George W. Obama

Where’s Obama’s position today? Geez I can’t keep up. BTW: faith based programs are unconstitutional. Yes, yes the religious nuts that support them will spin it to sound as if it’s not about the faith but rather the charity, blah blah blah.

Obama can shift to the center on several issues as long as he’s correct on the economy, health care, and the war… I have no problem.
What should be a problem is John McCain shifting from the center to the right on all the major issues etc Iraq, economy, health care, abortion, and drilling.

Obama is full of promises and empty on action. There is no indication that he has the capacity to deliver anything but speeches about change. Who goes out and gives a speech about patriotism anyway. Or tries to continue a program that most Democrats are deadest against.
This guy will throw him self under the bus. McCain does not even have to lift a finger. The Obama camp is doing a great job destroying it self.

I doubt that Obama’s supporters are opening their eyes to the reality of their candidate who indeed is “just a politician” rather than the great social “movement” they signed on for. They’re too invested in him and his campaign to back out now. Besides, no one likes to admit they’ve been had. That’s how flimflam men like Obama succeed – they prey on gullibility to lure their victims and pride to keep them from turning on them.

Vanessa
What are BHO’s current positions on the economy, health care and the war?

Obama is moving to the right iordeer to trupm John McCain, forcing jonh further right. It will be interesting to watch

Pile on all you want. Won’t change a thing. Barack Obama will be the best President the free world has had in a lifetime. He has done nothing in the last 2 weeks to change anyone’s mind on that. In fact, he’s expanding his base.
Read his books. Every policy he now espouses is laid out in there… written down long before this race got started.
So keep screaming. Keep jumping up and down. Keep telling us that hope is false. It will make your silence all the more sweeter when November comes.

The bumper sticker is lost in the snail mail, W. The shipper can’t find our plant because the web maps are still out of date so we had to ship it Federal and with the price of gas, well the stamp costs more than the sticker, so maybe you’ll get it next month. Meanwhile, we are sending you our latest blog on 10 Ways To Sell Your Home To The Kids at Google. :-)
There is a fascinating observation from one of the gen-x network gurus at Wired, Kevin Kelly. He says productivity no longer matters in networks because everyone blogs and that is the source of innovation in today’s fast moving evolving economy. Everyone is a writer.
:-) They have ALL the answers but few of the right questions.
That’s ok. Let them ride Segways. We’ll hunt them from Harleys. Let’s see who racks up the most dents.

rick klein
hope Jake is reading this today…
this is created…not reporting.
People should be aware very clearly that this is not Jake’s article this is you writing this all over ABC’s website…
sad.
Obama is running on what he said over and over in NH and IA.
He is reaching across the aisle to get us past the hurdles that are killing us…and sending us to war when we don’t need to… …and not saying that everything on either side of the aisle is bad…
but also not letting someone force us into believing we are not safe…or that parts of the population are invaluable…
you suddenly take this and make it “Bush”
that is a jump at best… but good for a weird attractive headline…even if it is created in the reporters mind and not the facts.
Jake come back from vacation.

Tuesday morning, the Denver City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.
Instead, she performed the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which is also known as the “black national anthem.”
When she finished, the audience responded with mild applause. The national anthem was never performed.
I wonder how this fits into BHO’s newly found patriotism.

I don’t know why his support for faith-based initiatives should surprise any one or be regarded as some kind of cynical “move to the middle.” He’s spoken frequently of his own faith, of the importance of the community work that Trinity was involved in, and his belief that change comes from the bottom up. He’s also spoken eloquently about the need to find common ground with those we disagree with in order to work constructively together.
I find his support for this program to be competely consistent with the things he’s been talking about all along. As long as the faith based funding generates results, doesn’t discriminate and doesn’t support proselytizing, I don’t have a problem with it. Good on you, Senator.

