Obamacon watch

[Hope And Change]

November 03, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

Obamacon watch

Another fairly astonishing http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-31/obama-is-the-true-conservative/">defection from the right: Jeffrey Hart, a National Review veteran and force in the conservative movement.

"It seems clear to me that Obama is the conservative in the 2008 election," he writes.


By Ben Smith 07:30 AM


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1108/Obamacon_watch.html#comments">Link

[grantcart]

1. This would have been more convincing had he wrote it a month ago

It is a very effective comparison of the classical Burke conservatism which Bush has destroyed:


One thing I know is that both Nixon and Reagan would have agreed with Obama’s speech against the Iraq War… But all the organs of the conservative movement followed Bush over the cliff—as did John McCain.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. "Obama is the conservative of the 2008 election"

:rofl: