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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/5/2008 8:31:13 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Kenneth, reporters might get tired of being scolded by the haughty Barack Obama: Ben Smith, politico.com, June 5 2008 Obama denies a rumor and questions the question Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor. “We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,” Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign plane. “That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.” Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question. “Frankly, my hope is people don’t play this game,” Obama said. “It is a destructive aspect of our politics. Presumably the job of the press is to not go around and spread scurrilous rumors like this until there is actually anything, an iota, of substance or evidence that would substantiate it.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/5/2008 8:32:34 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 224755

The DNC needs a new play book, Kenneth... Jimmy Carter said the same thing in 1976. Don't believe me though, have a look for yourself: liveleak.com LOL! Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/5/2008 8:35:13 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224755

Who was waiting for a community organizer with ties to corrupt IL politicians, crazy clerics and a member of the Weather Underground?...only naive people.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/5/2008 8:37:24 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224755

You sound like a cult follower. No substance, just symbolism. You can't even identify the symbolism.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/5/2008 9:01:57 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 224755

Change? What change, Kenneth... We can't find a single issue on which Mr. Obama has broken with his party's left-wing interest groups. 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 takes the Teamsters line against free trade, to the point of unilaterally rewriting Nafta. He wants to raise taxes even above the levels of the Clinton era, including a huge increase in the payroll tax. Perhaps now Mr. Obama will tack to the center, but somehow he will have to explain why the "change" he's proposing isn't merely more of the same, circa 1965. There is also the matter of judgment, and the roots of his political character. We were among those inclined at first to downplay his association with the Trinity United Church. But Mr. Obama's handling of the episode has raised doubts about his candor and convictions. He has by stages moved from denying that his 20-year attendance was an issue at all; to denying he'd heard Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary remarks; to criticizing certain of those remarks while praising Rev. Wright himself; to repudiating the words and the reverend; and finally this weekend to leaving the church. Most disingenuously, he said on Saturday that the entire issue caught him by surprise. Yet he was aware enough of the political risk that he kept Rev. Wright off the stage during his announcement speech more than a year ago. A 2004 Chicago Sun-Times interview with Mr. Obama mentioned three men as his religious guides. One was Rev. Wright. Another was Father Michael Pfleger, the Louis Farrakhan ally whose recent remarks caused Mr. Obama to resign from Trinity, but for whose Chicago church Mr. Obama channeled at least $225,000 in grants as a state senator. Until recently, the priest was connected to the campaign, which flew him to Iowa to host an interfaith forum. Father Pfleger's testimony for the candidate has since been scrubbed from Mr. Obama's campaign Web site. A third mentor was Illinois state Senator James Meeks, another Chicago pastor who has generated controversy for mixing pulpit and politics. 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 peacemaker. 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. online.wsj.com He is a far-left radical that has hidden his agenda under the cloak of "change and hope". His views will be exposed. Just another Democrat loser like Al Gore. You really know how to pick them, Kenneth... Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (29958)	6/6/2008 6:27:29 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224755

If you have been wanting for many years to have the most inexperienced candidate running in modern history, you are then getting the change that you have been waiting for with Obama... Obama, inexperience you cannot count on... Obama is the change we have been waiting for.