and just so you know Rick I sat in small rooms with both of these candidates…(Obama several times) when they were here in NH.
Obama has not left the core values that make him choose these decisions from what he said off the cuff in these small living room sessions all of last year.
YOU are creating this change because you are not looking at what he said exactly.
McCain has changed toward Bush overwhelmingly over the past two years.
I heard both of these men tak questions and answers off the cuff…
McCain policies = Bush’s policies almost exactly.
Obama policies = a large change from 95% of Bush’s policies.
He has always agreed on Bush’s faith based initiatives but thought it should be expanded to include some non-religious organizations. He has always said FISA should be looked at for the courts to eb there….he has always said that the issue with public finance is influence of big money corporate donors…and that was the problem…and lobbyists.
He has not changed on those core principals…
Presidents need to focus on what they can do to handle when a situation changes…(not old speeches because journalists play gotcha with single words)… when it is correct to do so…otherwise …you get GW Bush.

This is the DNC strategy: invoke McCain as the boogeyman for the entire election cycle so that people will not actually see that Obama and McCain are the same candidate with very little difference. Geore Bush’s third term will be won this time around because there is no difference between Obama and McCain. Neither Obama nor McCain have real solutions to rebuild our economy because to have a real plan, like Hillary had, would require that American workers benefit, not private global companies. Remember, Hillary was all about investing in infrastructure and strengthening the dollar and American workers with a New Deal approach. Obama wants to invest in infrastructure by letting private corporations use public tax dollars but not have the public see a return on investment on their tax dollars under a Public Private Partnership scheme. Change? Remember, that is a word companies throw around right before they lay off thousands of workers.

Obama was against the war in 2002 and against the war in 2008.
Obama voted to fund the war not for the war. If our troops are already serving for a pointless propaganda war, the least our nation can do is fund them with the right equipment to battle.
Obama is pro-NAFTA. He’s also pro- renegotiating NAFTA.

The real issues with Obama are that he supports retroactive immunity for the telecommunications industry in the unconstitutional spying scandal, he supports Public Private Partnerships which is another word for privatization of publicly financed infrastructure projects, he is a complete neocon in his position on Iran, he takes twice as much money from the special interests on Wall Street than the other candidates combined, and he does not represent a truly progressive, i.e. positive agenda for the country, and he is no anti-war lefty as he proclaims to be. Do your research America. You are being fooled again.

Oh please Dear God let he be talking to Colin Powell about a possible VP slot. Oh Please Oh Please!!!!!!

Jenny: I totally agree. OBAMA PLEASE PICK COLIN POWEL FOR VP. That would be the dream ticket.
I have been saying this from day one.

Check out “Obama backs faith in public life” by James Coomarasamy today at BBC:
“US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has said he would expand George W Bush’s programme of involving religious groups in government initiatives.”
If the Democrats nominate this “post-partisan” fraud, we are all done for — ESPECIALLY the Democrats.

bushes third term
lol
remarkable

Belle Starr
Obama has said he would enlarge this program to include organization that are not secular and that these reliqious organizations could only use the moneys strictly for non secular activities…
it is taking the best of a program and increasing it.
This is how religion can help people not their own churches.
Read what he said.

Obama will pick Jim Webb.
*Vietnam War Vet
*ex-Republican
*Senator of Viginia (Red State Obama leads)
*Served as the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs then as Secretary of the Navy under the Reagan administration
*Native of Missouri (swing state)
*Recieved the Navy Cross
*Son is serving in Iraq

Terrible article…
I know a closer race will benefit the media, but even the article’s title reeks of unyielding grasping for attention.
Obama is teaching young Americans what democracy should be–hope that things will change. Is he perfect? No, absolutely not.
Anyone that thinks the country will benefit from the government bowing out or maintaining futile hubris right now has been in a coma for the past 8 years. Economic and social times like these are exactly when the government IS needed and necessary.

“Read what he said.”
I READ what he said. I’m voting for Nader-Gonzalez: better a government you can plainly hate, than one led by a confused corporate figure-head who does nothing but suck up to the right and bleat about the mystical powers of his own dubious DNA.

