Obama’s cunning capture of the centre ground

From The Sunday Times, United Kingdom

July 6, 2008

Obama’s cunning capture of the centre ground

Slowly and subtly, Barack Obama is wiping out every reason to vote for McCain

Andrew Sullivan

It is a telling sign of where American politics is now headed that last week several leading conservative voices proclaimed Barack Obama had seen the conservative light and many leading liberal voices accused him of being a sellout.

At one extreme, The Wall Street Journal bizarrely claimed that Obama was now running for George W Bush’s third term. On the other, liberal blogger Arianna Huffington accused him of making a “very serious mistake" by agreeing to a new wire-tapping law. And leading left-wing blogger Markos Moulitsas accused Obama of “unnecessary stabbing" of political allies. Neither side, I’d say, is right – the truth is more muddy. However, if you want proof that Obama is one of the shrewdest – as well as one of the most inspiring – politicians in recent history, last week is hard to refute.

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So, Obama is an agent of change? What a charlatan!

Plato

By Plato on Jul 7, 2008, 14:26 in Off Topic.

sanandressi says on Jul 7, 2008, 14:31: Obama has not wiped out my reasons to vote for McCain. It is called Jeremiah Wright and wife with victim mentality. Obama and McCain will be the Pastrana president and then our Uribe will rise! 0 funny, 0 helpful.

Plato says on Jul 7, 2008, 14:34: Sanandressi, The left-wingers are pissed at Obama for taking positions from the center and right. He cracks me up. No one can pin him on any one issue he stands on. Que artista! Plato The hottest places in hell are reserved for those [liberals] who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.--Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321) 0 funny, 0 helpful.

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