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April 11, 2005
Some "Centrist"
Senator Barack Obama is such a disappointment, or at least he would be if I had ever had any hope of him actually being a centrist.
Anyone who really listened to his DNC speech, though, knew better. His language was a more sedate version of the angry left's rhetoric in the last election:
If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties...Nice, huh? He made it sound less angry with his nice guy demeanor and aw-shucks grin, but the words he used made it clear he plants his ideological flag in the soil of the MoveOn left....we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.
...I have no doubt that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness a brighter day will come.
Why do I bring this up now? I just watched part of Obama's questioning of John Bolton and all he seems to be doing, in very genial fashion, is raise leftist talking points about alleged "intimidation" of intelligence officers. Like so many attacks the left has raised of late, these allegations have no basis in fact.
I think Obama can believe what he wants, but wish the media had been more honest about his actual beliefs in any of the many gushing profiles that have been written about him since he took office. It would also be nice if they were to point out this "centrist's" ties to radical organization MoveOn and his defense of former Klansmen Robert Byrd.
Posted by slublog at April 11, 2005 11:34 PM
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