Even Slate Notices The Positions Continually CHANGE In Obama’s Policies
Slate
Did Obama Just Touch the Third Rail?
Friday September 19, 2008
Barack Obama is such a hard-core wonk, his camp grinds through policy day in, day out. That may be a great quality to have in a president—but it’s not necessarily a smart strategy for a presidential candidate just weeks before an election.
And this week the Obama campaign modified his position on a sensitive issue: Social Security. Compare the current “Seniors & Social Security” page with the previous version. Now, tell me why, oh why, would the Obama campaign decide to delete the following sentence: “[Obama] does not believe it is necessary or fair to hardworking seniors to raise the retirement age.” Is he trying to stoke anxiety about his position on Social Security?
The new page includes some reassuring language about “work[ing] with members of Congress from both parties to strengthen Social Security and prevent privatization while protecting middle class families from tax increases or benefit cuts.” Still, for those who pay attention to such things, what the new page leaves out is as important as what it puts in.
A move to the center post-convention is a well-worn path. Here are some other changes to the Obama Web site:
On education, now Obama apparently expects those who qualify for college tax credits to join jailbirds picking up trash for 100 hours on the freeway (or whatever else “community service” entails these days). Meanwhile, his position on charter schools has gotten both more pro and more con: Under the section headlined (in bold) “Close Low-Performing Charter Schools,” it notes that he wants to double federal funding for them.
On the rural-issues page, he has removed the mention of pollution from industrial agriculture.
His technology page sees a drastic edit of his position on Internet privacy. He still wants to “protect the openness of the Internet,” just not in such detail.
On family issues, the detail that Obama “strongly opposed” the 2005 bankruptcy bill has been removed. But there’s still a lot of language in there about the “dangerous and sometimes unscrupulous business practices” of the subprime mortgage industry!
Obama could take a lesson from McCain’s calciferous Web site. Mild, vague platitudes. Strong, meaningless adjectives. No details. Given the huge interest in Sarah Palin, you’d think the campaign might have wanted to take advantage and add some cool new info about America’s most popular governor. Yet the recent update to her bio more or less rewords her convention speech. Yawn.
Finally, on the subject of biographies, notice how Jill Biden’s biography scales back her involvement with Delaware Boots on the Ground, a group that helps military families. In the earlier version, she “created” the organization. In the latest, she just “joined” it.
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His campaign polls extensively. They are eager to modify their positions to appeal to whatever voting bloc they are chasing this week.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:56 amBasically what we’re seeing is an expensive custom-tailored empty suit.
It’s not a good sign for Barry when his media lap dogs start snapping at his fingers. Soon the bandwagon will shimmy, then it will shake, next thing you know the wheels will come off. And whose fault will it be? Whitey’s of course!
September 21st, 2008 at 10:58 amsully:
You’d think that voters would start to notice that a suit that frayed from so many haphazard tailorings would be a bad sign…
September 21st, 2008 at 11:25 amChange you can believe in. Change your way of life. Change your values of worth. Change your courts. Change your government. Change from democracy. Change to marxist. Change to non-religion. Change to welfare.
CHANGE WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:54 amIn all seriousness, it just me or does Hussein look kind of sickly in that photo?
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September 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pmWhat must THAT campaign staff meeting be like?
Obama pollster: OK… this week we are polling dimwitted half-white/half black Kenyan Arab Socialists who like cocaine, cigarettes and limousine blow jobs.
Obama: HEY!! IT’S FINALLY MY TURN!!!
September 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm