Letters to the Editor
KateTex
Published Letters: 641 Editor's Choice: 4
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@oneguy
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How long have you been delusional? Would you care to tell us how, when, and where this "streak of integrity" has been evidenced by Obama? Would this have been in the hardball politics he used to win his seat in the IL legislature? His betrayal of one of his earliest mentors, Alice Palmer? His promise, when he won the seat, that he wouldn't be running for the U.S. Senate any time soon? His hand in glove, long running relationship with Rezko (about which he has lied - extensively)? His lack of compassion for those who suffered from Rezko & Co's poorly built, poorly maintained, sometimes never built low-income housing (made possible by funds from blatant sweetheart deals)? His willingness to be a glory hog in his early days in the IL legislature, taking credit for the hard work of others (a tactic he tried to repeat in the U.S. Senate)?
How about his open condescension toward Hillary Clinton? His complicity in the smearing of the Clintons, beginning in SC? His ever-changing story about his stance on the Iraq war? His lies about having had no awareness of Rev. Wright's toxic preaching over a 20-year period? His penchant for telling one story in public, another in private? His casual betrayal of his now-elderly grandmother, whom he cast as a typical white bigot? I mean, the list is getting longer by the day. And yet you choose to ignore it.
As for Obama's 'calm demeanor' - might this not have something to do with the ice water content of his veins?
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@xufapema - the Rezko story, cont'd
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My, what nice phraseology you Obamaites choose to employ. Here's something I didn't 'pull out of my ass', to borrow a dainty expression. CBS news summarized the information contained in this piece on its online op-ed page today. So please don't try to reduce the relevance of the content by equating it with the National Enquirer. You will notice that Obama is mentioned at a number of important junctures as pertains to his close, very close involvement with a number of major players in the latest eruption of corruption in Chicagoland:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_080404_barack_obama___opera.htm
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@oneguy
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I just read your previous post again and am wondering now if it wasn't a cut and paste affair, courtesy of some Obama talking points site. I notice that, in your response to me, you didn't begin to address the personal talking points compiled all by my ownself. Can you counter any of them?
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@xufapema
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, can you counter any of the factual information (and there's a lot of it in that recounting) which ties Obama directly to some of the city's most corrupt figures? As I said in my previous post, this story was picked up by CBS news online; theirs was obviously a summary pulled from the Pringle story. The CBS account drew its own conclusions from the verifiable stuff, and they didn't augur well for Obama.
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@ xuma - part II
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You forget: Obama dwells on a much higher moral plane than that inhabited by Clinton, the political equivalent of pond scum. So your argument about 'early clients' doesn't begin to hold water. Obama's the 'transformative' guy, right? On what evidence is this claim based, exactly?
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@xufapema
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "You seem to be against him because he's almost as bad as Hillary Clinton. Which just leads me to wonder why you support Clinton if shes as bad as Obama in your eyes."
You completely missed the sarcasm in my post. My characterization of Clinton as 'pond scum' is hardly my opinion, but rather the image of her promoted by far too many Obama supporters (I begin to think a majority). I have come to believe that Obama has the moral integrity of a minor mobster and don't begin to understand why his many, many failings (and outright lies) are barely touched upon by the MSM. But then, the latter has its own agenda and fairness to Hillary Clinton is obviously not on it. Coverage of this campaign season is actually frightening in its baldfaced bias in favor of the deeply flawed Obama. Obviously, this does not bode well for the future. But it's certainly making a whole lot of Obamaites feel pretty smug - for the moment.
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@Hutman
[Read the article: Barack Obama in suspended animation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How can you state with a straight face that the op-ed piece (which contains tons of factual information) I "dredged up" is a year old? If you'll notice, it's datelined April 4, 2008. That would be all of two days ago. Much of the (extensive) factual information in this piece was gleaned straight from the ongoing Rezko trial (a name which I do not recall ever misspelling - quibble quibble); either that, or from other perfectly legitimate, verifiable sources. Do you suppose the writer is up for a large pile of libel lawsuits? I would think not.
As for your proposition that the granny story is so yesterday - are you kidding? Another poster cited Obama's much earlier, autobiographical account of the incident in question. Obama's pull-myself-out-of-the-ditch speech put an entirely different construction on granny's reaction to a SPECIFIC black man who frightened her at a bus stop. The Speech made it sound as if granny, like most 'typical' white people, had some sort of ingrained prejudice against blacks in general. So yes, Obama did use his grandmother, much to his discredit, and nothing he has since said exonerates him.
As for hewing to the liberal line come November if Obama wins the Democratic nomination, I'll just paraphrase Michelle and say, "Well, I'd really have to think about that."