Telltale Signs of Obama's Plan of Deceit?

bhkad · 03-07-08, 06:01 PM

Telltale Signs of Obama's Plan of Deceit?

Is this a sign of what Obama plans to do to America should he win?

The Senator's whole campaign is based on the idea of change. This change is interpreted by many to mean a change from the usual Democratic lying, pandering and bait & switch tactics used during an election campaign. I don't think many of you really understand the extent to which this went on during the 2006 election campaign where Democrats gained majorities in the House and Senate by 'promising' to end the Iraq war.

But in that game where you promise anything you want during the campaign but then after you win the election you and the electorate can forget those promises and finally deal with the realities of life, in at least one case it didn't work.

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Ugly.

But the good Senator Obama from Illinois has promised change and he would NEVER do something like that.

Right?

Well, that isn't what his adviser Samantha Power suggested.

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Obama Camp Rejects Adviser's Comments

By NEDRA PICKLER – 51 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former adviser to Barack Obama who resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster" said Obama may not be able to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within a year as he has promised on the campaign trail.

Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winner author, made the comments in two separate interviews with foreign media while promoting her latest book. The comment that led to her resignation came in an interview with The Scotsman, and she immediately tried to keep it from appearing in print.

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Power's comments about Iraq came in an interview with the BBC. She said Obama's position is that withdrawing all U.S. troops within 16 months is a "best-case scenario" that he will revisit if he becomes president.

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In Mississippi, Clinton questioned the Iraq comments based on Obama's public statements.

"He has attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date, and now we learn he doesn't have one, in fact he doesn't have a plan at all," Clinton told reporters while campaigning in Mississippi. Her campaign sent out a fundraising appeal based on the Power's resignation.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Obama's plan to draw down approximately two brigades a month upon becoming president is "a rock solid commitment."

Plouffe noted that one of Clinton's military supporters, retired Gen. Jack Keane, said last week that she would not remove troops immediately upon taking office.

Keane told The New York Sun, "I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09 she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made."

WOW!

Obama, 'The Knight in Shining Armor' wouldn't honor his campaign rhetoric if he was elected?

Apparently not.

But this is just a little 'white lie, isn't it?'

I don't know. You tell me.

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Clinton said Power's comment on Iraq is reminiscent of Obama's senior economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, telling Canadians privately that the debate over free trade in Ohio had was "political positioning" and not an indicator of policy plans. The description appeared in a Canadian government memo, but Goolsbee and the Canadian Embassy later said Goolsbee never suggested Obama's public and private positions are different.

Recent reports in Canada said an official in the Clinton campaign also gave Canada back-channel assurances that her harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show. The campaign denied the report.

Clinton said the two instances suggest "he keeps telling people one thing, while his campaign tells people abroad something else. I'm not sure what the American people should believe."

The Associated Press: Obama Camp Rejects Adviser's Comments

Me either.

Magical Negro.

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Writing about Barack Obama on March 19, 2007, Los Angeles Times columnist David Ehrenstein wrote:

"But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination—the 'Magic Negro.' ... The senator's famously stem-winding stump speeches have been drawing huge crowds to hear him talk of uniting rather than dividing. A praiseworthy goal. Consequently, even the mild criticisms thrown his way have been waved away, "magically." He used to smoke, but now he doesn't; he racked up a bunch of delinquent parking tickets, but he paid them all back with an apology. And hey, is looking good in a bathing suit a bad thing? ... Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."[14]

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independent_thinker2002 · 03-07-08, 07:02 PM

Samantha Power isn't his adviser.

DarkWizard12 · 03-07-08, 07:50 PM

^---she was.

independent_thinker2002 · 03-07-08, 09:09 PM

Yeah, and this is consistent with what he has said all along.

bhkad · 03-07-08, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by independent_thinker2002

Yeah, and this is consistent with what he has said all along.

No, it isn't.

DarkWizard12 · 03-07-08, 11:03 PM

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Yeah, and this is consistent with what he has said all along.

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Originally Posted by bhkad

No, it isn't.

The future of this thread has been decided:

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Originally Posted by Conservative

Yes it is

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