Senator Obama has consistently expounded a deeply held belief in the equality of results over the equality of opportunities. He is committed to the idea that the state, should be responsible not just to create an environment where individuals can control their own destiny but that the state should guaranty a certain destiny which is largely uniform. His allegiance is not so much to the middle class as it is to a single class the boundaries of which are defined and controlled by the State. By any but the most narrow of definitions that is the sum and substance of Socialism, even if John McCain can’t bring himself to say it to the MSM.
That is a radical change for America although it is certainly not a new idea. If that idea worked there would be no social discord in Europe. To read the MSM, there is nothing but love at home in the EU. Those who have spent time in Europe know this is not the case.
How many times have you heard the “man on the street” manifest his intention to vote for Barack Obama because, well, he just sounds Presidential. They get a kind of vacant glassy eyed look and mumble something about how he looks the part of a President.
There is a lot more to Barack Obama than meets the eye and apparently, the mind, of the swing voter who estimates the duties of the president to be somewhere between Game Show host and News Anchor.
Senator Obama and the DNC have a well articulated plan and it looks something like this . . .
Rachel Maddow borrowed some lines from her old Air America buddy Al Franken, calling McCain and Palin Lying liars with their pants ( and skirt ) on fire .
With Keith out, Rachel was compeltely unplugged. It’s hard, watching this tirade, not to remember Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown and company licking their wounds the night of Palin’s speech and talking about how mean the Republicans were.
A week ago the Democrats were exultant about the selection of Senator Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate and potentially the next Vice President of the United States. Senator Obama had exercised wisdom and judgment by selecting someone with experience, wisdom and judgment, someone with the all important gravitas that Democrats crave. Biden’s selection was yet one more reason the well informed should vote for Obama.
Today, the same pundits are now twisting in the other direction saying the election is all about the top of the ticket. The VP was momentous for Obama but it’s irrelevant for McCain? Liberals are way too comfortable delivering and accepting these kinds of intellectual contradictions wheh it’s politically expedient.
Linda Douglas runs circles around the morning crew on MSNBC but she gets just a little carried away. She gets so worked up about Joe Biden, she forgets to mention that he decoded the human gene, ended the Cold War, invented sliced bread, loves his mother and helps old ladies across the street.
Somehow the fact that he goes home to Delaware every night as opposed to actually sleeping within Washington D.C. proper, is proof that a man who has been in the Senate since he was 29, is really super connected with the common man.
An Army officer opened fire at Texas's Fort Hood, killing 12 people and injuring at least 31, in one of the worst cases of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. military history.
As Democratic leaders ramp up efforts to pass health legislation, they must satisfy the individual priorities of all the Democrats in the Senate and two Democratic-friendly independents.
The U.S. filed criminal charges against 14 people, including lawyers and an ex-Moody's analyst, in an expanding insider-trading probe that had identified some $40 million in improper profits.
Detroit's 80,000 abandoned buildings have become a playground for scavengers, vandals and late-night revelers who brave the buildings' hazards and create a good number of their own.
