Big Sky Cairn

This is hilarious. Anna over at Left in the West has a post up about how impressed she is with the frank honesty of Democrat Presidential Candidate Barack Obama otherwise known as The Great Messiah of Hope and Freedom. Anyway, here’s the passage that got her all hot and bothered:

In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine’s upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn’t want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA.

“Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified,” he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA “devastating” and “a big mistake,” despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.

Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he answered.

Did you catch that? The passage that Anna thinks demonstrates her man’s impeccable character is really about the fact that this man has no integrity and will say anything to get elected.

During the Democrat Primary, Obama veered Left to attract the votes from the people who were criticizing Clinton for moving to the center (ironically making herself more electable in the General). Now that he’s secured the nomination, Obama is going to try to move into that center ground that Hilary abdicates with her Fall back to the Senate. But as he does so, he’s also going to have to abandon a lot of that far-left rhetoric that got him the Nomination. All we learn from that passage is that Obama will lie to fit what he thinks his audience wants to hear.

Newsflash Anna: Being honest about the fact that you lie doesn’t make you an honest person.

[Update: Looks like Dave Budge beat me to the punch by a few minutes…]