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<a href=“http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009664[/url]”>http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110009664</a></p>
<p>Definitely ammunition for his opponents - fair or not.</p>
<p>How fun! Almost as good as Romney “outgaying” Ted Kennedy. ;)</p>
<p>Hey Dorothy – How’s the college search going for ya?</p>
<p>…just applied to a program at Oxford…still awaiting the news.</p>
<p>Thanks for asking.</p>
<p>–oh, yeah…and I should add: “Present”.</p>
<p>I saw that article as well, and I have to say it really bothered me. I like Obama, so far, but it will be hard for him to justify not taking a stand on important issues when it counted. Pretty dissapointing for a guy whose appeal is that he doesn’t seem like the typical politician.</p>
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<p>Then when he’s president, we won’t have to worry about him taking that option, will we?</p>
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<p>If the bills were bad or merely silly political fodder for other legislators, why would you vote no against them and set yourself up for years of explaining that you aren’t really in favor of strip clubs but that that bill was unconstitutional in several ways, etc…? Everyone who has a television knows how ugly negative campaigning gets and how easy it is to misconstrue a candidate’s record. Sounds like Obama reads the political landscape really well and takes precautions to avoid future misunderstanding and baiting. That quality in a leader might serve the country well on the international scene someday.</p>
<p>So if it’s clear he opposed them, and it is commonly understood (by the wonderful folks at the Wall Street Journal) that he opposed them, what exactly is the issue? It’s not exactly like he flip-flopped like Romney, or is flop-flipping like Giuliani, or may be awaiting the illness of his temporary wife to look for a new squeeze, like Newt.</p>
<p>It’s just the audacity of it all!</p>
<p>–Audacious to the core…and photogenic!</p>
<p>I imagine Obama to be very Clintonesque in that he will be on the side of whatever is popular at the time. Not Bushlike where you just stand by what you say no matter what the polls say. Time might prove me wrong though, I am still disappointed that he quit smoking.</p>
<p>yes, and since Obamaesque doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, posterity might have to characterize situations as Barakesque which is almost Kafkaesque in its Burlesque</p>
<p>let me see, audacity:</p>
<p>signing SIGNING STATMENTS!!! Sign a bill then sign a paper saying you will ignore the bill</p>
<p>and then:</p>
<p>putting political appointees in charge of most every agency so that ANYYTHING that needs to be done has to be approved by Bush, thus passing by Congress all together</p>
<p>That way, COngress doesn’t even NEED to vote, because Bush doesn’t like 3 branches</p>
<p>As for Obama, please, lets take a look at the Republicans running shall we?</p>
<p>usually both Republicans and Democrats who have done this turn out to do so because that section of the bill is attached to one they feel they cannot vote for, and the “issue” has nothing to do with the meat of the bill.
I hate this stuff.
For instance, momof2, the bill may be to allow hunting of senators during early October and someone attached the strip club/partial birth/etc section on the bill.</p>
<p>Non-issue.</p>
<p>Present!</p>
<p>Next?</p>
<p>…there is only one slick-Willie</p>
<p>…or is there?</p>
<p>I’m a Democrat and I think Obama comes across wonderfully, but I am just amazed that people think he should be our next President. Do we have any idea how decisive he is? Do we know how he might performs in a tough situation? </p>
<p>As citizens of the most powerful country in the world, we have an enormous responsibility to elect someone wise and experienced. What a shame it would be to follow a disastrous presidency with someone too inexperienced to do the kind of job we need. I sense that people are projecting onto a charismatic, likeable man qualities that may or may not exist. Many of us are, in a sense, wishing him into the role of president.</p>
<p>Let’s give Obama a few more years, then consider him seriously. Great countries fall because of consistently poor leadership. Let’s be realistic, mature and not in reaction mode when we vote in 2008. I don’t plan to make up my mind for many months, but experience is an important criterion on my list.</p>
<p>yeah some great leadership that comes from great experience like what we have right now…</p>
<p>I think Obama has had less time to be bought off. But it’s all relative - lack of experience vs. wife of mass child killer vs. ambulance chaser? He looks pretty good to me.</p>
<p>Do you think the fact that he was raised a Muslim will make him more or less effective against our Middle-east antagonists?</p>
<p>I just finished reading Obama’s first book and there is no mention whatsoever of him being “raised a Muslim”.</p>