{"id":2063,"date":"2008-07-15T06:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2008-07-15T06:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T10:10:03","slug":"obama-leaves-the-folks-what-brung-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Obama leaves the folks what brung him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the primary is over for Barack Obama, now that he squeezed past Hillary Clinton using her voting record on the war in Iraq, Democrats get the feeling that Obama is leaving them behind on their top issue – the war in Iraq (Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

“If a perception takes hold that a candidate is flip-flopping on core convictions, that will hurt,” pollster Scott Rasmussen said, noting that nearly a third of voters are “up for grabs” this fall.<\/p>\n

A Fox 5\/The Washington Times\/Rasmussen Reports poll shows 19 percent of voters classified as “other” – neither Republican nor Democrat – think that on the Iraq war, Mr. Obama is “abandoning voters that got him nominated.” (Eleven percent of Democrats agree.) About 20 percent of independents think Mr. Obama is “not really going to change his opinion” on a U.S. withdrawal within 16 months of taking office, a pledge he has made repeatedly.<\/p>\n

A Newsweek poll found similar dissatisfaction among voters over Mr. Obama’s shifts in policy positions. In the survey, 53 percent of voters said he recalibrated his stances on key issues such as the war and President Bush’s new electronic surveillance law in order to gain political advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Democrats should be accustomed to their candidates leaving them in the dust. John Kerry did it, the Democrats did it after the 2006 mid terms. Bill Clinton did it in 1993 and after the 1996 election. In 1993 he promised a middle class tax cut, instead we got the biggest tax hike in our history, Before the 1996 election he promised Democrats he’d restructure the welfare reform bill he signed that year, and then he ignored them for four years and changed nothing.<\/p>\n

That can be credited to two things – the Democrat platform and the Far Left voters are detached from realityand the candidates know the Far Left’s agenda will destroy the nation and Democrats candidates will say anything to win no matter how looney it makes them sound. Also, the Far Left is a gullible bunch who wouldn’t accept reality if it was handed to them on a platter soaked in gravy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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