Posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
"To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." —Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007
That was then: Democratic primaries to be won, netroot lefties to be seduced. With all that (and Hillary Clinton) out of the way, Obama now says he'll vote in favor of the new FISA bill that gives the telecom companies blanket immunity for post-9/11 eavesdropping.
Back then, in the yesteryear of primary season, he thoroughly trashed the North American Free Trade Agreement, pledging to force a renegotiation, take "the hammer" to Canada and Mexico, and threaten unilateral abrogation.
Today, the hammer is holstered. Obama calls his previous NAFTA rhetoric "overheated" and essentially endorses what one of his senior economic advisers privately told the Canadians: The anti-trade stuff was nothing more than populist posturing.
Nor is there much left of his primary season pledge to meet "without preconditions" with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There will be "preparations," you see, which are being spun by his aides into the functional equivalent of preconditions.
Obama's long march to the center has begun.
And why not? What's the downside? He won't lose the left, or even mainstream Democrats. They won't stay home on Nov. 4. The anti-Bush, anti-Republican sentiment is simply too strong. Election Day is their day of revenge — for the Florida recount, for Swift-boating, for all the injuries, real and imagined, dealt out by Republicans over the last eight years.
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Beware Charles Krauthammer...on Fox last night he asserted that Stevens in the dissent was correct. Krauthammer is also on record for a right to an abortion.
Interesting that he sees no right to life spelled out in the Constitution, and that he sees no right to bear arms in the Constitution. They are, in fact, both explicitly stated.
The right to bear arms is, when one thinks about it, an extension of the right to life.
You could've fooled me. I see little evidence of that anymore.
Precisely.
Krauthammer is not a conservative.
Bump.
LOL...sooooo true!!!!
Yah, all those bitter clinging gun-toting bible readers just can't wait to vote for an infanticidal commie maniac. McCain will win this easy, despite bambi's money and media advantage.
Welcome to FR.
He can paint on a smile for the crowd and the cameras, but the eyes don't change.
” I forget who it was around here who said it first, but look at those eyes.”
Not me, but as many say “ The eyes are the window to the soul”
Case in point.... Hillary..... Scary huh???
“but then why believe any of the “flip-flops” or any position taken because they are just speeches or words tailored to a specific moment or audience? The decline in confidence in government is partially due to the view that the voters are routinely deceived.”
They make those statements for the same reason that TV is filled with commercials that any appropriately cynical(logical) person would easily see to be hyperbole at best (and are usually pure B.S.)
Those on the extremes care about the issues. the huge chunk in the middle will often vote on emption, sound bites and/or appearance. At least that is my observation and explanation for the ‘run to the middle’
....oops, I meant “often vote on emotion”
I believe that Jeremiah Wright would agree with you on that... he has publicly said as much.
Barack Obama the engineer driving the...
“The Doubletalk Express”
You go to bed. Krauthammer's article is dead on as always.
It was disappointing but I'm glad I know the score on him.
Buy Sirius/XM stock. The fairness doctrine will force us all to satellite radio.
Yep, when you look at some of the photos of him, his eyes are very sobering. He and his wife hate America and it shows!
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