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Bewildered By Barack, From The Washington Times
WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is
distributed by the Republican National Committee and is an Op-Ed piece from
The Washington Times By Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA):
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By Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Op-Ed
July 19, 2008
[N]ext week, Sen. Barack Obama will visitGermany. If he has his way, the
senator will turn the capital ofBerlin into his own personal campaign prop.
...
Most disturbing is the presumptuousness with which the Obama campaign
plans to assume the mantle of JFK and Mr. Reagan. In all likelihood, Mr. Obama
will give a mea culpa on behalf of the American people for seven-and-a-half
cruel years of Bush unilateralism. Hopefully, he can find a moment to press
Germany and other NATO allies to step up their insufficient contributions to
the war inAfghanistan. Last time I checked, Islamic terrorism poses an
equally grave threat toEurope.
But either way, Senator Obama is no Kennedy or Reagan. Consider theBerlin
speeches the two former presidents -- sitting heads of state at the time, of
course -- delivered. ...
Obama may be charismatic and polished, but his politics are hardly the
radical departure he claims to represent. His brief legislative record in
Illinois and the U.S. Senate suggests a doctrinaire liberal. And though he
recently has lunged to the center, most notably on guns, NAFTA,Iraq and
wiretapping, Obama is conspicuously short on bold ideas that challenge his
party's orthodoxy or the status quo -- in other words, ideas that entail
political risk.
Contrast that with JFK's calls for huge income tax cuts and his challenge
for Americans to reach the moon in less than 10 years; Reagan's willingness to
withstand withering criticism of his desperately-needed supply-side economic
vision; and Reagan's steady determination to wear down the Soviets through
heavy defense spending, despite taunts equating his prized Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) with "Star Wars."
JFK and Reagan changed the course of history with their respective
speeches in West Berlin. They advanced the cause of freedom at ground zero of
the Cold War. An Obama campaign speech inBerlin would merely be a way to
score political points on the cheap. As he dresses himself in the garb of JFK
and Reagan, the American people are too smart to take the bait.
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