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May 9, 2008
More On Obama's Improbable Arguments
Topics: Political News and commentaries"If Obama is elected president, we can count on at least two things: bad economic policy and bad foreign policy. And we won't be able to say we weren't warned."
Scott at Powerline has more - with links.
Clearly, America has much to be concerned about a possible Obama presidency. As Gerard Baker offered in his piece titled, "Obama: is America ready for this dangerous left winger?," we should listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama ...
if you listen to Mr Obama's speeches, it is not the lack of substance but the quality of it that ought to worry Americans. His victory speech after his latest primary win in Wisconsin this week was a case in point.So, how dangerous is Barack Obama for America? Doug Patton has called Obama "the most dangerous man in America" and says why by laying out just where Obama stands on a few of the key issues:There was no shortage of proposals. He plans large increases in government spending on health and education. He wants to tax the rich more to pay for it. He is against companies using the opportunities of free markets to restructure their operations in the US. He is vehemently protectionist. He continues to insist, despite the growing evidence that this left-wing nostrum would be lunacy, that the US must pull its troops out of Iraq with the utmost dispatch.
While he speaks of the need for Americans to move beyond partisanship ("We are not blue states or red states, but the United States" is a campaign meme), when you cut through the verbiage there is nothing to suggest he believes anything that is seriously at odds with the far Left of his party. If you think about it for a second, it's not really an accident that he has been endorsed by the likes of Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
Though he talks with great eloquence about the future, he sounds for all the world like one of the long line of Democrats from George McGovern to Walter Mondale to Michael Dukakis, who became history by espousing policies and striking a rhetorical pose that was well out of the mainstream of American politics.
America is certainly moving left in the post-George Bush era. The long period of conservative ascendancy is clearly over, buried by a Republican Party of recent years that has preached intolerance and practiced incompetence. That a new era in American politics is beginning is not in doubt. But are Americans really ready to leap all the way across in one go to embrace a European-style Left?
Abortion: Barack Obama is a radical, pro-abortion liberal. He believes that American women should have an unfettered right to destroy the babies in their wombs at any stage and for any reason.Gun control: Again, Obama is among the more extreme members of the U.S. Senate. In the last year, he has voted against shielding firearms manufacturers from lawsuits due to gun violence and in favor of legislation that would ban the sale or transfer of any and all semi-automatic firearms.
Health care: Obama has said he believes that health care is a basic human right. (Funny, I must have missed that one in the Bill of Rights.)
Immigration: As an Illinois state senator in 1998, Obama voted to give welfare and Medicaid to (illegal) immigrants.Judges: Obama voted against the nominations of both John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, and participated in the filibuster of Alito.
National security: The junior senator from Illinois voted against reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act.
As Patton points out, Obama is smart enough to dance around these votes should he decide to run for president, cloaking his liberal positions in reasonable sounding rhetoric about a new generation with new ideas, etc., but he is also liberal enough to be the most dangerous man in America if he is elected.
Even Democrat-insider Joseph Wilson (who I have to admit I consider a low-life, truth-stretching, self-serving, human being) has written that Obama's Shallow Credentials on National Security Are Dangerous for the Country.
And then there's the thing Barack Obama has for Marxists, and that they have for him. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign. And they seem to feel the warmth.
Indeed, Obama's arguments are, for the most part, improbable and dangerous for America. But the most dangerous thing about Obama is his character and judgement, as evidenced by the entire Jeremiah Wright affair, and his long-term relationships with leftists like Ayers and Dorne that he lied about.
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