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Obama Mythology 101

By Lin Farley • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross-posted from MyDD 
Here are the facts, not the spin:
State Sen. Obama helped secure thousands in state money for a Chicago entrepreneur who had paid him as a legal adviser.
Robert Blackwell, a Chicago entrepreneur also became an Obama donor.
Obama’s Ethics disclosure forms do not make the link clear.
William Ayers Employed Barack Obama for eight years.
The Los […]



Obama Mythology 101

By Lin Farley • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross-posted from MyDD 
Here are the facts, not the spin:
State Sen. Obama helped secure thousands in state money for a Chicago entrepreneur who had paid him as a legal adviser.
Robert Blackwell, a Chicago entrepreneur also became an Obama donor.
Obama’s Ethics disclosure forms do not make the link clear.
William Ayers Employed Barack Obama for eight years.
The Los […]



My Weather Underground

By Lin Farley • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Cross posted from SavagePolitics.com 
by Lin Farley
It is amazing how often this primary season has prompted me to haul out a spyglass to peer back into my life. A lot of the memories are soft focus now, a little more so with each passing year; but the time period from the early 60’s to the end […]



The Ties That Bind

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 20th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Senator Barack Obama has been welcomed by America’s mainstream media with open arms, due in part to a sincere desire in the hearts of a majority of Americans to get beyond race and move this country into a new era of understanding.  Sadly, I believe they have anointed the wrong person to take us there.
Whatever conciliatory words were spoken in […]



How Radical is Radical?

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

As more tapes of Barack Obama’s vitriolic preacher Jeremiah Wright are released, Senator Obama’s chances of holding on to his lead in the race for the presidential nomination narrow.  Americans may not know if Obama shares the same level of anger at their country that Wright seems to feel, but my instinct says they don’t […]