Students seeing through Obama hype

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

H/T NRO

Obama may have flopped away the unwavering support he had among college kids. The only chance he had was to remain the Messiah who will make it all better, but the more he politicks the more he shows he's just the latest huckster. From the U of Florida paper.

Since clinching his party’s nomination for president, however, Obama has started to clarify, qualify and triangulate to such a degree that we can hardly recognize him from the inspirational “change” candidate he represented a few short months ago.

---As such, it’s understandable, given his historic fundraising advantage, that Obama would renege on his pledge to accept public financing. Given his lead in the polls, it was understandable for Obama to shy away from engaging his opponent in a series of town hall meetings, though he previously said he would be open to doing so. And given their electoral importance, it was understandable that Obama would pander to Christian evangelicals by proposing to continue the Bush administration’s constitutionally questionable faith-based initiatives program.

In the past couple of weeks, however, Obama has transitioned from moderating his positions to downright flip-flopping. Although Obama had previously vowed to filibuster any legislation that would grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies who enabled the Bush administration to break the law and conduct domestic spying operations without a warrant, Obama has since changed his tune. He now supports a so-called “compromise” measure that effectively amounts to another congressional capitulation to the White House. As disconcerting and disappointing as Obama’s rhetorical gymnastics on warrantless wiretapping is, it isn’t the most troubling of his recent waffling.

Last week, Obama left open the possibility that he would “refine” his position on the redeployment of troops from Iraq, depending on the conditions he encounters on the ground and the advice of military commanders he talks to on his upcoming trip to the war-torn country. To be fair, Obama has not officially announced any change in his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq , but the simple fact that he is allowing himself the wiggle room to do so is depressing, to say the least.

Perhaps Obama isn’t the great change agent we thought he was. Perhaps no one can change the system. Or maybe we expected too much from someone who is, after all, just another politician. Instead of riding a wave of change to the ballot box, we are faced with the age-old “lesser of two evils” paradigm: Perpetual war and inequitable economic policies on the one hand, and spineless triangulation on the other.

Ummm, Heh.

     

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Students seeing through Obama hype

H/T NRO

Obama may have flopped away the unwavering support he had among college kids. The only chance he had was to remain the Messiah who will make it all better, but the more he politicks the more he shows he's just the latest huckster. From the U of Florida paper.

Since clinching his party’s nomination for president, however, Obama has started to clarify, qualify and triangulate to such a degree that we can hardly recognize him from the inspirational “change” candidate he represented a few short months ago.

---As such, it’s understandable, given his historic fundraising advantage, that Obama would renege on his pledge to accept public financing. Given his lead in the polls, it was understandable for Obama to shy away from engaging his opponent in a series of town hall meetings, though he previously said he would be open to doing so. And given their electoral importance, it was understandable that Obama would pander to Christian evangelicals by proposing to continue the Bush administration’s constitutionally questionable faith-based initiatives program.

In the past couple of weeks, however, Obama has transitioned from moderating his positions to downright flip-flopping. Although Obama had previously vowed to filibuster any legislation that would grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies who enabled the Bush administration to break the law and conduct domestic spying operations without a warrant, Obama has since changed his tune. He now supports a so-called “compromise” measure that effectively amounts to another congressional capitulation to the White House. As disconcerting and disappointing as Obama’s rhetorical gymnastics on warrantless wiretapping is, it isn’t the most troubling of his recent waffling.

Last week, Obama left open the possibility that he would “refine” his position on the redeployment of troops from Iraq, depending on the conditions he encounters on the ground and the advice of military commanders he talks to on his upcoming trip to the war-torn country. To be fair, Obama has not officially announced any change in his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq , but the simple fact that he is allowing himself the wiggle room to do so is depressing, to say the least.

Perhaps Obama isn’t the great change agent we thought he was. Perhaps no one can change the system. Or maybe we expected too much from someone who is, after all, just another politician. Instead of riding a wave of change to the ballot box, we are faced with the age-old “lesser of two evils” paradigm: Perpetual war and inequitable economic policies on the one hand, and spineless triangulation on the other.

Ummm, Heh.

     

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