Ummm .... I don't know about that.
It's pretty easy to steal what Hillary considers *her's* when there's something in it for Bill.
Posted on 11/29/2008 5:21:17 AM PST by Kaslin
A funny thing happened on his way to the White House: that old, left-wing community organizer Barack Obama has suddenly veered toward the center, and his incoming administration is looking more and more like the Daley Machine in Chicago than Hugo Chavez's administration down in Venezuela.
It seems that reality has set in, instructing the soon-to-be president-elect (he won't be that until the presidential electors gather and vote for him next month) that it's easier to promise change then it is to change the way things are traditionally done in a democracy.
Watching him announce key appointments to cabinet and sub-cabinet posts makes one think that this is Bill Clinton redux. Mr. Obama has dug deep into the 1990s and resurrected much of the Clinton cast of characters, even to naming Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state.
That appointment, some have suggested, is Obama's way of emulating Lyndon Johnson. When LBJ named an old foe to a post in his administration, he explained that it was better to have the camel inside the tent urinating out, than outside the tent urinating in.
None of this satisfies the radical left that went bonkers trying to elect the man they thought would turn the White House into a new Kremlin and name all of them commissars of the new Socialist Republic of America.
Barack Obama, ardent disciple of the late Saul Alinsky, seems to have forgotten the iron-clad left-wing dictate -- "no enemies to the left." With every Clintonite or Wall Streeter appointment he makes a new enemy on the left.
What the Alinsky/Ayers crowd doesn't seem to understand is that Barack Obama's only acquaintanceship with government in action was his close relationship with Chicago's Daley machine, where its hallmark -- aside from its rampant corruption -- was devotion to pragmatism. If it works, do it; if it doesn't, don't.
Everything Mr. Obama has done in recent weeks since winning the election has been an exercise in pragmatism -- gone is all the heated rhetoric about change and reform. Everything is now measured by only one standard -- it must above all be practical.
What his disappointed leftist allies don't grasp is that many of those who voted for him thought he had a conservative message for them. Now with his appointments such as keeping Robert Gates at the Defense Department and naming Paul Volcker as a top economic advisor, he's delivering on what the voters saw as his conservative promises.
Unlike Bill Clinton, he's moving to the center before he takes office, and not two years afterwards as Clinton did. During the campaign I prayed he was lying when he unveiled his platform and promises of what he'd do as president.
I was hoping he lied about taxes. I was hoping he lied about ending the war in Iraq in 16 months. I was hoping he lied about all of those nutty left-wing programs he was promising.
It looks as if my prayers were answered.
I expect that he'll try to mollify his now-dejected left-wing supporters by tossing them a few bones. He'll push for the horrendous "Freedom of Choice" bill that would enshrine abortion as the supreme law of the land, overturning all restrictions on the grisly procedure previously enacted by the states; and trying to gag conservative talk radio hosts, for example.
I'm sure he knows that those attempts might be empty gestures if his party falls short of the 60 votes in the Senate they need to shut off debate on such measures, thereby allowing the Republican minority to use the filibusters to kill such measures so dear to the hearts of the so-called progressives.
What's happening is Obama's discovery that there is a big difference between running for president and being president. He is now up to date, up to speed, and getting all the information George Bush is getting -- and he having to make decisions based on that information.
As a result he and George Bush are now on the same wavelength. It's amazing what a little dose of reality will do to a man who dreamt dreams before he encountered the inescapable facts of life.
Welcome to Washington, Barack Obama.
Oh, gee, what a choice!
“the Daley Machine in Chicago than Hugo Chavez’s administration down in Venezuela”
We are in for 4 - 8 years of grief and pain! This great nation is going to be torn down and destroyed, and it will take decades to build it back up. Our freedoms are going to be stomped on.
We have to start preparing for 4 years. First get NH off the early primary list and close the open primaries. We also have to have the battle between elitist republicans and regular conservatives as to who leads. No blue state should be picking our nominee like Dem voters in NH and Fl did. Also we will undermine the failed and illegitimate administration in washington and work to take back the house.
>>>>>When LBJ named an old foe to a post in his administration, he explained that it was better to have the camel inside the tent urinating out, than outside the tent urinating in.<<<<<<<
Ha ha ha.
A major reason Hitlery’s nomination to SoS is specifically intended to neuter her globetrotting, podium-stealing, bigmouthed, persona non grata of a husband.
Zer0 knows he can’t keep Bill Clinton under control, so he’s hired Hitlery to do it for him.
No way that Bill is going to steal *her* podium on the world stage.
Obama nor Bush runs this country there are other forces at work here. Who? I don’t know. FBI, HOUSE, SENETE, I don’t think so. In all my years they all promise one thing and seem real sincere, like Obama, and then....the winds do change. Like they are being told how to act, and what to do and who to pick. Any suggestions?
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘change’ is.”
-Barry Soetero Hussein Obama, November 2008
It would seem to me that in the birth certificate controversy that I would have seen someone else’s Hawaiian birth certificate, the one signed by a doctor so I would know what we were asking for.
bttt
And finally, the real hallmark of the Daley machine is not "pragmatic efficiency;" it is corruption and an ironclad grip on power by a single party.
It's the idiots among us, who stand for nothing and accept anything that they think will give them something for nothing. The American voter has turned into the most apathetic, worthless facsimile of the dregs of society that we are pretty much doomed unless a lot of folks wake up really fast and force the egos in Washington to obey the Constitution, in it's original form.
Ummm .... I don't know about that.
It's pretty easy to steal what Hillary considers *her's* when there's something in it for Bill.
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U.S. Constitution =
With its Checks and Balances is the only thing that seperates a still Free America from the rest of the world.
America’s Job No. 1 =
Protect the U.S. Constitution
Step No. 1 =
Making sure all potential Chief Executives are Natural Born Citizens, as dictated by the U.S. Constitution, prior to being elected to Office by the Electoral College
U.S. Constitution Protector No. 1 =
The Supreme Court of the United States
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well...you got that right for sure. Let’s face it we did not have a good choice in presidents. But take a think back...Bush Sr.and his promises, G. Bush and his promises, Obama and his promises. I felt like they all were sincere in what they wanted to do. I really think they all are being lead down a path that they really did not know about till they hit that Whitehouse.
the center of left is still left.
best part of the article:
I was hoping he lied about taxes. I was hoping he lied about ending the war in Iraq in 16 months. I was hoping he lied about all of those nutty left-wing programs he was promising.
It looks as if my prayers were answered.
I hope he gets to experience the same warmth and love from his party and the msm that GWB has gotten. As someone who has gotten such adoration as the coming messiah, Obama now needs to feel the unbridled hatred and contempt his party is famous for.
What makes you think he has the maturity and capacity to deal with those on the world scene and not disintegrate when the pressure gets too great
Re: “Fairness Doctrine:” I cannot see such a law ever being enacted. Conservative lawyers are lined-up 50 deep to fight such a monstrosity. It would immediately be appealed up the chain until it hit SCOTUS in 5-10 years down the road.
That said, Obama is a whiney pants-wetter. He will “govern” from under his bed. Who can overlook his response to any unfriendly question? A snarly, face-twisted attack upon the questioner. He’s Deval Patrick with a bigger mansion.
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