Obama said he wants to build consensus, but his speech was dominated by liberal talking points.
That's the thing that rubs me the wrong way about Illinois' junior senator. He talks about building consensus, but when he votes in the Senate, he almost always follows the liberal Democratic line. It was the same way when he was an Illinois state senator.
Obama's bridge-building to me means having people who don't agree with him walking across that bridge to go along with his way of thinking.
Obama said this morning that he wants universal health care by the end of his first term as president.
Obama has a lot of ideas for new or expanded programs for "us" and "we," but at no time during his speech did he explain how "us" and "we" will pay for all of this wonderful stuff.
I watched NBC 5 Chicago's coverage. On hand was Carol Marin, who as I've noted before, has contracted Obama mania. Here's what she wrote about his then-presumed canidacy in December.
Now, it seems, time has chosen Obama as his clock ticks toward a January date with destiny. And no group of people is more excited than those of us who will cover the election. We like the fact that we knew him when. Long before folks in Iowa or New Hampshire stuck out their hands to press his flesh, we actually rubbed shoulders. He's our homey and we are his. As hometown press, we're wild about this story. A politician from Chicago tearing down a barrier of race. One of our own ready to make history.
Fair and balanced.
However, after the announcement concluded, Marin did mention that anti-abortion protesters chanted throughout Obama's speech.
As I write this, Obama is now warming up in the usually-empty Governor's Mansion greeting well-wishers, before heading out to Iowa.
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