04-29-2008, 11:04 PM
Obama's Fox Trot on Faux News
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He is often compared to JFK, a leader who made tough choices. But Obama turns out to be a profile in porridge<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Instead, he invoked the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King, comparing King's speeches opposing the war in Vietnam to Wright's rants that 9/11 was America's chickens coming home to roost and AIDS was invented in a U.S. government lab to kill black people.
Why not? After all, Obama once compared Wright to his "typical white" grandmother. Maybe he considers King a typical black preacher in the Wright mold. But <b>King had a dream; Barack Obama has a nightmare</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Wallace inquired about Obama's boast that he could cross party lines to get things done, and asked the senator for examples of his independence and bipartisanship. Wallace pointed out how John McCain bucked his party's line on issues like immigration and worked with Democrats on issues like campaign finance reform.
<b>Aside from mumbling something about government regulations, Obama couldn't provide any.</b> Obama has a history of ducking tough issues, whether in the Illinois legislature or the United States Senate. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As noted by the Washington Post's David Ignatius, Obama, after being elected to the Illinois senate in 1996, "gained a reputation for skipping tough votes" such as a key one on gun control in December 1999 because he was vacationing in his home state of Hawaii. Ignatius quotes a Chicago politician as saying that "<b>the myth developed that when there was a tough vote, he was gone.</b>"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He has no legislative achievements at any level and wouldn't even be a U.S. senator if both the GOP and Democratic nominees hadn't self-destructed in local sex scandals. Obama got the Democratic nomination by default and crushed political gadfly Alan Keyes.
Obama is no John F. Kennedy, and John McCain is no Alan Keyes.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He is often compared to JFK, a leader who made tough choices. But Obama turns out to be a profile in porridge<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Instead, he invoked the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King, comparing King's speeches opposing the war in Vietnam to Wright's rants that 9/11 was America's chickens coming home to roost and AIDS was invented in a U.S. government lab to kill black people.
Why not? After all, Obama once compared Wright to his "typical white" grandmother. Maybe he considers King a typical black preacher in the Wright mold. But <b>King had a dream; Barack Obama has a nightmare</b>. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Wallace inquired about Obama's boast that he could cross party lines to get things done, and asked the senator for examples of his independence and bipartisanship. Wallace pointed out how John McCain bucked his party's line on issues like immigration and worked with Democrats on issues like campaign finance reform.
<b>Aside from mumbling something about government regulations, Obama couldn't provide any.</b> Obama has a history of ducking tough issues, whether in the Illinois legislature or the United States Senate. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As noted by the Washington Post's David Ignatius, Obama, after being elected to the Illinois senate in 1996, "gained a reputation for skipping tough votes" such as a key one on gun control in December 1999 because he was vacationing in his home state of Hawaii. Ignatius quotes a Chicago politician as saying that "<b>the myth developed that when there was a tough vote, he was gone.</b>"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->He has no legislative achievements at any level and wouldn't even be a U.S. senator if both the GOP and Democratic nominees hadn't self-destructed in local sex scandals. Obama got the Democratic nomination by default and crushed political gadfly Alan Keyes.
Obama is no John F. Kennedy, and John McCain is no Alan Keyes.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->