Posted on 04/27/2008 9:17:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Give Barack Obama this: he performed a lot better on Fox News Sunday today than he did in the debate on April 16th. He stammered less when challenged, allowed his considerable personal warmth to surface, and kept his annoyance and anger in check. On the other hand, he offered about the same level of commitment to his answers as he did in Philadelphia, and gave at least a couple of whoppers.
One of the more interesting answers came in regards to Jeremiah Wright. He called Wright a “legitimate” campaign issue, which will seem rather shocking to the New York Times, the McCain campaign, and others who have demanded an end to the North Carolina GOP’s television ad. Obama complained that people took Wright out of context, but said Americans were honestly offended by Wright’s remarks, and that his relationship with Wright can inform voters of his values — but that voters should take into consideration the totality of Trinity United and Wright on those issues, and not just sound bites.
Obama sounded a lot less convincing when it came to responding to the William Ayers controversy. He called Ayers “tangential” to his life and suggested that Chris Wallace probably serves on boards with people whose politics he otherwise detests. Unfortunately for Obama, Wallace doesn’t devote a web page on his site defending those people as “mainstream”, as Obama does for Ayers and Dohrn. The pair still talk about overthrowing capitalism and parts of the government they find objectionable, and approvingly quote Mao lieutenant Chou En-lai while railing against the “unimaginable authoritarianism” of the American government. His answer, intending on freeing himself of the charge of equating Coburn and Ayers/Dohrn, instead made it clear that he sees both as political activists, morally equivalent at least in the present.
His final gaffe — and one that may make a few Republican commercials — came when Wallace challenged Obama to come up with real examples of bipartisanship and compromise on tough issues. He claimed he would have supported the partial-birth abortion ban if Congress had included an exception to protect the mother’s health, which would have been used as a dodge around the ban in every instance. Other than a single vote on tort reform, he could come up with no example of a time when he bucked Democratic leadership.
The most hilarious point came when Obama tried to claim credit for bipartisanship on the John Roberts confirmation vote — not because he supported Roberts. He voted against Roberts. However, Obama wanted credit for defending the few Democrats who did support Roberts on Daily Kos, and taking the venom of Kos’ readership for his defense. That’s bipartisanship — standing up to the Kos Kiddies? If that amounts to an act of courage for Obama, it tells you how bipartisan he will be prepared to be as President.
It wasn’t a disaster, but it still reveals Obama to be out of touch and hard to the Left. Don’t expect this to help in Indiana.
Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama,
his anti-American racist pastor,
his anti-American terrorist friend,
and his anti-American, bitter, angry wife,,,
are THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT TIME!!
I turned the show off after the third or fourth time he said “my former Pastor”.
“Senator B. (whose middle name must NEVER be spoken) Obama,”
I thought his name was B. Husinsane Osama-Obama
Interesting since he would not even support the Born Alive Act when it came before the state senate.
No mother's health in danger once the baby is born.
Iwatched O’Reilly and Melanie Morgan on Fox last night as they discussed whether Ayers support and Friendship should be held against Obama....Melanie was beside herself with O’Reilly saying well....we can’t do that cause he was Young and needed help getting started in Chicago.,....made me angry at the Factor....what a useful Idiot....
And here we are supposed to believe that he will 'reach across the aisle' to unite the country??? Give me a break.
Although I strongly disagreed with him (as he was wrong) on McCain-Feingold (campaign finance reform), McCain-Kennedy (immigration) and McCain-Lieberman (global warming)---
McCain is the one candidate that HAS 'reached across the aisle' to compromise. There is no compromise at all in the far-left, anti-American ideological, Marxist, liberal agenda for Obama!!!
BHO thinks that only bitter clingy people don't hang out with people @ KOS.
I have never understood how anyone could justify killing the baby as it was being born in order to save the mother.
If a vaginal delivery is going to kill her, you do a C-section - problem solved. If her health is so bad that neither will work, then she's got more problems than just being pregnant.
At that time, Mr. O. was nothing but a sock puppet for Dick Durbin.
That’s exactly right — for most of us here McCain has been far too bi-partisan in performance and outlook, but he can honestly claim to the MSM that he is capable of “reaching across the aisle” to get things done (even when we don’t want it)..... Obambi has absolutely NO RECORD of any bi-partisan activity whatsoever because he is a hard-core, dedicated LEFTIST. The one time he did pretend to some interest in working on bi-partisan lobbying reform (with McCain ironically) he then stabbed McCain in the back.... for which he received a firm public rebuke from Sen. McCain.
Even Ted Kennedy finds some occasions for bi-partisanship (much to our disgust on FR) but Obambi is simply a LIAR when he pretends he has any interest or performance at all in reaching out to the “other party” and its voters.
Obama is on the far left of the country’s politics and a 100% ADA/ACLU hard core doctinaire socialist liberal.
Obama's unwillingness to show ANY COMPROMISE AT ALL--as he 'toes the line' on all far-left, extremist, liberal positions,,,
is PRECISELY WHAT MAKES HIM THE "DREAM CANDIDATE" OF THE LIBERAL LEFT!!!!
Unfortunately too many in the media read it as "his considerable personal warmth".
He wasn't talking to Hillary Clinton for the twenty something time. That would make anybody cranky.
All that, and he’s still better than Hillary.
I think McCain is going to stomp all over Obama in November.
BOR is a self-serving egomaniac and has now definitely turned into a useful idiot.
I wonder if Wallace was smart enough to point out that the expert medical opinion and the position of the AMA is that there is no known threat to a mother's health that requires partial birth abortion; or that according to the legal einsteins who infest our courts, "health of the mother" means everything from anger at the father to feeling fat in a bathing suit.
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