Obama's word goes by the wayside

"chose winning over his word"

Stand by, this is just the first promise he will renig on...the man is a talking suit, he doesn't give a rat's behind about anything except winning...promise the world, deliver NOTHING. McCain isn't much better but at least what you see is what you get.

Can you say flip-flop.

Having as much credibility as Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, this Democrat televangelist presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama proves by way of this article that he is full of shibai.

The article states that that "the first-term senator (Obama) tarnished his carefully honed image as a different kind of politician -- one who means what he says and says what he means -- while undercutting his call for "a new kind of politics."

McCain painted the issue as a character test, saying, "This election is about a lot of things. It's also about trust. It's about keeping your word."

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Overall, the race between Obama and McCain amounts to an authenticity contest."

Obama doesn't keep his word.

McCain gives it straight and he's for real.

Obama is slick-talking and has the ability to fool great numbers of the American public, but Obama has no crediblity nor experience.

I wouldn't vote for any politician who wouldn't or couldn't change his mind--we've seen too much of that in Bush. Much has changed since the beginning of this campaign so if Obama is taking advantage of this situation I don't see that as a negative I see it as a positive--I hope he does that as president instead of staying the course regardless of the harm it does to America!

Yeah, even though he is from Hawaii, I am not voting for him. He promises too much, panders too much, and is pushing us towards socialism. You cant just tax the rich, tax the oil companies, and not expect to have consequences and trickle down. You cant blame the oil companies for the demand of oil, and you cant punish rich people for living the american dream. Each day we are learning more and more about Barack.

How convenient for you to cried foul when it befitting for you! It doesn't mean anything other than he's stronger and smarter than Old McFebble. He's raised more money and doesn't have to use it. What's your problem? And NO WAY, MCSame IS STILL THE REINING KING OF FLIP FLOP!

One of the principal authors of the most significant campaign finance legislation since Watergate said he was neither "outraged" nor "surprised" with Barack Obama's decision to forgo public funding in the general election.
Norm Ornstein, a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and substantial contributor to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act -- also known as the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance legislation -- said on Thursday that Obama's move was "pragmatically the right decision to make," and that, if the Senator had not chosen that path, "I would have sued him for political malpractice."

"What I told a bunch of people a few weeks ago," said Ornstein, "is that while it would be nice if he decided he felt honor bound to stay within the system and take the money, if he did so I might join a group of people who sued him for political malpractice.

When you have the ability to raise the kind of money that he could raise and do it without selling your soul to spend all the time between now and the election on fundraisers, your goal is to win an election and not turn your back on the people voting. There will be outraged editorials and McCain will be justifiably pissed. But it was pragmatically the right decision for him to make."

Orstein told The Huffington Post that he had advised the Obama campaign about the issue of public finance a "long time ago" but not as the decision approached. "I don't think it was a slam dunk decision six months ago, in part because people didn't have any idea what kind of reach he could have, how many people he could bring into his camp."

In defending Obama, Orstein became the sole author of McCain-Feingold to offer sympathy for a position that, at least in the spirit, goes against the purpose of the campaign finance legislation.

Two Faced Obama wrote:

Having as much credibility as Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, this Democrat televangelist presidential nominee Barack Hussein Obama proves by way of this article that he is full of shibai.
The article states that that "the first-term senator (Obama) tarnished his carefully honed image as a different kind of politician -- one who means what he says and says what he means -- while undercutting his call for "a new kind of politics."
McCain painted the issue as a character test, saying, "This election is about a lot of things. It's also about trust. It's about keeping your word."
...
Overall, the race between Obama and McCain amounts to an authenticity contest."
Obama doesn't keep his word.
McCain gives it straight and he's for real.
Obama is slick-talking and has the ability to fool great numbers of the American public, but Obama has no crediblity nor experience.

You want to run that pass me about McCain again? He was against the tax cuts before he was for them! But guess that isn't flip-flop but guess he changed his mind! Every politician should have the freedom to have that ability!

Turning down taxpayer money is all good. It's ridiculous to think that doing so tarnishes Obama's image. Taxpayer money can be put to better use than financing a politician's campaign. The other good thing about Obama's turning down taxpayer dollars is that it shows he is open to changing his views rather than clinging stubbornly to views that make no sense.

Open to change wrote:

Turning down taxpayer money is all good. It's ridiculous to think that doing so tarnishes Obama's image. Taxpayer money can be put to better use than financing a politician's campaign. The other good thing about Obama's turning down taxpayer dollars is that it shows he is open to changing his views rather than clinging stubbornly to views that make no sense.

Who needs taxpayers money when you have all the crooks buying the election. Obama is just a front man someone else is pulling the strings.

Open to change wrote:

Turning down taxpayer money is all good. It's ridiculous to think that doing so tarnishes Obama's image. Taxpayer money can be put to better use than financing a politician's campaign. The other good thing about Obama's turning down taxpayer dollars is that it shows he is open to changing his views rather than clinging stubbornly to views that make no sense.

