what else would you expect Charles Krauthammer to say? On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> >> >> > >
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