ER,
Your ability to take a simple statement like “no one knows the real Obama” and follow with a series of ad hominem insults doesn’t put you on my debating team. You would not pass any of my courses even at the freshman level with that kind of tactic. The only thing we know about the president-elect is that his paper trail exists in a realm between thin and non-existent. Name for me, please, the title of a single published paper. I think that qualifies as “no one knows.” Looking at his voting record we find numerous instances where he is recorded as voting “present.” Not much to go on there either. We might make inferences about Obama based on his past associations, but that does not constitute any hard evidence. Explain to me now how any of the above statements adds up to anything more (or less) than “no one knows.”
What we do know about Obama’s public record (where any record exists at all) is that he has consistently voted (when he has voted at all) with the hard left. The fact is indicative, but not necessarily definitive. The public record never states “why” someone voted for or against a particular piece of legislation. Full disclosure: I voted for John McCain because he was a known quantity over his completely unknown opponent. Had I been offered a viable third party, I would likely have thrown my vote that direction.
Don’t bother going down the road of “Barack Obama said . . .” Politicians say a lot of things for a lot of different reasons. I will judge the new president on the results of the legislation he signs into law. Not for any other reason. The only exception I can foresee is if the man is proven to be involved in actual lawbreaking. And I’ll let a court decide that before I render my personal verdict. Given my above statements (anticipating here the usual BDS), do I think George Bush did a good job over eight years? Actually, I think history will render a mixed judgement. George Bush kept the country safe for seven years even as he abandoned his conservative principles to the ideology of his political opponents.
ER, in answer to your insults, I want you to know something else. I teach logic and semantics, political philosophy, government, economics, history and geography. My political instincts tend conservative (when I’m not playing the role of mugwump), but I have been voted “Teacher of the Year” on an otherwise liberal campus. I am annoyed with myself for addressing a lightweight like you when I should be preparing tomorrow’s lesson plan. Have you read Federalist Paper #10? I’ll bet most of my conservative brethren have. *Asshat*
