Good Politicians II
by tdaxp ~ June 5th, 2008
I supported John McCain and Hillary Clinton for the Nobel Peace Prize back in 2005.
I still do.
Why do Clinton and McCain admire each other? Because both support a centrist, principled, and professional foreign policy.
While Clinton and McCain have done the hard, behind-the-scenes work that’s important to get things done, Obama’s camp engages in the audacity of nothingness. From Obama hyping “a speech that he gave in 2002″ to his supporters complaining that McCain did not praise him enough, Obama has done a lot of things other than hard, behind-the-scenes work.
Props to Weekly Standard for linking to the video on Obama’s “high-falutin’” rhetoric.
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June 5th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Let me get this straight. A series of opinions expressed by people — politicians — who wanted Obama to lose the primary, for their own advancement (so they could win the primaries or have a wife win the primaries) is now “proof” of something?
June 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
The conclusions are true, though of course I am happy that they were expressed so publicly. Support for the conclusions come from Obama’s actions, such as his hostility against free trade, his lack of substantive work on immigration, his opposition to the Iraq War, his opposition to the Surge, his lack of substantive work in Eastern Europe, and so on.