Obama and the war

Kate Sheppard at the latest DNC meeting: "Barack Obama's speech actually started to do something he should be doing much more often: Pushing hard on the "I was always against the war" line. "

Isn't this, like, the whole crux of his campaign, part of every one of his stump speeches, and the line he tries to repeat eight or nine times at every debate? How much harder can he push it?

Comments

Ya, Obama mouths the 'always' against the war' thing, in the past tense, continuously, as far as I can tell. The problem is that he has refused to say the same thing in the future tense - and provide details of how he'd get us out of this fubar situation. He's not even real clear in the present tense.

In the most partisan atmosphere since probably 1936 (When FDR took on the malefactors of great wealth), Obama wants to be about the new politics of consensus (Unity08! woohoo!) when at the same time the independent's views are essentially the same as the Dems, and the conservatives are splitting into warring camps along existing faultlines. Is Obama even awake and paying attention to the change in political orientation that is upon us? Even National Review seems to get the political disaster heading for the GOP in 08, but Obama seems clueless.

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on December 1, 2007 05:18 PM

Post A Comment

Blogroll

See entire blogroll »