WHY THE HOSTILITY???
Obama is demonstrating that he believes the President of the United States is the President of ALL of the people of the United States.
Can you say the same of George “Rove Strategy” Bush?
Question:
WHY DOES JOHN MCCAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE *RIGHT* FROM HIS ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ROOTS?

obama cannot be trusted,he lies and shifts as to whatever group he is pandering to that day.just say no.go PUMA.

Vanessa
as much as I would think webb would be good…
he has some really big issues with some papers about women that he wrote… unfortunately for him those would crush him in a general
Biden is a more comfortable quantity (and as much as Obama is about change Biden fits both experience and a very different viewpoint than Bush and McCain)
Biden is the smartest foreign policy guy in washington by many standards…and it really is more about the overall foreign policy rather than just the military subset.
He already showed he is the most effective and well versed attack dog on the dem side.
He is a native of PA.
He gets blue collar.
He and the Clintons get along.
He already has a working relationship with petraeus and Gates (who is probably going to continue as the sec of defense)
and most of all the familiarity if heaven forbid the tragedy happened and we lost a President American would need someone not just with a military and aggresive kind of background but someone who could speak to America and carry them (and the markets) through the overwhelming tragedy of a Presidential loss.
as much as I like Webb…the women issue and his lack on economy etc…leaves him kind of out of the running.
Biden is the overwhelmingly logical (and I think at this point inevitable unless Hillary’s numbers get better with opposition) choice.

“Obama is teaching young Americans what democracy should be–hope that things will change.”
This has next to NOTHING to do with “democracy” — which is certainly NOT the process by which this double-speaking fraud has been elevated to politi-cult status.
If this guy’s the best the Democratic “leadership” can come up with, the hell with the Democratic Party.

see Len
common ground will be found.

McCain and his ilk are hypocrtical liars. How can McCain utter the words about Clark being removed when he is taking money from terrorists? McCain is all about McCain…he’s an elitest with the Senator’s wife spending a half Million in a month on her AMEX. How can this family that represents only the most RICH AND WELL CONNECTED truley understand the needs of the common man? There is a disconnect between McCain and the American people and this election cycle we will not have this phoney be forced on us.

I have never voted Republican in my life. And I won’t this time. But I won’t be voting Democrat this, either. That’s never happened before. But Obama’s a charlatan. I’m voting for Nader. If Democrats want my vote back, nominate Clinton in August.

Belle Starr
do you listen to anybody than your own voice?
what Biden says is usually (almost always) correct.
I think most Americans will take a correct blusterer over something else.
Like him or not…think he talks too much or not…
I love how you say he blows up for the press and then backs down after…
when?
he is the logical choice at this point…insult him all you want but when you look at the job of VP
never mind…imagine the debate between him (one on one) with anybody McCain could pick?
Biden would trash em on knowledge alone.

I’m sure Hill is still on the short list and I’m pleased by that. Still it is Obama’s choice to make and given Webb vs Biden I’d rather it be Biden.
Actually, dl, I think the Hate Hillary forces are diminishing in strength. She proved she is one tough bird and it impressed a lot of people.
As much fun as we are having here, the sober minds are working a twelve year strategy. It will take that long to undo the damage we inflicted on ourselves. Meanwhile, the rest of the world isn’t sitting still. Change is coming because change is the one indisputable perennial. Our choices are not about hoping or wishing but managing it. We don’t set the agenda for the whole planet. We do have to set ours and we do have to manage that in real time.
I don’t see Obama pulling this off without some very strong support in the House and Senate. Biden and Clinton can do him some good in either position but only if they are given the freedom to enter the Oval Office at will and to negotiate from strength. If y’all really want change, build the team with people who can hit the marks without a lot of prompting and still pull together. Having an election cycle that starts as soon as the President is sworn in is paralyzing us. The next President needs a VP and Majority Leaders who don’t start their own campaigns the moment the new guy takes his hand off the Bible.

