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St. Barack Criticizes Moveon.org
By Rizzuto

Tue Jul 01, 2008 - Is anyone seriously buying this? This from The Hill:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday, in a major speech on patriotism, criticized MoveOn.org for referring to Gen. David Petraeus as General Betray Us last year.

The Illinois senator said politics too often seems “trapped in old, threadbare arguments” that he called “caricatures of left and right.”

This, Obama added, was “most evident during our recent debates about the war in Iraq, when those who opposed administration policy were tagged by some as unpatriotic, and a general providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused of betrayal.”

Friends of Barack Obama be warned; he may throw you under the bus next! The Senator has slash and burn policy when it comes to political alliances, friendships and associations he finds politically inexpedient.

A year after Moveon.org ran its "General Betray Us" ad in the New York Times, Obama has finally criticizes them for it after having initially refused to join 72 fellow Senators in condemning it on the Senate floor. Obama’s criticism comes only after he reaped the benefit of Moveon.org’s support in the primaries, where their endorsement added to Obama's leftist bona fidas and helped him play to the Democrat base. Now, just in time for the general election, Obama throws them under the bus.

This is only the most recent in a series of politically expedient decisions about acquaintances and relationships Obama has made. It took him a nearly 20 years to remove the Reverend Wright cancer, and several years before business acquaintance and financier Tony Rezko became a liability. With Obama's alliances and friendships shifting at such an astronomical rate, it seems as if St. Barack is learning a lot about himself since he's begun his run for the presidency. How else can we explain that all of a sudden, he's realized he's running with the wrong crowd?

The real audacity is Obama’s hypocrisy on every issue he gives one of his patented speeches which tend to follow, or accompany his enlightenments. On race relations, he associates with a known racist for 20 years...then Obama assumes to lecture us about racism. On politics, he plays politics as dirty as you would imagine a man with his Chicago roots would...then Obama assumes to lecture us about politics and patriotism. On patriotism, a surrogate and rumored top contender for the vice presidency calls into question the relevance of John McCain’s service…then Obama assumes to warn us against questioning him.