Obama be thy name
Last night’s Democrat debate in the Bitter State was somewhat different from other debates in that Clinton’s friends at ABC got to ask Obama some questions and feel some pressure he’d never felt before. The Wall Street Journal writes that Obama had the opportunity to defend himself against charges that he’s associated with Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground terrorist;
When the debate turned to Sen. Obama’s association with William Ayers, a former member of the violent Weather Underground group, Sen. Obama pointed to the question as an example of pointless distractions, which he said were a “game in which anybody who I know regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, somehow their ideas can be attributed to me.”
“Pointless distractions”? Obama has no public service record from which we draw an inkling of how he’ll govern. However, there are these “flimsy” relationships that can give us a clue into the type of man he is. Obama has never been in a position that we can use to judge his future performance as the leader of this country, and by extension, the most powerful man in the entire world. If we can’t judge him by the company he keeps, how, pray tell, are we supposed to judge him?
In an awkward moment both candidates diplomatically said that as president they would not be opposed to consulting with President George W. Bush. Sen. Obama said he would be more quick to consult with his father, former President George H.W. Bush. “I don’t think the Democrats have a monopoly on good ideas,” he said.
That’s funny – if the Democrats don’t have the monopoly on good ideas, why are all of your ideas straight from the Democrat playbook, from your class warfare rhetoric to your tax hikes. How many of President Bush’s proposals has Obama supported? None. How many has he voted for? None. His response was targeted at the “Reagan Democrats”, but his record on the subject is clear. AP reports that Obama was asked about his stance on gun control;
Obama later erred by saying he had never favored a ban on handguns even though as a state Senate candidate in 1996 he filled out a questionnaire from an Illinois voter group saying he would support such a ban.
“My writing wasn’t on that particular questionnaire … as I said, I have never favored an all-out ban on handguns,” Obama said, even though his handwritten notes did appear on its front page. The reponse to the question about guns was typed.
How very Clintonian – the questionnaire was typed, so no one can prove those were his responses – so he’ll just deny those are his actual views. Deja vu. Typical lawyer response.
So basically, we should just vote for him because he’s who he says he is, and we need to stop questioning him about his politics and relationships. Oh, yeah, he’s got my vote.
American Pundit and Crotchety Old Bastard write that Obama has garnered the Hamas vote, who compare Obama to John F. Kennedy and Alberto de la Cruz at Babalu Blog remind us that Kennedy was pretty inept when it comes to foreign policy. And speaking of Friends of Obama, Pamela Geller at Alas Shrugs wants to know where Reverend Wright got the money to buy his new $1 million house and where the cash donations to the Trinity United Church of Christ for Katrina went.
Ann Coulter gets the quote of the day award, though(h/t to my cousin Scott, again);
The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.
But then, after all their hard work making believe they’re into NASCAR and God, some Democrat invariably slips and lets us know it’s all a big fake-out. They’re like a gay guy trying to act straight who accidentally refers to Brad Pitt as “yummy!”
Category: Politics
