Sen. Barack Obama waged a hard-left campaign against Sen. Hillary Clinton and dished her, with much help from hard-leftists both in the media and on blog sites. It is only a slight exaggeration to say he became Clinton in order to up-end her. The quick change artist may have something similar in mind for his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain. The trick, now that Obama is facing a moderate Republican, is to move to the middle without irreparably damaging his support on the left. This can be managed. Obama, whose stern and inflexible views on immediate withdrawal from Iraq solidified his position on the left in the primary, now finds it necessary to adjust that view in the general election. An immediate withdrawal from Iraq in the post surge period, to take but one example of Obama’s recent serial adjustments, was always questionable, except as a primary campaign strategy. But a guy’s got to do what a guy’s got to do. And so now we are told, both by Obama’s handlers and the cheerlead...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams