Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash | Gerard Baker - Times Online Quote: |
Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the left whiplash
| Quote: The Democratic nominee's policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals. He is no fool
Change, it turns out, wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Having campaigned for the past year as the agent of transformation, the man who would lead an historic shift in America's political direction, Barack Obama is discovering that there is quite a lot he likes about the way things are. | In the above articale I particularly liked this little snipit: Quote: |
If next week he (Obama) named Dick Cheney as his running-mate and revealed that he spends his spare time drilling for oil in wildlife habitats, the only surprise would be that it took him so long.
| Seems that pragmatism has won over idealism, which sounds alot like politics as usual to me.
I wonder what happened to that idealistic man who was the candidate for change and against politics as usual?
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