Thursday, June 19, 2008

Barack Obama: Old Style Politician

"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday he'll bypass the federal public financing system in the general election, abandoning an earlier commitment to take the money if his Republican rival did as well."

See previous entry.  Barack Obama has been PACKAGED as a "new" type of politician.  He is not.  He is just another leftist Demcrat willing to say or do almost anyting for POWER--just more leftist than your average  bear (cartoon reference here).

The examples come every day--seomtimes twice a day.  Even the sycophantic media is having trouble maintaining the new "Messiah" message.

WHY is Barack Obama flip flopping on public financing (you know, that McCain idea, which Obama previously endorsed, that private money corrupts politics)?  There is not mystery there.  Barack Obama has a BIG advantage in fund raising over McCain.  Getting elected is more important than principle.

One of the firts indications that the Gingrich Republican "revolution " of 1994 was NOT going to lead to a lot of PRINCIPLED Republicans in office was how quickly the idea of TERM LIMITS was abandoned.  In fact, too many conservatives quickly revealed that they were more about power than principle by abandoning the idea once REPUBLICANS were the incumbents.

Do I "blame" Obama?  Not much.  It is a lot to expect a politician to give up this big aan advantage.  However, that is the point.  Obama is an ordinary POLITICIAN (less qualified to be President than most, by experience alone).  He proves it every day--including his lack of qualfications to be President (with gaffe after gaffe). 

You can't give too much credit to McCain for being willing to accept public financing.  It is to his ADVANTAGE, even if it fits his long term positions on the subject.  Now, you suspect that McCain MIGHT stick by his guns if he were in Obama's position, because McCain is that DUMB (ok, if you like him you can regard him as being willing to stick by his guns, even when it is not to his advantage).  But you can't be sure, because McCain is NOT in that position.

What you can be sure about is that Obama is an ordinary, power seeking politician PRETENDING (with media help) to be an extraordinary politican.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, what an astonishing surprise! ... more attacks on Barak Obama!     Keep up the good work.    Eventually you’ll hit on a preposterous ‘untruth’ like the 2004 John Kerry ‘swift boat’ propaganda.

By the way, how’s ‘OPERATION CHAOS’ working out?

Anonymous said...

Unforuntately, MY "Operation Chaos", which was actually to ELECT Hillary Clinton President to destroy leftists did not work out.  She was too WEAK a candidate.  Rush's "Operation Chaos"--to WEAKEN the Democrats so McCain could beat them--may have worked out fine.  

I seem to get no credit (blame?) from this particular person for my constant bashing of MCCAIN and the REPUBLICANS.

By the way, I am not sure that the "Swift Boat" attacks on John Kerry were defnitely UNTRUE.   They were really the SAME kind of attacks as the attacks on President Bush's National Guard record.  John Kerry refused to ever release his complete military record.  Meanwhile, the attacks on President Bush for his National Guard service (remember Dan Rather's FALSE report) were UNSUPPORTED by the records--just like the attacks on John Kerry were unsupported by the records.   Sure, actually serviing in Vietnam was more impressive than serving in the National Guard (as John McCain's military service is MUCH more impressive than Barack Obama's), but the nature of the attacks was the SAME.  They were both smeras--irrelevant to whether either man should be President.