I wonder how long it took that guy to get the bumper sticker off his car.

I dunno, Zoy. The bumper on a 10-year-old Prius is probably made of styrofoam. Could be rough.

Clyde wiped his brow and and looked up at the noon day sun. Its fierce rays beat down upon him, daring him to struggle further. He looked down at his hands, his blistered fingers still clutching the handle of his broken knife. He whimpered.

A life and death struggle--all for naught. Clyde tossed the knife aside and wondered at his recent trials. How would he manage to survive this journey now that his closest ally had betrayed him? And how was he going to remove this damn bumper sticker?

Clyde collapsed to the ground, Obama08 the last thing his eyes seeing as they closed unto exhausted unconsciousness.

I dunno what the term "Internet leftist" might refer to (some sort of virtual supporter, I guess?) but Clyde can just paint over his sticker LOL.

This is a media-created tempest in a teapot. Obama has not radically changed any of his core positions (an odd accusation coming from people who formerly claimed he didn't have any or that they couldn't ascertain what they were), and certainly not anywhere close to the wild gyrations of his opponent, whose positions seem to be all over the lot.

Obama's stance on Iraq hasn't changed. I won't minimize the disappointment his core supporters feel over his position on FISA but that won't move the votes of any more than the tiniest sliver of the most rigid civil libertarians. His gun control and death penalty remarks are not radical departures.

This notion that Obama is somehow unprincipled or inconsistent still sounds to me like rather hopelessly maintaining that Obama is just too old to be President. To the extent there's anything at all to it, the other side is far, far worse.

What Would Obama Do (WWOD)

DC Gun Ban-He was against it before he was for it.

Iraq-Out in 16 months.Now he'll listen to his commanders.

FISA- Against it, for it.

Higher Taxes. Always consistent here, much higher!

I know I'm leaving many out. Yeah that Obama, core beliefs are his virtue.

Zoy;

The disillusioned Obama supporter, bleeding hands, tears in his medicinal marijuana slit eyes scrapping off his Obama sticker using only green methods of water and humus. Yes, the Obama supporter now questioning there decision to ride the 1000 miles on a bike to sleep in a tee-pee for the Dem convention. Reports of non-organic clothing at Obama rallies. No mandatory union labor. Meals that don't meet vegan (yellow,green and purple) standards. It's all crashing down.

Thomas, Obama hasn't flip-flopped on all those issues. He has simply nuanced the living crap out of them.

Dinner at the Democratic convention:

"Waiter, there's a fly in my soup."

The waiter peers down into the bowl.His eyes grow wide in horror.

"Oh No!" he screams as he pulls out his cellphone and dials 911. "It's an endangered species. We've got to save it!"

Newspaper Headline: "...Hundreds Hospitalized After Eating Tainted Vegetables During the Democratic Convention..."

The irony is that, while Redbeard and his ilk make great hay of progressives' disenchantment with Obama, they silently tolerate (or attempt to joke away) the myriad flip-flops, lies and deceit of John McCain.

So, Redbeard, you've effectively demonstrated that these progressives seem to have more integrity to their core beliefs than do conservatives. How's that working for you?

"Ilk" is such a 1980's word.

Now when have I silently tolerated McCain's problems? As I recall, I even said I agree with you in your assessment of his flubs. But that seems not to be enough for you. Sorry, but I have made myself quite clear on McCain and the reason that staunch conservatives will be voting for him, warts and all, in order to stop the pending train wreck that is Obama. If you chose not to understand, or to deliberately twist what I have posted, I can't stop you.

As for your last paragraph, you have entirely missed the target. Hell, you missed the wall the target is hung on. Your leftists friends do have strong core values. Wrong ones, but their dedication to those wrongheaded values is not the point here in the slightest. The target, Wes, is Obama. And the point is that he has alienated a large number of his leftist supporters by means of his cold and calculated and disingenuous shift to the middle.

Obama is a phony, an extreme left idealogue trying to pass himself off to the moderate voter base as being one of them. Seems to me that he actually thought he was omnipotent and that could do so and no one would care. Can we say hubris?

Update: Apparently, it would seem that The New Yorker is now one of my "ilk."

"tears in his medicinal marijuana slit eyes . . . using only green methods of water and humus"

Damn, I gotta admit, that's good stuff!

Thanks Tom, you crax me up this morning.

"the point is that [Obama] has alienated a large number of his leftist supporters by means of his cold and calculated and disingenuous shift to the middle. Obama is a phony, an extreme left idealogue trying to pass himself off to the moderate voter base as being one of them."

One large reason--probably the major reason--the GOP's narrative is crashing and burning so very badly is that's absolutely incoherent gibberish.

"Obama is a cold calculated unprincipled extreme left zealot without a single core belief whose armies of similar radical extreme left ideologues are deserting him because of his phony posing as a moderate" ?? It's all just waaaay too much hysterical silliness for even the most zombified Kool-Aid drinkers to swallow.

I'll say one thing, though: one can't overstate the entertainment value of Republican robots trying to parrot this and still keep their faces straight.

This is VERY bad news...
liberals NEVER remove their bumper stickers...
they stay there until they crack and peel off one milimeter at a time...
they're there forever... as a token of their liberalism... like a tramp stamp.

(keeps them from throwing them away and contributing to global warming... so I'm told)

I think that's on both sides, skinny; I still spot Reagan/Bush stickers on some local pickup trucks. (laugh)

Best bumper sticker I've seen lately: "Read The Constitution"

"Rebeard and his ilk..."?

Taking things a little personally, aren't we?

I like having ilk. Sounds like a posse, or a crew, or an entourage, or something equally important.

"Ilk" simply means "sort" or "kind." As Redbeard himself wrote:

Those of us on the conservative side have always known what was going on,

That "ilk" contains everyone who criticizes Obama for perceived changes in his policy positions while--whether tacitly or overtly--accepting the exact same behavior from McCain. Obama is "not to be trusted," but McCain gets a pass for the same things?

Now, had I written "Redbeard and his elk," THAT would have been personal. (laugh)

I'm just glad you'd didn't bring my elk into it!

Obama's massive problems and McCain's lesser problems are not even remotely equal.

It seems that most of your "massive problems" come down to character assassination ("he can't be trusted!" "If you support him, you want to hurt America!") or guilt-by-association ("he sat on a board with THIS guy! His pastor's a twit! His friend got indicted!").

For those of us who step back and see the exact same behavior from both sides, these aren't "massive problems."

Virtually all of Obama's policies are wrong, some frighteningly so. Those are his massive problems.

"Virtually all of Obama's policies are wrong"

That'd sound far more impressive if you devoted a few nanoseconds to splaining what's wrong with them. Constantly engaging instead in character assasination and guilt-by-association and shrieking "Obama dropped another gun wrapper on someone's lawn" strongly suggests you can't.