Is Obama the second coming of Kerry?

[Rightlane]

Seems like we have ourselves another flip-flopping limousine liberal, doesn't it?


http://massdiscussion.blogspot.com/2008/06/collection-of-obama-flip-flops.html

Here's just a small sample:

Special interests: In January, the Obama campaign described union contributions to the campaigns of Clinton and John Edwards as "special interest" money. Obama changed his tune as he began gathering his own union endorsements. He now refers respectfully to unions as the representatives of "working people" and says he is "thrilled" by their support.

Public financing: Obama replied "yes" in September 2007 when asked if he would agree to public financing of the presidential election if his GOP opponent did the same. Obama has now attached several conditions to such an agreement, including regulating spending by outside groups. His spokesman says the candidate never committed himself on the matter.

NAFTA: On February 29th, the Obama campaign told Canadian Television (CTV) that no message was passed to the Canadian government suggesting that Obama does not mean what he says about opting out of NAFTA if it is not renegotiated.However, the Obama camp did not respond to repeated questions from CTV on reports that a conversation on this matter was held between Obama’s senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.Earlier Thursday, the Obama campaign insisted that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue. On Thursday night, CTV spoke with Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.CTV didn’t stop there. They announced that their sources, at the highest levels of the Canadian government,” reconfirmed the story to CTV and one of their primary sources provided a timeline of the discussion to CTV.

[BarkleUSA]

The greatest similarity between Obama and Kerry is that both are trying to put forth a public image fashioned from whole cloth.

Kerry pretended to be a war hero (until nearly every man that served with him revealed that he was a coward and a liar) while Obama pretends to be a uniter for hope and change (until nearly everyone that has molded and shaped his career reveal he's a left wing anti-American racist extremist).

Both men appear to excel at using deception to gain political power.

[DesertFox]

Perhaps that should be "Both men appear to excel at lying in its many forms to try to gain political power."

[DeclinetoState]

Obama and Kerry are both Democrats from states with long Democrat traditions of liberalism and corruption.

If that isn't "hope" and "change" . . .

[DesertFox]

You be right. Ain't nobody can hope and change like Obama. He defeated Kerry in a fair fight for the title of hopingest and changingest marker farker.

Rise, Sir Liar. I dub thee Lion Ass. Now get out there and HOPE and CHANGE!

[Beowulf]

Yes, they are very similar in their approach, scare America into putting them into office. What I want now is to see the USS Obama torpedoed and sunk to the bottom of the political ocean along side the USS Kerry.

[Rightlane]

http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/images/cartoons/EliteRepeat-LG.jpg

[Naturalized-Texan]

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IMAGES/CARTOONS/toon062408.gif

[Maggie_T]

Actually, I think that HUSSEIN is the second coming of Jimmy Carter.

[Maggie_T]

Rise, Sir Liar. I dub thee Lion Ass. Now get out there and HOPE and CHANGE!


Lion Ass. http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/doggie.gif


OMG. That is SO funny.

[Rightlane]

Obama Flip-Flops on 2nd Amendment

By Greg McNeilly

First a broken promise on public financing of his own mega-campaign, then Barack Obama takes the same position on FISA (spy courts) as President George W. Bush, now Obama wants to have a more identical stance on Americans 2nd Amendment Rights as Bush.

But it hasn't always been that way.

In 2007, his campaign told the Chicago Tribune he believed the Washington, D.C. gun ban was constitutional. Now they say that was an "inartful" explanation. Now, the public is supposed to be believe the message of the day from the Obama campaign, which is that of course he knew the gun ban was unconstitutional.

Obama seems to be working hard to make John Kerry look like a straight-shooter.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/26/obama-flip-flops-on-2nd-amendment/

[Rightlane]

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/obama_kerry_080414_mn.jpg


Can McCain make Obama=Kerry?

by Mosheh Oinounou

In a memo released Friday, McCain Campaign Senior Adviser Steve Schmidt paints Barack Obama as a flip-flopper to end a week that started with the campaign using some of it’s strongest language to date to cast the Democrat as weak on terror and believer in a “September 10th mentality.”

“As we scrutinize Barack Obama’s words, it is increasingly difficult for those of us with the responsibility of following this year’s election closely to discern what Obama truly believes at his core on the issues of great importance to the American people,” Schmidt writes in the memo-as-press release sent to reporters this morning. (Full Memo after jump)

Feeling a little bit of deja vu?

