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Posted on 05.15.08 by dancurry @ 9:49 am
Our once-respected national newsmagazines are nothing more than propaganda journals. I can’t remember the last time I bought one, although I was browsing through the latest Newsweek to read the profiles of Barack Obama’s advisors. Read the last last few lines of the David Axelrod blurb.
Are you kidding me? David Axelrod is known in Chicago for playing rough in campaigns. Anybody remember Al Hofeld? Idealist? He just did work for the antithesis of idealism–Rahm Emanuel. I could go on about Axelrod’s past but that’s not the point. This is an obvious attempt to make Axelrod’s political work look noble compared to Rove’s because of the magazine’s ideological bias. Axelrod is a top level advisor/strategist who made it there by playing rough when he needed to. The same can be said of Rove, but there’s not a top strategist in recent American history who possesses his combination of political, historical and policy knowledge. Yet Newsweek tries to make Rove sound like the pure hatchet-man instead of Axelrod, when the opposite is closer to the truth. Shamefully false. Pure propaganda. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 05.11.08 by dancurry @ 10:16 am
My mother won’t be around today to be doted upon on our one day celebration of motherhood. I’ll be celebrating nonetheless for the remarkable life she led and the gifts she gave me and my brother and sister. Shirley Mae Winn passed away two weeks ago in a St. Louis suburb after a courageous battle against cancer. My mother was a memorable, gutsy, outspoken woman who for many years was a single mother, working downtown during the day and tending to her children’s needs at night and on weekends. She was a leader in the anti-alcohol community in St. Louis for a time as she was dealing with my father’s alcohol addiction. Later, she fought the city, state and federal government as they expanded Lambert International Airport and seized the house I grew up in. She loved to debate politics and religion and was passionate when discussing both. She watched me play hundreds of football and baseball games in little league, high school and college and was there every time I stumbled in life. My mother was never famous but to me she was better than any movie star or celebrity. Today, on the day we celebrate mothers everywhere, I am sad that I can’t pick up the phone and call mine. I’m happy in knowing that Shirley Mae Winn led a productive and successful life, meaning that she was a successful mother. I was blessed. Thanks, mom. |
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Posted on 04.27.08 by dancurry @ 9:39 pm
As I said more than a year ago, it is extremely significant that in early 2007, when Barack Obama was not the presumptive nominee, the ultra-liberal Rolling Stone magazine looked at Obama’s church and left wing leanings and titled its profile, “The Radical Roots of Barack Obama.”
Once the Rev. Wright videotape surfaced, Rolling Stone changed the title to protect Obama. Hugh Hewitt has obtained extended audio of Wright’s sermons so Americans can judge for themselves whether the evil news media is distorting what he was saying. When the Rolling Stone listened last year, it understood Rev. Wright perfectly. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.27.08 by dancurry @ 11:16 am
Update: Sorry, I was brain dead when I wrote this and said parental notification when I meant partial-birth abortion. The point of the post still stands. I caught only part of the Barack Obama interview this morning on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. I regard Wallace as the best of the Sunday morning interviewers, but he missed an obvious follow-up when Obama said he was in favor of banning partial-birth abortion.
Democrats regularly say they are “for” a ban on partial-birth abortion as long as there’s an exception for the mother’s “health.” Such a dodge regularly works to deceive reporters who don’t understand the issue. Everybody in politics knows that such an exemption is such a massive loophole that it is no longer intellectually honest to call it a ban. Chris Wallace, I’m sure, knows this and may have been stunned that Obama so brazenly made this proclamation with a straight face. Obama knows this as well. He knows that 70 to 80 percent of the American public favors a real ban on partial-birth abortion and he doesn’t want to appear extreme. So, instead, he lies. Here’s the transcript of the interview. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.22.08 by dancurry @ 8:28 pm
Ironically, the person most responsible for change in Illinois was Barack Obama’s predecessor, former US Senator Peter Fitzgerald, a Republican. The more the pay-to-play investigation into Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s campaign/administration unfolds, the more that becomes apparent. The more evidence that emerges, the more it places Obama on the side of status quo/corruption and shows just how significant it was that Fitzgerald bucked his own party and chose U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald over its objections. Patrick Fitzgerald dumped another bombshell on Blagojevich today in a plea agreement devastating to both Blagojevich and one of his two two fundraisers and operatives, Tony Rezko.
