This sums up Barry Obama, Timmy! and Marky Mark quite nicely:
Look at Barack Obama. The principal reason for his popularity is that he’s a political cipher. During the 23 months he was in the U.S. Senate before announcing his campaign for the presidency, Obama was a backbencher.
He championed no great causes, wrote no impressive legislation, proposed no original solutions to the problems of the day. Consequently, he made no enemies. He reaped the blessings of blandness
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As governor, Kaine has been largely inconsequential, which has earned him few ardent fans, but equally few ardent enemies.
His predecessor, Mark Warner, now running for the U.S. Senate, also was a cipher when he ran for governor in 2001. Having made an estimated $200 million fortune brokering spectrum licenses — the airwaves upon which cell phone calls are transmitted — Warner set his sights on the acquisition of power. Like Obama, he parlayed his inexperience as an engine for change.
“The old style of politics of saying anything to get elected is not what we need,” candidate Warner said. When his Republican opponent, Mark Earley, warned that Warner would raise taxes if elected, Warner said, “The fact is that I will not raise taxes. My plan states it. I’ve said it throughout this campaign. And no matter how many times my opponent may say otherwise, I will not raise your taxes.”
Once elected, Warner proudly presided over the largest tax increase in Virginia’s history.
Other than that breathtaking deceit, he accomplished virtually nothing as governor — and now he’s likely to be elected senator. Kaine, too, is an inconsequential governor, and he’s being considered for the vice presidency. With no substantial experience in national politics, Obama wants to run the free world.
This is what these three men all have in common, the pursuit of power in order to BE someone, not in order to DO something. If that weren’t the case, then they’d have something truly substantive to show for their time in office.
Filed under: 2008 Elections, Democrats, Marky Mark, National Politics, Razing Kaine / Timmy!, Teleprompter Barry, Virginia Politics
No major legislation written? Try Obama-Coburn. It was the first meaningful ethics reform in the senate in more than a generation. A junior senator rankled his own party members to push that transparency bill through with bipartisan support from Coburn. Hardly a backbencher move. What has McPain done? Whay major piece of legislation has he done. McCain-Feingold? You mean the ideal that McCain has broken already? What about McCain’s tough immigration stance that he failed to vote on? How do you not even vote on your own legislation? What does that say about his convictions…and I’m not speaking about his and Cindy’s near convictions during the Keating 5 scandal….
If you think that ethics “reform” is meaningful, then you have no idea how it is actually being implemented.