[Rhodes22-list] Political - the Main Stream Media versus Brad

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Obama's hometown newspapers are starting to come out of their shell
(see below).  Hannity ran an hour long program last night with some
disturbing information for all but the drunkest Kook-Aid drinkers.
The NYT's did their best to whitewash Ayers but other newspapers will
take another or perhaps a first look.  Ayers is just one of many
questionable friends and associates in a long and curious lifelong
pattern. This man should have never made it out of the primaries and
wouldn't have if not for thuggish techniques used in the caucus states
(more Chicago Way).  By the end, Hillary was thumping him in the big
states but it was too late for her. Most voter's don't even know who
Obama really is.  If he were to make it in the WH, he still has the
ongoing investigations in Chicago to worry about and the MSM love
affair with him will quickly fade.  Let's hope the real BHO sees the
sunshine before the election and not after.

Brad

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www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass-0510,0,7245642.column
chicagotribune.com
A presidential debate, the Chicago Way

John Kass

October 5, 2008

Going into Tuesday's presidential debate, the campaign of Republican
John McCain still suffers from the lousy economy and that Bush hanging
ponderously from his neck.

With that going against him, he's running uphill, trying to remind
Americans that he challenged his own party, and the Democrats, on
corruption. Because of McCain's opposition to politicians who feed
from the public trough, there is a road open to him Tuesday. It's the
Chicago Way.

Obama definitely does not want to go there. It would be a forced march
for him. Obama's gauzy references to Chicago involve baseball and
where he met Michelle and those blissful hours he spent as a community
organizer. What he doesn't want discussed is his evolution from
independent Democrat to potential White House enabler of the corrupt
Chicago Democratic machine.

The Chicago Way is a road the Beltway media establishment dare not
travel. It must frighten them. It conflicts with their fairy tale
about Obama as reformer, and they're much too busy rummaging through
garbage cans in Alaska to bother about Chicago's political alleys.

But any child in Illinois knows the Chicago Way leads through the most
politically corrupt city in America, in a politically corrupt state,
where muscle trumps reason, where Democratic warlords brazenly promote
their offspring into public office, where even souls are offered up
for sale.

The national media have never wanted to understand, much less expose,
political corruption here, or examine how Obama prospered under the
Daley machine's guidance. A trip down the Chicago Way would force them
to re-examine their ridiculous narrative that sets Obama as a
political reformer riding a white horse, or is that a winged unicorn?

A tour of the Chicago Way isn't without risks for McCain. Though his
supporters would say it puts Obama in proper context, Democrats would
certainly cry "guilt by association." Yet the national urgency to view
Obama as a political life-form several evolutionary rungs above
Chicago's common political hacks is not only a mistake, it's
disingenuous. So on Tuesday night, McCain might ask:

How, for example, could change agent Obama endorse the boss of the
Chicago machine, Mayor Richard Daley, after Daley's friends and
drinking buddies, white guys with mob connections, received $100
million in city affirmative action contracts, a crime that sent one of
them to federal prison?

The mayor said there is no such thing as a machine. Does Obama truly
believe there is no machine that runs Chicago and Cook County? Then he
should declare it. And, if so, then how does he explain the Daley
hacks sitting in federal prison for rigging thousands of city jobs?

McCain could ask about the machine trolls Obama endorsed per Daley's
direction. And what of Obama's own political mentor, the legendary
city sewer inspector/Illinois Senate President Emil Jones (D-ComEd),
who upon retirement will convert almost $600,000 in campaign cash and
stuff it into his pockets, and begin cashing a fat public pension, as
his son, Emil III, takes Daddy's place in the legislature, courtesy of
the Democratic bosses.

Is this the change we've been waiting for?

McCain could ask about Obama's real estate fairy, the convicted
influence peddler Tony Rezko, who is now apparently cooperating with
federal investigators probing the dealings of Democratic Gov. Rod
Blagojevich, who also campaigned as a reformer. Rezko is scheduled to
be sentenced Oct. 28. How was the Rezko-Obama real estate deal, the
one that Obama himself described as "boneheaded," never made a subject
of a Senate Ethics Committee investigation?

McCain also might offer up some straight talk about his own
involvement in the Keating 5 scandal two decades ago -- and how he was
dishonored by that, and whether the shame changed his views on
political corruption.

Hillary Clinton tried to link Obama to Chicago's politics during her
party's primaries, but she was shouted down. Back then, at a Tribune
editorial board meeting, I asked Obama about his place in Chicago's
corrupt history.

"I think that all of you have been following my career for some time,"
he said. "I think I have done a good job in rising in this environment
without being entangled in some of the traditional problems of Chicago
politics. I know there are those, like John Kass, who would like me to
decry Chicago politics more frequently."

Just the corrupt parts, I said.

"I'll leave that to his editorial commentary," Obama continued, "but I
think it's fair to say that I have conducted myself in my public
office with great care and high ethical standards."

Is Obama corrupt, the way the caricature of Chicago-style corruption
is often drawn, with some beefeater alderman reeking of gin, stuffing
an envelope into his breast pocket? No, though he came close with
Rezko in that smelly deal for the purchase of Obama's home.

But Obama looked the other way in order to prosper and assiduously
avoided conflict with the machine to the point of embrace. In this, he
offered Americans a glimpse at the real man inside that nice suit, the
Chicago Way.


On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Brad:
>
> What chance do you have against the main stream media and their fellow
> travelers?  You posted,
>
> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77075
>
> Did you see:
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/ap-palins-ayers-attack-ra_n_132008.html
>
> And that white wash went out over the AP news service as the Gospel of the
> day.  So, if you bring up Bill Ayers association you are a 'Racist'.  And we
> have Obama supporters on this list or are they just '1984 thought police'.
>
> "The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God. ... Its promise was
> whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge
> of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith
> of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision.
> Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions
> of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God."
>
> The second coming is now.  He is the Messiah.  Bow down before the Messiah,
> his lord Obama.
>
> Do not utter blasphemy that he wants to control America, to change it to his
> likeness and dominion.  Praise the lord Comrade Obama.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
>
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>>
>> Ed,
>>
>> Follow the links in this story - many I've posted before -
>>
>> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77075
>>
>> We went to see "An American Carol" yesterday.  It has been a long time
>> since I've been to a movie where the audience clapped at the end.
>> Besides, it was funny.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Brad,
>>>
>>> Did you expect him to be able to read your post?  It is late in the
>>> afternoon.  What is his name?  Rummy did you say?  Is he able to find the
>>> right keys on the keyboard at this hour?
>>>
>>> Maybe he will will forward them to his wife so she can explain them to
>>> him
>>> in the morning?
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p19829651/drinking.gif drinking.gif
>>>
>>>
>>> Rummy,
>>>
>>> Don't you ever get tired of seeing this crap?
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I
>>>
>>> http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM,  <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>>>> Blah blah blah and more blah. Don't you ever get tired of writing this
>>>> crap?
>>>>
>>>> Rummy
>>>
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