Those were Obama’s words as he curtly walked out on a press conference earlier today, a sign of the continuing deterioration of the relationship between Obama and the press. As the Rezko trial begins and more and more evidence mounts that Obama has been rather untruthful (shocking!) with the press about his relationship with Rezko.
From Obama’s best friend in the media MSNBC;
From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Getting His Money and Raising It, Too? Washiongton Post
Friday, February 22, 2008; A10
Last week, a coalition of advocacy groups, including Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, expressed “deep concern” that Sen. Barack Obama might wriggle out of what they depicted as a “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election. The Obama campaign denies making a formal promise Read the rest of this entry »
Remember when Hillary Clinton pointed out Barack’s numerous present votes (rather than taking a stand) on abortion? As always, Barack Read the rest of this entry »
The media refuses to point out that for all his talk of wanting to get away from “politics as usual” Obama has been its biggest supporter. Throughout this campaign Obama has levied false charges against Clinton, using tactics that can only be compared Read the rest of this entry »
Barack Obama likes to use the word ‘disingenuous,’ perhaps because he wrote the book on it. The definition of disingenuous is; lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: His excuse was rather disingenuous. Much of Barack Obama’s campaign thus far fits well within Read the rest of this entry »
The following is the complete article on Obama’s ruthless, and successful, effort to knock all other challengers off the ballot when he ran for state senate. Obama has never won a truly contested election. He lost when he ran against Read the rest of this entry »
With Super Tuesday scheduled two days from now, I am listing information that many of his supporters should know before they go out Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve discussed the meaningless pledge by Obama not to take money from federally registered lobbyists here. Further evidence of his disingenuousness, if not outright lying, Read the rest of this entry »
The following appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times days after Obama was elected to the senate.
Ridiculing it as “a silly question,” Democrat Barack Obama pledged Wednesday he would resist any overtures to run for president or vice president before the end of his six-year term as a U.S. senator. Read the rest of this entry »
Rezko is the smoking gun that McCain can’t wait to exploit. I’m not sure of course, but I think it’s likely the reason republicans have been working so hard to get Obama to be the Dem nominee, as evidenced by the fact that they have spent millions in several primaries advertising against Clinton, and none on Obama, and have also voted for him in huge numbers in a number of primaries that weren’t so close on the Republican side.
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.