Obama #1

Has it occurred to anyone that the reason the corporate media and Dem Party establishment are all in the tank for Obama is because he's not really who he says he is? His "message of hope" sounds an awful lot like the first Pres. Bush's "thousand points of light", and Bush Jr.'s "compassionate conservative" and "I'm a uniter, not a divider" schtick. And wouldn't you know it, Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes is the brother of Fox News VP David Rhodes.

As starry-eyed as people are about the prospect of this African American candidate of "change" going to D.C. and cleaning everything up, the truth is that Obama has no history of doing this ever in his life. Certainly not during his eight years working within the Chicago political machine. As a "civil rights" lawyer, it has been well documented that he represented slumlords Allison Davis and Tony Rezko, and as a senator he continued to help them get about 30 new housing redevelopment projects. In exchange, they helped him get elected. Does that sound like "new politics" to anyone?

Then there are Rezko's two close friends, one of them the former Minister of Electricity in Iraq who stole $650 million and is now hiding out in Illinois. (While in jail in Baghdad, his son faxed Obama several appeals for help, according to Newsweek.)

Don't you think it possible that this trendy looking, biracial fellow was fielded specifically to knock Hillary Clinton out, and his dealings in the past will come back to haunt him AFTER the nomination, when it's too late to do anything about it?

At least Clinton has a verifiable record of doing some good in the world. God forbid she's not the Starbucks equivalent of Gandhi, just a fallible human being like the rest of us.

For more of this subject, check out two articles I've posted at thecityedition.com or click on my screen name.