Hope doesn't matter. I don't have a dream.

Barack has said this:

"Dreams of democracy and hopes for a perfect government are now just that – dreams and hopes. We must instead turn our focus to those concrete objectives that are possible to attain"

What! Why that sounds like he's poo-pooing hopes and dreams! But, but, but, but ... I thought he told Hillary:

"Don't tell me ideals and inspiration don't matter. Don't tell me hope doesn't matter."

He said this nasty thing about hopes and dreams about Iraq, of course, in November 2006.
When it comes to Iraq, it's "No we can't!"

One week until complete troop withdrawal from Iraq ... almost

In January 2007, Obama sponsored a bill to have all U.S. combat troops out by March 2008
... al Qaeda would have been so pleased. Sorry Osama, you can always hope for Pres. Obama to change courses starting January 2009.

The Great "Unifier"

Obama calls him self a "Unifier."He talks about it in almost every speech. He has ads suggesting such.

But what has he every unified of significance. Yes, he has attracted some people of some different stripes to his campaign. But where is the evidence of how this plays out in terms of policy? And please don’t point to some reaching-across-the-aisle b.s. done in Springfield, Illinois. I live in Chicago, and those folks down there are not the sharpest knives in the drawer and nothing like the vipers in Washington. Where has he done so on a national stage?

Take Iraq, for example.. He emphasizes over and over again how important his stand has been. So how has he unified on this issue? He has taken an extreme position on withdrawal and done nothing – NOTHING – to bring the two sides together. Where are the initiatives legislative or otherwise? Where is the outreach to people on the other side inside or outside the Senate? All he has done is taken an extreme position and not budged. It is the type of position typical in Washington – that you decry – that results in acrimony and divisiveness. So again, I ask, where is the evidence that he can unify the Washington crowd? Is he not just a demagogue on this issue just as so many other are on so many issues in Washington. I just see more of the same in an inexperienced package.