[Peace-discuss] Why Obama won't say what he believes...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Some liberals explain away positions such as Obama's extreme support for Israel 
(to the right of the administration) and his calls for attacking Iran as things 
that he doesn't really believe but that he has to say to get elected.

Tom DeLay (who, remember, was once third in line for the presidency, after 
Cheney) has another explanation for the lack of candor that some of Obama's 
liberal supporters find in him.  Obama, says DeLay, is a Marxist, and doesn't 
want to reveal it.

DeLay of course is talking nonsense, but so are the aforesaid liberals.  I think 
Obama means what he says, and it's worthwhile to see what that is.

Obama supports the decades-old US war policy in the Middle East, and those of us 
who want to change it cannot rely on him to do it for us.  --CGE


John W. wrote:
> And because DeLay and similar cretins (whose votes Obama is NOT 
> courting) think Obama is a "Marxist", he won't say what he believes 
> because...???
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:57 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at uiuc.edu>> wrote:
> 
>            DeLay: 'Unless Obama Proves Me Wrong, He Is a Marxist'
> 
>     Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay (Texas) called Barack Obama
>     a "Marxist" on the Mike Gallagher radio show Thursday.
> 
>     Explaining that Obama clinching the Democratic nomination is a good
>     thing for John McCain, DeLay said Obama's "weakness" is that "nobody
>     knows him."
> 
>     "And if McCain does not define him as what he is — hey, I have said
>     publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a
>     Marxist," DeLay said.
> 
>     The radio host agreed with DeLay, who is facing money laundering
>     charges, saying Obama is "desperately trying to cover up what seems
>     to be the kind of old school Marxist radical liberal failed ideology."
> 
>     "Absolutely," DeLay said. "No doubt about it."
> 
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