GlenEllynite
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HI Ronnie, long time no talk.
Saw an interview with Carolyn some months ago. Many of my college buddies went to prep school with her. Will spare you the stories lest you find them unbelievable. Everybody grows up I guess at some point in time.
The heir apparent to the liberal throne was an early Barak fan due to the excitement her YOUNG children felt about him and his campaign. I'm glad her young children's enthusiasm for politics at such a young age is a guiding principle in her determination as to who should be the next president.
My wife and I sat and watched the interview and to be frank, have never seen such a baseless, ignorant, and vacuous response to the interviewers questions as to why she threw her support to Obama early on.
Like most of her brethren, they need to go out and get a job like their grandfather did.
What's with Cheney anyways? The dems tried their best to pin corruption on him but to no avail. But, we'll never agree on that.
Anyways, a good article in this past Wednesday's Wall St Journal titled: "The Obama We Don't Know". Here's some excerpts for your reading pleasure:
"Democrats are nominating a freshman senator barely 3 years out of the Illinois legislature whom most of America still hardly knows". "The polls say he is the odds-on favorite to become our next President".
"In Mr. Obama, Democrats are taking a leap of faith that is daring even by their risky standards".
"For all of his inspiring rhetoric about bipartisanship, his voting record is among the most partisan in the Senate. His policy agenda is conventionally liberal across the board-more so than Hillary Clinton's, and more so than that of any Democratic nominee since 1968".
Here's one Ron that you are in touch with: "Early on he gave a bow to merit pay for teachers, but that quickly sank beneath the waves of new money he wants to spend on the same broken public schools".
"He wants to raise taxes even above the levels of the Clinton era, including a huge increase in the payroll tax".
"A 2004 Chicago Sun Times interview with Mr. Obama mentioned 3 men as his religious guides. One was Rev. Wright. Another Father Michael Pfleger, the Louis Farrakhan ally whose recent remarks caused Mr. Obama to resign from the Trinity, but for whose Chicago Church Mr. Obama channeled at least $225,000 in grants as a state senator".
"A 3rd mentor was Illinois state Senator James Meeks, another Chicago pastor who has generated controversy for mixing pulpit and politics". Remember it was Meeks who proposed the biggest hike in the state sales tax unprecedented in the history of Illinois just a few weeks ago. Basically, the guy is a closet Bolshevik.
"The point is not that Mr. Obama now shares the radical views of these men. The concern is that by the Senator's own admission they have been major moral influences, and their views are starkly at odds with the candidate's vision as a transracial peace maker. Their patronage was also useful as Mr. Obama was making his way in Chicago politics. But ONLY now, in the glare of a national campaign, is he distancing himself from them. The question is what in fact Mr. Obama does believe".
"The young senator has been a supernova exploding into our politics, more phenomenon than conventional candidate. His achievement in winning the Democratic nomination has been impressive. Now comes a harder audience. The Presidency has to be earned, and Americans have a right to know much more about the gifted man who is the least tested and experienced major party nominee in modern times".
Rest assured, Mr. Obama is the same tax and spend democrat that I have come to abhor. Rewriting NAFTA to garner the Teamsters support is a clear indication that it's businees as usual who's slogan is "Change we can beleive in".
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