Bottom Line for Barack Obama: His words are meaningless
Of all the issues to go after John McCain on, how high up on the list would you place his military service? The Obama campaign and the fever swamps of the moonbat blogosphere seem to think it is a winning idea.
This is just so stupid it is breathtaking. Is there room under Obama’s bus for one more person? Is this the different kind of politics Obama has been promising? Here’s Bruce at QandO with a reminder for Obama,
Obama: “We’ve got to get beyond the small politics … the slash and burn politics that have become the custom in Washington.” (”Obama Denounces ‘Slash And Burn’ Politics,” The Associated Press, 2/19/07).
Obama: “We don’t want the small, timid, slash and burn, negative campaigning of the past.” (Josh Hafenbrack, “Obama Barack Obama Calls For New Political Spirit During South Florida Campaign Swing,” [Fort Lauderdale, FL] Sun Sentinel, 3/26/07).
Obama: “I know that in Washington it is acceptable to say or do anything it takes to get elected, but I really don’t think that is the kind of politics that is good for our party, and I don’t think it is good for our country, and I think that the American people will reject it in this election.” (Ben Smith, “Obama: Clinton Rewrites History,” The Politico’s “Ben Smith” Blog, www.politico.com, 1/13/08).
Hot Air has a few reminders for Wesley Clark,
Let’s point out a few things about Barack Obama:
In “the matter of national security policy making.” Barack Obama hasn’t ever done anything.
In the matter of gauging your “opponents”, Obama wants to meet with them without preconditions despite having no national-security, military, or diplomatic experience.
Barack Obama hasn’t been on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Barack Obama hasn’t had any executive experience.
Barack Obama hasn’t commanded anything, in wartime or not.
Barack Obama hasn’t dealt with diplomats in any capacity at all.
Barack Obama hasn’t ordered the bombs to fall, although to be fair, he has associated himself with someone who has — William Ayers.
Bottom Line for Barack Obama: His words are meaningless. Actions are what count.
Yesterday’s New York Post editorial addressed Obama’s Kerryesque Flip Flopping on important issues,
* Last fall, a spokesman said of a controversial element in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization bill, “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”
This week, Obama declared his support for a FISA bill that included just such immunity.
* Last week, Obama switched his position on public financing of presidential campaigns.
* He’s managed to switch his position on NAFTA twice: He supported it before the primary; said he wanted to renegotiate it while campaigning in Ohio - and now has told a magazine interviewer that his language during the primaries may have been “overheated.”
* On foreign policy, his longstanding assertion that he would meet with the leaders of regimes hostile to the United States “without preconditions” has gone by the boards.
* His declaration before AIPAC that he believed in a “united Jerusalem” didn’t even last a news cycle - a spokesman produced a “clarification” within hours after Obama’s speech.
Barack Obama’s words and actions are two very different things. He’s as old politics as they come. In other words, a complete and total fraud.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:45 am
This was a good idea for Senator Obama — if he wants EVERY veteran, Reagan Democrat, Southerner, Midwesterner, Soldier/Sailor/Airman/Marine, person over 40 and patriotic American to vote for Senator JOHN MCCAIN! Barry should’ve waited his turn and let Senator Hillary Clinton run against Mr. McCain this go ’round. But, of course, it wasn’t up to him, was it, Mr. Soros?
July 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
When Barack has a problem like Clark he immediately warns “Right Wingers”..you better not attack ME! He has not condemned Move On..So until he does..along with Code Pink and the other Lefties…HE IS FAIR GAME..
Among his campaigners..we have Tom Harkin (Phony Vet who embellished his own MILITARY RECORD), Rockerfeller who belittled Mc CainWes Clark, John Kerry (who lied and hung out with Phony Soldiers) who NNEVER DID SIGN HIS FOIA 180..AND I BRING THAT UP BECAUSE TIM RUSSERT ASKED HIM 8 MONTHS AFTER THE ELCTION IF HE HAD FINALLY SIGNED IT..OF COURSE RUSSERT KNEW ALL ALONG HE HAD NOT DONE SO.. Obamas friends do not just have Ayres and Bernadette…but numerous other Friends and heros of the Kerry/Fonda groups. While Mc Cain was jailed and tortured in Nam..Kerry was following Jane Fonda and trying to impress her pals…I guess he thinks he is lucky he couldn’t get her attention ..despite his efforts..like tossing his medals ..even she knew what he was..Yes, Obama has quite a cast of Friends and it is growing more and more …each day to be his loss rather than victory .. John Mc Cain is no Wes Clark..Wes Clark is just like Kerry and nothing but a self centered sycophant…
July 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
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