Letters to the Editor
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simple correct for a LW
Obama has lived in second-world countries and traveled extensively.
Well duh. America is a second world country, after all. I hate how no one understands what "first," "second," and "third world" actually mean.
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@Rosenkavalier
Zing! That was terribly unhip of me, but I also lapse into saying things like "Post-war" whatever. Can't seem to get over having been born in that period. Anyway, duly noted. Obama's lived in some countries with planned economies. Damn, that sounds awkward, though. I'll have to get past my Sauvy orientation, as he would, at the time, have called Kenya and Indonesia (rightfully) third-world countries at the time he coined that term. Soviet bloc countries were then second-world. We're talking mid-60s now, so maybe Mr. Obama actually lived in some developing countries. Anyway, he's had some interesting residential experience, I think we can agree on that. I'm not so sure I'd buy the US as second-world country, at least not quite yet. We are working our way there, though. Fast.
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Forget the phone
This is what the Chicago Tribune editorial page had to say Thursday about the Senator from Hyde Park:
"Obama's greatest discomfort is self-inflicted. He's never submitted to a full vetting of his ties to indicted Chicago businessman Tony Rezko. This page repeatedly has urged him to do so, to no avail. That failure to fully engage the Rezko connection left Obama telling reporters Monday in Texas that he'd happily answer questions about Rezko -- even as he scooted off without answering many of those questions.
Rezko's trial now is the background music to Obama's campaign. And the volume surely will increase before it fades. About that vetting, Senator: Better late than never."
For all those Obama fans who think Rezko doesn't count and will magically fade away...uh uh, no it won't. This reminds me all too much of Louisiana's indicted congressman Wm. Jefferson, who has yet to let the public in on his 'honorable explanation' of that $90,000 in freezer money. Stay tuned.
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Not Hillary, Unfair Fighter and Divider, but Barack the Fair Fighter & Uniter
Obama Returned Rezko Money Why Won’t Hillary Return Money to IPA, a Company accused of sexually harassing women?
Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals at a company accused of widespread sexual harassment, and whose CEO is a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record, federal campaign records show.
The federal government has accused the Illinois management consulting firm, International Profit Associates, or IPA, of a brazen pattern of sexual harassment including “sexual assaults,” “degrading anti-female language” and “obscene suggestions.”
In a 2001 lawsuit full of lurid details, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that 103 women employees at IPA were victimized for years. The civil case is ongoing, and IPA vigorously denies the allegations.
“This is by far, hands down, the worst case I’ve ever experienced,” said Diane Smason, one of the EEOC lawyers handling the lawsuit. “Every woman there experienced sex harassment, they were part of a hostile work environment of sex harassment. And this occurred from the top down.”
Sen. Clinton’s spokesman, Howard Wolfson, told NBC News in a statement that the senator decided to keep the funds because the lawsuit is “ongoing” and because none of the sexual harassment allegations has been proven in court.
“With regard to the pending harassment suit, as a general matter, the campaign assesses findings of fact in deciding whether to return contributions,” Wolfson said.
From NBC’s Lisa Myers and Jim Popkin, Feb. 29, 2008.
America must begin to stand up for her democracy. We cannot allow anyone to further take our Democracy from us, be it the Clintons’, the Bush’s or anyone else. In the current delegate controversy, Camp Clinton must follow the Rules like everyone else and not be allowed to change the game in the middle. They know this. They cannot be allowed to Cheat the System for their own aggrandizement and selfish grasping of power. There must be a fair and equitable resolution to this matter.
As for Hillary’s superior foreign experience, Hillary did not think it important enough to read the National Intelligence Report and so she voted Yes on a War/Mistake that should have never been waged instead of having the intelligence and Judgment to say No, as other Senators did, and stated at the time, that we must not invade Iraq who did not bomb us on 911, but instead finish the job in Afghanistan. This makes her qualifyingly ineligible for the top job as commander-in-chief. Just because she surrounds herself with a bunch of generals does not make her qualified. Camp Clinton loves to stage phony events for the perception to make us think something that is not, is -- Masters of Spin & Hype and Delusion, often busing people in to their events to make the crowd look bigger than it is!
Those of us who care for our Democracy must begin to call CNN, MSNBC, NBC, etc. and ask them to begin to Vet Hillary Clinton and ask the questions they should be asking like why she has not returned the money back to IPA, and about their Camp contacting Canda first in the Naftagate controversy, and to stop the unfair and uneven reporting of just Obama’s negatives. It is an illusion that the press has been soft on her, as we know Camp Clinton are the Masters of Spin.
MEDIA OWES OBAMA AN APOLOGY AND UPDATE ON NAFATAGATE, CALL INITIATED BY CLINTON:
Naftagate was the work of an initial call from the Clinton camp and Bush’s Canadian allie, Stephen Harper in an attemp to sabotage Obama and the democrats, which they did!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080305.wharpleak0305/BNStory/National/home
Let the Vetting Begin –
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President Obama's Inaugural Speech
I can already tell you the content of a President Barack Obama Inaugural Speech; it'll be two words long:
"Now, what?"
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IIf it's Obama, I certainly hope that his foreign policy aide, Samantha Power, isn't at his elbow
I saw Ms. Power (Irish=born btw) being interviewed by the consummate Jeremy Paxman on BBC2 "Newsnight". She is in this neck-of-the-woods promoting her book and I was not surprised that Paxman concentrated on her involvement with the Obama campaign rather than her book on an assassinated U.N. official. What did surprise me, however, was how hyper Samantha Power seemed. Paxman has the reputation of taking no prisoners but he was perfectly polite to her, almost laconic in his demeanour. Her hands never stopped moving as she gesticulated throughout the interview and this was terribly distracting. Between the hand movements, tossing back her long hair and her rapid ten-to-the-dozen way of speaking, I couldn't get any depth at all in what she said.
Now Samantha Power has been shooting-off her mouth to a journalist working for "The Scotsman" confiding to the Scot that Hillary Clinton is "a monster". Yet another rescue operation has to be put in place with Samantha saying she didn't mean it, Mr. Burton tut-tutting like mad and Mr. Obama telling everyone that he's above all that type of malign comment to a foreign press on the monstrosity of a rival candidate. Answering the phone? Some of the advisers, Power and Goolsbee, shouldn't be left near a box of matches.