Posted on 07/15/2008 2:03:43 PM PDT by bstein80
While The New Yorker’s cartoon depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama as radical terrorists is making lots of news, the interesting article inside the magazine on his rise in politics seems to be getting little attention. But this is one of the best articles I’ve read about Obama, and all voters should be familiar with its content.
The theme of the 18 page article by Ryan Lizza entitled, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama“, is that Obama is a very practical politician not afraid to do what it takes to win. Lizza recounts the story of Obama using technicalities to bump his primary opponents off the ballot in his race for the Illinois Senate. Lizza writes, “he was able to remove not just Palmer’s name from the ballot but the name of every other opponent as well.” This doesn’t sound like “a new style of politics” but like the rough and tumble Chicago politics that Obama was engaged in for the last few years.
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It has to remind us of the ascension to the national political scene of the obscene Clinton Duo who rose from rags to riches when they moved from Arcancide's goobernor's mansion to the White House where Billy Goat desecrated the oval office by being the first president to masturbate into the sink of the office's restroom.
“Rapid rise” is just another way of saying he has never yet accomplished anything, not in private life, not in public life.
He is a cypher. He is whatever you want him to be. He says whatever you want him to say. He stands for whatever you want him to stand for.
He shines with the reflected light of a million dreamers’ dreams. What he is under the surface they neither know nor care. What he has done or not done is of no importance. What matters is that he “is”.
Well said.
The only credentials Hussein can offer up are that of a corrupt Chicago politician.
Way too many people think one votes for an individual. Not true. One votes for all of the friends, supporters and assorted hacks of the candidate as well as the party. President Bush is a class act. Beginning with the selection of Cheney as VP, he brought mature, experienced adults with him.
Just as Clinton brought his Arkansas henchmen, BO will bring the likes of Acorn, Ayers, Dohrn, Wright . . . to once again soil the Presidency.
GRRRREAT FReeper comments BUMP!
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