“Can you tell me how change has nothing to do with our political system?”
The only “change” going on is that the Democratic “leadership” has gone over to an open “post-partisan” position.
The change from exclusively pale-faced sell-outs to off-white sell-outs isn’t particularly inspiring.

Obama and his camp are lost when they can’t blame Hillary or can’t play the race card (their security blanket).
What will they do when Obama will no longer be seen as a victim.
McCain08 Hillary2012

“a vote for Nader… is a vote against this country and a waste of your greatest duty as a citizen.”
NO one should recognize a “duty” to vote for a hothouse mobster just because he’s part “black”.

Not a bad slate, dl. The important missing piece is the party platform. The slate has to reflect the stated objectives or the business case won’t make sense. He has to prove that this is not just about winning but serving and governing. Right now he is letting the number crunchers run the campaign. That focus on short terms will defocus the presentation. He needs a presentation with plenty of white space in the bullet list that clearly shows how one objective works with the next and how his proposed team has strengths that apply to each objective.
Clarity inspires confidence. Confidence begets strong response.
Strong response begets managable change.

And today we learned that BHO got a very favorable loan rate for his Chicago mansion to go along with the sweetheart deal he got from the Rezkos. His middle name should be ‘dirty’. Why do some people have an affinity to such people ala OJ?

When ANY political aspirant says
“It can be the foundation of a new project of American renewal and that’s the kind of effort I intend to lead as president of the United States.”
the citizenry must BEWARE.
Saying that domestic problems are beyond solving without . . . a religious revival with The One as “charismatic leader” just. truly. sucks.
It is exactly fascism, soft fascism with a happy face, wrapped in a flag pin and the wire-tapping of every single citizen.
What in the world is Jesse Jackson (Senior, I mean) going to say at the convention? Now that his endorsee has backed off any pretense of social “change”?

Belle Starr i agree a vote for nader is not a wasted vote, it is a vote against the politics of lies, deception, corruption, and manipulation. it is the only REAL vote for change.

Nader is the only sensible vote if you really want meaningful change in the Washington corruption.

Candidates do have the right to change his mind. I do on some issues. The question is WHY? I.e. Is Obama moving to the center just to gain votes and will simply swing back to the left in December while mumbling to himself “I got you fooled.”? The press needs to dig deeper on the issue and inform voters.

NO BO, period! ..most of us know him as the “Pied Piper”, a person that offers others strong, yet delusive enticement in order to get votes, makes promises irresponsibly…NO, BO is not qualified for the office he wants; he’s woefully lacking in all the skills & experience needed for the most demanding job on the planet…and then there are the many unanswered questions about his personal past, his business associates, the private sources of his mountains of cash, et al., etc.

Soetoro No!
There is a difference between what Obama is saying and what Bush was doing.
Obama said in the speech…the activities that this funds must not be “pitch sessions for the religion” …
that it had to be used for secular activities.
He also said that his idea is to open that to include secular groups that are neighborhood initiatives.
Bush was to give moneys to churches.
Obama’s proposal is to give money to the church’s secular activities…and to other secular groups activities.
“It is taking the bad idea…and making it better”
that is called working with everyone’s ideas…
and Bush rode to power on the backs on exclusion and religion…that is not what this is.

Sounds like a perfect phony combination!
BhO is asking the American people to gamble on him like they did on WGB. WGO is and will be no better.

b4uvote, wrote,
Obama is definitely softening his stance on withdraweal from Iraq. (Now he will “gradually” reduce troops) What a joke! Now that he has the democratic nomination he flip and flops all over the place. Once he is president and receives briefing like Bush—-and find out all the secrets the American people never hear—-he’ll become George Bush’ 3rd term. Once you sit in that chair–find out all the things we the people never hear, I bet things don’t change. He is a politician! They are all alike!”
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I totally agree with you. That’s one of the many reasons why I can’t waste my vote on him…he simply flip-flops at his own convenience to pander votes, depending on which state he is. He badly needs the Latino votes, now he’s for NAFTA.

