The sad thing is that one might reasonably have expected better from Mr Obama. He wants to improve America’s international reputation yet campaigns against NAFTA. He trumpets “the audacity of hope” yet proposes more government intervention. He might have chosen to use his silver tongue to address America’s problems in imaginative ways—for example, by making the case for reforming the distorting tax code. Instead, he wants to throw money at social problems and slap more taxes on the rich, and he is using his oratorical powers to prey on people’s fears.
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Jeremiah says:
Too many--esp in the media--have clearly drunk the KoolAide. There's a good post at MyDD that breaks down Obama's conflicting positions (lies?) about NAFTA, workers' rights, energy: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/1/11...
And, we find out, Obama is the consummate Chicago politician (of the old school--not to disparage Chicago politics of course). His brand of change: exploited unknown loopholes in election law to get opposing candidates thrown out of race for state senate in 1996; trampled over fellow Dem state senate colleagues to get name attached to legislation so he could have a platform of "experience"; ignored south side of Chicago when running for Senate to avoid being labeled as the black candidate. More from Todd Spivak's article Barack Obama and Me in the Houston Press: http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-2...