Obama the Fraud

There are a lot of people who seem to think that Barack Obama is some breath of fresh air. I haven't spent a great deal of time thinking about him, but my overall impression is he's a fake. The speeches I've heard say all the right things but are completely devoid of any substance.

If you have your reservations about Obama, I suggest you take a look at Pierre Tristam's piece: The Audacity of Fraud. It's a very good analysis of a recent piece Obama wrote for Foreign Affairs (hat tip Left I on the News). Just to peak your interest I'll share a paragraph from the piece:

Obama gets worse. Repeating his idea for a “phased withdrawal” from Iraq only to call it a “redeployment” in the same breath (the coy deflection from cutting and running, which is what this is and what it must be, dates back to Ronald Reagan calling the Marines’ withdrawal from Beirut in 1984 a “redeployment”), he leaves open the door for a longer stay “if the Iraqi government meets the security, political, and economic benchmarks to which it has committed” and settles on the deceptive language of a permanent stay in the form of “a minimal over-the-horizon military force in the region to protect American personnel and facilities.” Facilities? The previous line—I’m not kidding you—was this: “[W]e must make clear that we seek no permanent bases in Iraq.” It isn’t Obama’s only blatant contradiction (more of those in a moment), although what Iraqis and other Mideasterners will read in this passage is nothing new under American policy’s sun.

He goes on to talk about Obama's wish to increase our military budget to add 100,000 more troops. What fresh thinking. In a country which spends more on the military than the rest of the world combined he wants to spend even more. Fresh thinking, indeed.

If you you or people you know have joined the Vote for Obama cult, please have them read this very telling piece. There is nothing fresh or new about Obama. It's the same crap Bush and company have been feeding us for nearly seven years.

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