OBAMA'S SHIFT TO THE CENTER A HOAX - THE SUNDAY COMMENTARY

The great liberal election year hoax has begun. After months of pandering to the left in order to get the nomination and frankly showing the true face of leftists liberalism, Barack Obama is following in the foot steps of Bill Clinton.

Liberals realize after the election successes of Bill Clinton that the only way they have even a slim chance of winning a General Election for the Presidency it becomes necessary to make a dramatic shift to a more center of the road platform in a campaign.

Brack Obama the candidate of, "change," and the candidate who claims to be above the political fray and totally different offering the American people something new in a candidate who again , "claims," not to be, "your normal politician." Obama is making a shift to the center in order to try and gain votes from Moderates and even Conservatives to try and win the Presidency.

For instance the man who has said that all of President Bush's policies are the policy of failure is now talking about , "expanding, " Bush's Faith Based Initiative. Of course this is a blatant ploy to try and pander to the Evangelical vote. He states that though expanding on Bush's initiative he will make changes to it for the better, according to Obama.

Naturally when a liberal states he will make any program better it will involve some sort of government control, meaning that the Faith Based Initiative will require churches and other faith based groups to report to the government in order to participate in Obama's program.

Obama has also been moving to the center in his approach to patriotism. Earlier in the year he stated that he would NEVER wear an American Flag lapel pin because he believed it had become a symbol of the Iraq war. Now where ever he appears on his left lapel you will find an American Flag pin. He spoke several times last week about patriotism which has never been even a portion of any speech in his past.

But now that he is trying to pander to the Centrists for the election suddenly patriotism and favorable talk about the military which he has disdained in the past, has become a mainstay in his speeches.

While still somewhat steering away from talk of drilling to help ease the energy crisis, the thought of drilling has begun to make its way into his rhetoric. Again, the polls from those in the center of the political spectrum show high numbers and Obama shifts his policy to match the center and the polling.

Obama is even shifting gears to the center on Iraq. A few weeks back when challenged by John McCain to make a trip to Iraq because it has been more than two years since his last trip, Obama treated the challenge with little or no interest. Now not only is he making a trip to Iraq but this continual cut and run liberal is stating that after the visit he may , "refine," his position about Iraq and his so called promise to pull out immediately.

Always an advocate against National Security surveillance programs, now in order to play to the center Obama now supports broader authority for surveillance. Always one to take the liberal stance against the Second Amendment right to bear arms, after the Supreme Courts decision to overturn the Washington DC gun ban, Obama suddenly favors the decision and the right to bear arms. Again a dramatic shift to the center to pander for votes.

He is also honing his views to the center on the death penalty and abortion. Once again pandering to the center for the General Election. Bill Clinton played this game and won in 1992. The difference this year is that Clinton while liberal was not anywhere near as liberal as Barack Obama so Clinton's move to the center in order to prepare for the General Election was not a dramatic shift.

For Obama just the opposite is true. Obama is the most liberal Senator in the US Senate whose voting record and his policy statements are more Marxists/Socialist than Centrist. So this shift to the Center is a very dramatic change of pace for liberal Barack Obama. His very liberal stance on the war, entitlements, taxes and energy have been embraced with glee by the left. Now with Obama's shift to pander for votes he is not only angering the left but showing that he has no core or principles.

This hoax being perpetrated by Barack Obama will continue until just before the Convention when he knows he has to show his true and real liberal self in order to make the delegates who will vote for him in Denver happy. Then after the Convention he will shift back to the center for the General Election.

In reality Barack Obama is lying to the public to get the votes he needs to be elected President. He is proving he is not only a man without principles or credibility but also a pandering politician who will do and say anything to get elected!

Ken Taylor