Letters to the Editor
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Obama is a triangulator
Come on Progressives. Wake out of your dream for just a minute. Could it be that Obama is actually a king of triangulation? Well, the evidence is starting to unfold that he is.
Barack Obama will not "rule out" using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. The adviser also said that Obama does not plan to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009.
He wants republicans in his cabinet.
He is going to talk out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to NAFTA.
He wants to pursue clean energy but keep nuclear power on the table.
He doesn't want to pursue the path to true universal healthcare.
He won't pursue public financing like he said.
I spoke with the president of a local company that was toured by Obama when he was here visiting. He spent an hour with him. He is an admitted conservative. He admitted that Obama is an "electrifying" person. However when I asked if he was ready to be president, he gave a curious answer. He said Hillary is scary to him as a conservative, because he knows she can act fast and implement policies he ideologically and fiscally opposes. On the other hand, Obama will have to come to some consensus and enact it slower, which offers up more time to negotiate. This is what is appealing to him.
At this same meeting, I spoke with an executive at one of the biggest health insurance companies in the state and asked her which healthcare plan, Hillary or Obama's, was better. She replied that we really have to mandate healthcare and that Hillary's was better.
And Krugman op/ed piece today brings up the points I am making here: And I find it interesting that the progressive wing of the progressive party has fallen in love with Obama because it is clear that he is far from being a Kucinich/Feingold, and he is looking to be more and more right-of Hillary.
In addition, he would likely capitulate or, triangulate. And isn't that ironic that our constant bitching of the Clintons was that Bill triangulated. Now we're getting an African-American version of him.
And now the Rezko trial begins and the local reporters are starting to spill the beans about Obama's real experience in local politics. It's time to vet this guy for real. Party's over. We cannot have another Willie Horton moment and hand this over to a bunch of gleeful republicans.