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Actually governing

By lex, on July 3rd, 2008

Barack Obama has clearly figured out that he might just win this thing. And, keeping that in mind, it’s time to row back from the positions he took to win the nomination. Not everyone is pleased:

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July 3rd, 2008 | Category: Politics and Culture

5 comments to Actually governing

  • Daveg
    July 3, 2008 at 5:22 am

    I can’t profess to know what he will do, of course, but by number one fear is that he will be a rubber stamp for the lunatic rantings of Pelosi and Reid. For that reason alone, I have no choice but to support the presumptive veto pen of McCain.

  • Peterk
    July 3, 2008 at 6:40 am

    Why does Obama’s campaign remind me of the Robert Redford movie The Candidate?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/

    IIRC one of the closing lines has Redford saying after he wins the election “what do we do now?”

  • ASM826
    July 3, 2008 at 7:24 am

    Quote: “I’m not sure anyone knows what’s in store for act II.”

    Not for sure, but I’m betting on some modern equivalent of the Reichstag fire, and the following crackdown on my liberties, you know, “For The Children”©.

    I don’t trust any of them, but Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have my hackles raised.

  • Mike Myers
    July 3, 2008 at 8:25 am

    There’s no reason to trust the Obamessiah. But he’s faced with a real problem. He can’t govern like he campaigns, because you can, in fact, drive this country over a cliff. We bounce, but the wreck is painful.

    Long ago I ran for the Student Council out at your local San Diego State University. I campaigned merrily along in my first run promising the world on a platter or the college student version of it. Lo and behold I came in first by a very healthy margin. I then spent a year on the Student Council. A year’s experience teaches you that there are things that can be accomplished and then, there are things that “are difficult”. Came time to run for reelection and my campaign rhetoric was somewhat more sober. Having a respect for truth meant I couldn’t promise what I’d promised before. Fortunately there were two seats open and I managed to just get the second one.

    Obama is a bright guy, although perhaps not as bright as folks think him to be; and he’s certainly a heck of a lot less prepared than his worshippers realize.

    But if he, and we, wake up to the reality of President Obama in late January 2009, there’s a chance he may grow in office. If that sorrowful day does come, we’d better pray for growth.

  • Mongo
    July 3, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Yeah, Mike, we all learn to spew well constructed rhetoric (looking in the mirror while typing), but the reality is, as you put it, sobering.

    Just finished hearing ‘The Master Changer’ speak, and I can’t help but see the ‘Deer in the headlights’ look at some point; kinda like Pelosi when she isn’t engaged in her typically vocal cerebral flatulence.

    Remembering one of Jack Lemmon’s characters in ‘The Great Race” promising ‘dis, dat, and de udder ting’ when confronted by the seething masses. Funny then as a child, strangely familiar today as a voter.
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