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Re: Charles Krauthammer - The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama - washingtonpost.com
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:17:08 -0700
I want to emphasize for the new IPers, that I present all views re political and social views -- many of which I disagree with , many I agree with. You decide what is the truth. Dave "Ye shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall make you FREE" - John 8:32 ________________________________________ From: Tom Fairlie [tfairlie () frontiernet net] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 10:46 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Charles Krauthammer - The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama - washingtonpost.com Ugh! Do we side with Mr. Krauthammer, the pundit who frequently proves that two (or more) wrongs can indeed make one "right", or should we stick with Obama because (as he so earnestly tells us) he's the only person that can undo our Bushian tragedy? Our country historically vascillates between bad and really bad candidates and I predict an easy victory for the "bad" Obama this Fall over the "really bad" McCain. Then, once the "bad" Dems take Executive and Legislative control over those "really bad" Republicans, you'll see us return to the "slow bleed" that they've perfected so well. (The only optimism I have left is that a strong Republican minority and a Republican SCOTUS may create some good old fashioned gridlock.) FISA will be gutted as planned (perhaps FOIA will finally be rendered moot as well) and at least 90% of the damage that Bush has done to our constitution will be left intact just as Clinton left most of Bush 41 and Reagan's disastrous legacy intact as well. The polarizing charade we've been playing for decades has almost been perfected. The vast majority of people I talk to (most of whom have graduate degrees) still buy into this left/right, good/bad, and liberal/conservative crap. I hope the people reading IP are better than that. I hope they hold Obama (or McCain, if some dislocating event happens) accountable for his actions once in the White House. I also hope that Obama proves somewhat more savvy than John Kennedy. Kennedy was (tragically) the only president since WWII to figure out how the game is really played *and* choose to do something about it. We desperately need someone who can take the take the game farther than JFK did. Tom Fairlie ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net> To: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 12:00 PM Subject: [IP] Charles Krauthammer - The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603653.html?nav=hcmodule The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama By Charles Krauthammer Friday, June 27, 2008; Page A17 "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." -- Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007 That was then: Democratic primaries to be won, netroot lefties to be seduced. With all that (and Hillary Clinton) out of the way, Obama now says he'll vote in favor of the new FISA bill that gives the telecom companies blanket immunity for post-Sept. 11 eavesdropping. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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