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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 […]



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 […]



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 […]