Quote:Perception vs. reality
WASHINGTON - Although he frequently makes a point of finding something charitable to say about his opponents’ arguments, Sen. Barack Obama almost always ends up voting liberal.
“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” the Illinois Democrat wrote in “The Audacity of Hope,” a memoir published last year. “Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal.”
Koo Koo Koo Koo. Now I'm not going to say that "conservatives" are grounded in reason and fact but as you know the globalists are changing our nouns of Democrat and Republican to liberal and conservative, "respectively". So I will be using the terms we once used because classifying something as liberal or conservative makes it sound that everything liberal is wrong and everything conservative is good. Yet if you look at history those terms are constantly changed on people. Back during the bank scandle (the good ol days when people fought for their money rights) Republicans would have been classified as liberal and Demos and conservatives. Now that being said as a huge disclaimer...IS OBAMA NUTS?! Demos have been trying to force their beliefs into our lives since the 60s. Most of them practically advocate socialism and want to limit personal freedom so that the downtrodden feel like the rest of us. At least with Republicans they only want big business to take us over. Again, there is no more difference between the two parties. Yet Demos have been constantly pushing aside such things as freedom of speech, personal property rights, gun rights, and a whole slew of others that the govt shouldn't be involved in. I'm sure there are examples you can think of as well.
Quote:Obama has a 95 percent liberal rating from Americans for Democratic Reform, a liberal advocacy group that ranks all members of Congress. Yet he is often portrayed as a centrist.
This is also called double speak!
Quote:“His record is liberal, and his rhetoric is moderate,” explained Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Umm actions speak louder than words. If it talks like a duck but acts as a donkey...it's just a messed up donkey.
Quote:For example, Obama goes out of his way to voice approval of at least some aspects of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
“At times, in arguments with some of my friends on the left, I would find myself in the curious position of defending aspects of Reagan’s worldview,” he wrote in “Audacity.” “When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.”
But in summing up Reagan, Obama concluded that the former president’s “clarity about communism seemed matched by his blindness regarding other sources of misery in the world.”
By pointing out the merits of both sides of an argument, Obama often sounds statesmanlike, even if he almost never ends up siding with conservatives. This dichotomy can be seen in Obama’s analysis of President Bush’s foreign policy.
Read this last paragraph. Statesmen here means the ability to say something like this "Abortion can be good or bad...I'm for abortion." Congrats Oba you have the ability to know what the other side thinks!
[/quote]“I agree with George W. Bush when in his second inaugural address he proclaimed a universal desire to be free,” Obama wrote. “But there are few examples in history in which the freedom men and women crave is delivered through outside intervention.” [/quote]
Umm it doesn't matter what history tells us. It matters what the Constitution says. The Constitution says that our freedoms are God given; they are natural. They are as natural as being born with a body. Yes sometimes the body doesn't have all it's parts and we are always lacking something. There are process to deal with that though. Also if Bush says that everyone is free and Obama is talking about outside intervention to bring it about...doesn't that mean he's for the war in Iraq? I don't understand that.
Quote:If Obama survives the Democratic primaries and becomes his party’s presidential nominee, his liberal positions will not necessarily hurt him among the centrist voters who cast ballots in the general election, according to Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report.
“How you come across is more important than how you vote,” Cook said. “If voters perceive you as moderate, then your voting record isn’t terribly relevant. Perception is more important than reality.”
And doesn't that just sum up my outrage and disgust over the people who vote. We care more about what a person looks like than what he stands on a situation. And we care what he says than how he votes. Well I guess that explains every president we've had since 1964! People say our countries screwed up and the go vote for the person with the good hair or the nice smile or the one who pours honey in your ear. Gee I wonder how we got to the place where we are now?
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