Posted on 07/08/2008 9:43:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly.
• He says he believes in a Second Amendment right to bear arms. • He now opposes late-term abortion. • He suddenly is a devotee of using faith-based institutions to deliver public services. • He now says that he won't raise Social Security taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. In the primary, he said he'd eliminate the threshold entirely, including on people making as little as $100,000. • He recently opposed the Fairness Doctrine for talk radio. • Now he says he's going to consult with the military before pulling out of Iraq.
But so extensive a list of flip-flops, all in the past few weeks, begs the basic question: Was he lying before when he was a liberal, or is he prevaricating now?
Even if Obama means what he is saying as he moves to the center trying to win the general election, the fact is that he will be forced to move very far to the left should he become president, forced by the liberals in his own party.
If Obama wins, it's more than likely that he will take office with a Congress filled with Democrats and liberals. Most probably, the Senate will have at least 55 Democrats (including pickups in Colorado, New Mexico, Virginia, New Hampshire and Alaska). And there might be as many as 62 (possible Democratic pickups include Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Kentucky, Texas, Kansas and North Carolina). The House will, of course, be solidly in Democratic control.
Faced with the same situation in 1993, as he took office as president, Bill Clinton found no alternative but to move dramatically to the left, shelving for the moment his promises...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Please, is there anyone out there who believes otherwise?
Obama sprints rightward to cover his bases and to secure the centrist and moderate vote, but everyone knows that his record points toward his principles being far to the Left of 70% of the American public.
I do … then again; I’m a totally ignorant person. IQ less than room temperature, last in every class I ever participated in and full of myself. Yes I believe in all that is Obama, my messiah. /s
As with ALL of the left, Obama is a liar.
I pray America doesn’t have to find out the hard way.
McCain, on the other hand, while pissing off the right, is at least honest about his intentions IMHO.
I wonder if he really believes he is convincing people on the right. Heck I wonder if he IS convincing some people on the right. I feel sorry for them. Has America fallen this far?
Like raising the capital gains tax since 50 Hedge fund managers made billions of dollars and forgeting that 100,000,000 Americans own stock. Ya Barack your a really smart guy.
Kill the economy by raising taxes. Why do you think the market is tanking ahead of the election. Investors are getting out before you have you chance to steal all of their money.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=po7J0f5TMrQ
“. . . last in every class I ever participated in and full of myself.”
Well then, you can’t be one of the YOUNG Obamamessiah dolts. There is no “last in the class” anymore. Everybody gets a ribbon.
McCain is wanting to take an approach that is not receptive to the base. I will support him in as much as I believe the jurists of the Supremes are this election cycles issue.
An Obama Presidency with a willing democrat Congress could possibly destroy America.
I guess I’ll hold my nose and vote for McCain, then go outside and throw up.
I'm looking for and advocate, the sheeple stampedeing over the wolves.....
“I will support him in as much as I believe the jurists of the Supremes are this election cycles issue.”
A future “President McCain” will most likely be facing a Liberal-Democratic controlled Senate who approve or disapprove of federal judicial nominees. There is no way in he!! that McCain will be able to get a Conservative on any Federal bench —even if he wanted to. It’s not going to happen.
Duh.
Let’s see it. The rule is http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/senateconfirm.html
I’m glad you didn’t post that. LOL
Why waste perfectly good puke?
Yes - sheeple who stopped thinking in grade school. And it appears our country is filled with them!
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