There is this cult of Obama that is sweeping the nation. It’s everywhere, it’s in stores, it’s on the street, it’s even in my kids’ heads.  So many folks are completely swept up in the bandwagon hysteria of Barack. The question I always ask of these followers of the “Prophet of Change” is why? I get all kinds of nebulous answers ranging from, “He’s about change,” to, “I would like to have a young president.” Never are any of the answers that I do get rooted in any kind of understanding as to what the man might stand for, or what it is that he has done. That’s the problem with supporting a first term senator, you have no way of gauging what it is that he believes in.
Examining what it is that Barack Obama has said, and what it is that he has done, you come to see that there is conflict between the two. When he was campaigning he spoke boldly of stopping George W. Bush’s war by cutting funding for it.Â
“When I was asked, ‘Would I have voted for the $87 billion,’ I said ‘no,’ ” Obama said in a speech before a Democratic community group in suburban Chicago in November 2003. “I said ‘no’ unequivocally because, at a certain point, we have to say no to George Bush. If we keep on getting steamrolled, we’re not going to stand a chance.”
That sounds pretty absolute to me, and you know it played with the anti-war left that he was trying to court, but he never delivered. Upon entering office Barack caved immediately and voted to fund the war. I guess getting steamrolled is alright, if you’re looking to be the president.
When it comes to what it is that he would do about foreign enemies, you get a similarly two-sided approach. He has said on one hand that he would engage in personal diplomacy with the Iranians, and in other cases he has said that he would authorize military strikes against targets in that country should they not conform.  Where have I heard that kind of talk before? Strange that the theme should sound so familiar coming from a guy that thinks that we have no business in Iraq. Of course Barack goes even further and says that he is not adverse to striking Al-Qaeda targets inside Pakistan, a nuclear power that already has a fairly shaky government that could be toppled by such an action. What becomes of those nukes after President O-bomb-a launches such an attack and destabilizes that situation?
You see, the man doesn’t really have any kind of track record. In addition he seems to have no convictions. He is as hard to nail down as a springtime breeze when it comes to what it is that he will do, or even wants to do. “Yes we can!” Yes we can, what? That’s my question. Enough with the flowery prose and the rhetoric of the stump. Where do you stand Senator Obama? Are you anti-war or not?Â
Frankly, I have no idea… and sadly neither do his supporters. I don’t know that I’m ready to drink the kool-aid and surrender leadership of a superpower to this man. We just got through dealing with a two-faced rookie, do we really need to fall right into the arms of another?
