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Obama was selected by the Democratic National Committees’ Superdelegates lead by the Democratic dummies Pelosi and Dean. There was something dissatisfying about the way the primaries ended. From the Clinton Democrat site:

I do believe that Obama is merely a lamb for slaughter. The DNC SELECTED him as the nominee knowing they would risk losing the White House in November. They were more concerned about getting the youth and black vote out in support of their own congressional/senatorial campaign interests. They also CHOSE Obama because he has millions of Kool Aid Drinkers who just cannot stop pressing the “Contribute NOW” button. So, he is of more benefit to them in the short term. The DNC and other powers that be are guilty of not only dissing Hillary and exploiting Obama, but also of failing to act in the best interest of our Party and our Nation.

Since then the Democratic nominee Obama has flip flopped on almost every issue. This is what I was really afraid of. This is weakness in his leadership abilities and he is showing his greenness. His true colors are showing him to be a slick politician but his change message is starting to reflect his “change of mind” on every issue. I don’t believe he will actually withdraw the troops. I feel he said that just to pander to the voters and that is why he backtracked on the timetable.

In the LA times:

We have to wonder, though, if the much-vaunted Obama campaign team anticipated that print coverage would focus so heavily on his latest change of position in the energy debate — his support for tapping the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves to drive down the cost of gasoline.

Here were the leads from the big three dailies:

“With the politics of energy shifting as rapidly as gasoline prices, Democrats, led by presidential candidate Barack Obama, are retreating from long-held positions and scrambling to offer distressed voters more immediate relief from spiraling costs.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Sen. Barack Obama altered his position on Monday to call for tapping the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices as he outlined an energy plan that contrasts with Sen. John McCain’s greater emphasis on expanded offshore drilling and coal and nuclear technology.” (New York Times)

“Sen. Barack Obama called Monday for using oil from the nation’s strategic reserves to lower gasoline prices, the second time in less than a week that he has modified a position on energy issues, as he and Sen. John McCain seek to find solutions to a topic that is increasingly dominating the presidential race.” (Washington Post)

The first-day Associated Press story by Tom Raum, which no doubt was widely used by medium-sized and smaller newspapers, quickly drew attention to both Obama’s shift on the petroleum reserves and his surprise support late last week for a compromise that would ease the long-standing federal ban on offshore oil drilling.

Obama’s new proposal, Raum wrote, “includes two significant reversals …

… of positions he has taken in the past: He had steadfastly fought the idea of limited new offshore drilling and was against tapping the nation’s emergency oil stockpile to relieve pump prices that have stubbornly hovered around $4 a gallon.”

In terms of opinion pieces on Obama’s plan, his aides won’t bat an eye at a bashing from the conservative New York Post, which began an editorial today: “One more week, one more Barack Obama reversal on a key issue. Actually, make that two reversals.”

But Obama aides may have noticed — and become concerned about — the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial take: “Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy is offering more flip-flops than a Lake Tahoe souvenir stand.”

That’s not quite the narrative the Obama camp was looking for from his speech.

– Don Frederick

This was suppose to be a landslide for the Democratic party. The polls now show this to be a tight race. I get the feeling that many Obama supporters from early on are having buyer’s remorse. You buy something based on what you are told, then you find out it is nothing what the salesperson described. That seems toapply to all of Obama’s campaign promises.  Nobody wants empty promises.

I am afraid that if Obama is elected, he actually could just be the Democratic’s version of George Bush. Remember when Bush was first elected, he made many great promises and didn’t keep any. Why does Obama now remind me of Bush? And you know I don’t mean that as a compliment.