Obama sounds more like a Republican every day. No wonder the media loves him!
In a speech this afternoon in central Iowa, Barack Obama seems to have widened his criticism of the politics of the past to encompass not only Hillary Clinton but John Kerry and Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
Making an argument for his electability, Obama said, “I don’t want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats — we’ve done that in 2004, 2000,” according to a person at the event (rush transcript).
Uh, Obama? We won those two elections, as any sane person now knows.
If the Democrats had won, I don’t think Bush would be President. C’mon, he has a point. According to polls at least half the country is currently opposed to Hillary because of the baggage she carries. He is trying to emphasize he doesn’t have that baggage and can appeal to non-Democrats. Gore and Kerry obviously didn’t attract enough independents and Republicans to win.
Gore and Kerry attracted more than enough voters to win —
they just didn’t get to design the butterfly ballots
or count the votes in Florida and Ohio.