From Firedoglake:
He sure talks the talk. Too bad his health care plan isn’t universal. Hilary’s was. Edwards’ was. Obama’s isn’t. But don’t worry, Obama believes.
Mmm, those sweet hot whispers. Like Obama’s belief in abortion rights. You can have that abortion. ‘Ceptin’ all those women having late term abortions for kicks (anyone ever known even one?), so we need to make some rules so government can go all Schiavo on them at eight months. Let’s start having court cases over what counts as enough emotional distress to justify late term abortions. Obama’s for abortion rights, just not for women who don’t deserve them. Just like he’s for universal health care. Except not for everyone.
His sweet talk is the same as every other empty suit’s to a pretty woman – he just wants her to say “yes”, just one time, in this case – just one time in November.
But when they listen real close, they hear that his health care plan isn’t actually universal, and his support of Roe vs. Wade is only if mental illness isn’t involved.
Sweet but empty.
Obama. Obama. Obama.
Please, please, no more sweet and empty. It’s not Diet Obama we’re looking for.
Be for the 4th amendment. Be for abortion rights. And be for universal health are. Don’t just say you’re progressive one day, then the next day say “except…”
No more sweet nothings.
Real commitment will get you eight years, not just one day.
The left really does believe that America turned left in 2006 – that, in fact, America has always been left and the fact of conservative Congresses and Presidents is a result of stolen election and/or bamboozled populations…but everyone has “woken up”, now, and the left is on the march…so, Obama is (or, at least, was) the man..the ardent leftist who will change America into a hopeful, leftist nation where the whole, long national nightmare of President Bush will be put forever to rest and no more conservatives will ever arise to disturb the liberal orthodoxy.
And then Obama had to go and drop dime on them – and they’re all shocked, as if they didn’t go through 8 years of Clinton hanging the left out to dry because the left is only a tiny minority in America and can’t win elections on its own. Clinton knew this and, apparently, Obama has figured it out…and so Obama tries to shift right for the fall campaign and hopes and hopes that McCain will not be successful as reminding the voters that Obama has always been a far left extremist in thought and action. One might think that the left would be ok with this – confident that Obama will govern left once in office and so don’t rock the boat until November is in the bag…but this ignores something the left believes very strongly: Only an avowedly leftist candidate can defeat the GOP because the American people are yearning for leftism and only a leftwing clarion call will get them motivated enough to beat back the Republican noise machine and Diebold vote stealing. Obama’s triangulation, far from helping him for November, is seen by the left as not just a betrayal, but a formula for certain defeat.
What will the result of this be? Time will tell – certainly Obama will still overwhelmingly win the leftwing voters in November…but how many of them will show up? That is the real question…
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