The Seasonal Principles Of Obama
Charles Krauthammer chronicles the dizzying reversals Barack Obama has made recently. Obama has abandoned many of the left-leaning "principles" he used to woo the hard left of the Democratic party. And he has only just begun:
In last week's column, I thought I had thoroughly chronicled Obama's brazen reversals of position and abandonment of principles — on public financing of campaigns, on NAFTA, on telecom immunity for post-Sept. 11 wiretaps, on unconditional talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — as he moved to the center for the general election campaign. I misjudged him. He was just getting started.
Last week, when the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, Obama immediately declared that he agreed with the decision. This is after his campaign explicitly told the Chicago Tribune last November that he believes the D.C. gun ban is constitutional.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton explains the inexplicable by calling the November — i.e., the primary season — statement "inartful." Which suggests a first entry in the Obamaworld dictionary — "Inartful: clear and straightforward, lacking the artistry that allows subsequent self-refutation and denial."
Obama's seasonally adjusted principles are beginning to pile up: NAFTA, campaign finance reform, warrantless wiretaps, flag pins, gun control. What's left?
Iraq. The reversal is coming, and soon.
You thought Kerry was a flip-flopper? How disappointed the left must be, their idol has clay feet after all.
By Ted Goldman, Friday, 4 July , 2008 @ 8:29 am
Please do ot think that BHO does not have any principles. He is a committed Marxist.
By martian, Friday, 4 July , 2008 @ 9:17 am
The left isn’t disappointed in the Obamessiah at all! Why not? Because they absolutely refuse to acknowledge that these are flip flops, at all. According to them, these are evolving positions based on changes in circumstances, not absolute reversals of what he said before. And Krauthammer is right, the reversal on Iraq is coming next. He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Spoken is already starting to lay the groundwork for the Iraq flip flop. Just this week he mentioned in one of his speeches that his position on Iraq will be based on his upcoming trip there and what he is told by the commanders on the ground. Based on this he will continue to "refine" his position on the future of American involvement in Iraq.
My prediction is that he will make this total reversal wothout ever acknowledging that he is then in complete agreement with John McCain and with the policies that George Bush and his administration put in place in January of 2007. In fact he will continue to harp on how wrong Bush and McCain were and are while he agrees with them. Liberals are very good at this kind of dichotomy and the Obamessiah and his worshipers seem to be better at it than most.
By lynndh, Friday, 4 July , 2008 @ 9:19 am
Yeah, clay feet and all, the left will still vote for him. BO has nothing to loose by heading to the center. And many in the middle will vote for him say "see, he is one of us". Once in office I would imagine that he will swing hard left again. That is his nature.