Obama's Real Opposition

[Elok]

Originally posted by Bosh
Stop trying to tell jokes, please please stop.

I second that.

Re:OP, I can't picture congressional Dems giving Obama much trouble. I just can't. He's their Jesus.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Elok


I second that.

Re:OP, I can't picture congressional Dems giving Obama much trouble. I just can't. He's their Jesus.

Well, you better get ready, cause it will come soon enough.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Bosh
Stop trying to tell jokes, please please stop.

[Elok]

Originally posted by GePap
Well, you better get ready, cause it will come soon enough.

Do you mean he's going to turn centrist, contrary to his past voting record, or just that the Senate Dems will get jealous or something?

[Naked Gents Rut]

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party.

Civil-liberties groups were among those outraged that the White House sanctioned the use of harsh intelligence techniques -- which some consider torture -- by the Central Intelligence Agency, and expanded domestic spy powers. These groups are demanding quick action to reverse these policies.
[Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact] Associated Press

Former National Counterterrorism Center chief John Brennan, leader of Obama's intelligence-transition team.

Mr. Obama is being advised largely by a group of intelligence professionals, including some who have supported Republicans, and centrist former officials in the Clinton administration. They say he is likely to fill key intelligence posts with pragmatists.

"He's going to take a very centrist approach to these issues," said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official in the Clinton and Bush administrations. "Whenever an administration swings too far on the spectrum left or right, we end up getting ourselves in big trouble." ...

Yet he more recently voted for a White House-backed law to expand eavesdropping powers for the National Security Agency. Mr. Obama said he opposed providing legal immunity to telecommunications companies that aided warrantless surveillance, but ultimately voted for the bill, which included an immunity provision.

The new president could take a similar approach to revising the rules for CIA interrogations, said one current government official familiar with the transition. Upon review, Mr. Obama may decide he wants to keep the road open in certain cases for the CIA to use techniques not approved by the military, but with much greater oversight.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122636726473415991.html

Emphasis added.

So, is this just wishful thinking on the part of the WSJ? Or is Obama really the kind of "torturer" I could learn to love?

[Naked Gents Rut]

In other news, Bush and Obama quite similar, sound boring.

[Blaupanzer]

His voting record as an "extreme liberal" was determined by an extreme right wing group. Obama really is middle of the road. In that mode, you "do what you have to do." You don't advertise it and keep ithe rough stuff to a minimum. He is an extremely good organizer and knows how to listen, He is NOT antiwar (outside Iraq) and he is not anti-military. He appears to know why we have an Intelligence Community. And the public likes him!

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by GePap
No, Rove is still wrong. Calling for tax cuts is a perennial ploy. Can you name me a single Democratic presidential candidate that ran on a platform of higher taxes as a campaign promise?

I believe Mondale did.

[chequita guevara]

TMM is correct.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Zkribbler

How 'bout:
Middle-class tax cut.

How 'bout:
Middle-east tax cut.

If Obama gets Israeli taxes lowered, I promise people will vote for what ever peace plan he proposes

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
I believe Mondale did.

Yep... and that taught Dems a big lesson .