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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 […]



99 Problems? Make it 100

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

Barack Obama tried to “Wipe the Dirt Off His Shoulder” after a poor performance in the debate two nights ago.

What most of us “typical white people” don’t know is that Obama’s gesture is part of the Hip Hop Gangsta culture, and it stems from a song by artist Jay-Z.Jay-Z has endorsed Obama publicly […]



Who is this guy?

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Top Story

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”    
~ Barack Obama

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the […]



Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade, scolding Hillary for questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind2

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade about Hillary questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Obama’s Judgment of Small Town America a Bitter Pill

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Barack Obama was at one of three $2300 ticket fundraiser’s held on April 6th. This one was located on “Billionaire Row” in Pacific Heights, a very wealthy suburb of San Francisco. During the night, Obama made what I’m sure he thought was a thoughtful observation about the working class folks of Pennsylvania:
“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we […]



Goddamn Michigan and Florida!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 29th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

The Democratic Party is sinking in quicksand. The more time that goes by without consensus on the allocation of Florida’s primary votes, the more ridiculous the party looks. There is no justification for not allocating votes the way they would have been had the primary not been moved up by the Florida’s Republican Legislature. Both candidate’s names were on the ballot, neither candidate […]



Rules are Rules, Except When Parking

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Barack Obama is a stickler for the rules.
Except when it comes to parking citations. While a student at Harvard Law school, Barack Obama received a total of 17 parking violations between 1988 and 1991, 15 of which went unpaid until January of 2007.  Most of these tickets were for parking at a bus stop, not […]