Letters to the Editor
ShawnWM
Published Letters: 1029 Editor's Choice: 4
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Give it up, Fester. Obamateur has voted for Iraq ever since he's been in the Senate.
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Give it up already Uncle Fester/RonSmith/chilihab and whoever else you go by.
Obamateur had the luxury of NOT being there for the preauth vote and making a silly speech from the sidelines. He had no skin in it and certainly wasn't representing the 9/11 Ground Zero. Since then he's voted consistently with George W. Bush on Iraq which is a pretty good indicator he'd have been too chickenshit (as usual) to vote any other way if he HAD been there for the preauth vote.
When it comes down to it the Obamateur is making an entire campaign indeed out of a safe speech made in the sidelines.
It takes a particularly kind of audacity (and idiocy) to build a campaign on that.
Nobody trusts him on foreign policy and rightfully so in my opinion. That blathering piece of idiocy he made about going back to Iraq if al Quaida showed up proves it.
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The Obamateur and Rezko and other corruptions
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all anyone who wants to throw Wastewater in the face of Mrs. Clinton is either a whacked out rightwinger or someone completely bankrupt in morals. That was "investigated" by the most partisan person in town (aka Ken Starr, who was associated with Richard Mellon Scaife, Jesse Helms, and the Federalist Society). And even he after 8 full years closed shop with nothing. The same is true of ALL the bogus investigations the GOP threw which was why in the end they had a Kangaroo Court Impeachment over some consensual nookie with a willing intern.
With Obama OTOH, there is little more there than an 'alleged' association. I believe Mr. Rezko's fingerprints are firmly on deals that helped Mr. Mrs. "Proud of America for the First Time in their lives" get a pricey piece of personal real estate adjacent to Mr. Rezko's property. In the form of a multi-million dollar Beverly Hills style home. Not bad for folks representing the most destitute slums in Chicago, particularly considering to this day Obama has never been instrumental in pulling a single job into Illinois, much less South Chicago.
Similarly what Rezko was is being indicted for comes down to what happened to big amounts of taxpayer money: in the form of money allocated for public housing that didn't happen. Part of it did before Rezko shut it down - with tenents residing in it. And he even turned off their heat in the middle of the winter. Nice guy, eh? It was Obamateur who helped Rezko get those taxpayer funds.
Now that's not even getting into the Obamateur's mishaps Excelon and many other things.
But the bottom line is in the Obamateur and his rather loud wife what you see is a long history of them lining their own pockets without much regard to their constituency's interests.
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@KateEx
[Read the article: Obama's got ground game]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Marginally better than nothing. Interesting they sat on it till HRC was all but out of the picture. The Obamateur has been the cheapest crook of the worst sorts for the longest time. IMO< when his ugh wife and he were living in that mansion while having been the representative of and "activists" for the worst slums of Chicago it's very reminiscent of the televangelists that prey on the retirement funds of the gullible elderly.
RE: Well, at least a few of the 10 million may consider suicide when they read this story in Sunday's NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/us/politics/02rezko.html?pagewanted=print
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Obama's "relationship" with Rezko happens to be serious stuff
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]First of all he was supposed to be representing the poorest slums of Chicago, not securing a Beverly Hills style mansion with a well-known schister and arranging raises for his wife.
His long history with Rezko is indeed troubling to put it lightly. It doesn't just crack through this facade of altruism he's tried to present, but actually NUKES it.
Add to that all during this time he and Mrs. Proud to be American for the First time in her life were let's say doing a major upgrade on their lifestyle, not one single new job was brought into South Chicago.
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The "left wing" of the Democratic Party
[Read the article: Hillary at twilight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While I think Mrs. Clinton's done an admirable job of patience with this section the fact is not only AREN'T they the Democratic majority, but they've been instrumental in Democratic losses for 30 years.
They held out because Hubert Humprhrey was just too damned typical a Democrat and gave us Nixon instead (and all of his rightwing appointments and creations not the least of which was HMO's).
Then they scared off our working and elderly populist vote by insisting the Democratic party grandstand for every unsavory divisive issue from abortion to flag burning and gay marriage.
Hence Ronald Reagan and George Bush the 1st for 12 years.
When the Clinton's/Gore finally got in they griped and bitched incessently he wasn't liberal enough all while ironically the right was doing the exact opposite. Meanwhile the important thing was the Administration brought the best economy of our lifetimes and closed the hemmoraghes of red ink that had been incurred for 30 years. We actually had a bright future in 1999.
But when that was up they decided Gore just was too much like George W. Bush. Or something, and fell for the GOP's trap of Nader.
And now it's this clown, the Obamateur, who is more ego than substance and obviously isn't what he claims.
Who 'needs em I say. The Dem Party is in fact better off without the "leftwing". It's definitely past time to tell moveon.org to moveon.OUT While it was once a useful organization during the Clinton Kangaroo Court Impeachment, since then it's become a liability in the form of letting a very small number of voters yield far too much influence on the Party direction which has consistently led to big losses.