Call It A Comeback
“You think I’m nuts? You think I’m not gonna invite people down? No way I’m gonna tell people they should not come down and celebrate,” Daley told reporters after serving as principal for a day at Orr Academy High School, 730 N. Pulaski.
“You cannot make it just an exclusive party for a few. Sen. Obama’s campaign has never been about a few. It’s been about many people,” said the mayor.
Bullshit.
Giangreco was central to Rod’s reelection–you know, the one where he ran against George Ryan…uhhhh…Judy.
Let me add as I briefly mentioned below. Gibbs worked with the team that torpedoed Dean with the terrorism commercials in Iowa. That might not ingratiate him to others, but he’s good at fighting. He just had an embarrassment of riches in 2004 with Keyes.
Hildebrand ran a brutal campaign against Bradley in Iowa. Every damned event Gore people were there mucking it up.
Burton was working in a very effective press shop at DCCC this cycle. They turned out good work the entire campaign keeping the Republicans off of message.
I don’t know if this team will win, but it’s certainly a group who can handle a punch and hit back.
The flag really sells it.
So I was premature in proclaiming peak wingnut has been reached.
Public awareness of his election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review resulted in a publishing contract for a book about race relations. To recruit him to join their faculty, the University of Chicago Law School gave Obama a fellowship and an office to work on his book. He initially intended to complete the book in a year, but the project took much longer, as the effort evolved into a personal memoir. So he could work uninterrupted, Obama and his wife Michelle traveled to Bali, where he immersed himself for several months in his manuscript. That’s the official version. Recent scientific analysis of the text suggests the manuscript may have been co-authored by Obama and his nearby neighbor and associate William Ayers, a former domestic terrorist and current education professor at Illinois University who calls himself a communist “with a small ‘c.'” The book was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.
But he is outdone. You know it’s good when it starts with this:
There is a scene in Flannery O’Connor’s 1960 novel The Violent Bear It Away, wherein the protagonist, a 14-year-old boy, is picked up hitchhiking by a man in a lavender automobile. The man plies the boy, Francis Tarwater, with whiskey and reefer. When the boy wakes up he’s lying in a field with his pants around his ankles, and his asshole burning. I won’t get into the Catholic allegory in that story, or the implication that the man in the lavender automobile is Satan, or Tarwater’s own inexorable slide into fundamentalist prophecy. I will aver, however, that I find the story relevant. Hold that thought.
There have been any variety of temperaments and personalities to hold the office of President. They range from heroes to rapscallions. I fervently believe, however, that not one person to hold that office has ever hated his opposition. There have been the churlish and disdainful, for sure. Carter presumed a moral vanity against his foes, which grievance he nurtures to this day. Nixon was consumed by paranoia and fear, to the point of ridiculous capers in the cause of an aforetold landslide victory.
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Did I mention this man hates me? You and me? Yes he does. Why? Because he can. Yes He Can. Beneath that cool persona is a megalomaniac. Cool? Like Stalin after a purge, emotionally and sexually spent. Like Saddam after a torture session, dozing in his chair with someone’s genitals curled in his fist. Like Pol Pot after a petit mal seizure, mumbling a litany of the dead. Cool that way.
So I will cast my pathetic vote, and ramp up my relocation to the mountains. Reduce my footprint. Carbon? That will be a nice byproduct, but I mean my personal footprint. My credit footprint. My interface with authority footprint. I’m researching micro-hydro water turbines for that stream, windmills for water, a half-acre patch for vegetables, a few goats, and a bison. Just because I want a fucking bison. My address? Fifty rounds up that gravel road.
I do hate to sound Randy Weaverish. But this is the fundament of my world view right now.
Speaking of fundaments, remember that guy in the lavender automobile?
Precisely. The whiskey of Hope. The jokesmoke of Change. I am Tarwater. We are all Tarwater.
The internets bringing together preachers in the quads in one place.
Apparently reading comprehension was never taught to the gang:
WBEZ-FM is reporting today that Illinois Republicans are no longer focused on illegal immigration because GOP candidates fear electoral reprisals from the legal and illegal immigrant populations now residing in Illinois.
Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) – a taxpayer-funded organization that’s suspected of engaging in ACORN-like, quasi-criminal voter registration here in Illinois – happens to agree. He admits that the “illegal immigrants” he accuses Congressional candidate Jim Oberweis of bashing are “going to turn out in record numbers and vote against him.”
Well, at least they admit it.
But what does Joshua actually say:
HOYT: The Republicans in northern Illinois are finally starting to learn how to count.
That’s Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The coalition has been coordinating citizenship, voter-registration and get-out-the-vote drives in immigrant neighborhoods across the Chicago area. A new report by the coalition says Illinois now has more than three-quarters of a million foreign-born citizens and that most live in Chicago’s suburbs. Hoyt says nearly one of every eight registered voters in Kane County is now Latino.
HOYT: What that means is that when Jim Oberweis flies over Soldier Field in a helicopter bashing illegal immigrants and it’s interpreted by the Mexican community that he’s bashing them, they’re going to turn out in record numbers and vote against him.
You might disagree with Hoyt or with those in the Mexican community, but he’s not suggesting illegal immigrants are going to vote. He’s suggesting Americans of Mexican descent are going to vote and vote in huge numbers.
HERE IS A MORE PLAUSIBLE THEORY:
Drunk on radical ideology, Stanley “Ann” Dunham became pregnant in the summer of 1960 in Seattle WA with the baby of a prominent black liberal activist. But in 1960, unmarried parents and children suffered penalties ranging from confinement in isolated maternity homes to parental rejection and community disapproval. To be “illegitimate” was to be shamed and shunned and labeled as immoral. The belief that children born out of wedlock posed significant social and public health problems was widespread. In the case of mixed race children, perceptions of illegitimacy were compounded by legal segregation in education, housing, employment, and voting. Recall that it wasn’t until 1965 that The National Voting Rights Act was passed to outlaw discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans. Laws against interracial marriage and interracial sex existed in several US states and US territories until a Supreme Court decision in 1967.
With racial unrest at its peak, the Dunham’s wanted to move as far away as possible from their predominantly white conservative community to allow Ann to have her illegitimate child in relative obscurity. So the Dunham’s abruptly moved to the new state of Hawaii (Aug of 1959) where whites were the minority and a mixed race child would be more accepted. In a 1959 interview with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Obama Sr. described the absence of racial prejudice in Hawaii as “unique.” No one, he marveled, “seems to be conscious of color.” Obama Sr’s perceptions of race relations in Hawaii were that he thought it “rather strange … even rather amusing, to see Caucasians discriminated against here.”
In the early 1960’s there were noticeable very few African Americans on the streets of Honolulu, and Obama Sr. was the only Black man from Africa on the island. Ann Dunham, in an effort to legitimize her mixed race baby, would have sought out one of the only black men on the island to convince him to use his name. And so Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was likely pressed into service as father and husband in name only. Barack Sr. had no moral objections because to gain recognition in the Kenyan community, one needed to be polygamous. Polygamy enhanced your status, and symbolized that you were a wealthy man. Obama Sr’s name on the certificate of birth would legitimize the birth, and conceal the identity of the true father…a win-win for all parties.
The true father?
Malcolm X.
Preacher on the quad crazy.
We need an aggregator for the count of the number of messages McCain Palin are peddling each day as added up by different pundits. Like Pollster for messaging.
Tony Peraica or that jackass with the Mexican Horn in my neighborhood
Matt Santos is about to speak.
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