Be still my beating heart
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 at 2:03 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Mona Charen, quite amusingly, hooks into the hysteria surrounding the media’s favorite candidate:
You know how most politicians say one thing and do another? Well, Barack is different. He gave Hillary Clinton quite a dressing down during the primaries in the Rust Belt for having once supported NAFTA, a treaty Barack called “devastating.” Obama said he’d use the threat of withdrawal from the treaty as a “hammer” to wring concessions out of Canada and Mexico. And sure, his top economics aide told a Canadian consulate official on the QT that Obama’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric was “more about political posturing than a clear articulation of policy plans.”
But that only shows how hard it is for Obama to find aides who are as farseeing and honest as he is. Well, yes, the candidate did acknowledge to Fortune magazine last week that he now views NAFTA more favorably and wouldn’t seek to renegotiate its terms. And yes, he did say, “Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified.” But, oh, the way he employs the passive voice! It’s not that he pandered to or misled the voters. No, the rhetoric got overheated. Who else, I ask you, can so smoothly deploy the passive voice?
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The Great Seal of Obamaland — H-U-B-R-I-S!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/the-great-seal-of-obamaland/
I can’t copy the picture, but check out the Great Seal of Obamaland over at Drudge.
H-U-B-R-I-S!
It’s unfair to say that Obama says one thing but does another. He’d have to actually have done something for that to be true.
Now, talking out of both sides of his mouth…