Obama’s faith based initiative proposal is just another example of how Barack Obama is willing and able to find common ground among all walks of life. Faith based organizations have a great neighborhood level infrastructure for helping those in need and can reach many that the federal government on its own cannot. It only makes sense to help these programs with their commendable work in this regard. For those who have been claiming that Obama has no values, let this be a wakeup call. Try as you may to deny the good in Obama , with stands like this, you’re quickly losing your credibility.

“Faith based organizations have a great neighborhood level infrastructure for helping those in need and can reach many that the federal government on its own cannot.”
Sure: the churches as servants of the state. That’s just great.
Nobody EEXPENTS the Spanish Iquisition:
“Ximinez: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again.
[The Inquisition exits]
Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.”

DL:
“Obama had way to much ability to talk and answer questions (the likes of Dodd and Biden as far as logic and had obviously had a grasp on complexity of the issues)”
But only when in view of a telprompter!
I am not wealthy enough to travel around and be present at their various appearances… but I can and do read alot…. and I have lived here in Illinois under B O’s senatorship during which he did NOTHING for the first 6 years and then put his political strivings into the hands of Emil Jones, Illinois Kingmaker!
He did nothing for his constituents which did not profit HIM… his church ($15,000,000) his wife, ($1.000,000),
his mortgage (minus $300.00 each month).
He did NOTHING for our sorely lacking school system… or for our tired and weary health system!
His associates are notably questionable; in fact the least so would be Jeremiah…. who Wright or Wrong, actually seems to BELIEVE in what he says!
So , DL, I would have to disagree with you:
YOU HAVE BEEN BAMBOOZLED BY A SLICK FLIP-FLOPPING INEXPERIENCED OLD TIME- NEW LOOK DIRTY POLITICIAN!
HIS name is B O Plenty!
Be careful who..you’re voting for!!!
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dl:DL

HMMMMM said:
Is Obama planning to re-write that anytime soon?
I think he started when he morphed the presidential seal. Such arrogance!

“John is the man with ethics, morals, and he’s standing by his wife during her time of crisis. He looks good on paper and he’s not a threat.” – Michelle Whitedove
Michelle Whitedove, in my opinion, McCain does not have the ethics, morals, and “standing by his wife” qualities that you ascribe to him. You know very well that McCain cheated with Cindy while he was still married to his first wife and that he married Cindy weeks after dumping his first wife. You know he has called Cindy all sorts of terrible names in public. You know he’s been accused of cheating on Cindy as well. You’ve seen how angry and irrational he gets when he doesn’t get his way. You know that when McCain was still able to, he liked to go get into fights and act like an idiotic hothead. You know that McCain got his start in politics with the backing of Cindy’s father who was convicted of illegal alcohol distribution and got in trouble with the New Mexico Racing Commission for hiding the fact that his equal partner in the Ruidoso Downs horsetrack was a convicted bookie and had mob connections. You know that McCain has flip-flopped on just about every issue important to a Republican. Ethics, morals and standing by his wife? Yeah Right!
You’re as transparent as they come Michelle Whitedove.

Continuation of Bush’s faith based initiatives means I’m not voting for BO now. There’s been far too much religious influence in the public sector at the federal level for the past 8 years. I let the Rev. Wright “I didn’t know” thing slide but I’m done now.

The only thing that Obama stands for is his own personal gain. He has no convictions; no principles. He even stepped on his own “white grandmother” (aka “typical white person”) during his recent and short-lived “conversation on race.” If he views the woman who raised him as being as disposable as his toxic (and racist) preacher, certainly it would be unwise to think he has fealty or conviction to something like a constitutional or economic issue.

Obama will say anything and do anything to get elected. He must be shifting to the right because he is not confident about winning Hillary supporters. So much for his Primary campaign promises.

“Mr.Hope and Change has become just another dirty politician.”
You are so wrong. Mr.Hope and Change has always been a dirty politician.