Is there anyone who’s kept a checklist of the policy revelations Obama has given in the past couple of weeks that put him further to the right than he initially *appeared* to be?
By shag carpet bomb • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, ObamaI’m not posting this as a question for y’all to help answer, though great if you’d like to add to B’s list below. Rather, I’m posting it because I may just add to it as i have time.
Why the little flurry of posts I shall call “more reasons why obama sux rocks” series? Because I recently noticed that some blogs linked here and i got the impression that the linkers linked to an article i’d reposted because they approved of it. this disturbed me, to think that obama supporters linked here for an article to support their view. after all, i do not support obama (or hillary or any other candidate because i decided long ago to vote for my left tit for president or some commie nobody like i usually do.).
so, i thought i’d post lots about obama’s dash to the rightwing in case anyone bothers to poke around based on those two links. just say no to obama is the guiding principle here. and, like doug, i’m having too much fun watching the predictableness of it all unfold. to be fair, i would have had a laff riot as clinton moved to the right had she won the nomination. petty schadenfreude: entertainment at no extree charge.
Is there anyone who’s kept a checklist of the policy revelations Obama has given in the past couple of weeks that put him further to the right than he initially *appeared* to be? [Krugman has always said his domestic agenda was to the right of Hillary’s.]
It seems like so far it’s been:–
1. Keep and expand Bush’s faith-based initiatives; welfare for religious organizations, particularly unsavory in light of…
2. … announced support for “welfare reform,” a la Clinton’s elimination of AFDC
3. Support for telco amnesty when it comes to prosecution for wiretaps (FISA)
4. Disapproval of 60s anti-Vietnam War protesters who expressed themselves “by burning flags, by blaming America for all that was wrong with the world, and perhaps most tragically, by failing to honor those veterans coming home from Vietnam, something that remains a national shame to this day.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063002412_pf.html
Also, lest there come the usual “ARE YOU REALLY SURPRISED!? GOOD GOD MAN JUST HOW NAIVE ARE YOU!?”-type responses, which there are always on this list whenever someone points out a Dem’s rightward shift and is pissed about it, please note this post is not made because I am now tragically disillusioned whereas before I was some believer in Obama, which I wasn’t and have never been. Anyone who sees my post history on the guy should know that. So please hold the “ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU ARE REALLY SURPRISED BY THIS!? YOU ARE CERTAINLY A NAIVE ONE! GET AS SAVVY & WORLDWEARY AS ME, MY FRIEND!” type crap.
Anyway, I know I missed a few above. Probably some foreign policy stuff.
-B.
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