Schmidt, of course, was one of the key strategists for the Bush-Cheney 2004 messaging team that successfully depicted John Kerry as a flip-flopper who put America’s security at risk. Can that strategy work again?

For his part, Obama has been making it a bit easy of late. Seeking to exploit Obama’s evolution on issues as he shifts into general election mode–when most candidates turn towards the center on issues to attract moderates and independents–the McCain campaign uses yesterday’s flip by Obama on public financing, as a jumping off point to delve into other recent Obama policy shifts on NAFTA, Jerusalem and energy.

To: Interested Parties

From: Steve Schmidt, McCain 2008 Senior Advisor

Date: June 20, 2008

Re: Words Matter

read the memo:

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/06/20/can-mccain-make-obamakerry/

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Obama is the second coming of Che Guevara, but hold the salsa.

[DesertFox]

:lol:

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Bluemoon_Rising:
Obama is the second coming of Che Guevara, but hold the salsa.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l294/Longhorn_Platinum/Obama2-1.jpg

[DeclinetoState]

I'm thinking of Barack as the second coming of George McGovern.

[MSGT]

Kerry ain't got squat on Bammy

[Tazeeyore]

A swift boat won't git him but a swift camel might. He is a Muslim camel humpin terrorist lovin anti-American loser.

[Maggie_T]

Not to put too fine a point on it. :thumb:

[Rightlane]

Obama Iraq Documentary: Barack Performs More Flip Flops & Acrobatics Than John Kerry

An extraordinary synopsis of Barack’s Flip Flops on Iraq. Watch the whole thing and learn about Obama’s ever changing positions.

http://stuckon-stupid.com/2008/07/17/obama-iraq-documentary-more-flip-flops-than-john-kerry/

[Maggie_T]

http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/smily3.gif



Enough to give one motion sickness.

[BuckeyeMike]

I don't know....does he call him "Daddy"?

edit: quite possible I guess....I have heard people refer to him as a MF'r!

[Rightlane]

Is Obama the New John Kerry?

July 18, 2008

Is Obama the next incarnation of the French-speaking junior Senator from Massachusetts who, in 2004, came within a hair's breadth of razing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a fashion reminiscent of Ton-Loc?

The parallels are beginning to rack up and they're getting far too numerous to ignore:

http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/archives/2008/07/is_obama_the_ne.html

[DoctorDoom]

"Is Obama the New John Kerry?" Hell, no. He is convinced that he is God 2.0.

[DeclinetoState]

Is Obama the New John Kerry?

Is Michelle the new Teresa?

[Taylor1]

Is Obama the New John Kerry?

Is Michelle the new Teresa?

I don't know if even Michelle is as obnoxious.

[Maggie_T]

Never mind. Her husband is obnoxious enough for both.

[Jove]

The Obama World Tour t-shirt finalists (http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/20/the-obama-world-tour-t-shirt-finalists/)

By Michelle Malkin • July 20, 2008 09:57 PM
Readers sent in tons of hilarious, triple-snort-worthy entries for the Design Obama’s World Tour T-shirt Contest. Drum roll, please.

http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/8worldtour.jpg

http://michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/10worldtour.jpg

MOre at Link.

[Rightlane]

If not the new Kerry, how about the new Carter?


Gerald Warner: Is Obama the new JFK? No, he's the new Jimmy Carter

Date: 20 July 2008
By Gerald Warner

YES, folks, it's déjà vu all over again. That charismatic American politician Jimmy Carter II, aka Barack Obama, is carrying all before him – at least in Europe – riding a tsunami of media-driven hysteria. When you are possessed of unlimited reserves of rhetoric, boundless ambition, an increasingly undisciplined ego and – er – not a lot else, the soap-box becomes addictive.

Obama's bid to deliver one of his substance-free orations at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin has infuriated Chancellor Merkel, galvanised the media and provoked thoughtful calculations among the McCain camp. Every Republican knows it cannot be long Icarus soars too close to the sun. The question is: will he crash and burn before or after the presidential election? Next week's European tour is a possible occasion for the gaffe that will turn the election around.

