You didn't say that when you were supporting him. Interesting what a wide swing your rhetoric takes due to who the Republican nominee is.


I said he was a very smart person and would have innovative ideas that were different from Democratic orthodoxy.

I turned out to be wrong. There is nothing new in his platform. It's standard old Democrat boilerplate. He could have at least tried Clintonism, and ideology which actually works.

Change means no more lobbyists controlling our government.

Lobbyists are the way that the people, as well as special interests, petition their representatives. If lobbyists aren't controlling the government, than no one is.

Change means putting a man in power who has not been corrupted by a lifetime in Washington.

We did that with GWB, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter...

Heck, we almost ALWAYS elect a guy who hasn't spent much time in Washington. What makes Obama different from the previous outsiders?

Change means America being a moral leader for the world once more

By unilaterally abrogating treaties and selling out allies who want a missile defense?

Change means ending the senseless bloodshed in Iraq.

Whether our troops are there or not, there will be bloodshed.

Change means no more sick children being left to die by the government because they can not afford health insurance.

We already have Medicaid and SCHIP. If they don't work, then a government program doing the same thing under a different name won't work any better.

Change means a serious commitment to ending our dependance on oil and starting to respect our environment.

John Mccain has a plan for that. Obama's plan consists of cap and trade and subsidies. Subsidies which coincidentally go to his friends in the ag and coal industries.

Change means getting the youth to start caring about their government once more.

Obama has excited the youth, but when he actually governs and young workers find that their paychecks are smaller due to higher withholding, they won't be very happy.

Change means allowing stem cell research to start saving lives

Stem cell research is already allowed. It just isn't funded by the government. Stem cell research is so potentially lucrative that it does not require government subsidies.

Change means no more discrimination against gays simply because they are different.


McCain has always been fairly liberal on homosexuality. Obama in practice won't be any better because his priorities are going to lie elsewhere. the African-American community isn't going to be turning out huge for him just so he can start working on gay issues as a high priority.

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