Rezko, in the midst of his corruption trial, suddenly looks like a sure bet to be convicted. That is more bad news for Obama, who, while Rezko was in the federal cross hairs, accepted his help in buying his $1.6 million mansion. Just as significantly, Obama did exactly zero to speak out or stop the rampant corruption that has been openly percolating in his home state during his rise to power nationally. He acted like an old time pol by looking the other way. Meanwhile, Fitzgerald, a man I had the honor to work for, risked his political future by alienating his own political party when it wanted to put a safer pick in the U.S. Attorney’s office. Don’t be deceived by Obama’s declaration that he helped pass ethics legislation in the state senate. That legislation coincided with the most corrupt period in state government history so anyone looking at results, not rhetoric, shouldn’t be impressed. The Blagojevich corruption scandal will just get worse, culminating in the indictment of the governor. Obama’s chance to stand up and be counted in Illinois has long since passed. The self-proclaimed change agent can’t change that sorry history. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.21.08 by dancurry @ 11:32 am
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is embroiled in a sordid Animal House-like sexual harassment scandal that threatens to erase gains Democrats have made in that state, as chronicled today by Tribune reporter Andrew Zajac, who used to work in that state. Here’s a hint to Ohio reporters: Dann’s sexual harassment problems might not be confined to Ohio. He might have helped solicit a mysterious $50,000 contribution from an Illinois firm entangled in the biggest and most egregious sexual harassment case ever filed by the federal government in Chicago, covering a six-state Midwest region. I wrote about this donation a few months ago. It’s time for Dann to answer the question. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.17.08 by dancurry @ 8:52 pm
After whining all day about the “trivial” nature of last night’s Democratic presidential debate, candidate Barack Obama put the campaign back on a serious plane by appearing on the Colbert Report. Barack Obama, liberals
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Posted on 04.17.08 by dancurry @ 8:41 pm
We’ve said here for months that the MSM was vastly overrating the Democratic field for president. In terms of qualifications, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton always ranked fourth and fifth behind John McCain, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Now that the MSM is finally asking Obama a few pointed questions, his glaring weaknesses in the fall are becoming apparent. He’s a far left liberal who is smart but intellectually lazy. His positions are a hodgepodge of illogicisms stitched together with only one theme: opposition to President Bush. He complained about the questioning last night, saying it was trivial.
However, when the discussion turned to substance, Obama did just as poorly as he did on the “trivia.” His position on taxes is bizarre. One second he says he won’t raise taxes on anyone with income under $250,000 and in the next breath he says he wants to raise capital gains taxes, which affect millions under the $250K threshold. Does he think we won’t catch that whopper? Gas prices? Barack is for investigating the oil companies for collusion, imposing a large windfall profits tax and investing more money for research. Boy, there are some original ideas. These same hackneyed bromides are trotted out every four years by Democrats. They represent politics, not an understanding of economics. Gas prices are high because of supply and demand. Impose higher taxes on the oil companies and they will do less research, not more. Obama is not change. Obama is a disaster in the making for Democrats. He could lose big in November. Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.15.08 by dancurry @ 9:38 am
For the first time I can remember, someone in the Illinois media pointed out the stunning hypocrisy of Illinois Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn. This is from the lead paragraph of a David Mendell story in today’s Tribune. Mendell is an excellent reporter who regularly writes a straight, tough story. He wrote the best Barack Obama book out there, From Promise to Power, which should be required reading for anyone interested in this year’s presidential campaign.
For those not familiar with Quinn’s history, he has been a 20-year critic of Republican corruption. When he was elected Lt. Governor alongside Blagojevich, his enthusiasm for reform was put on hold. He shut his mouth and benefitted from Blagojevich’s dirty fundraising to get re-elected on his ticket in 2006. Now that Blagojevich is dead meat politically, Quinn has found his “voice” once again and is inching back into the public spotlight with criticisms of his former benefactor.
In typical Quinn fashion, however, he is pointing the finger at Levine, not Rezko, who was one of Quinn’s largest campaign contributors. Those are hollow, misplaced words. The only people who knew Levine was dirty at the time of his reappointment was the Blagojevich inner circle consisting of Rezko and indicted cohort Chris Kelly. So again Quinn escapes the larger, more relevant question: Why did you remain silent in 2005 and 2006 when it was obvious to anyone who was paying attention that the $57.8 million Blagojevich fundraising operation was the dirtiest in Illinois history? Technorati Tags:
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Posted on 04.15.08 by dancurry @ 7:47 am
Barack Obama faces the wrath of the “professional press.” Not really. More swooning by AP over BO. Technorati Tags:
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