Hah hah hah.

This is great.

Even when the guy is caught in a major philosophical BS move, his blind flock will find a way to call it "a sign of change".

See? Every time Obama lies, he's actually "changing" and that's a good thing. Get it?

I don't have a problem with a politician changing their mind on a major issue if new data or new experiences justify it. But this was a case where Obama was pandering to the crowd early on when he was Hillary's underdog promising to bring a "New Washington" to town by not limiting financial support to special interests.

Now that he's on top, screw the "New Washington", its special interests full speed ahead.

And you Obama freaks are too blind or too dumb to see it.

Let me see....

Obama is one of the most liberal members of the Senate and promises to increase taxes on SUCESSFUL Americans, loot oil industry profits with a windfall profit tax and block economic development by opposing domestic oil drilling.

In adition he supports teacher's unions by promising taxpayer-funded college educations for educators, but not for chemists, doctors, engineers, business students or any other important profession that are not represented by lobbies or unionized that might contribute to his campaign.....

Terrorism?

He wants to adopt a policy based on court proceedings like those after the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, where four al-Qaida-linked bombers were convicted.

Obama ignores the fact that the mastermind of that attack, Kalid Sheikh Mohammed, was charged but never caught and went on to organize the September 11 attacks of 2001.

He wants terrorists to have the same rights as U.S. soldiers, this conclusion is drawn from his support of last week's misguided Supreme Court ruling on the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo.

Senator Obama displays good judgment and flexibility in knowing the new, changing realities. He is not like stubborn "W" who stays the course although way, way off course.

Moreover, by taking this route, he is saving the American taxpayers $85 million dollars which could be used to rebuild the flood ravaged Midwest. Senator Obama has my vote!

Whoa, the Republicans are running scared now. He's tarnished because he WON'T use our tax dollars? Digging deep, you guys. Doesn't matter, he's gonna get in no matter what you all try to cook up next.

Taxing the oil companies is going to trickle down? What the hell do you think is trickling down right now?

Stuipd Citizens - so it is a fund raising race? Think about it, if someone raises that kind of money who is he going to look out for after the election, those who donated nothing or those who gave him millions....You need to drop the "S" off the end of your nick name....so it applies to ONLY you.

J Edgar wrote:

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Who needs taxpayers money when you have all the crooks buying the election. Obama is just a front man someone else is pulling the strings.

That's exactly right. Nobody seriously believes that his vast donations come from small private donors do they? He is getting big bucks from somewhere, and surely his supporters alone don't account for ALL of the donations that he has received.

Stuipd Citizens wrote:

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How pathetically sad you are, you moronic ignoramus. You have the mental agility of a glacier. You can’t think at all. It is obvious you are a ridiculous excuse for a human, you pitifully sad, miserable, oxygen wasting wretch of a soul. Who are you WIllie Horton. Liar

Obama is just another politician. A liar for power like the rest. This is a great election because the choice is pretty clear.

I hope he wins just to watch his blind supporters because he won't end the Iraq war (dirty secret is that the Dems have always realized the importance of supporting Democracy in the Middle East and in establishing a military presence), he will not create national healthcare (even dems know they will ruin the system and bankrupt the country) and he will not fix the economy (nothing he can to and in fact far more he might do that will make things worse (alla Jimmy Carter).

But many will feel good because we have a man with additional pigmentation to his dermis.

Actually, as someone who does not support Obama, I applaud him for refusing taxpayer money for his campaign. Why should any politician take tax dollars to run a political campaign? They should rely on private donations from American citizens, not from the government as a "gift", courtesy of the American taxpayer.

Obama, whether we agree with him or not, is raking in the money because people want to donate to him. If McCain can't do the same thing it's because he, like Bush, has drastically changed the course of our GOP and has lost sense of what true conservative Republican values are.

I don't dislike Obama but I do not want him as our President because his views are socialist and socialist policy has failed time and time again. Add to the fact that he (as well as McCain) will not or cannot address the real reason our economy is tanking and our dollar is weak.

Then again, maybe an Obama win and the Democrats holding on to the majority in Congress is the smackdown needed for the GOP to wake the hell up and return to our conservative roots.

willie wrote:

Stuipd Citizens - so it is a fund raising race? Think about it, if someone raises that kind of money who is he going to look out for after the election, those who donated nothing or those who gave him millions....You need to drop the "S" off the end of your nick name....so it applies to ONLY you.

For someone who shares a name with male genitalia you are pretty funny. Maybe you should do a little research and see exactly WHO it is that has donated the money to Obama's campaign.

One of many lies to come from Obama. If he can buy the election, he will...........

Stuipd Citizens wrote:

YOU nick picking HYPOCRITES!

Meltdown. Aisle Two.