Simply put, Obama had to run for President as soon as he got to the Senate, to not do so would have forced him to take at least some stand. He never did and never has. America would be electing a president in Barack Obama while having absolutely no idea what he might try to do. Executive leadership requires decisiveness - some decisions are good, some might be bad - but Barack Obama has never shown himself capable of making a decision other than running for the next step up in his entire career.
If we're willing to put aside the notion of media bias for a moment, there are two items in the New York Times and one short video via The Boston Globe that form a strong case against Barack Obama as a potential President. Every American really should see thevideo at first link to understand what results from Obama's spread the wealth policies. Plenty of it makes it back into his campaign coffers btw. Must we really repeat the expensive and tragic mistakes of Johnson's failed Great Society? Can we even afford to do that right now?
Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy
The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.
Now for the text.
(In a rare slip, he told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”)
That quote might be damning enough to some but what are most important in that item linked above and another linked below are the statements that follow. The man has never shown any ability as an executive and worse than that, has refused to allow any real position of his to ever be pinned down.
People had a way of hearing what they wanted in Mr. Obama’s words. ... According to Mr. Ogletree, students on each side of the debate thought he was endorsing their side. “Everyone was nodding, Oh, he agrees with me,” he said.
That could lead to endless debates — a mouse infestation at the review office provoked a long exchange about rodent rights — as well as some uncertainty about what Mr. Obama himself thought about the issue at hand.
In dozens of interviews, his friends said they could not remember his specific views from that era, beyond a general emphasis on diversity and social and economic justice.
... Vice President Al Gore’s chief of staff. Mr. Klain has watched the senator’s rise. “The interesting caveat,” he said, “is that is a style of leadership more effective running a law review than running a country.”
A second worthwhile read - there are probably more in the Times archives.
He moved from his leftist Hyde Park base to more centrist circles; he forged early alliances with the good-government reform crowd only to be embraced later by the city’s all-powerful Democratic bosses; he railed against pork-barrel politics but engaged in it when needed; and he empathized with the views of his Palestinian friends before adroitly courting the city’s politically potent Jewish community.
OBAMA = SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA
Posted by: Rambo | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Rambo = Imbecile
Posted by: jharp | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM
jharp = Racists Asshole
Posted by: JustOneMan | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:31 AM
NAACP - National Association of Always Complaining People
Posted by: Jake | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:49 AM
This is exactly what we tax-paying citizens should do. I know that I am going to stop paying for my daughter's health plan as soon as the government starts giving it for free.
Reverse John Galt
http://tomtrel.blogspot.com/2008/10/reverse-john-galt.html
Posted by: Lala | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM
McCain's appearance with his "advisors" this morning was a pretty good show - and show it is. There is no way in this global recession/depression that giving tax breaks to smaller companies - or any other for that matter - will lead to more jobs and the sorta heaven on earth McCain describes. Before these small businesses or any others will be hiring people, they will have to have people buying. Duh. I suppose it made good tv and some people will be impressed by this show of executives. Cheesus.
Posted by: befair | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Lala - I don't begin to have any idea whatsoever how universal health care can be accomodated without enormous expenditures. We are blesses in this household to have excellent benefits, and thank goodness, because there are enormous health costs involved. However, we MUST do something about the uninsured and underinsured. McCain's $5K would not begin to pay the premium for coverage for a familly let alone an individual. I personally would be better off to say the hell with it, keep my benefits just as theyb are, and go along as we have been. But as a human being seeing people who cannot afford their medical care or drugs, I just can't.
Posted by: befair | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM
remember the mileage the dems got out of the 100 year war?
"I’m not interested in the suburbs."
-barack obama.
does he really care about you?
Posted by: mark l. | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:02 PM
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - Web Reconnaissance for 10/27/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.
http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-reconnaissance-for-10272008.html
Posted by: David M | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:08 PM
“I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”
-Out of context Obama quote from law school
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like some trollop, you cunt"
- America's hero to his newer less crippled wife.
Posted by: jaime | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:29 PM
Befair,
New York has mandates on health insurance. I cannot buy the kind of policy that I would like to buy for my daughter. I would be perfectly happy with "major medical" only. But I can't have it. I also can't buy a policy from an insurance company that doesn't follow New York mandates. If I could I would save 3/4's of what I'm paying now.
Hawaii just dropped its child health plan. People who were paying for their child's insurance stopped paying and signed them up for the "free" insurance. That broke the bank.
Posted by: Lala | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Out of context Obama quote from law school-
hmmm...the 100 year war quote, dems provided context, right?
it hurt their argument by not providing context?
monkey see, monkey do.
Posted by: mark l. | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:50 PM
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like some trollop, you cunt"
- America's hero to his newer less crippled wife.
Posted by: jaime | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 01:29 PM"
Are you saying we haven't seen MO because God forbid she was in some kind of accident?
Posted by: mary | Monday, October 27, 2008 at 02:44 PM