The Baggage of Change
Posted on August 28, 2008
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We’ve all heard ad nauseum how Senator Obama represents hope and change. Never were we told what change he meant or from what. The words seemed good, and his followers never questioned his lofty sounding slogan that, frankly, said nothing and meant even less. It finally got so bad, that even Senator Obama’s party leaders felt they had enough of sloganeering and would prefer something more concrete.
The good Senator had a meteoric rise in politics, with help from less than desirable elements at times. He launched his entry into politics from the house of “someone from the neighborhood,” a confessed, unrepentant, former terrorist - William Ayers. His chief backer, who never stopped fundraising for the junior Senator from Illinois, is convicted Chicago embezzler Tony Rezko. That is same Rezko who got him the very expensive Chicago mansion the Obama family lives in. And the list of unsavory associates, goes on.
Yet, in spite of a past embodying the same old corrupt politics, Obama speaks of change. In spite of associations with confessed terrorists, Obama speaks of hope. In spite of telling us in his biography who his early mentor in Hawaii was (a well known Communist!), Obama dares speak of hope and change.
The Democrats keep coming up with all type of ridiculous charges about GW denying Americans their civil rights. Obama’s lawyers, meanwhile, are trying to get the US Department of Justice to ban a commercial a Texas billionaire has made about the Senator’s direct association with Professor Bill Ayers, the confessed terrorist. This the same Obama that had no problem trying to unconvincingly show a rather tenuous association (through a third party), between convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Senator McCain. I guess, freedom of speech, is something the good Senator would only promote if it makes him look good. Ah, so reminiscent of Hugo Chávez… Bill Ayers’ idol!
When the Senator’s slogan of hope and change had run its course, when he was forced to choose a running mate that would counterbalance the charges of his being unready, in the spirit of hope and change he chose… Joseph Biden, the ultimate Washington insider with 35 years experience in the Senate and a perennial candidate for President in the Democratic primaries.. So much for new blood! Obviously, that so much talked about change must mean something very different, from what we all thought. What could it be?
Senator Joseph Biden, of Delaware, is a powerful insider with the richness of experience the junior Senator of Illinois so sorely lacks. As head of the Foreign Policy Committee, Biden does bring a grasp of important issues in which Obama exhibits an appalling ignorance. As a Senator who has grappled with various important subjects over his 35 years in the Senate he can be expected to provide experience and perhaps the mentoring, the Democrat nominee so sorely lacks. But is he the best choice of running mate?
Senator Biden’s choice as Obama’s Vice President, brought the Democrats no surge in the polls as would have been customary once the presidential nominee chooses his vice president. In fact, as we see in The Epoch Times:
Inching back from single-digit deficits in nationwide polls, Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has leveled the playing field with Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama. According to two recent polls conducted days before the Democratic National Committee in Denver, the two candidates for President are at a draw.
According to a Gallup poll conducted Aug. 22-24, McCain and Obama are tied at 45 percent with a margin of error of 2 percent. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted Aug. 21-23 tells almost the same story, with McCain and Obama tied at 47 percent with a 3.5 percent sampling error.
The new polls show that the Arizona Senator is closing the gap between him and the Senator from Illinois in the presidential race. McCain has trailed Obama in the single digits for weeks leading up to now. Most other polls show Obama ahead of McCain by 2 to 4 percentage points, which is a stark contrast to the 6-8 point advantage Obama had last month. A Reuters/Zogby poll conducted Aug. 14-16 even gives McCain a five-point lead over Obama.
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Of the plethora of possible reasons Obama is losing his grip on the White House battle, one that stands out is the diminishing support of Hillary Clinton fans. About 1 in 10 Clinton supporters have shifted their allegiance from Obama to McCain since June, reports CNN. 27 percent of registered Democrats who support Clinton now back McCain, up from 16 percent.
While it ain’t over ’till it’s over, historically - up until this moment - party conventions were guaranteed to bring a surge of support for their candidate, never before has it happened that support actually eroded during a convention and its immediate aftermath.
Joe Biden’s VP selection has done little to energize the Obama campaign and rally Democrats for the ticket, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. and Gallup polls which indicate that only about half of all registered voters believe that Biden is an “excellent” or “good” choice for vice-president.
The CNN poll showed that only a slight majority—54 percent—of all registered voters approved of Obama’s pick while those polled by Gallup were somewhat less enthusiastic (47 percent).
Gallup noted that in the last two days of its Aug. 22-24 poll after Obama tabbed Biden to be his running mate, Obama failed to get the kind of “vice-presidential bump” that has happened in recent elections. Bush and Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 all received 3 to 5 percent jumps in polls after announcing their running mates. Bob Dole received a 9 point bump after announcing Jack Kemp as his running make in the 1996 election.
Almost 3 in 4 registered voters nationwide have said that Obama’s selection of Biden will not affect their ultimate decision. 72 percent of those surveyed by Gallup and 74 percent of those by CNN said Biden would neither make them more or less likely to vote for Obama.
Could it be that taking Senator Biden, as a running mate, shuttered all hope of change in the electorate’s mind? Could the average prospective voter had finally seen through the junior Senator of Illinois’ empty suit?
Meanwhile, the polls give us more interesting insights about how little Senator Biden has done for the good junior Senator of Illinois:
McCain maintains a double-digit lead over Obama on foreign policy issues, specifically on Iraq, Russia, and terrorism. McCain dominates on the issue of terrorism, trouncing the junior Senator from Illinois by 24 points (58 percent to 34 percent), according to an Aug. 21-23 USA Today/Gallup poll.
In light of the recent Russia-Georgia crisis, the poll asked which presidential candidate was favored on U.S. policy toward Russia, and McCain won 52 percent to 35 percent.
Regarding the economy, which polled voters overwhelmingly chose as the most important issue that would affect their vote for president, Obama opened a 12-point advantage over McCain (52 percent to 40 percent). Obama was only barely preferred on economic issues in February, when a Gallup poll put his lead as 46 percent to 43 percent.
Senator Biden has often had to backtrack on his resume, on his achievements and even admitted that he tends to exaggerate when irritated, as the New York Times already reported in 1987. With issues like plagiarism, with issues like saying one thing and meaning another, perhaps in spite of all that Senator Biden said about Obama, perhaps the good Senator felt he found a kindred spirit albeit with far, far, more experience.
Obama, with his superb delivery of prepared text has managed to electrify, the young and inexperienced products of a failing school system. He has managed to attract the sheeple and, at least for the moment, he has given them a purpose in life. They are unwilling or unable to see that his message of hope and change mean nothing of the sort they imagined. Many have documented the terrible results of Obama’s economic plan for America,. it is a plan short on solutions, high on taxation. It is a plan that will plunge this country into an depression that will make the one in the 1920s look like a golden era in comparison. Yet the sheeple, unwilling or unable to think, unwilling or unable to analyze, unwilling or unable to understand, follow him blindly. Pity!
Chaim
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