Agent of Change?

Barry Obambi likes to say...

"I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change."

But Barry learns quickly and the scientific community is united in that fact.

From The Washington Times/Inside Politics column...

Democrat Barack Obama was inclined to vote for John G. Roberts Jr. for Supreme Court chief justice back in 2005, but decided against it when told it could hurt him in the Democratic presidential contest, said the senator's chief of staff.

..."Talking with his aides, the Illinois Democrat expressed admiration for Roberts' intellect... Besides, Obama said, if he were president he wouldn't want his judicial nominees opposed simply on ideological grounds."

And then Pete Rouse, his chief of staff, "spoke up,"... "This was no Harvard moot-court exercise, he said. If Obama voted for Roberts, Rouse told him, people would remind him of that every time the Supreme Court issued another conservative ruling, something that could cripple a future presidential run. Obama took it in. And when the roll was called, he voted no."

...Mr. Obama praised his aide for guiding him back to a politically expedient position.

Barry Obambi on June 23, 2007...

"So let's rededicate ourselves to a new kind of politics - a politics of conscience."