I watched with nausea as Obama spoke a while back in Minneapolis and praised and praised the popular former senator from Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, who unfortunately was killed several years ago in a plane crash.
I couldn’t help but think of David Sirota’s article about Obama in The Nation, Mr. Obama goes to Washington, in which Obama refers to Wellstone as a gadfly. Gadfly is defined as; a persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.
In a similar vein and a must read is Harper’s Magazine’s, Barack Obama Inc.
When I fly in an airplane I want the pilot with the most experience, not the one who can inspire hope in me that I get to where I am going. When I pay my taxes, I want the person filing them to be experienced, not the Read the rest of this entry »
Even though I dislike a lot about Obama, I would have always said he is a very intelligent man, now I’m beginning to wonder. In addition to this video, and this video, there’s the below video…
As Barack Obama says, he stands for “change we can believe in,” a dynamic platform creeping into the rhetoric of many contenders, and notably shared by Republican Mit Romney.
As it turns out, standing for change without committing to much in particular (in public discourse) allows voters to give “change” any meaning they wish, and as evidenced by Obama’s support from groups with markedly Read the rest of this entry »
Obama, when examining his record in Illinois, seems to use that term rather loosely. In Obama’s Audacity Gap, Sunil Garg reminds us of Obama’s less than audacious career in Illinois politics.
For every paragraph the article contains, there’s pages more to be written. If republicans thought Whitewater was a boon, wait till they start with Obama and Rezko.