Posted by
Rich from Paso on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:09:34 PM
Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat messiah candidate for president, has been changing his positions on the issues of the day faster than any candidate in US presidential candidacy history. He has done more than 'flip-flopped' on issues, typically just a 180 degree change on the issue. Obama has done complete rotations on the issues. He flip-flops on his flip-flops, thus completing complete rotations just like the earth one day to the next. Below are some of B. Hussein Obama's greatest rotations:
Iraq
In 2002, Obama delivered a speech where he staked out that he was, and is, against the war in Iraq. This speech, incidentally, was the first time Obama said that his grandfather told of hearing stories of fellow US troops entering Aushwitz and Treblinka, which were liberated by the Soviet Union.
Obama has stated repeatedly that he will have all troops home in 16 months. However, recently he said that it is possible that his position on Iraq could be "refined" once he meets commanders on the ground later this month. What is he expecting to hear from General Odierno, the former second in command to General Petreaus? He should expect to hear that Iraq will be secure in one calendar year from now. Hence, his "refined" position will be that all US troops will be home 26 months from now, after the US has won in Iraq. Actually, it will take 3 years to do any Iraq redeployment correctly.
Obama completes his rotation by saying that the media is making too much over his "refinement" comment. Therefore, Obama has come full circle back to "all troops home in 16 months."
NAFTA
During the primary fight with Clinton, Obama said that he wanted to "renegotiate" NAFTA with Canada and Mexico to get some sort of fanciful guarantees on labor and environment gaurantees. Canada immediately issued a press release that any renegotiation of NAFTA will have to include discussions regarding the tariffs, or lack thereof, placed on Canadian oil, which accounts for 45% of US oil importation. China also approached Canada about paying the tariffs the US wasn't paying to get the oil Canada was sending to the US.
But here's where the rotation begins. One of Obama's aides told a the Canadian Ambassador that Obama was not serious about renegotiating NAFTA and that it was just "campaign rhetoric".
Austan Goolsbee, top economic advisor to Obama, did talk to a representative of the Canadian cousleor general in Chicago where the subject of NAFTA was discussed.
Now, Obama is back to saying that NAFTA is bad for America and that the labor unions and eco-communists want more protections in NAFTA. Well, they didn't exactly say that but that is who is pulling Obama's strings on NAFTA.
Public Financing of His Campaign
According to the Wall Street Journal (June 10, 2008), "In January 2007, Sen. Obama criticized Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for opting out of public financing for the primary season. In February, responding to a questionnaire, he pledged to remain in the public-financing system as long as his Republican opponent agreed to a "fund-raising truce" for the general election."
Well, Obama unilaterally broke the truce on June 10th by saying that he will refuse public monies for his campaign, the first candidate to do so since Watergate. It is easy to walk away from public financing when your campaign has raised more than a quarter of a billion dollars. Integrity does have a price tag. It is $265 million.
Obama says this is no big deal since he still wants to reform the campaign system. Too bad there is no leadership by example on this topic with Obama.
The real problem here, and there are more examples that could be given, is that American still don't know what Obama's core beliefs are. Is he the same guy that says he cringed when his grandmother made a racially insensitive comment or the one that he is trotting out in recent campaign ads trumpeting her "Kansas values"? Is he the candidate that says that he could no more turn his back on The Rev, Reverend Wright, than he could turn his back on his uncle or is he the candidate that disavowed The Rev after he continued to make the same comments Obama was criticised for listening to. He then left the church altogether when Trinity Baptist brought in a guest pastor, Reverend Pflugger, that said exactly the same things The Rev said about Hillary Clinton. Obama only left because he felt that the church would be continually used against him, not that he disagreed with anything either reverend said.
The fact is that Obama's views change quicker than the direction of a breeze in Kansas (that's fast, by the way). No one knows what Obama really stands for in terms of his core philosohy. Those that think they have figured it out have been dismissed as racists. So the question remains: who really is Obama at his core? Who is pulling the strings and writing the pretty speeches for Obama?
Will the real Obama please stand up?