Kathryn Jean Lopez has it right:
Tell me he’s a pioneer when he meets with Ward Connerly and embraces
his Civil Rights Initiative movement, a successful effort to undo the
damage big-government patronizing has done to civil rights. Tell me
he’s a pioneer when he talks about the importance of the damage the
welfare state has done in urban America, to the family. Tell me he’s a pioneer when he talks about protecting marriage. Tell me he’s a pioneer when he talks about the effects of abortion on blacks in America.
Likewise William J. Bennett's observation:
And thus the Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of George McGovern, albeit without McGovern’s military and political record. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far-left candidate in the tradition of Michael Dukakis, albeit without Dukakis’s executive experience as governor. The Democratic party is about to nominate a far left candidate in the tradition of John Kerry, albeit without Kerry’s record of years of service in the Senate. The Democratic party is about to nominate an unvetted candidate in the tradition of Jimmy Carter, albeit without Jimmy Carter’s religious integrity as he spoke about it in 1976. Questions about all these attributes (from foreign policy expertise to executive experience to senatorial experience to judgment about foreign leaders to the instructors he has had in his cultural values) surround Barack Obama. And the Democratic party has chosen hi
Victor Davis Hanson writes:
Are
Barack Obama’s views shown by what he says during an election year or by what
he has been doing for decades before?
The complete contrast between Obama’s election year image as a healer of
divisions and his whole career of promoting far-left grievance politics, in
association with America-haters like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, are
brushed aside by his supporters who talk about getting back to “the real
issues.”
There is nothing more real than a man’s character and values. The track record
of what he has actually done is far more real than anything he says, however
elegantly he says it.
… Sen. Obama’s foreign policy seems to be somewhere between Rodney King’s “Can’t we just get along?” and Alfred E. Neuman’s “What, me worry?”