Why moderates are thinking twice about voting for OBAMA

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1. Show me the polling that says Obama is losing moderates and maybe I’ll watch your little video. But not before.

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   1. it’s a really great little set of clips of Barack analyzing the strategy of the civil rights movement.  His main point is that the movement succeeded at securing formal rights, but was ultimately so focused on courts that it ended up being focused only on things that courts could order.  He argues for more efforts to empower communities, and for a legislative and executive branch that is aware of class division.  It’s a bit of a brainy discussion, but I think he’s got a good point.

      Of course, the text superimposed on top of it is idiotic.  It deliberately misunderstands what Barack is saying, and basically tries to believe everyone is an idiot just because the person who wrote that text (I’m sure intentionally) misunderstood.

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      1. These rights are still today trampled on by the industrial-commercial complex that controls their Amerika.

         The right to vote in many states has been permanently denied to employed, engaged, righteously living tax paying citizens. Persons who have properly reformed their citizenship and live within the laws are denied poll access.

         The right to choose to freely associate is denied in the interests of the industrial-commercial complex.

         You all know its YES on 54 and 47. When 54 passes, it will all come out. The inside dealing power brokers will have to competitively bid their business deals or face sanctions!

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2. Moderates not only think multiple times about voting for Obama, but they like him so much they wish they could cast multiple votes for him.

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3. Obama says that it is a tragedy that the civil rights movement limited itself to the courts, rather than movivating people at the grassroots level to change society.

   The caption says that he said it was a tragedy that the Courts didn’t go beyond what the Founding Fathers set as boundaries for them.

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4. From http://andrewsullivan.theatlan…

   10. A body blow to racial identity politics. An end to the era of Jesse Jackson in black America.

   9. Less debt. Yes, Obama will raise taxes on those earning over a quarter of a million. And he will spend on healthcare, Iraq, Afghanistan and the environment. But so will McCain. He plans more spending on health, the environment and won’t touch defense of entitlements. And his refusal to touch taxes means an extra $4 trillion in debt over the massive increase presided over by Bush. And the CBO estimates that McCain’s plans will add more to the debt over four years than Obama’s. Fiscal conservatives have a clear choice.

   8. A return to realism and prudence in foreign policy. Obama has consistently cited the foreign policy of George H. W. Bush as his inspiration. McCain’s knee-jerk reaction to the Georgian conflict, his commitment to stay in Iraq indefinitely, and his brinksmanship over Iran’s nuclear ambitions make him a far riskier choice for conservatives. The choice between Obama and McCain is like the choice between George H.W. Bush’s first term and George W.’s.

   7. An ability to understand the difference between listening to generals and delegating foreign policy to them.

   6. Temperament. Obama has the coolest, calmest demeanor of any president since Eisenhower. Conservatism values that kind of constancy, especially compared with the hot-headed, irrational impulsiveness of McCain.

   5. Faith. Obama’s fusion of Christianity and reason, his non-fundamentalist faith, is a critical bridge between the new atheism and the new Christianism.

   4. A truce in the culture war. Obama takes us past the debilitating boomer warfare that has raged since the 1960s. Nothing has distorted our politics so gravely; nothing has made a rational politics more elusive.

   3. Two words: President Palin.

   2. Conservative reform. Until conservatism can get a distance from the big-spending, privacy-busting, debt-ridden, crony-laden, fundamentalist, intolerant, incompetent and arrogant faux conservatism of the Bush-Cheney years, it will never regain a coherent message to actually govern this country again. The survival of conservatism requires a temporary eclipse of today’s Republicanism. Losing would be the best thing to happen to conservatism since 1964. Back then, conservatives lost in a landslide for the right reasons. Now, Republicans are losing in a landslide for the wrong reasons.

   1. The War Against Islamist terror. The strategy deployed by Bush and Cheney has failed. It has failed to destroy al Qaeda, except in a country, Iraq, where their presence was minimal before the US invasion. It has failed to bring any of the terrorists to justice, instead creating the excrescence of Gitmo, torture, secret sites, and the collapse of America’s reputation abroad. It has empowered Iran, allowed al Qaeda to regroup in Pakistan, made the next vast generation of Muslims loathe America, and imperiled our alliances. We need smarter leadership of the war: balancing force with diplomacy, hard power with better p.r., deploying strategy rather than mere tactics, and self-confidence rather than a bunker mentality.

   Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama.

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