Obama:  Changeling we can believe in?

Jblack,

You asked:

“Remind me again. Why were most of you here jazzed up about the man?”

Obama is a good salesman, though his warranty sucks, he seems to have sold us a lemon.

I am concerned now about the volunteer support Obama will be getting over the next four months, if he further dilutes his message of hope. As each week goes by, he becomes less and less attractive to the Democrat’s who voted for him. He is taking the energy right out of his campaign and his campaign workers. Getting out of Iraq is the key that will unlock the rest of his platform. As long as we’re stuck there we won’t have the money to support upgrades to social programs, nor redeploy some of the troops to Afghanistan to get Osama, nor stabilize our Middle East situation, which would get the price of oil back down to normal levels. At some point Obama has to really hammer home why it is imperative not to have another four years of Republican control of the White House, I hope he is up to it.

Obama backs down on his pledge to filibuster the FISA immunity package…

Obama hedges hit bet on Iraqi troop withdrawal…

People wonder if Obama “sold out”

I doubt that he ever bought in to a progressive agenda.

The Democraps are going to fail you once again in 2008.

We’ll be fighting in Iran, regardless of who wins the election. 

(Basically ‘cause Israel told us to and they went to all the trouble to make up stuff about Iran being 5 years away from having a nuclear bomb.  A secret:  everybody in the world is 5 years away from building a nuclear bomb including myself, should i so desire)
But i digress…

Here is the big clue:

A keep health insurers in the loop for the solution to health care shows that the candidate is “sold out” and a corporate running dog lackey.

A get the health insurers, single payer system approach to health care shows a progressive agenda.

This one simple test will tell you if the candidate is progressive or regressive.  Obamalama is regressive.  Does have some good rhetoric, none the less.

Bush’s Third Term
July 2, 2008; Page A12
We’re beginning to understand why Barack Obama keeps protesting so vigorously against the prospect of “George Bush’s third term.” Maybe he’s worried that someone will notice that he’s the candidate who’s running for it.

Take the surveillance of foreign terrorists. Last October, while running with the Democratic pack, the Illinois Senator vowed to “support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies” that assisted in such eavesdropping after 9/11. As recently as February, still running as the liberal favorite against Hillary Clinton, he was one of 29 Democrats who voted against allowing a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee reform of surveillance rules even to come to the floor.

the Democrat was calling for an immediate and rapid U.S. withdrawal. When General David Petraeus first testified about the surge in September 2007, Mr. Obama was dismissive and skeptical. But with the surge having worked wonders in Iraq, this week Mr. Obama went out of his way to defend General Petraeus against MoveOn.org’s attacks in 2007 that he was “General Betray Us.” Perhaps he had a late epiphany.

Look for Mr. Obama to use his forthcoming visit to Iraq as an excuse to drop those withdrawal plans faster than he can say Jeremiah Wright “was not the person that I met 20 years ago.” The Senator will learn – as John McCain has been saying – that withdrawal would squander the gains from the surge, set back Iraqi political progress, and weaken America’s strategic position against Iran.

Mr. Obama has also made ostentatious leaps toward Mr. Bush on domestic issues. While he once bid for labor support by pledging a unilateral rewrite of Nafta, the Democrat now says he favors free trade as long as it works for “everybody.” His economic aide, Austan Goolsbee, has been liberated from the five-month purdah he endured for telling Canadians that Mr. Obama’s protectionism was merely campaign rhetoric. 

This week the great Democratic hope even endorsed , Mr. Obama’s campaign unveiled an ad asserting his support for welfare reform that “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” Never mind that Mr. Obama has declared multiple times that he opposed the landmark 1996 welfare reform.

Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to think American political sentiment has moved as far left as most of the media claim. Another is that the next President, whether Democrat or Republican, is going to embrace much of Mr. Bush’s foreign and antiterror policy whether he admits it or not. Think Eisenhower endorsing Truman’s Cold War architecture.

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I said it before and I’ll say it again——no candidate running for POTUS will make any substantial withdrawal of troops in the near term.  The ME is too critical to world politics and neither McCain nor Obama is going to allow Iran to dominate Iraqi politics much to their chagrin.  We can see the rhetoric on both sides is calming down as both hedge their bets with the outcome of the US election the unknown factor!