The Clowns of the Circus: Flip Flops and Shenanigans
By medusa on August 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM in Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, DNC idiocy, Flip Flopping, Joe "Bro" Biden, Misogyny, Politico, Sexism
With all the media hype surrounding Barry’s “very personal” choice for VP (snark), Backtrack’s flip flops have been neatly swept under the rug. Let’s review. From the July 5 edition of Politico:
Obama has been espousing positions anathema to the left on several issues.On Iraq, Obama said Thursday that his upcoming trip there might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war.
He now supports broader authority for the government’s eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it, after opposing a similar bill last year.
After the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia’s gun ban, the handgun-control proponent said he favors both an individual’s right to own a gun as well as government’s right to regulate ownership.
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Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it.
He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush’s program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups, a split with Democratic orthodoxy.
He objected to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he has been anti-capital punishment.
Obama also said “mental distress” should not count as a health exception that would permit a late-term abortion, saying “it has to be a serious physical issue,” addressing a matter considered crucial to abortion rights activists.
I’m sure Backtrack has flip flopped more since July 5. In fact, his choice of Joe Biden makes obvious Obama’s blatant disregard for ethical and moral integrity. We know Obama engages with the most unsavory types, as Bud White’s piece on Obama’s good buddy, Bill Ayers, reminds us, and Melissa McEwan at Shakesville minces no words about his choice of Joe Biden:
The DNC is just f**king with the press, who’s dumb enough to fall for the suggestion that Joe Fookin’ Biden is “believed to be at the top of” Obama’s veep shortlist. Because there’s no way in blue hell that Obama could be foolish enough to be seriously considering for one blinking second putting on his ticket the bankruptcy bill voting, Bush-coddling,racist, sexist asshat Biden, a consummate gaffe machine who launched his own ’08 presidential bid with a screeching dog whistle that declared Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
The fabulous writers at Tennessee Guerilla Women put it like this:
Obama Picks a Bro: It’s Biden
And there goes the last chance for party unity. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the candidate who earned 18 million votes, was not even vetted. We’re sure Biden’s 200 voters are simply thrilled. The rest of us, well, just call us marginalized and invisible.
Back in the 1990s, Biden was the leader of the pack of 14 white male senators who conducted the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. The committee of 14 men threw every sexist stereotype in the book at Anita Hill. Like Hillary, Joe Biden voted to authorize the war in Iraq, but that’s so not a problem when a bro does it.
And why does this matter to Democrats who hope the circus act in Denver will unite the party? Well, for one thing, as Rasmussen reports today, women’s opinions remain marginalized and invisible to the Obama campaign:
Women are notably less enthusiastic [about Obama's selection of Biden] than men—33% of women say Biden was the right choice while 27% disagreed. Men, by a 46% to 24% margin, said that Obama made the right choice….Just 16% of women have a Very Favorable opinion of Biden while 19% have a Very Unfavorable view. …Not surprisingly, Democrats were more supportive of Obama’s decision than anybody else—52% of those in his party agreed with his pick while 19% disagreed. However, just 43% of Democratic women said the presumptive nominee made the best pick while 23% disagreed.
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