Obama Sounding More And More Republican---Attacks Fellow Democrats

Barack Obama, under the masquerade of "change", is eerily sounding more and more like a Republican---that is---attacking some of the most well respected Democrats.  

If all his talk of a social security "crisis" wasn't sounding Republican enough for you, it was just yesterday afternoon in Iowa when Obama went after, get this, former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John Kerry, saying:

"I don't want to go into the next election starting off with half the country already not wanting to vote for Democrats -- we've done that in 2004, 2000."

Obama proceeded to make the case that it was Gore and Kerry's fault that they were not elected; that somehow he is a much better Democrat than they.  

And although he tackled Sen. Hillary Clinton on the issues and on policies in the past (which is fair game in an election), he is now going after her character, just yesterday calling her "just like George W. Bush."  Now I understand that he and many others may not agree with Sen. Clinton's positions, but it is factually inaccurate, not to mention just plain insulting, to make the case that Hillary Clinton is a Bush clone.  Obama also recently attacked Hillary's experience saying that is was limited to "having tea" with foreign officials.  You just have to look at her record as First Lady and Senator to know that she did much more than that.  This from the same guy whose claim to foreign policy experience comes from spending 4 years overseas when he was a child.    

Obama then went on to attack former President Bill Clinton, telling the audience that Bill resented him because he was new to Washington and stood for change.  He went on to imply that he (Obama) has more experience now than Bill did when running in '92.  (hmm...let's see, Bill was Attorney General for 2 years and Governor for 12 years.  Thats a total of 14 years being elected by the entire state.  Obama, on the other hand, was elected by just one district to a State Senate seat, which hardly prepares you for the Presidency, for 7 years.  Obama has just been in the U.S. Senate for 3 years, one year of which he has been absent more than any other Senator because of his campaign.---- You decide who had more experience----it should be pretty clear.)

Democrats need to look long and hard at this guy.  Maybe he thinks that if he acts more like a Republican and insults his fellow, well respected Democrats, he will win over more GOP votes.  And he maybe right on that account.  But Democratic caucus goers and primary voters need to decide if thats what they really want---someone who is not only willing, but eager to go after people from his own party, just to gain the votes of people from the opposing isle.  I suppose I could attribute his going after Bill and Hillary to desperation in this election, but Gore and Kerry?  What does he hope to accomplish by going after them and insinuating that he is a better Democrat than they are?  Well, I have news for him, he is not, nor will ever be, as good of a Democrat as Al Gore or John Kerry.  Or for that matter, Bill and Hillary.