Topic: On Politics
Barack Obama is supposed to be a different kind of candidate: a fresh face with fresh ideas and the kind broad-based appeal that's necessary to transcend our ugly partisan political divide.
Humbug.
Strip away the packaging and all you have is a standard-issue progressive whose fresh new ideas are firmly rooted in the 1960s. Writing for National Review Online, John J. Pitney Jr. reviews Obama's record:
There are signs that an Obama presidency would disappoint those who hunger for centrism and civility. While he has worked with Republicans on some issues, his voting record is that of a hardcore liberal. On roll calls where the parties have disagreed, he has sided with fellow Democrats 97 percent of the time.
In his book, he attacks Ronald Reagan, the modern leader whom Republicans most revere. Obama sneers at “his John Wayne, Father Knows Best pose, his policy by anecdote, and his gratuitous assaults on the poor.” Just imagine a Republican writing so harshly about John F. Kennedy. Would anyone see that person as a political healer?
As his attack on Reagan shows, Obama is a typically clueless progressive dunderhead—which doesn't mean he has no chance of being elected president, of course.
