A Whole New Ball Game When You Have to Wear Man Pants
Obama might be changing some of his positions:
Consider this - on issues such as FISA surveillance or the Bush tax cuts for the rich Obama has already back-pedaled. He is likely further to outrage a contingent of his supporters by declining to declare defeat in Iraq, blame Bush, and leave. There even seems to be a movement towards creating a bit of wiggle room on enhanced interrogation. One might have thought, that given these setbacks on substance, Obama would be generous in handing his leftmost admirers some symbolic victories (an indictment of Dick Cheney, for example) but with the Warren selection they are getting shut out there as well. Interesting. Of course, chuckling righties might wonder whether Obama is holding up on symbolic victories for the left because he knows they have some huge substantive wins coming…
Looking forward to strong denuciations from my readers on the left who happily denounced Bush on these issues.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:30 am
Any citations on ANY of that? I hadn’t noticed any of it. Either way, Obama is respectful (and more importantly responsible) enough not to try to publicly undermine a sitting president, now that he’s the president-elect, and especially duing a war AND major economic crisis. We’ll see how it goes when he’s in office- obviously if he actually DOES things I don’t like, I won’t like it.
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 am
I know you won’t like it. I just wonder if you will publicly denounce it.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Well, I don’t have a blog, but I’ll certainly agree if you denounce it in a reasonably accurate and straightforward manner.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Hey, here’s one: Rick Warren (noted homophobe) was invited to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration, and I am extrmely pissed off about it. Hope you don’t mind if I borrow your soapbox.