From my blog:

Does it matter? It is what I say not who I am. For the record. I do not trust Obama. He has no record. He has nothing upon which I can judge the man. I am not racist. But I am also not an Idealist. I like to root my decisions in facts. The facts are that he has nothing I can look at to say he will be good or he will be bad. Come back Obama in 8 years and let us look at what you have DONE. What you have accomplished. What you have spoken and what you have agreed to or disagreed with. Give us something to look at and If I like what I see then I will help you campaign for the 2116 presidency. Until such time be forewarned that I think the Republicans are fielding the worst batch of nincompoops in the history of the party and that the Democrats only hope at putting anyone who may actually try to be moderate is Hillary Clinton. Yes I support Ms. Clinton but not without reservations. This election offers a field full of Horrid Candidates with the exception of Duncan Hunter and Bill Richardson both of whom have a record of service and have shown wisdom and intellect.  The rest?  All yes men for their base and their parties. That is and what will drive my thinking as I blog here.

I actually find that statement to be very troubling. It confirms the idea I already had that he’s not a moderate or a centrist, but a liberal who talks as a moderate. Purely style.

I believe a woman has a right to an abortion but that making that choice should not be easy.

I believe that this nation needs medical care for all but that corporations should not be put out of business to do so.

I believe in global warming but that it is China and India that will destroy the world and not America.

I was and am against the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.  It was a knee jerk reaction to a terrible event. 

I believe in Gay rights but do not march in the streets.

I believe in states rights.  I believe that all Americans need some form of saftey nets but I also believe that the way to a better life is through that which you make yourself and not that which is given to you.

I believe in immigration with quotas.  I believe that America is becoming to far left to fast as a result of massive immigration failures.

I believe in God but respect those who do not.  I believe that this is a Christian nation but that all religions should be welcome.

I believe Barak Obama is a Good and honorable man who is driven by a misguided sense of what is best for America. 

I believe that Hillary Clinton will Rile up the GOP if elected.  I believe however that Obama will do the same if not more so because of his supporters who are off the scale left.

I am a registered democrat.  I do not talk about the right because they do not have anything to do with our party.  Our party is in disarray and it has no leadership.    As the war has progressed the far left within our party has picked up steam and gained once again a single issue candidacy.  The war.  In the end mabey this time around the war will matter more then it did in 2004.  But our party does not discuss issues because we continue to have losing positions on those issues.

Not because our issues are bad but because we cannot frame the debate in terms that will persuade the majority of Americans to favor our positions over the right or conservatives.  Until we do this we are destined to be a rudderless ship. 

2006 elections were not a vote For Democrats it was a vote against Bush and the war.  If we are elected because of who we are NOT then we are destined for rancorous debate within our own party because without a defining agenda we are without goals and without vision.

I do not see Obama as a uniter because of those who have supported him.  It is the far left and the far right that do the shouting.  Obama is being swept to the White House by the far left.  Those who share a vision with Obama are on to something.  I think Obama is a good man.  He simply A.) Does not have the record to support anything about a moderate, centrist view.  B.) Is going to be supported by the far left which once again is forming the basis of the party which serves to nullify the rest of those in the party.  C.) His candidacy is based upon a single issue.  I promise to be a Uniter and end the war.  Yet when presented with facts there are none to support that conclusion except his word and he is a politician and Im sorry but most politicians have this thing about saying what you want to hear, not what is the reality.

So If Clinton or Romney is voted president I will support them because I believe its the right thing to do.  If somehow Obama is put in the White House I will support him even when those around him are not.  It is what I do.  It is who I am.  It is how I was raised.  To respect, honor and defend those in a position of authority.

What makes  politics rancorous is not the politicians.  It is the followers.  The defenders.  The partisan hacks who will turn an Obama presidency into a mindless shouting match.  We’ve seen that with Bush.  Do we really in a knee jerk reaction want to see that again with Obama?

Excuse me, are you implying that an Obama presidency would be more polarized and diving than a Clinton one? We’re talking about someone who expressed an open admiration of Karl Rove’s tactics. You can believe that Obama would be more divisive, but you’d be alone.

In 2004 the Democrats as a knee jerk reaction threw at GWB and America John Kerry and John Edwards.  These two at the time were about as far left as you can get on the political spectrum.  The progressives were drooling with glee only to watch certain victory snatched from them because America is starting to REJECT far left and far right politics.

Now once again emerging from the ashes of our party is another Far left candidate and once again I see our party making the same mistake.  Throw a far left Candidate out there.  Right now Obama and Clinton have pretty similar goals and positions but Hillary voted for the war and she has over the course of the last several years began to moderate her vote to make herself more palpable for the presidency.  Calculated?  Of course but that is what is needed if you are going to claim to be a moderate……..A record of such.  She has shown she is willing to moderate.  Obama has not….other then in flowery speechs which mean nothing.

Even Colin Powell gave a flowery speech in which he said we have the evidence and the world believed him because he was sincere.

 What makes  politics rancorous is not the politicians.  It is the followers.  The defenders.  The partisan hacks who will turn an Obama presidency into a mindless shouting match.  We’ve seen that with Bush.  Do we really in a knee jerk reaction want to see that again with Obama?

I point out time and again that the record,  just not me but the record shows that Hillary is way more moderate and Centrist then Obama and it gets rejected over and over by the HDS syndrome even within our own party because the progressives cant even stomach someone that is not off the scale left.

They lie when they want moderation.  Period.  They only want their mindlessly left candidate to be in charge so they can force their agenda down the throats of Americans. 

Its knee Jerk.  Its sad and its destructive.

I suppose in this day and age of electronic media that I should have implied this was a great big snark.   I had just watched the video where Obama was using the black codewords

Hoodwinked

Bamboozled

It was meant in jest to some degree.  However I find it pitiful that those people who used to scream at the right for defending Bush by bad mouthing Clinton are now fully allowed to bad Mouth Both Clintons without being called for it.

This does not to me reflect non partisan politics.  Liberals beliefs are grounded in reason and fact.  Implication?  Conservatives views are grounded in ??

Unreasonablness and Lies??

From the NYT.

December 12, 2006 — WASHINGTON - Barack Hussein Obama is a soaring political superstar right now - but he also sports one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate and has a shady land deal in his recent past.

There is no wonder the far left progressives have latched on to Barak Obama.  He is their dream candidate.  Slick Willy?  Remember that.  I don’t think we’ve seen nothing yet.

He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on.

From Captains Quarters Website:  I know they are Conservative but still you wanted information.

He joins a multiple-tied first place for most liberal economic record, sharing that with Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry, among others. On foreign policy, he’s almost as bad, with an 85 rating

Whither Hillary? She drifts into the center of her caucus overall, with 63 on economics and 62 on foreign policy in 2006.

From National Journal

Liberal ratings

Obama 86 rating.
Clinton 70 rating.

which means that Obama has broken with much of his record

Huh? I see Hillary as the one who’s breaking with her record. Look at her website and proposals- it’s a sweeping array of federal programs and promises, nothing like the moderate way she’s voted as a Senator.