Obama has been vacilating between promising a speedy withdrawal
and attaching so many caveats to this promise as to render it
meaningless for some time now. While Obama's position on the wisdom
of the Iraq invasion and the desirability of leaving is much
clearer than John Kerry's in 2004 (and, in my view, sounder than
John McCain's now), they are close enough to make me find the
Obamacons entirely unpersuasive. Just as I didn't see why antiwar
conservatives should want to vote for a pro-war liberal in 2004, I
don't see why I should vote for a candidate who wants to raise
taxes, grow government, codify Roe v. Wade, promote
taxpayer-funded abortion, expand government control of health care,
appoint liberal judges, repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, add
regulations, throw more money at Bush's compassionate conservative
initiatives, impose cap-and-trade, and constrict free trade on the
basis of foreign-policy and civil liberties issues where I can't
figure out what in the hell he'd actually do anyway.
topics:
Taxes, Trade, Health Care, John McCain, Abortion, Iraq