Since the Obama campaign is predicated on imitation (like Dave's painting by numbers to replicate the Blair crusade of 1994-7), this is the candidate's JFK moment: "Ich bin ein Berliner." To resonate with Middle America, he might have done better to pick a more northerly city: "Ich bin ein Hamburger." What makes the Brandenburg Gate a potentially diminishing venue is the memory of a real US statesman, Ronald Reagan, declaiming there on June 12, 1987: "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

The actual déjà vu evoked by Obama is the ill-starred Carter presidency. The parallels are ominous. Carter, the father of the Iranian Revolution, high on an infusion of ethical foreign policy ...

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/12700/Gerald-Warner-Is-Obama-the.4306274.jp

[Rightlane]

If not the new Kerry or Carter, how about the new Dukakis?


Why Obama Models Dukakis

By Jeffrey Lord

Published 7/22/2008 12:08:25 AM

"This election isn't about ideology, it's about competence."
-- Michael Dukakis, 1988

"The choice in this election is not between left or right, it's not between liberal or conservative, it's between the past and the future."
-- Barack Obama, 2008


Why? Why do liberals who capture their party's presidential nomination say things like this? Why are they so afraid to say, "I'm an out and out card-carrying liberal and I'm proud of it!" Why do they try and hide their liberalism behind "competence" and screeds about "the past and the future"?

What exactly is in the liberal past that makes these people want to run from liberalism when the presidential campaign spotlight goes on? For Dukakis it was furloughed murderer Willie Horton and a disdain for fighting for the Pledge of Allegiance, to name but two liberal ideas that brought Dukakis to his proclamations about competence over ideology. But what is it that drives Obama to say essentially the same thing in 2008? Why would he be concerned that a voting majority would flee modern liberalism -- and his candidacy -- if they understood, as they did twenty years ago, what it was really all about?

Let's look in just one policy area that we are all acutely aware of and use one of America's most famous actors to illustrate precisely why Obama wants to run from liberalism just as Dukakis did in 1988. Energy is the issue. Leonardo DiCaprio the actor.

-- --

Is there any wonder Barack Obama echoes Dukakis in saying this election is not about being liberal or conservative? When it comes specifically to just one issue, the energy issue, it is liberals -- as environmental activists, as lawyers, as Hollywood celebrities, as governors, presidents, legislators and judges -- who have insisted for decades on the very policies that now have a stranglehold on your personal economic windpipe.

Do you think Senator Obama wishes to acknowledge that the liberal philosophy he and his liberal (and frequently very rich) friends champion has gotten us to this exact point in American energy history? Of course not. If the American people figure out the connection between the price of gas and liberalism, they won't put a liberal in the White House. Which is why Obama, as with Dukakis, has to hide his liberalism. Connecting the dots between what we see in our everyday lives and illustrating the folly of whatever liberal idea got us here is what the rest of us have to do.

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13568


http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n84/SusanUnPC/DukakisTNG.jpg

[Rightlane]

Kerry advises Obama: “Flip Flop on Iraq”

The Kerryesque flip flop of Sen Obama is just the latest change of policy for the would be nominee. However, this one is big! Sen Obama drew thousands of college age kids and disgruntled voters to his side by saying he would end the war in Iraq immediately by moving troops out of Iraq during his first days as President. He is proud to say he never supported the war (despite his being a Senator in Illinois and in no position to vote on authorization when the war started but has since authorized more troops and money with his votes in the Senate) and beat Hilary in the primaries by being the non-proliferation candidate.

http://pa4mccain.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/kerry-advises-obama-flip-flop-on-iraq/

[Rightlane]

If not the new Kerry, Carter, or Dukakis -- how about the new McGovern or Clinton?


Barack McGovern Clinton

By Peter Wehner

Obama may, in fact, be both (McGovern and Clinton).

