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The Obama Factor
By Matt Margolis | August 22, 2004
I don’t know what the big to do is with Barack Obama, but I learned a few things about him tonight that I wasn’t aware of before… The article is from the end of July, but it seems like the content of it has been greatly ignored…
Read the whole thing… Know anyone in Illinois? Show them.
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August 23rd, 2004 at 4:37 pm
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Here’s a Human Events on piece on Claudio’s “best friend” Barack Obama. A taster:
Obama may talk like Bill Cosby or even J.C. Watts at times, but when he reaches the Senate next year–a near certainty after the failure of the hapless Illinois G…
August 23rd, 2004 at 6:56 pm
Here in Chicago, local politics is quite a spectator sport, Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something truly unique, a little funny, and a little sad happens. A fairly unique type of “scandal”. Jack Ryan’s senate race ended when a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled in favor of unsealing 400 pages of documents related to the 1998 divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. Apparently, the big juicy detail spelling political suicide in these documents is that Jack Ryan committed the apparently immoral act of propositioning his own wife for sex. (Guess he Didn’t he get the memo pointing out that’s what interns are for) . What’s not so funny, is that Jeri Ryan asserts that Jack pressured her to have sex in a strip club. My viewpoint is yes, this is in an inappropriate request. Inappropriate because it means Mr. Ryan was either completely unaware of his wifes boundaries, personal ethics, and comfort zones were, or just didn’t care. I am also aware that had this request actually been granted, there may have been a few strip club patrons who might have been offended with the sight of actual sex distracting them from the more important mission of their visit to the club, which was to fantasize about sex. Also not so funny, when asked was there anything embarrassing in the documents, Ryan insisted there was not. It took six weeks of searching before before republicans finally settled in on Maryland native Alan Keyes. Incidentally Keyes accepted the offer only after our beloved dunderhead Mike Ditka was offered the job first and turned it down. Gives you an idea of the quality of the short list they were working from.
This whole episode is a perfect example to illustrate a point. Liberals and Conservatives see the world, its problems, and its solutions quite differently. We differ on what the problems are and how to fix them. Political Scientist and frequent conservative reference point James Q. Wilson, provided a great example a few years ago. He noted that a broken window left unattended, signals to a community that no one cares if a window is broken there. Hence, the broken window is a sort of an ongoing invitation to throw more stones. More windows break and the social fabric of the community continues to unravel. This might surprise you, but I, and most liberals agree with this notion. We just differ on what the broken windows are. We also arrive at different conclusions regarding what is a public issue, and what is a personal issue.
Liberals tend to point to and holler at the corruption, greed, deception, and abuse of power that is happening at the very top of Corporate America, and Government as a very public broken window. Conservatives tend to see the same issue as either the work of a few bad apples, or as personal, not public issues or individual crimes. Conservatives tend to point and holler about sex outside of marriage, sex before marriage, homosexuality, and abortion, and then declare with utter certainty that these things are public issues. Broken windows that if left unnatended, will erode the fabric of community. Liberals see the same things and declare with the same utter certainty that these are personal, not public issues.
These are but a few broad examples. Such is life. I doubt this will change anytime soon. Somebody asked what the big to do is with OBama. And then right on cue…there is the link that declares Obama is in favor of higher taxes, abortion rights and soft on crime. Perfect. These two items fit together nicely. One cannot begin to imagine, to really understand the message and the appeal of O’bama while at the same time boil and twist his flatten down what he stands for into the same old tired wedge issues. I understand that this is a technique that works, the memos are being sent “Lets split the voters on abortion” even as we speak. I also understand there are many folks for which abortion is not a wedge issue to split votes, that they have deeply personal, sincere and authentic views on the issue. I respect that. Personally I disagree. I don’t think the Government or any other person ought to have the right to manage my wifes ovaries.
I wish politics did not work this way. Jack Ryan should still be in the race, I disagree with his political views but don’t think what he does in his bedroom or in a dark strip club is any of my business. I wish I could have a decent and graceful political conversation with friends and family in Missouri that does not slowly degenerate into ugliness. But I look around and all I see is ugliness and vague angry assertions from both sides. This liberal understands the sheer demographic impossibility that either side of the red state blue/state divide are dead wrong, ill informed, or up to evil deeds. I know better. I don’t trust most politicians, but I do trust most Americans as being well intentioned. Obama speaks about a possible future. A future not with red states and blue states, but one America red, white and blue. You either like the sound of that or you don’t. You are either inspired by that or you are not. How perfectly fitting that Alan Keyes should be his adversary.
We all want what is best for America, we just differ on what best is.
-Chicago43
August 25th, 2004 at 2:51 am
All I gotta say about Obama is I wish there was a legal and ethical way for me to vote here in Iowa on election night then slip over the border to Illinois to vote for Alan Keyes, I’d do it in a hearbeat! If people think George Bush is on the far right, wait until they see Alan Keyes in action! Let’s hear it for a national sales tax!!!