Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash

Times of London ^ | 07/04/08 | Gerard Baker

[TigerLikesRooster]

Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash

The Democratic nominee's policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals. He is no fool

Gerard Baker

Change, it turns out, wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Having campaigned for the past year as the agent of transformation, the man who would lead an historic shift in America's political direction, Barack Obama is discovering that there is quite a lot he likes about the way things are.

Since securing the Democratic nomination a few weeks ago, the only change coming from the Illinois senator has been in what he seems to stand for. Last month he dropped his opposition to a Bill before Congress that would give telecoms companies immunity from prosecution for carrying out illegal wiretaps on potential terrorist suspects.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Hmm...blatant flipfloping would be bad for him

[HerrBlucher]

He’s lying, he’s a commie till the cows come home, the moonbat left needs to chill out an let bambi fool the center into believing him. Or maybe their know this and their outrage is staged?

[Dick Bachert]

“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.

1 minute satirical Obama video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6b-kWncI4

Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.

[Red Steel]

Obama is setting the world record.

[rdl6989]

He’s a lib. This means he flip-flops.

[Jeff Head]

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

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[eyedigress]

This is the strangest election process I’ve ever witnessed.

[word_warrior_bob]

So, if Obama doesn’t want to bring the troops home until Iraq is stabalized, doesn’t that give him the same position as......George W. Bush.

Someone post that over at DU, they’ll have a heart attack.

[Salvation]

Whiplash..........here's some flip-flops for the poor people.

[the invisib1e hand]

this triangulates like a bat at sunset.

[Lancey Howard]

Obama had to pander to the goofball left in order to beat Hillary and now he’s got to distance himself from the goofball left in order to try to fool the “independents” and “moderates”. In today’s cyberspace mass-media world, a wink and a nod doesn’t cut it anymore. The oily scumbag has boxed himself in, but good.

[Thrownatbirth]

A flip on Iraq will be the deal-breaker.

[blam]

US Election: Barack Obama Wobbles On Withdrawing Iraq Troops

[Ramius]

This is the strangest election process I’ve ever witnessed.

Gotta agree there. In any normal universe nobody with Obama's pedigree would even get laughably close to the nomination by a party, let alone any actual election to the highest office on the planet.

Heck... We're better at selecting a new American Idol than we are at selecting the next President.

[eyedigress]

I've had the TV on the Twilight Zone all evening and it seems all to appropriate.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

kakistocracy

kak·is·toc·ra·cy [ kàkə stókrəssee ] (plural kak·is·toc·ra·cies)

noun

Definition:

Bad government: government by the most unscrupulous or unsuitable people, or a state governed by such people

[Early 19th century. < Greek kakistos "worst"]

[airborne]

Looks like a lot of voters on both sides will be holding their noses this November.

“A Republic, if you can keep it!”

Indeed.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The Times of London...too bad we have to go overseas to get a true picture of what's going on with our politics......

[chris_bdba]

I do hope this makes Denver all the more interesting. :)

[endthematrix]

Only an anti-war idealist couldn't see that coming....

[skr]

So, if Obama doesn’t want to bring the troops home until Iraq is stabalized, doesn’t that give him the same position as......George W. Bush.

Someone post that over at DU, they’ll have a heart attack.

Perhaps someone might suggest to the disenchanted Democrats that Mr. Nader needs some votes. I've read some of the DU comments; there are some very unhappy posters over there.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[goldstategop]

The author is acknowledging America is not and has never been a center-left country. Americans shun the Republican Party for being insufficiently conservative. There's no evidence Americans like higher taxes, bigger government or have an abiding desire to lose the War In Iraq. Or to lose their cherished guns. In the face of all these positions Obama is simply facing up to political reality: America is not all Blue and there are not enough liberals to get him elected President. No wonder the Left is upset.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Blind Eye Jones]

Obama should ask McCain if he can be his Vice President seeing that he agrees with the Bush status quo. This would certainly be a change in the election process.

[A message]

Barack Hussein Obama’s clumsy and overly transparent shift to the center shows how inexperienced and inept this man is.

He is a man of no convictions, ( unless it comes to killing unborn babies) that he will say and do anything to become President. He is the most pathetic of pandering politicians.

He will throw is grandmother, church, corrupt Chicago cronies under the bus.

And now he has thrown his Iraq position under the bus.

I won't be surprised if Barack Hussein Obama makes the statement the he is not the Barack Hussein Obama that Barack Hussein Obama knew.....

[Southack]

Obama won’t be anywhere on the Democratic Party ticket in November.

[musicman]

"I won't be surprised if Barack Hussein Obama makes the statement the he is not the Barack Hussein Obama that Barack Hussein Obama knew....."

[goldstategop]

I am waiting for Obama to declare he admires Ronald Reagan and thinks his domestic policy worked for this country. I'm just getting cynical.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Global2010]

I heard from a source that cannot be mentioned here on FR because he is considered a whack O that the process America is going through is known as the

NEW REALITY

[hosepipe]

Obama moving to the center on some things is all the RINOs need.. when he switchs back to the left the RINOs will remain.. it worked for Bill Clinton.. and Hillary.. RINOS are malificent malafactors.. worse than a democrat.. The Kingfish seems to be playing the RINOS like a rented Donkey..

[Global2010]

Thanks I was resting and bored so I copied you and turned over to Twilight Zone.

Great marathon.

Like the meaning of obsolete and the end of the Librarian vs the State episode.

[goldstategop]

You should see his recent commercial: no mention of his leftist views. You could be forgiven for thinking he was a Republican!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Grampa Dave]

"There appears to be no issue that Barack Obama is not willing to reverse himself on for the sake of political expedience. This is the change he promised , This reality of his so called change, shows him to be a typical lying liberal politician."

"You can be sure there will never be any clear answers from Obama on any critical issue. He is quite comfortable taking positions that contradict each other. Sadly, his inconsistent and dishonest positions are perfectly acceptable to his Obamabot cult members, who blindly follow him."

Instead of the change candidate, Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas, will be known as the Ooops Uh Flip-Flop Candidate, who couldn't tell the truth!

Quit your whining about my Flip Flops, Waffling and Lies, you God Loving, Gun owning and Bitter White Racist Patriots!

Damn Pajama Media. They won’t let me get by with my lies and flip flopping.

[JavaJumpy]

This DU poster is all for a right wing smear conspiracy:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/254

But a political analyst I listened to said it was an obvious ploy to get votes; once elected, he said, look out- it’s a turn to the hard left.

[supercat]

Americans shun the Republican Party for being insufficiently conservative.

More to the point, when most Americans are told what real conservatives actually stand for, any why they stand for them, they find themselves in agreement with most of those things. How many Republicans offer any justification for their positions?

[RobRoy]

It is simple strategy.

When running for your parties endorsement, give them what the majority of the party wants. If it is 50% liberal whacko and 20 percent liberal and 30% semi-liberal, give ‘em LIBERAL.

Now that you have that sewn up, you gotta go for the center of your new audience the whole US demographic.

‘Course, in “intelligent” times, the electorate would have been insulted by your lack of respect for their intelligence and their powers of observation. They were too intelligent to be duped by mere words changed so easily.

I’ve been to the mall. I’ve seen america.

I think he has a strong chance of winning.

But if Bush orchestrates a collapse of oil prices before November (or they otherwise collapse), all bets are off.

[RobRoy]

I would love to get a bumper sticker that said: “HOPE AND CHANGE” - OBAMA, HITLER, STALIN