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This video shows that, while Juan Williams likes Sen. Obama, he isn’t taken in by Sen. Obama’s postpartisan rhetoric, finding it empty. He did find Sen. McCain’s history replete with examples of his bipartisan leanings.

Here’s the transcript of Williams’ statement:

“You think of everything from campaign finance to immigration and on, there’s John McCain working across party lines. Sen. Obama doesn’t have a record. Certainly he can make the claim and he can hold himself up as pure and trying to reach for a new generation of postpartisan politics but he has to do so based largely on rhetoric and wishful thinking because he doesn’t have the record.

There isn’t any animosity in Juan Williams’ voice. Instead, he’s just stating matter-of-factly (and accurately, I might add) that Sen. Obama’s bipartisan record is thin to nonexistent.

This morning, Charles Krauthammer said something insightful in this column:

Obama’s vice presidential selection, Joe Biden, naturally advertised his patron’s virtues, such as the fact that he had “reached across party lines to … keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists.” But securing loose nukes is as bipartisan as motherhood and as uncontroversial as apple pie. The measure was so minimal that it passed by voice vote and received near zero media coverage.

That’s really bucking the party, huh? Sen. Obama’s record isn’t exactly filled with profiles in courage.

If he were to have a spine, why would he have voted present on so many bills during his time in the Illinois state senate? That isn’t the mark of a leader. That’s the mark of a follower, albeit a well-spoken follower.

That’s what we should take away from Sen. Obama: He speaks well but he hasn’t shown us proof that he’s a postpartisan politician.

That’s why I keep asking this question:

Where’s the beef?

Technorati Tags: Obama, Juan Williams, Charles Krauthammer, YouTube, Postpartisanship, John McCain, Bipartisanship, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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