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Barack Obama- On the Issues: Defense

by Matt Gauntt

Note to readers: This is the second of a continuing series on the proposed policies of Barack Obama. These series of reviews will be written by several different Illinois Review Contributors. We will take the issues as Senator Obama has laid them out on his website and other venues one at a time. Over the next few weeks, look for more in this series of articles.

I approached this article on Obama viagra kaufen with admittedly, a preconceived notion on what I would find with the Senator on the subject of Defense. So in preparing for this article I started out looking at candidate Obama’s website for his stance on the policy issue of defense.

After reading about halfway down, I had a sense of deja-vu. The question was, “How can it be that Ronald Reagan is running for President of the United States? I was really perplexed. I found myself agreeing with the majority of the items on the web page.

Please read through what the Senator has promised in reference to Defense and see if you agree:

Can this really be Senator Obama?

Yeah, I thought so. It’s probably too good to be true.

Every year candidates from both sides swing to the outside during the primary and then swing towards the middle during the general election. Typically, there is a little bit of “nuance” when the candidate changes position, some softball questions and a wink from the media, upset partisans, but in the end, most probably understand. (Us conservatives probably get just as ticked at Republican candidates as liberals get with their candidates).

In the case of Obama, especially when it comes to Defense, it is as if we are watching “Two-Face” from the Batman movie. While his campaign material may say one thing, his actions say something entirely different.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, if you do anything, watch this video.

This video was made by Senator Obama for a left-wing group called Caucus for Priorities in advance of the Iowa primaries. In this taped appearance, Obama said almost the exact OPPOSITE of what he now says in his campaign web site today.

Now, I know what you are thinking: viagra kaufen

Not exactly. In order to flip flop, you have to have one position, give it up entirely, and adopt a different position. The trouble is, Obama has held both positions equally.

Just before the video for Caucus for Priorities was being made, Senator Obama opined his positions in Foreign Affairs magazine, which he takes almost the same position that he has now on his web site. So which is it Senator? Is it the position you took with Foreign Affairs and on your website, or what you said to Caucus for Priorities?

VERY interesting in the Foreign Affairs piece is that he calls for the goal of removing all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008. That was just a short 9 months after he penned the article.

The other salient point about Senator Obama and Defense is his stand on the surge. Watch this video. He VERY clearly has stated over and over that the surge was a bad idea. It is interesting that he was saying that the surge would not work, and that we needed to bring all of our troops home in 9 months at the same time he was calling for an INCREASE in the military forces by close to 100,000 troops. I don’t get it. If he is going to bring everyone home, why would he want 100,000 more troops? Does he just need a few more soldiers to play basketball with?

The only rational answer to this question and many other questions that surface when you read and listen to Senator Obama is that he has and will pander to whatever audience that he has to get as many votes as he can, at the expense of our men and women in the military and the protection of our country and our allies.

Senator Obama, please just take one position and let us know what it is.

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