President Houdini

Personally, I’m pretty excited about having a magician as a president.

Hmm, but Jennifer Rubin seems to think perhaps we cannot fully take him at his word?

The surest clue to a politician’s intentions is his record, not his campaign rhetoric. Obama’s is fairly clear. Up through 2002 he sat on the Woods Fund and gave out money to a hodgepodge of left-leaning groups including ACORN and the Arab American Action Network. As a state senator he opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and favored strict gun control. As a U.S. Senator he was rated the most liberal (with some pretty liberal competition) — voting to cut off funding for troops and against both Justices Roberts and Alito and supporting the Democratic party line on everything from taxes to offshore drilling. He has been exquisitely sensitive to Big Labor’s agenda (e.g. opposing the Colombia Free Trade agreement, helping to sink immigration reform, and favoring the Orwellian-sounding Employee Free Choice Act).

Please try not to spoil the act, Jennifer! Even McCain is playing nice. As Krauthammer points out, McCain gambled too many times while Obama has sat back, played it safe, and let the clock continue to run out. All he has to do is be the “not from the same party as George Bush” candidate, and the Oval Office is his. McCain made a decision not to run as himself, and instead to run as “generic Republican” while Obama somehow duped the public and successfully positioned himself in the political center, the “uniter” with the leftist record.

Excuse me while I go dig a hole to hide in for the next four years.