Posted on 02/04/2008 10:22:23 PM PST by T.L.Sink
Team Obama has the ball - and the momentum. Obama has drawn praise from from the New York Post and from numerous conservative heavyweights, including former Reagan speechwriter Jeffrey Hart, National Review editor Rich Lowry, former education secretary and radio host Bill Bennett, and former Bush aide Peter Wehner. Obama's achievements are largely proleptic: words aren't deeds. And while he has few concrete achievements to his name, he does have a voting record that hardly suggests an ability to rise above Left and Right. After his first two years in the Senate, National Journal's analysis of roll call votes found that he was more liberal than 86 percent of his colleagues, and his voting record has grown more liberal since then. The liberal ADA now gives him a 97.5 rating, while National Journal ranks him the most liberal member of the Senate. In the recent Hollywood debate, he insisted, contrary to the evidence, that the problem with American education was that it was underfunded. But education funding has increased dramatically over the last 20 years to no good effect, as student performance on content-based tests continues to decline. In the same debate, Obama at first waffled in response to an African-American womsn's question about the effect of illegal immigration on working class wages. But finally, he insisted that complaining about the effects of illegal immigrants on working-class wages and neighborhoods was a form of "scapegoating."
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Obama is a professional with platitudes.
“Republicans, swing voters, and moderate Democrats are entitled to know why a man who has never been to Iraq and who, aside from a brief trip to London, has barely been abroad as an adult, is ready to guide us internationally.”
This was a major charge against Bush by the left, that he had not traveled.
Bush did travel more than Obama, and yet the left is strangely silent.
As commander-in-chief he could withdraw troops. To the best of my knowledge, the only power Congress has is to cut the purse strings and force withdraw by refusing to fund them.
Exactly. When Biden said Obama was “clean” he simply meant to say that he had a clean record. But in our racially paranoid society everything becomes spin-speak.
You’re putting it politely. I’d say he’s a windbag and an empty suit.
That clip tells the whole story.
Well written post.
Obama is the next Jimmy Carter.
Hillary is the next Hugo Chavez.
That’s why some conservatives like Obama. Better incompetence than evil.
Apparently Hart, a Dartmouth professor who wrote speeches for Nixon and Reagan, is.
That's surprising, though he's been quite erratic lately.
More here.
I gather he was upset about Iraq, and about Schiavo and the evangelicals.
“Apparently Hart, a Dartmouth professor who wrote speeches for Nixon and Reagan, is. “
I admit it always upsets me greatly whenever someone I never heard of endorses a candidate I oppose.
No, they’re saying nice things about Obama in the hopes he will get the nomination and the public will wake up and see that he is way too inexperienced and naive to become the leader of the Free World.
Republicans are for the most part truly color blind. It has nothing to do with his race.
Seems like some people are just tired of Bush and Bush-alikes.
He doesn’t dare say anything bad about the rebels in Kenya. His cousin Odinga is on the rebel side.
In other words, he’s Chauncy Gardener.
That’s what happens in tribal warfare!
Could be. That theory was mentioned as a possibliity in the article.
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