Obama moves steadily rightward
In the time-honored tradition of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama has been moving rightward ever since he clinched the nomination. Though bloggers and mainstream media like to say he’s moving “toward the center,” that’s not a direction.
- He criticized African-American men who are bad fathers and don’t take personal responsiblity for their families, an obvious attempt to appease whites who are, well, “uncomfortable” with African-Americans.
- Two Muslim women who attended Barack Obama’s event June 16 in Detroit were told they couldn’t stand behind the candidate, according to NPR. One was told her head covering was an issue, and another was told by an Obama volunteer that for political reasons they didn’t want Muslims appearing with him on TV.
- NPR reports Obama supported legalizing Bush’s illegal wiretaps and supported the right of states to execute rapists.
What the Democrats won’t say out loud is that they are going to take liberal voters for granted from now until election day. Obama, like Gore and Kerrey and Clinton and a long parade of other Democratic Party phonies, knows that the two-party system ensures that principled liberal voters now have nowhere else to go. Because there are no left third party candidates pulling the political center of gravity to the left, Obama is free to sprint to the right. Will you still recognize him by election day?