Obama hasn't taken a single major political risk
MorgMcA said 10/01, 01:49 AM
From the Iraq war to UHC, Barack Obama has never shown that he is capable of making a hard choice when his career may suffer.
other than that I'll punt
constitutionalintegrity said 10/01, 02:02 AM
Although I don't disagree, I will simply argue with this:
Show me a candidate who has willingly taken a "major political risk" in their bid for the Presidency in the last few decade. Arguing that Obama is alone in his fear of political suicide is absurd. As candidates from both parties tend toward moderate to garner the popular vote, neither side is going to make overt, important, controversial decisions or opinions known to the general public.
MorgMcA said 10/02, 12:22 AM
For the sake of the debate please disagree.
John McCain has repeatedly taken risks that would seem to doom his campaign, yet in retrospect they never actually have.
Comprehensive immigration reform remains unpopular. The surge was very unpopular at the time. His choice of Sarah Palin was popularly derided as a hail mary. He suspended his campaign so that he could return to Washington and work towards a contreversial bailout bill
When Obama talks about taking a principled stand for something, he talks about how risky it was to oppose the Iraq war from the outset. Excuse me Mr Obama, but you weren't even running for national office and frankly I don't care what my representative in Olympia thinks about the Iraq war, the situation w/ Iran, or any other foreign affair. I'm electing him to the state capitol, where he can't do anything about the Indian nuke deal. I really don't think Arizonans are worried about what their representatives in Phoenix think about President Karzai nor do I think New Yorkers are worried about how those in Albany feel about the current crisis in Ukraine. Even if those people were nuts, they can't do anything about it at the state level, so who cares
constitutionalintegrity said 10/02, 08:25 PM
I have nothing to contend with... you win, next time I'll pick more carefully what I choose to debate.
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You cannot consider the war on terror a choice for Bush in 2004. He had laid the groundwork (dug his own grave) on that one well before hand.
Proud 2 b liberal | 10/01/08
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What do you expect? The man is playing the game. Brilliantly in fact. A black man running for president has no room in a country with millions of racists to make a mistake. I believe if he wins you will see much more bold moves as president.
ReVoluTionNow! | 10/01/08
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Please keep it clean. Bad words will get filtered, and offensive comments will be removed.
Only Axl Rose remains in the group, but since 1987 GnR has been rocking with fury
More than 50 years of cover stories about the 35th President
President Bush? War on Terror? 2004? Maybe... unless you would just consider that a continuation of his previous 4 years in office...
xm4r5h4llx | 10/01/08
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