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• Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:02 PM

  @ Lynx

  Yes, I do remember that collosal failure. The one that didn't have to be a failure except for her inability to communicate or work the media.

  It was a failure, but she's committed to that idea, 15 years later. Doesn't that say something to you?

  Well, she was the first woman partner at the Rose Law Firm.

  Hooray, she had some local connections. Obama taught classes in Constitutional Law. What'd she do at the Rose Law Firm?

  Whoa! What a way to denigrate her accomplishments. Do you know what it takes to become a partner in a law firm? A whole lot of very hard work.

  "In August 1974, she moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and became one of two female faculty members in the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,[62] where Bill Clinton also taught."

  Rodham joined the venerable Rose Law Firm, a bastion of Arkansan political and economic influence,[68] in February 1977,[69] specializing in patent infringement and intellectual property law,[33] while also working pro bono in child advocacy;[70] she rarely performed litigation work in court.[71]

  And what does any of that have to do with Landmark Legislation? You said Obama hadn't passed any and implied Clinton had, so what've you got?

  Not much, it's true.

  They already have a train-full about Clinton. You really want to hear them screaming about Vince Foster again or Whitewater or Travelgate or her husband's philanderings? It doesn't matter to them that there's nothing there and I don't really care what they try to dig up about either, it won't change how I vote.

  Well, now, how long do you want to keep hearing about Obama and madrassas? And how do you like the following (Barry's parents were communists! Run!):

  And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics.

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  Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family’s background, now that his chances of being president have increased so much.

  —LeCastor Read LeCastor's other letters
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