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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 […]



Power, Self-Interest Key Principles for Obama

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Barack Obama, Politwix Blogs

In an eye-opening portrait of Obama written by Ryan Lizza of the New Republic, Lizza examines Obama’s political roots.
 ” Every strain of black political thought seemed to converge in Chicago in the 1980s. It was the intellectual center of black nationalism, the base both for Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns and for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of […]



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 […]



Illinois Blind Trust

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 14th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Support for Obama Would Be Leap of Faith 
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe has called Hillary Clinton the “Most secretive politician in America.”
Perhaps he doesn’t know enough about Obama.
Despite Obama’s calls for reform from corporate corruption, he has waded into some mighty gray waters himself. When he purchased his faux-Georgian mansion in June of 1995, he did it with the help […]



The Audacity of Nope

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Obama camp’s behind-the-scene attempts to deny primary revotes
Wow. Barack Obama’s supporters in the Florida congress have now gone on record categorically opposing a new primary, a mail-in primary, or seating the Florida delegates as they voted in the first primary. What happened to Obama’s much-touted ability to “reach across party lines” for the good of the people?  Obama’s camp has been floating the […]



No Soup For You!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Watching CNN, MSNBC and FOX has been so painful during this political season. Watching the DNC and their thinly-veiled efforts to “pre-elect” Barack Obama have even been harder. What started out as such a wonderful dream for democrats that felt like we were finally on the verge of putting a woman in the White House […]



Obama and the Not Ready For Prime Time Players

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 9th, 2008 • Category: Politwix Blogs

Well, word is that Barack Obama has had a talk with Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live fame. ”Complaining about the refs apparently worked a little bit this week,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told reporters today. “So in addition to my call to Lorne Michaels, hopefully now people think everything has evened out.” It is now […]