The reality of Obama in 2008
By George Will
"What people see in him reveals more about them than about him. Some of his public utterances have the spunginess of Polonius' bromides for Laertes ('neither a borrower nor a lender be ... to thine own self be true'). In 2005, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and the AFL-CIO rated his voting record a perfect 100. The nonpartisan National Journal gave him a 82.5 liberalism rating, making him more liberal than Clinton (79.8). He dutifully decries 'ideological' politics, but just as dutifully conforms to most of liberalism's catechism, from ``universal'' health care, whatever that might mean, to combating global warming, whatever that might involve, and including the sacred injunction Thou Shalt Execrate Wal-Mart -- an obligatory genuflection to organized labor." Continue at Will.
"What people see in him reveals more about them than about him. Some of his public utterances have the spunginess of Polonius' bromides for Laertes ('neither a borrower nor a lender be ... to thine own self be true'). In 2005, the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and the AFL-CIO rated his voting record a perfect 100. The nonpartisan National Journal gave him a 82.5 liberalism rating, making him more liberal than Clinton (79.8). He dutifully decries 'ideological' politics, but just as dutifully conforms to most of liberalism's catechism, from ``universal'' health care, whatever that might mean, to combating global warming, whatever that might involve, and including the sacred injunction Thou Shalt Execrate Wal-Mart -- an obligatory genuflection to organized labor." Continue at Will.
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