Laelth
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Fri Jan-04-08 08:35 PM
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63. I can't sell you on Obama. |
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As I've said elsewhere, I prefer John Edwards, but I must admit that Obama's upbeat message (vacuous and pandering as it is) is more appealing to the average American than Edwards' painfully honest assessment of the problems we face and the clear plans he has to address those problems. Ronald Reagan came to power with the same kind of vacuous platitudes. Obama, obviously, is much smarter than Reagan ever dreamed of being, but Obama's campaign, so far, is coming straight out of the Republican playbook for the past thirty years.
I can only hope that if Obama becomes the next President, he will show, by his actions, that he is a true liberal ... just as Reagan proved, through his policies, that he was a die-hard conservative, despite his campaign rhetoric.
In other words, I hope Obama is lying to us about the kind of President he will be. I don't want bipartisanship. I don't want middle-of-the-road compromise policies. I want real change. I want a liberal. From his rhetoric, Obama sounds like a 1950s Republican. Again, I hope he's lying.
apologies for the substantial re-post.
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-Laelth
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