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...but will promise anything to any group to get elected. Then once he's in, he will revert to his past record.

And Rightly So!

"...To implement his old agenda, when no one believes a word he says, and he has no trust. "

PIECE OF CAKE. He will have Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress. He will do whatever the h*ll he WANTS to do when he has a Democrat majority.

Obama is a Trifecta of Political Awful-Tude. The doctrinaire liberalism of a McGovern, Carter or Mondale, combined with the (dis)honesty of a Clinton and the jellyfish pedantic flipfloppery of a Kerry.

Everything he says NOW is MEANINGLESS. In fact, it is more meaningless than the meaningless stuff he said during the primary because he was with friends. Now he is trolling for votes from the Typical White Person voters that he spent decades distrusting and being alienated from. Would you buy a used car from a man who kept a diary about how he didn't like people like you?

"Either way, whether Barry has no core beliefs, or whether it just *appears* that way to everyone, either way I'm not sure that it helps him."

Of course Barry has core beliefs. Like most leftists,
rule #1 in his core belief is: The ends justify the means. He is clearly in the mode of "do anything and say anything to get elected". They do the Michelle media primping one week, pre-empt serious questions about his inexperience with the "you're a racist" shot across bow, now roll out the phony "dont question me" patriotism speech, next week a phony attempt to shift center on culture ... all with the Obama-enabling media doing the heavy lifting and putting mucho lipstick on the pig.

Peel away the layer of Clintonesque dishonest pandering, and you have a man who lacks the experience, insight and wisdom to have a clear consistent strategy wrt foreign policy. Hence the Kerryesque flip-floppery. Peel *that* layer and underneath is the Carteresque blame-America-first globalist kneejerk inclinations and assumptions.

So what this means is that we will get screwed three ways. getting lied to by a man incapable of true leadership, whose 'vision' is a clueless and naive view of what needs to happen.

On economy and culture, it is a similar triple punch. An extremist leftist wrapped in a craven flip-flopping leaderless coward, stuffed in a pandering overhyped misleading campaign. Oh Joy. As I said,
Obama is a Trifecta of Political Awful-Tude.

McCarthy, McGovern, Carter, Kennedy (challenging Carter at the convention with less than 800 delegates), Mondale, Dukakis, Dean (who was on the convention ballot with 300 delegates), Kerry, and now Obambi. Sorry, I do not include Clinton there for economic reasons alone.

All the losers (most of the above) hate a winner (Clinton, 2 times)...so Obambi has the DNC by the you-know-what.

Nobama '08

It's important to dispute the age old myth that Democrats in general and their Presidential candidates (Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry) have no core beliefs. They do; very much so. The problem is that these core beliefs are so far outside of the mainstream of most Americans that if the Democrats ran on their beliefs they would lose every time and virtually everywhere other than a few major urban areas (N.Y., Chicago, S.F., Seattle, etc.) and college towns (Madison, Ann Arbor, Berkeley, etc.).

And so, the pragmatists of the party realize that to be competitive they need to cloak their beliefs in nuance, pander to "moderate" themes (Clinton's "Third Way", Obama's "post-ideology) while attempting (albeit feebly) to assimilate culturally to mainstream America (i.e. Obama's bowling fiasco). The result is that the public comes off with the impression that Democrats stand for nothing and go with whatever direction the wind is blowing. That's not flattering, but it's a lot less devastating than running on what they really believe.

The 2008 election is unique, however, in that many Democrats are pumped full of hubris. Many are convinced that Americans' fatigue over the war and frustration with high gas prices, and the weak economy (although it's not as weak as the liberal media portrays) along with general irritation with Bush all translates into a whole-hearted embrace of liberalism. It's really amazing to listen to the "reality based community" as they spin their own reality where socialized medicine, oppressive tax rates, economic protectionism and military defeatism are all truly what "the people" want.

Obama's handlers are smarter than that, however; he's doing the typical Democratic flip-flop to the middle in mid-summer, much like Kerry before him. Yes, he will be labeled a disingenuous panderer and he is. But that's far better than running on what Democrats sincerely stand for. The real question is whether his arrogant surrogates and supporters will follow suit or whether, pumped up on their own self-righteousness, enough of them will expose the neo-Socialist agenda that most Democrats (including Obama) hold dear. If so, hello President McCain. :-)