Peter Wehner at Contentions blog is gently noticing that Obama is an utter hypocrite.
Few people question Barack Obama’s talent. The question for many of us, including those of us who have spoken well of him in the past, is whether his actions as president align with his words as candidate; whether the hope he seemed to embody was real or imagined. The early returns are disappointing, to say the least, whether it involves his massive spending proposals, the violation of his own ethics rules relating to lobbyists, his unwillingness to engage Republicans in a serious bi-partisan way, or his Administration’s childish effort to target Rush Limbaugh and rely on the coarse political tactics of Paul Begala, James Carville, and Rahm Emanuel.
Wehner was never really in the "gosh Obama sounds so thoughtful, so moderate" boat last year, but for those who were, Mark Steyn has the word:
Reading Rich and Jonah re the "raging moderates" alongside Derb and Kathryn on Rush & Co is instructive. Six weeks in, the Obamacon dominoes — David Brooks, Christopher Buckley — are stunned to discover that, in the words of Mr. Brooks, "Barack Obama is not who we thought he was".
You don't say. Instead, he seems to be pretty much what the firebreathing knuckledragging morons thought he was: a Big Government leftie with the most liberal voting record in the Senate.
So the smart guys got suckered, and the bozos were more or less on the money.
corner.nationalreview.com
As I tried in vain to explain to some of my family last year, when a man's campaign rhetoric says one thing, but his entire career says something different, believe the career. Obama has talked reform all his life, but never lifted a finger to attempt any actual reform. Not in Chicago, not in Illinois. Not even in his church.
But I'm sure Obama considers himself a reformer, this being the magic of the far left today. They grade themselves on their noble intentions, and easily rationalize compromises made with the existing power structures. |
