That Was Then, This Is Now
- 06.21.2008 - 6:11 PMJohn McCain tied Barack Obama in fundraising for the month of May? Perhaps Obamamania is wearing thin.
It used to be the Agent of Change could do no wrong in the media’s eyes, now the virulently pro-Obama Newsweek calls his campaign finance switcheroo ” a large exaggeration and a lame excuse.”
Why aren’t the unions more upset about Barack Obama’s major flip-flop on free trade? Perhaps he told them “never mind” the new stance while he was telling voters “never mind” the old stance. It is getting hard to keep up.
The left is upset with the Democrats, and Barack Obama specifically, for throwing in the towel on FISA extension. But if this deal wasn’t a bad one, as he now says, why didn’t Obama help come up with a solution earlier– before intelligence intercepts were potentially lost? That would have shown bipartisan leadership in an area in which he is supposed to have expertise. (After all, he told us : “He has tried to break partisan logjams and take on seemingly intractable problems.”) But perhaps reflexively opposing anything the Bush administration opposed to win a primary race was more important than solving a pressing national security impasse.
When Obama told us “We are the change that we seek.” we thought it was gobbledygook — little did we know he’d be the one changing. And on so many issues.
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