I’m interested to know, really. Aside from the rhetoric, what about his candidacy is “change” from traditional U.S. “progressivism”?
I think Obama’s favorite positions were made clear by Larry Sinclair; he likes it in his car.
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. BB, you mean to say you haven’t read the official “Blueprint For Change?” I bring to you, in PDF format, the manifesto of Change.
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf
I think Obamas positions are change and hope. Or is it hope and change?.. Or is it that I hope that Obama can give me some change… I get confused with all this political jargon. I wish the candidates would just talk normal!
Chris Matthews had some piercing questions to a Texas state senator who supports Obama:
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Tsk, Tsk, Tsk. BB, you mean to say you haven’t read the official “Blueprint For Change?” I bring to you, in PDF format, the manifesto of Change.
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf
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Hmm - nationalized health care, anti-free trade, higher minimum wage, soak-the-rich taxation, anti-employer/pro-union rules… Modernized “fireside chats” (how is that different from Ross Perot’s town meetings?). Going forward to change - right back to Roosevelt!
Barack Obama, Leftist?
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/017007.php
http://www.babalublog.com/archives/007427.html
http://www.redstate.com/stories/economy/in_praise_of_getting_substance_right
Obama introduced to economic reality:
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
Chris Matthews had some piercing questions to a Texas state senator who supports Obama:
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The more I hear about Obama, the more I think Obama supporters might as well write in Denzel Washington for POTUS.
He’s a good-looking, charismatic, well-spoken black guy who has absolutely no qualifications for the job. He’s like Barack – only better!
Good post: Hope is not a blank slate…
http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/2008/02/hope_begins_wit.html
[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
The more I hear about Obama, the more I think Obama supporters might as well write in Denzel Washington for POTUS.
He’s a good-looking, charismatic, well-spoken black guy who has absolutely no qualifications for the job. He’s like Barack – only better![/quote]
I’ll go with Denzel - at least in one of his roles, he played a tough guy. Obama, in his role, can’t claim that.
After listening to one of his speeches, I can articulate exactly what his positions are on a whole host of topics…
Uhhh…give me a minute…uhh…let me think…
uhhh… here you go:
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
tGunslinger wrote:
The more I hear about Obama, the more I think Obama supporters might as well write in Denzel Washington for POTUS.
He’s a good-looking, charismatic, well-spoken black guy who has absolutely no qualifications for the job. He’s like Barack – only better!
I’ll go with Denzel - at least in one of his roles, he played a tough guy. Obama, in his role, can’t claim that.
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I skimmed through that pdf that sloth has provided. I have seen more original contents on a ketchup bottle.
Has anyone missed the irony of BO as life following art: Being There by Jerzy Kosinski, in which Chance the Gardener is a simpleton in Washington, a hollow vessel into which everyone pours his concept of wisdom, sex appeal, political acumen, humane insight…Barack!
I find it very telling that the man who wants to be president during a time of war puts foreign policy as the last item in his manifesto. No other branch of the government is more responsible for foreign policy than the president so foreign policy should have been the first item on his manifesto.
Reading his ideas I can see that while he might be saying all the right things for his base, he doesn’t really have a clue about how things work in this world and niether do his supporters.
The wildest idea was how Barrak is going to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The man is a wreckless dreamer. There would be no way anyone could know that a couple hundred nukes didn’t get “misplaced” in a mine is Siberia or Nevada. This shows you the fantasy land that Obama supporters live in.
I’m going to vote for Obama because he is black. If I don’t vote for Obama, then people will think that I am a racist and just afraid of blacks. So I am going to vote for Obama, in an effort to erase the specter of racism in this country, and rid myself of some of this white guilt.
Or, if I don’t vote for Hillary, it is because I hate women. I don’t hate women, so I will vote for Hillary in an effort to show everyone that I love women, and they are equal to men in every way, and also to rid myself of this misogynistic association with men in general.
Oh boy, this is getting really confusing. I wish the Democratic front runner was a black woman…
[quote]Sifu wrote:
I find it very telling that the man who wants to be president during a time of war puts foreign policy as the last item in his manifesto. [/quote]
A time of war you say? When has it been any different for the USA?