Sen. Obama’s instincts seem to be, and his few legislative accomplishments are unquestionably, those of an orthodox liberal. It is not by accident that National Journal — a respected, non-partisan publication — named Obama the most liberal person in the Senate in 2007. In a chamber that includes Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, that is, in its own way, quite an achievement. Sen. Obama is arguably the most liberal Democrat running for the presidency since McGovern and, in fact, Obama’s stand on Iraq (until the last few weeks, anyway) very much mirrors McGovern’s “Come Home, America” rallying cry.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama share something else in common: both are men of considerable political skills. In fact, I would argue that Obama is at least equal to, and in some respects better than, Clinton as a candidate. Obama is more far more disciplined than Clinton ever was (of course, who is not?). He does not carry anything like the personal baggage Clinton did (of course, who else does?). Obama is also quite a good political tactician and a man in possession of an attractive, agreeable personality. He does not carry Clinton-like grudges and resentments. He also delivers his speeches far more effectively than Clinton ever did, though Clinton was probably (at this stage at least) a better debater than Obama. Obama is also very hard to tag; the kind of person who, if he was a prize fighter, would have the reputation for slipping a punch.

http://article.nationalreview.com (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODhiNjAwZWZhZWNkZDQxMDIyNTI0ZGRhNTc4ZjVhZTc=)

[Rightlane]

Whooooo are you? Who! Who!

We really want to know!


Carter?

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5726/jimmytp0.jpg


Clinton?

http://i309.photobucket.com/albums/kk397/ddrake_2008/obamaisclinton.gif


Kerry?

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/obama_kerry_080414_mn.jpg


Dukakis?

http://www.moonbattery.com/commander_obama.jpg



Mondale?


http://newsburglar.com/images/Yodaandluke.jpg

[Rightlane]

Obama flip flops on Strategic Petroleum Reserve

August 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Today, we discovered what Barack Obama considers a genuine emergency — a drop in the polls:


Democrat Barack Obama called today for tapping the nation’s strategic oil reserves to help drive down gasoline prices, a shift from his previous position on the issue.

The reversal is the second refinement in Obama’s energy policy. Last week, he said that he would reluctantly consider accepting some offshore oil drilling. Obama had previously said he opposed such drilling, which is strongly backed by rival John McCain, who has urged that states be allowed to decide whether to drill.


Obama changed his position to protect Nancy Pelosi, who demanded a release from the SPR rather than allowing a debate and a vote on the House floor on increased domestic drilling. However, a release from the SPR would only provide momentary relief and do nothing to resolve the underlying issue of higher gas prices — a supply shortage on the world markets. Eventually, the US would have to refill the SPR, increasing demand which, without any increase in supply, would drive prices up even farther than they are now.

Obama used to have the intelligence to understand this. Now he’s too desperate to care.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/04/obama-flip-flops-on-strategic-petroleum-reserve/

[Rightlane]

August 7th, 2008
Birds of a Feather
by Lisa Fabrizio

Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have much more in common than their woeful understanding of the Islamist threat.

As is by now apparent, Barack Obama and his crack team of foreign policy experts have proven themselves totally tone-deaf when it comes to understanding the American people and their views toward the rest of the world. His campaign’s strategy to convince voters that the way to win their hearts is to cozy up to those who hold them in disdain has resulted in a dip in his poll numbers.

So, having failed to impress any of those who have not already succumbed to the constant Obama-beat of the mainstream media, Barry and the boys have decided to tackle the energy crisis. Their grand plan predictably calls for a reduction in consumption, government investment into the development of alternative fuels and windfall profit taxes on the evil oil companies. He has also lectured us on the need to turn down our thermostats and pay close attention to the air pressure in our tires.

Now, if all of this seems vaguely familiar, it should. Nearly 30 years ago, another Democrat tackled another energy crisis in eerily similar language. Up to now, only their foreign policy skills have been compared, but these two doves have much more in common than their woeful understanding of the Islamist threat.

So go and get your cardigan out of mothballs and take this little quiz, keeping in mind that the following quotes are taken from a single speech Obama made in Lansing, Michigan this week and one that Jimmy Carter delivered in July of 1979 to cheer the country during our “crisis of confidence.” Was it Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter who said:

QUIZ: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/08/07/birds-of-a-feather/

[Rightlane]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c2/Davis1950/Carter/MrMalaise1.jpg

[Neil Peart]

^^^That person misspelled "depleted."

[Rightlane]

http://www.danegerus.com/weblog/images/20080522RZ1AP-JimmyObama.jpg

[DesertFox]

The thing with these Lefties is, they want us to have, and willingly accept, a Third World lifestyle. We don't want it, but only conservatives recognize what the Left wants us to want.

[DeclinetoState]

^^^That person misspelled "depleted."

Actually, "Depleated Military" means the military can no longer wear pleats.

;) :D :evilgrin: