It's primaries, Obama takes a sharp turn left.

[RandFan]

I'm still behind the guy but I'm a bit troubled by some of his words.

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/20070416obama.mp3

Linking the violence of yesterdays shooting to many current social problems is demagoguery. What Imus said was not equivalent to the shooting yesterday no matter how generous one is.

Ok, perhaps I'm not being fair. Perhaps my perception of him based on recent speeches was not really indicative of him. But then perhaps this isn't either. Perhaps I should ignore that rhetoric during the primaries.

[FarmallMTA]

I'm still behind the guy but I'm a bit troubled by some of his words.

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/20070416obama.mp3

Linking the violence of yesterdays shooting to many current social problems is demagoguery. What Imus said was not equivalent to the shooting yesterday no matter how generous one is.

Ok, perhaps I'm not being fair. Perhaps my perception of him based on recent speeches was not really indicative of him. But then perhaps this isn't either. Perhaps I should ignore that rhetoric during the primaries.

Well, then, when he turned left he drove off the side of the freeway bridge into the path of an oncoming semi on the highway below... being as how he drives in the far left turn lane anyway.

I'm a bit troubled by some of his words too. Everything between "Hi, I'm Obama" and "I need your support" makes me laugh. And that troubles me, because it should make me cry.

[RandFan]

Well, then, when he turned left he drove off the side of the freeway bridge into the path of an oncoming semi on the highway below... being as how he drives in the far left turn lane anyway.

I'm a bit troubled by some of his words too. Everything between "Hi, I'm Obama" and "I need your support" makes me laugh. And that troubles me, because it should make me cry.:D

I'd accuse you of simply engaging in rhetoric but I think I invited it. Don't take the smilie as dismissing you I just found the post funny.

In all seriousness I would like to see the country move away from the right and more to the center. Perhaps Obama is more left than I thought but I'm not jumping ship just yet.

Who knows, perhaps there really is no candidate out there for me. I wonder if Ted Kyzinsky's cabin is up for rent.

RandFan

[corplinx]

Next thing you know we'll be taking John McCain too seriously for trying to round up the conservative primary voters in the GOP. Oh wait....

[Dave1001]

I think your instinct are correct. His latest positionings aren't so much left as bizarre, IMO. One almost wonders if one or more of his campaign advisors are moles. I don't imagine comparing a school massacre to outsourcing appeals much even to people losing their jobs to outsourcing: if anything, it reads more like Swiftian satire of their own rhetoric. Sort of like the twighlight zone episode where people were forced to wear carcicatured masks of their own moral flaws. Those of us who are supporters can hope that he gets a couple mulligans on these, and can go forward. It looks like McCain and Obama have even more in common with each other, on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, than previously thought.