BO’s Patriotism Stinks

Racism is simply making an assumption based on race.  Race hucksters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson practice a sophisticated form of raciall bigotry, false equality.  That is thay demand equal outcomes without evidence of equal ability

Barack Obama has taken a play out of hte Sharpton and Jackson playbook, Obama:

Yesterday, Senator McCain came before you. He is a man who has served this nation honorably, and he correctly stated that one of the chief criteria for the American people in this election is going to be who can exercise the best judgment as Commander in Chief. But instead of just offering policy answers, he turned to a typical laundry list of political attacks. He said that I have changed my position on Iraq when I have not. He said that I am for a path of “retreat and failure.” And he declared, “Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president” – suggesting, as he has so many times, that I put personal ambition before my country

BO declares John McCain to be a man of virtue and demands to be treaded as if he too were a man of virtue.   Alas, unlike McCain, BO is not man of virtue.   BO tailors his political positions to pander to the expediancy of the moment:

From James Taranto, Best of the Web, on October 26, 2002 BO said:

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

BO stated in no uncertain terms that there was no good reason to support the war and no good person who supported it.   Yet last Saturday, BO was singing a different tune about his support for the very same war:

Well, you know, I think the opposition to the war in Iraq was as tough a decision as I’ve had to make. Not only because there were political consequences, but also because Saddam Hussein was a real bad person, and there was no doubt that he meant America ill. But I was firmly convinced at the time that we did not have strong evidence of weapons of mass destruction, and there were a lot of questions that, as I spoke to experts, kept on coming up. Do we know how the Shia and the Sunni and the Kurds are going to get along in a post-Saddam situation? What’s our assessment as to how this will affect the battle against terrorists like al Qaeda? Have we finished the job in Afghanistan

So I agonized over that. And I think that questions of war and peace generally are so profound. . . .?

So if the call supporting the Iraq war as a tough of a decision as BO purported to to be Saturday, BO was slandering good people for score cheap political points.   That is to say, BO put his politics ahead of his country.