Barack Obama’s Break With the Liberal Establishment?
August 3rd, 2007
This week Senator Barack Obama gave a speechto the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Hours before his campaign leaked specific sections which noted the Senators willingness as president to attack al Qaeda in Pakistan regardess of that nations willingness to cooperate. It was an obvious answer to the attacks on his foreign policy and military prowess which came after the debates, it was also pretty tuff talk bordering on a “get your act together or we will do it for you” ultimatum to Pakistan.
Thomas B. Edsall wrote that this was the latest of many breaks from Obama from the liberal establishment, he notes about one a month throughout the campaign. Previous breaks have included:
- Changing Affirmative Action from being race based to economically based
- Raising the retirement age & payroll taxes to make social security solvent
- Acknowledging a problem with black males & parenting the blame of which he put solely on black men
- Endorsing merit pay for teachers, a big non-starter for teachers unions
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