On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 14:23:03 GMT, "Billary/2008"
<F#%K_Liberals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Looks like we're going to invite (ie have) Hitlery for lunch!
>Billary
>Tampa, FL
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>BARACK THE BABY
>
>By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Ah. Toe Sucker begins the right wing smear machine, I see.
He must be losing whatever ethics he once possessed.
>
>December 7, 2006 -- In reading Senator Barack Obama's #1 bestseller, The
>Audacity of Hope, one begins to wonder whether he is another cynical
>politician or just a helplessly naïve neophyte.
>
>After a few chapters, one actually has the audacity to hope that it is
his
>inexperience - and nothing sinister - that accounts for his sometimes
silly
>and often misleading narrative. Anyone who is that naive should not be a
>U.S. Senator, much less the president.
>
>Obama is a uniquely charismatic candidate who has catapulted into second
>place among democratic primary voters, forcing Hillary Clinton to hastily
>abandon her coy pretense that she hasn't made a decision about whether to
>run. He inspires people by his story, his demeanor and his message.
>
>But if his book offers a window into the real Barack Obama, one thing is
>certain: He has a long way to go before he is ready for the presidency.
He's
>only been in the U.S. Senate for two years and before that, he was a
state
>senator and a professor of constitutional law. He's never been an
>administrator, met a payroll, developed a budget, or solved a crisis.
It's
>not only his greenness that sends out warnings; at times, he doesn't seem
to
>grasp the implications of all that he writes. At other times, his words
have
>a distinct disconnect with his actions and legislative record.
>
>Sometimes he sounds downright juvenile. Consider this missive, which
opens
>chapter five: "One thing about being a U.S. Senator - you fly a lot."
>Brilliant! It gets worse: "Most of the time I fly . in coach, hoping for
an
>aisle or window seat" (But not always.) " . there are times when . I fly
on
>a private jet." Then, "the flying experience is a good deal different."
Wow.
>Obama then describes the experience: "lounges that feature big soft
couches
>and big screen TVs." Hog heaven. "Restrooms are generally empty and
>spotless, and have those mechanical shoe-****ne machines and mouthwash and
>mints in a bowl." The planes? "Well, they're nice." The purpose of the
trip
>was "fund raising" but the senator was thrilled when his staff "explained
to
>him" that he could travel on "someone else's jet" and only have to pay
the
>comparatively minor cost of first class airfare.
>
>There's no mention of the special interests that pay for those cor****ate
>jets for senators or about the lobbyists that usually accompany them,
using
>the down time to fill their heads with information and arguments for
their
>client's legislative priorities. All we learn from Obama is how la dolce
>vita prevails at private air****ts.
>
>Obama actually took 23 separate trips on cor****ate jets during his first
>year in the Senate, until he was appointed as the democratic point man on
>ethics legislation last year, following the Jack Abramoff scandal
involving
>lobbyists paying for Congressional travel. Given the political atmosphere
>and the intense probe of Congressional travel, it would not have been
good
>politics for him to continue to avail himself of the lobbyist largesse.
So,
>that's when he stopped taking the free rides. Cushy sofas or not.
>
>Obama is a political infant, a babe in the woods. He's a Jimmy Carter,
>running for president based on his personal moral outlook, his background
>and history, and making a virtue out of his limited knowledge of how
>American government works. One thing is sure - in the age of terrorism,
we
>don't need a president who can't find the men's room.
>
>Obama's book is replete with paeans to non-partisan****p and rising above
the
>bitterness of the blue/red divide. He sees the virtues in his political
>opponents. "I find it possible," he declares, "to understand their
motives,
>and to recognize in them the values I share."
>
>But, in reality, Obama is no "third way" politician. He is a party line
>Democrat, according to the National Journal, the 18th most liberal member
of
>the Senate, which puts him ahead of (or behind) 60% of his fellow
Democrats
>in the Senate. The gospel according to Planned Parenthood? He gets 100%.
>Right to life? Zero. The AFL-CIO celebrates his vote with them on nine
out
>of ten issues and the ACLU agrees.
>
>He talks like a moderate, but he votes like a liberal.
>
>This deception, which he shares in common with Hillary, would be par for
the
>Wa****ngton course. But it is the sound bites that festoon his book that
lead
>one to suspect that he really doesn't understand the facts or the issues.
>
>For example, he writes, "we say we value the legacy we leave the next
>generation and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt."
Really?
>Has the senator noticed that the deficit is now down to only a bit more
than
>2% of our GDP, or is that sound bite too precious to lose in the face of
the
>facts?
>
>Or - he accuses us of tolerating "schools that don't teach, that are
>chronically underfunded and understaffed and underinspired." We hate to
get
>in the way of his speechwriter's momentum, but how about the central
issues:
>teacher incompetence, the need for merit pay and the im****tance of
waiving
>tenure to get rid of bad instructors?
>
>He speaks of an increasingly wealthy "knowledge class" of Americans able
to
>purchase "whatever they want on the marketplace - private schools,
private
>health care, private security and private jets." But then he opposes the
>voucher system designed to give the poor parity in purchasing power for
>private education.
>
>And then he says that voters are tired of "sound bite solutions to
>complicated problems." So are his readers.
>
>Senator Barack Obama could indeed represent something new in our politics
>instead of something old and simply repackaged. He could step up and
truly
>develop a third way, carrying on where Bill Clinton left off on issues of
>poverty, race, standards, education and global competitiveness. But Bill
>Clinton worked hard at grappling with our problems and designing real
>solutions. He immersed himself in the data and worked hard to learn how
to
>be president.
>
>But Obama is taking the easy way out - skimming the surface, sloganeering
>and hiding behind Democratic orthodoxy while pretending to be something
>else.
>
>The saving grace is that he is young and just starting out. If he pays
the
>same attention to substance that he appears to have spent acquiring a
>profound understanding of constitutional law - which he used to teach -
then
>he has the potential to be a great figure.
>
>But he's not there yet.
>
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"Keeping us up here eats away at families. The Democrats could care less
about families -- that's what this says."
-- Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), quoted by the Wa****ngton Post, in response
to incoming-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's (D-MD) plan to increase the
House's work schedule from three days a week to five.
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