“Crowd erupts during Obama speech–but it’s over mention of Clinton”
By SusanUnPC on July 14, 2008 at 3:21 PM in Barack Obama, Electability, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform, John McCain
Barack Obama spoke “(in English) to the National Council of La Raza in San Diego,” reports the Los Angeles Times blog, Top of the Ticket. Obama rattled off some policy proposals:
It was then that the crowd erupted in enthusiastic applause and warm cheers. But not over Obama’s policy proposal.
What ignited that outburst was the mere mention by Obama of the name Hillary Clinton, his vanquished party opponent.
She wasn’t there, of course. But in absentia the Democratic Party’s loser got a noticeably warmer response than the winner, perhaps a reflection of that lingering party unity thing that was taken care of up in Unity.
We trust that Denver delegates and superdelegates are taking note that the passionate support for Hillary Clinton remains as robust and heartfelt as always, and that Mr. Obama does not enjoy the same kind of support.
Perhaps Obama’s failure to DO his job in the U.S. Senate is one of the reasons.
From Katmandu2′s “Obama Pads His Resume on Immigration“:
The bottom line is this: Obama has not been truthful about his accomplishments on immigration legislation. The piece opens with a clout:
WASHINGTON — No matter if you are—or are not — voting for presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), he deserves credit for trying to forge a bipartisan deal on immigration in 2005 and 2006 at great personal political risk, a situation unfamiliar to rival Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
The importance of the piece is that it calls into question Obama’s veracity:
In the meantime, Obama on the campaign trail inflates his leadership role — casting himself as someone who could figure out how to get something done. Obama “did not absolutely stand out in any way,’’ said Margaret Sands Orchowski, the author of “Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria,” and a close follower of the legislation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a McCain ally and a key player on immigration, said Obama was around for only a “handful” of meetings and helped destroy a 2007 compromise when he voted for making guest worker visa programs temporary. A permanent guest worker program was to be a trade for a legalization program to cover many illegal immigrants.
“When it came time to putting that bill together, he was more of a problem than he was a help. And when it came time to try to get the bill passed, he, in my opinion, broke the agreement we had. He was in the photo op, but he could not execute the hard part of the deal,” Graham said,” Graham said.
It’s worrisome enough that Barack Obama has served such a short time in the U.S. Senate.
It’s deeply troubling that, in that short time, he did not DO THE WORK or LIVE UP TO HIS WORD.
When we criticize Mr. Obama, we often say that he is nothing more than a “typical politician.”
However, even “typical politicians” — at least the focused, smart politicians — understand that they have to SHOW UP and FOLLOW THROUGH in order to develop the trust and credibility necessary to build those vital relationships essential to realizing big ambitions.
How could a President Obama hope to work “across the aisle” as president if he didn’t even bother to do so as a junior senator?
by Ronald Scott
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