Posted by
Brian Norton on Friday, January 23, 2009 1:39:28 PM
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While I do not agree with all Pat writes, as I am not an isolationist, his analysis of Obama's speech has much merit. Consider, if you will, the kind of things Obama COULD have said, indeed were said by many prominent Democrats, and you get a feeling of maturity. Pelosi said her favorite part of the event was Bush leaving on the helicopter and it felt "like a 10 pound anvil lifting off her head."
Others made childish chants and disrespectful gestures towards the outgoing president. Obama could have gotten up and reaffirmed to DailyKos and Moveon that he was, indeed, their man and given an Ayers type speech about how bad America is (the US makes Ayers want to puke, but he is stuck in the US as news today said that Canada denied him entrance as too big of a security risk! Wish I could have seen that, but I digress) Obama made the type of speech no one would have expected during the primary, and one, incidentally, that would have kept him from getting all the fringe left votes necessary for him to win.
Of course he is liberalizing abortion funding and espousing gay rights: He believes in those things, and is acting consistent with his beliefs. While I do not agree with him, I expect nothing less of him.
You will note, however, that there were no calls to see Amadinejad without preconditions or any such campaign tripe. Obama will be known as the Pragmatic President, to the dismay of both the Left and Right. The left is going to be sorely disappointed in its more moonbat desires, and the Right will find most of its talking points co-opted into Obama's policies.
Unless Republicans can come up with another Contract with America, and another Newt to run with it, we are going to be a very marginalized party ( even tho I do have hope for Congressional gains in 2010 as the Dems there are feckless and have no control of their liberal impulses). The implosion of the Democrats is not going to come from the White House this time.