Barack is banking on the vote of the multitude of people who realized the war on Iraq didn’t make anybody any safer. I believe he is in favor of tactical operations against Al-Qaeda and cooperation with other countries’ police forces.
Interesting take by a pro-Obama columnist:
[i]When backing Barack feels like joining a cult
By Margery Eagan | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
I�??m an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night.
Suddenly, the impossible is real.
Suddenly, I�??m nervous. Very nervous, actually.
I�??m nervous because an otherwise normal grownup told me yesterday she�??s watched the will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas) �??Yes We Can�?? Obama video about 100 times and gets �??weepy�?? every time.
I�??m nervous because a longtime political type, normally quite cynical, now waxes rhapsodic about Obama�??s �??cool.�??
�??He�??s elegant, controlled, the best-dressed candidate ever,�?? he says. Never a red tie, yellow or bright blue. No, Obama does a subdued lean charcoal gray suit with a gray or silvery tie. Everything muted, measured, fluid. �??He floats onto the stage, a bit of the Fred Astaire thing going.�??
Fred Astaire?
This same man, 100 percent anti-illegal aliens, fears Obama could pull a Reagan or a JFK on the Mexican border, head down there, chanting, �??Tear down this wall!�?? or even do an �??Ich bin ein Tijuana!!!�??
He�??s with Obama anyway.
I�??m nervous because Harvard political genius Elaine Kamarck told me Hillary understands the various messes we�??re in far better than Obama.
Suppose Kamarck�??s right?
I�??m nervous about the �??O�??Bambi�?? factor. Will the terrorists move in next door when Obama�??s in the White House?
I�??m nervous because Michelle Obama, about whom I just wrote a fawning puff piece, now says that until her husband�??s stunning ascendancy, she�??s never before been proud of America. Huh?
Barack now claims she didn�??t mean it. Oh, yes she did. We all know the insufferable, holier-than-thou, Blame-America-First types who lecture the unwashed from the rarefied air of Cambridge and Brookline.
If I wanted lecturing, I�??d be with Hillary.
I�??m nervous because too many Obama-philes sound like Moonies, or Hare Krishnas, or the Hale-Bopp-Is-Coming-To-Get-Me nuts.
These true believers �??Obama-ize�?? everything. They speak Obama-ese. Knit for Obama. Run for Obama. Gamble - Hold �??Em Barack! - for Obama. They make Obama cakes, underwear, jewelry. They send Valentine cards reading, �??I want to Barack your world!�??
At campaign rallies people scream, cry, even faint as Obama calmly calls for the EMTs. When supporters pant en masse, �??I love you!�?? (like The Beatles, circa 1964), Barack says, �??I love you back�?? with that deliciously charming, almost cocky smile.
Oh - I�??m nervous because it�??s all gone to his head and he hasn�??t even won yet.
I�??m nervous because it�??s gone to a lot of other people�??s heads as well. Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings introduced Obama last week in Baltimore and said, �??This is not a campaign for president of the United States, this is a movement to change the world.�??
�??He walks into a room and you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere,�?? says George Clooney.
�??I�??ll do whatever he says to do,�?? says actress Halle Berry. �??I�??ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.�??
I�??m nervous because nobody�??s quite sure what Obama stands for, even his supporters. (�??I can�??t wait to see,�?? said actress/activist Susan Sarandon, declaring full support nonetheless).
I�??m nervous because even his biggest fans can�??t name Obama�??s accomplishments, including Texas state Sen. Kirk Watson, an Obama-man who humiliated himself when MSNBC�??s Chris Matthews asked him about five times to name something, anything, Obama�??s done. Watson hemmed. Watson hawed. Watson gave up.
I�??m nervous because John McCain says Obama�??s is �??an eloquent but empty call for change�?? and in the wee, wee hours, a nagging voice whispers, suppose McCain�??s right, too? Then what?[/i]
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1074977&format=text
It would be great if he had been a corporal in the army in time of war, won his country’s highest military decoration, started with virtually nothing but rose to become the leader of his country.
How absolutely perfect!!!
I personally believe that U.S. Americans should vote for Obama, because some Americans don’t have hope or change, and countries like such as the Iraq and Africa should have hope and change, and that our hope and change over here could help countries such as the Iraq and Africa, such as… for our children… hope…change …the Iraq… such…as…