So he's a politician... :) /me ducks and runs
Robert Munn wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902328.html > > > Here is an excerpt: > > -- > > Why are these associations important? Do I think Obama is as corrupt as > Rezko? Or shares Wright's angry racism or Ayers's unreconstructed 1960s > radicalism? > > No. But that does not make these associations irrelevant. They tell us two > important things about Obama. > > First, his cynicism and ruthlessness. He found these men useful, and use > them he did. Would you attend a church whose pastor was spreading racial > animosity from the pulpit? Would you even shake hands with -- let alone > serve on two boards with -- an unrepentant terrorist, whether he bombed U.S. > military installations or abortion clinics? > > Most Americans would not, on the grounds of sheer indecency. Yet Obama did, > if not out of conviction then out of expediency. He was a young man on the > make, an unknown outsider working his way into Chicago politics. He played > the game with everyone, without qualms and with obvious success. > > Obama is not the first politician to rise through a corrupt political > machine. But he is one of the rare few to then have the audacity to present > himself as a transcendent healer, hovering above and bringing redemption to > the "old politics" -- of the kind he had enthusiastically embraced in > Chicago in the service of his own ambition. > > Second, and even more disturbing than the cynicism, is the window these > associations give on Obama's core beliefs. He doesn't share the Rev. > Wright's poisonous views of race nor Ayers's views, past and present, about > the evil that is American society. *But Obama clearly did not consider these > views beyond the pale.* For many years he swam easily and without protest in > that fetid pond. > > -- > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:273443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
