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Sunday, July 06, 2008 --- 54 days ago http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/on_the_absurdity_of_being_shocked
| The transition from primary to general election campaign mode has seen Barack Obama (D-IL) perform whiplash-inducing 180°s on Iraq , on abortion , on the DC gun ban , on FISA and telecom immunity , on welfare reform , on the death penalty for child rapists , on debating John McCain "anywhere, any time," on the financing of his campaign , and on too many others to recount here (not to mention on Jim Johnson , on Jeremiah Wright , on Wes Clark , on Austan Goolsbee , on Samantha Power , on Tony Rezko , and on Scarlett Johansson , as well as on too many other people to recount). Those flips which have put him to the right of that famous Triangulating Moderate, Bill Clinton, recently caught the attention -- and the ire -- of the ever-vigilant New York Times editorial board. On July 4 the NYT featured an editorial titled "New and Not Improved" that, in part, said the following about what the editors called Obama's "perplexing shifts in position": Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters, and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things. He spoke with passion about breaking out of the partisan mold of bickering and catering to special pleaders, promised to end President Bush’s abuses of power and subverting of the Constitution and disowned the big-money power brokers who have corrupted Washington politics. Now there seems to be a new Barack Obama on the hustings. First, he broke his promise to try to keep bo ... |
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