moment and not his long-term record.
Now he has to move to the "center" so that the peasants will vote for him.
I continue to be mystified by his supporters--some who work with me--who still think this guy is magic. He can read a speech--that's pretty much the beginning and end of his "charisma" as far as I can tell. His campaign is wobbling all over the place, and these things have cumulative power. They add up. I think come September, his poll numbers are going to crash when people start paying attention.
I was one of the doom-and-gloomers who thought this was all over. But the more Obama talks, the less substantial he seems--and he didn't have any substance to begin with.
I mean, all this guy's got is that he's not Bush...and Bush isn't up for re-election. I am starting to think--yes, pessimist me!--that Americans are actually going to start waking up and realize that while it might make them feel all nice and open-minded about electing a black man president, maybe the office is too important for that touchy-feely crap, and experience and having a brain has a lot more to do with it, while slogans and feeeeeelings aren't going to help us in the WOT and with the economy.
Why is this a surprise?
Do you think the power players in the democractic party want a thinker?
No they want a puppet.
They found one.
If they could only decide a more permanent persona for the guy.
He must be getting as confused as are we!
it proves he’s a liberal. liberals can’t talk about what their true beliefs are.
Probably. A certain inconsistency is the hobgoblins of small minds... The electorate might be characterized as broadminded, but in reality they simply aren't paying attention for the most part. There was rarely ever a candidate more inconsistent than William Clinton and it caused nary a ripple among the electorate.
Obama's base knows (as much as one can know) that his current positions are "artful", i.e., insincere.
I think, like Bill Clinton, Obama's one unshakable conviction is that he really, truly believes he wants to be president.
true beliefs? what true beliefs??? he has no true beliefs other than hate whitey(even his own white half) and that he'll stand with the islamists over us...
Krauthammer is such a cool name.
Good job
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