One issue or another might not have made much difference. Tacking toward the center in a general election is as common as kissing babies in a campaign, and lord knows the Democrats need to expand their coalition.Surprise, surprise.
But Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He’s lurching right when it suits him, and he’s zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.
There’s even concern that he’s doing the Obama two-step on the issue that has been the cornerstone of his campaign: his opposition to the war in Iraq.
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UPDATE: Like what... we gonna deputize the 'hood'?
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," he said Wednesday. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."Somebody wanna translate for me here?
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"I don't claim to be a historian or lawyer, but doesn't Obama's suggestion run afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act?"**********
RELATED: While we're on "straight talk"
"Actually, many of us are now in denial as to the religious roots of terrorism. According to our own definition of infidel, we can be viewed as being infidels. Without acknowledging the sin of denial, we can’t rectify our misdeeds."**********
"That’s the reason I have proposed the New Islam project, to encourage that realisation."
LAST WORD: More evil imperialist soldiers...
...brutalising Iraqi civilians.
(via maggie's farm)