Bizarre Bedfellows for Barack

City Journal by Fred Siegel | Feb. 5, 2008 (Opinion)
Conservatives and liberals rally behind an unqualified candidate.

Obama's achievements in reaching out to moderate voters are largely proleptic: words aren't deeds. And while he has few concrete achievements to his name, he does have a voting record that hardly suggests an ability to rise above Left and Right. In 2005, his first year in the Senate, the man who made a specialty of voting "present" in the Illinois State Senate refused--despite repeated entreaties--to join a bipartisan agreement among 14 senators not to ... Full Story »

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Donald Carl Isenman
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 by Donald Carl Isenman - Oct. 1, 2008

The subtext of this attempted hatchet job is disgust that voters on the right and left like Obama. There is no more right wing group than the Manhattan Institute, hence the proliferation of unfounded, unproven, and just plain made up characterizations that make up this piece. "Proleptic" is the word that attracted my attention to the story and sure enough the definition, for us vocabulary deprived folks, is just as untrustworthy as his contention that Obama is unqualified for liberal voters when the writer tells us the record proves just the opposite. He is not a Liberal anyhow. I would entitle this messy, desperate polemic "Obama Bizarrerie" and be done with it.

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