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It should by now, already, with the nomination actually not even sealed, be obvious, that the idea that Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, and some of his employees, as well as several hundred Special Operations soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines will be prosecuted for war crimes is a wet dream. Obama has been tacking back and forth from the Left to the Center. He must move into the Center, and stay as far Left Of Center as he can in order to get the required moderate Republicans, Independents, and former Clintonites to vote for him. But there is no point in discussing such a thing.
The Republican minority, even if it in fact loses the potential House and Senate seats some are talking about ... would filibuster that notion. Joe Lieberman would object, and frankly, one or two other Democrats might, as well. That's not gonna happen. The millions of Republicans who vote would come out in DROVES like locusts on the first "off-year election," to punish any moderate Democrat who might win in a normally "red" district. They'd be crucified for supporting such a measure, and with that, the Republicans would begin moving back to a more substantial balance of power.
It should also be obvious that Obama is NOT the Ultra Liberal Elitist Leader he pretends to be.
Were he: he would have said, and voted, firmly, against the changes to FISA;
He would not suggest that if elected, he WILL, upon gaining actionable and credible intelligence, attack al-Qaeda or Taliban targets inside Pakistan, thereby risking an escalation of war with that Sunni NUCLEAR power. He would also risk having Pakistan sever all logistical outlets for American forces in Afghanistan, thereby stranding them in that nation.
He would have also said that he will aggressively push for a massive alternative energy bill which WILL mandate, at least, a $1.00 per gallon tax on gas and diesel. That money would be plowed immediately into some form of rebate for singles earning say, $30,000, and couples earning $60,000, or less. And, that one of the first things he'd recommend to Congress would be, in addition to that tax, all of which would be spent on alternative energy sources,
that the speed limits in the U.S., on highways, be PERMANENTLY changed to 55 mph east of the Mississippi; 65 west of the river.
He would also join with T. Boone Pickens, and a consortium of entrepreneurs who will form the largest building project in U.S. history to work on both wind, and solar. Natural gas and oil drilling would be put off limits for ANWAR, and only allowed with very stringent measures for off-shore in the lower 48.
By addressing, in an emergency manner, our process of coming out from under fossil fuels, he would push with the utmost speed, and priority, on any and all measures state by state, which would offer some relief based on local alternative resources. Water, gas, solar, geothermal, biodiesel, biomass, tidal, wind, passive solar gain. Coupled with a more even handed approach to Israeli and Palestinian issues, he would move quickly to get us out of the nightmarish problems of the Middle East.
He would propose a very comprehensive package of measures designed to combat terrorism WITHOUT massive and Orwellian measures to intrude into the average American's life.
He would also, and perhaps, in some ways, most significantly, suggest that he will be absolutely even handed with Israel and the Palestinians. And, that he will cut off financial aid for every new settlement or house built on former Palestinian or Arab soil since 1972, and, that he would also insist on a comprehensive governance of Jerusalem. He will also cease military aid to Israel if it continues to build new housing in Palestinian areas.
Obama is not the visionary he has suggested. He will bend too much to get those moderates, pretending that as he matures in office, and his congressional democrat support base increases, he will do these things. But not just right now.
Obama is a phony.
The ways he's been tacking back and forth in the last two months ought to tell everyone: he's too inexperienced to deal with a firm stand on lots of topics. He isn't experienced enough to do these things, much less, host war crimes trials for the Bush people. What a joke this is.
