Reply #18: No, we do not know what his plans are. Did you read the article in the Sacramento Bee [View All]

which came out some months ago? Basically, it said that Obama campaign volunteers had been trained that if they encountered a voter that asked them where he stood on a specific policy issue, they were to not engage the voter in a discussion on Obama's policies. Instead, they were to share some sort of warm and fuzzy story on how they came to support him.

Translation: Obama really doesn't believe the American people have a right to know where he stands on the issues.

After all this time, I still don't have a sense of where he wants to take the country, because he talks out of both sides of his mouth.

In the summer of 2004, he said there was "no difference" between him and George W. Bush on Iraq, and he didn't know how he would have voted on Iraq had he been in the Senate. During this course of this campaign, Tim Russert asked him about those comments from 2004, and he said he was simply trying to help the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-President, both of whom voted for the war. So in other words, he tailed his remarks on Iraq for purely political purposes--something he accused Sen. Clinton of doing.

He lied about his health care plan and tried to call it a univeral plan, when it fact it would leave out 15 million people.

He flip-flopped on public campaign financing.

I get the impression that Obama will say and do whatever he feels the public wants him to. Which is why he'll go to South Carolina, pander to a Black audience and tell them he needs them to get "Pookie" and "Ray-Ray" out to vote. But because he doesn't want to be seen as the "Black" candidate, he won't show up for events like Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union, and he won't show up to Memphis for the 40th year commmemoration of Dr. King's assassination.