Posted by
Katherine Harms on Friday, July 04, 2008 12:29:34 PM
Barack Hussein Obama is the candidate of hope and change. It appears that we do not need to hope for change in the future. We already have change. Obama is delivering exactly what he promises. What a candidate!
Just look at all the change he has delivered already.
When we first heard a word from the New Messiah, Barack Hussein Obama, he went on record with a commitment to end the war in Iraq. He led us to believe that if he were elected, before he even sat down in the Oval Office, he would get the troops out. No discussion. No alternatives. No kidding.
Now we hear a different story. Something about assessing the situation and adjusting the withdrawal to the realities. What a man! He can change his mind and change his words, and he tells us that this is not a change of message. A real wizard of change is Barack Hussein Obama.
On the subject of NAFTA, we have been hearing Obama lambast the whole idea for months, threatening to confront our trading partners with a demand for new terms if he were elected. When he needed to confront and defeat Hillary Clinton, who, understandably, supported NAFTA, he was aggressive and critical of the whole idea, saying, "I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced."
But now, Obama, the candidate who promises change we can believe in, has changed his position and declared, “I’ve always been a proponent of free trade.” The candidate of change has demonstrated his skill. We can undoubtedly hope now to see even more change as the pace of the campaign escalates.
We should not have been so surprised. Obama has actually been showing us how to change since the beginning of his campaign. We all remember that when he was still trying to help us know how to spell his name (including directions that his middle name, Hussein, is not to be mentioned), and when he was worried that we would all think he was an Islamic fascist, he made a big point of telling us about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his mentor. The Rev. Wright had supposedly led him to a Christian conversion, officiated at his wedding, baptized his children and counseled him in personal growth. The Rev. Wright was important in his life, and we all waited eagerly to learn more about Obama’s formative years under the tutelage of the Rev. Wright.
However, the candidate who promises change we can believe in made a believer of us for sure. When we found out that the Rev. Wright teaches his church to curse America and hate anybody who isn’t black, we saw Candidate Obama change in a flash. We saw him change the Rev. Wright from a beloved mentor to a casual acquaintance to Jeremiah Who? In the twinkling of an eye the reverend went from a national icon to a has-been. This is change we can all believe in.
Of course, we should have been prepared. Isn’t Barack Hussein Obama the candidate who told us about being reared by his grandmother only to change her value as a human being to zero by calling her a “typical white person?” Barack Obama is the candidate of change, all right.
We need to pay more attention to Obama’s changes. It would appear that absolutely nothing is too important to change. His admiration for his grandmother, his respect for his pastor, his deeply-held concern that free trade harms American workers, and now his commitment to bring the troops home from Iraq – all these ideas were subject to change.
It makes a confused voter wonder. If Barack Hussein Obama were actually elected president, unthinkable though it is, what other wonderful changes could we hope for?