Barack Obama: Ruthless Enough to Win at Any Cost [The Hollow Man] |
| Published: July 5, 2008, 10:33 am |
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What will most strike and disappoint those outside the United States, those who have been all but panting in their excitement at the prospect of an Obama presidency as a break from the Bush era, is the Democrat's march rightward on foreign policyGive Us a Commercial Break!"You Put Your Right Leg Out..." [Source]Call it the Potomac shuffle, the traditional election-year dance in which a candidate who has earlier moved left or right to win over the party faithful in a primary campaign promptly slides back to the centre to appeal to the rest of the country. Barack Obama, quite a mover on the dancefloor, has spent the month since he beat Hillary Clinton to the Democratic nomination giving a demonstration of this time-honoured piece of Washington choreography - and at an unusually high tempo, too.Just yesterday he announced, in a speech on religion aimed at wooing evangelicals - who Democrats believe are no longer a guaranteed bloc for the Republicans - that he would continue George Bush's [ Full article ] |
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