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Posted at 10:25am on Jun. 5, 2008 Fisking the Obama Rezko Response
By Socrates
(cross-posted from the Academy)
I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform. I encourage the General Assembly to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent these kinds of abuses in the future.
Commentary below the fold.
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Posted at 11:01am on May 16, 2008 Polar Bears in Perspective
By Socrates
From the masters of subtlety at IMAO.us
comes this innocent reminder of being careful about wishes.
For should the "threatened" White Grizzly express its natural desire and turn to those of us lower on the food chain to satisfy its need for sustenance, I have no doubt that hordes of Obamesmorized leftists will gladly take up arms (and legs) to make provision.
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Posted at 8:48am on May 4, 2008 Barack Obama Just Sat There
By Socrates
While Reverend Jeremiah Wright was preaching that the US got what it deserved on 9/11
for its "terrorism" around the world, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Jeremiah Wright preached that the government of which Barack Obama was official representative and would be chief executive created AIDS to kill black people, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Jeremiah Wright lauded and praised antisemite Louis Farrakan, Barack Obama just sat there.
While Oprah Winfrey left Trinity United Christian Church because of Jeremiah Wright's incendiary remarks, Barack Obama just sat there.
What does all this mean, and why should we not be tired of talking about it? I'll tell you.
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Posted at 8:36am on Apr. 17, 2008 Who Is This Uniter?
By Socrates
For all the talk of Hope and Change, of uniting the people and doing away with traditional politics, it's clear that the candidate who talks most of those things is the one least prepared to engender them.
That brings us to the question: what would a Uniter look like? That is, what kind of candidate for president could bring the country together?
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Posted at 12:26am on Apr. 13, 2008 It's Not Your Job, Senator Obama.
By Socrates
Dear Senator Obama:
The government only has a small number of jobs. Bringing employment opportunities to rural Pennsylvania, or Illinois, or California, is not among them.
The government's first job is to defend the people from foreign enemies, such as the human rights violations of Chinese bankers and Middle Eastern terrorists.
Defending the people individually from each other also is the government's job. And too, we let the government take care of parks, roads and bridges and other such common areas. That's about it.
But the poisonous witch's brew of notions that somehow the people of small town flyover country are helpless without you, and that we don't have jobs, and that the Bush and Clinton Administrations let us fall through some imaginary cracks, and that all of that makes us bitter enough to hate anyone not like us -- that is just the wrong way to look at things.
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Posted at 7:40am on Apr. 1, 2008 Dean Proposes Delegate Compromise
By Socrates
The Minority Report Blog has learned that Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean today will propose a system of "delegate credits" similar to the carbon trading system that has been so successful in combating Global Warming. The effort is designed to prevent the breakup of the Democratic Party and to ensure defeat in the November general election.
"I haven't spent the last 7 years fabricating this Party structure just to have it come back to haunt me like my other fabrications," Dean said.
Citing academic studies noting that college students, completely indoctrinated in Democratic ideology, are the least likely to vote, Dean wants to get that level of involvement from more groups in the Party. The system he proposes will allow candidates with too many delegates to campaign a little extra in a given primary election. "We notice that when voters finally hear the message of Democratic candidates, they tend not to vote for them," said Dean to a group of reporters. "This system will make the process more fair."
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Posted at 12:54pm on Mar. 29, 2008 An Open Letter to Senator Obama
By Socrates
The most popular blog at PajamasMedia is currently "An Open Letter to Senator Obama" from Lionel Chetwynd. Chetwynd's piece is beautifully crafted and even-handed lesson for Obama, his self-adjured moral superiority, and his incorrect supplication that we give Reverend Wright a pass for being stuck in 1959:
Dear Senator Obama:
I have now read and reread your speech, understanding you take this to be a “teaching moment,” I have applied myself to its lessons. But some questions have arisen and I need a little more clarification.
More below the fold.
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Posted at 12:33pm on Mar. 21, 2008 Obama's Extremely No Good Very Bad Week
By Socrates
So you want to be President. So do a lot of other people, but its popularity notwithstanding, I view the desire to be President as sufficient proof of some yet undetermined chemical imbalance. As circular confirmation, I present two stories from the news of the day.
These stories come in succession of the revelations that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor and whom Obama claimed as "mentor", preached silliness from the pulpit while the man who would be king sat in cowed silence. They also follow Obama's speech attacking his grandmother as a racist, and his defense of her that she was a "typical white person".
Ironically, these stories have completely overshadowed Obama's dishonesty about his relationship with Chicago political fixer Tony Rezco and the backroom assurances that he doesn't have a schedule for withdrawing from Iraq, as he claims, and that his NAFTA stance is just more obloviation.
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Posted at 8:00pm on Mar. 8, 2008 President Remains Commander in Chief [upd]
By Socrates
President Bush wielded the power of the veto pen over the bill that would have limited the CIA to using the same interrogation techniques used by Army interrogators.
This was a courageous and correct veto on the part of President Bush, but not for the reasons he gave.
Read on ...
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Posted at 1:01am on Mar. 1, 2008 Mandatory Medical Incrementalism
By Socrates
Over at left-wing blog Talking Points Memo, the highest-rated reader blog currently is ObamaCare: American Incrementalism. It's a fine analysis of the difference between Hillary Clinton's socialized medicine plan and Barack Obama's socialized medicine plan. The difference? The anonymous blogger thinks Americans will swallow Obama's plan, since it's for the children.
The money graph: