Comments on: What or Who is Obama’s Base?

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:21:55 +0000

Sounds disgruntled.

By: DancingOpossum

DancingOpossum — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:02 +0000

Funny how he can manage to be the “most liberal senator” and GWB’s twin at the same time.

He’s not a liberal. Even voting with the Democratic Party 100% of the time doesn’t make you a liberal or a progressive. (For comparison’s sake, see Kucinich, or Edwards.) Anyone who’s read his books or watched him in action can see that he supports many policies favored by the neocon wing of the Republican Party. It’s not like this is some big secret or tinfoil conspiracy; it’s all right out there in the open. Look at his economic advisors; look at his close relationships with people like Doug Kmiec; look at his contributors. He’s not “shifting” to the right, he was always there.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:36:56 +0000

The government does impose term limits here.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:33:29 +0000

Joseph Nye has openly endorsed Obama praising him as the new face of “soft power.”

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:36 +0000

Graduating MCL from Harvard qualifies him for the Senate not the White House. Obama continues flunking on the actual test for experience. He gives the wrong answers on UHC, Iraq, Iran, etc. He is not ready to be President.

By: Hope Floats

Hope Floats — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:17:54 +0000

And there you have it. Hillary ran on her many qualifications. Obama ran on Hope and Change.

One was proud of her historic run. Another has constantly warned “they will try to paint me as a scary black man.” Only one of these ran on a true message of Hope, and I’ll give you a clue. Her husband was the Original Man From Hope. I’m very inspired by her bid for the presidency.

By: educatedwhitewoman

educatedwhitewoman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:53:27 +0000

Better do some research and quit spouting Obama myths. He wasn’t at the top of his class; he was the first affirmative action editor (not selected on merit) of the HLR, and he never wrote a single article for the review. After Obama’s lackluster performance, they changed the rules at HLR, adding the requirement that editors actually write articles!

By: rapp

rapp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:42 +0000

Obama will lose this election because he keeps changing positions like the last 2 Democrats did. He becomes untrustworthy. Bill Clinton kept his positions all the way through.

By: rapp

rapp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:40:40 +0000

To everyone who said Kerry lost because he was swift-boated, that is wrong. Democrats would like to believe that but it isn’t true. He lost because he talked down to us and not to us. He acted like he was better than us. I’m from Ohio, the swing state that won it for Bush.

By: Wilfred Mott

Wilfred Mott — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:54:48 +0000

Dear god, you actually make me feel a little sad to be a country-man of yours.

Okay, can we have a history lesson. There once was a candidate called Bambi, he came to a disillusioned leftist party full of vim and vigour. The left saw him as a Messiah, a new politician, hope, things can only get better… yay!

It didnt matter that this man seemed to change his tune according to what was vogue at that moment, because we had to get rid of those nasty right wingers.

So many on the left stated time and time again, that Bambi was merely playing the middle-class, and when he got to power, as he surely would, he would be the leftist wonderful prime minister they so craved. Things indeed can only get better.

Question: How’d that turn out? How’s civil liberties in this country now? How’s tax? Who took us to war in Iraq? What happened to people like Kelly, thrown to the wolves by Cambell et at? Please tell me things really got better, please tell me the third way was a success?

Fast forward a few years, and Bambi Mk 2.

Are you so desperate to believe?

Do you actually believe for one moment Obama will pull America out of Iraq? My arse! Yes, I’m sure he will get into power and leave the multi-billion dollar bases empty, I’m sure he’ll turn round and leave pipe-lines and oil companies unsecured, I’m sure he’ll let the Kurdish people get slaughtered in a crush between Turks, Shia and Sunni. I’m sure he’ll click his heels three times and get everyone out… or perhaps, as Power indicated, he’ll suddenly find that things on the ground means we have to stay the course. Hasnt he already started saying how wonderful Petraeus is? Does Petraeus want out?

Obama bring with him cynicism and apathy, just like Blair did. He says what he says to get power, he believes in nothing, and will turn 180 at a moments notice. I’m pissed as its already started to happen, much to my chagrin my wife supported and voted for him in the primaries, now, after a week of pandering to the right she’s begun to realise… he’s no new politician, just the old type with a good PR company.

Here endeth the rant!