Honest Abe and Honest Obe

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• Reader Comments (3)

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  Obama got my vote once, but not this time. He’s obviously bright and very polically savvy, as your article points out. It’s not just what he says and does, but what he does not.

  I resent his blatant pandering to the voters with simple handouts of money. “My tax cut is bigger than his tax cut.” “I’ll give everyone health care, etc.”

  Can you tell me anything Obama did while in the Illinois legisalture (other than advance his own career)?

  Can you point out anything while in the US Senate? Come to think of it, has he ever sat in his chair?

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  I’m currently reading Terkel’s “Hard Times.” Very disturbing similarities to todays mess and perhaps even more disturbing differences.

  We were still largely a nation of farmers then and could at least feed ourselves. Now we’re post manufacturing and have little to offer the world in the way of saleable goods.

  Next time you see him ask if he’s ready for a Hard Times — Volume Two. I have a list of friends and relaties who’ve lost jobs, lost businesses and now are stuck with houses and can’t afford to go where the jobs may be.

  Posted by whattheheck on Oct 29, 2008 at 12:17 AM

  Listen to an excellent radio interview with Webster Tarpley, author of Obama A Post Modern Coup.  It is available for free MP3 download at
  http://drop.io/Summerbird   It is currently the fourth file down from the top of the page.

  Posted by Stargod on Oct 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM

  “That tall, gangly and little-known state senator rode his oratory skills and cerebral wisdom to the White House in 1860.”

  Abraham Lincoln was a much better-known political figure than this statement suggests prior to the 1860 election due to his exposure in national newspapers following the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858.

  “We are mired in a disastrous and un-winnable war.”

  And President Barack Obama is steadily getting us more involved in another “disastrous and unwinnable war” in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  What Iraq was to the failed presidency of George W. Bush, Afghanistan will be to Barack Obama’s presidency.

  “Mr. Change is claiming to be a new kind of politician who can pull us out of partisan politics to finally deal with the big stuff.”

  President Obama cannot end “partisan politics.” It is part and parcel of our political system, and has been so for two centuries.

  “The U.S. economic system may be on the brink of a depression.”

  We have arrived.

  Posted by patrick hattman on Apr 6, 2009 at 12:39 AM

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