Here is quote from your post that was salient:

"...Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago economics department--though he's better known these days for having met with Canadian government officials to assure them that the Obama campaign's previous anti-NAFTA rhetoric "should be viewed as more political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans."

Although it does not address the top down government, which by the way JB was another good point, it does demonstrat how BO says one thing yet does another.

Is this planned or is are these flaws that are swept under the rug?

"...should be viewed as more political positioning that a clear articulation of policy..."

And the same wink and nod to Rev Wright:

"MODERATOR: What is your motivation for characterizing Senator Obama’s response to you as, quote, “what a politician had to say”? What do you mean by that?

WRIGHT: What I mean is what several of my white friends and several of my white, Jewish friends have written me and said to me. They’ve said, “You’re a Christian. You understand forgiveness. We both know that, if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected.”

Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls, Huffington, whoever’s doing the polls. Preachers say what they say because they’re pastors. They have a different person to whom they’re accountable.

As I said, whether he gets elected or not, I’m still going to have to be answerable to God November 5th and January 21st. That’s what I mean. I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do.

I am not running for office. I am hoping to be vice president."

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An interesting set of accounts on BO.

Does BO pull these people aside and say that it is all BS? That he does not really mean what he says?