Comments on: Don’t forget that Obama’s from Chicago

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:08:07 +0000

For a lot of us the antipathy – OK, downright loathing – towards Obama comes from his radical leftist associations from Alinksy to Ayres to Davis to Rev. Wright. I certainly don’t minimize that but I think in a sense it romanticizes him too much as an idealist even if the ideals are all wrong. At heart he is a bare-knuckles backstabbing Chicago machine pol. Not that the two can’t go together of course.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:38:10 +0000

Both the Leftist Alliance for a Deux ex Machina powered Utopia and an Islamic Peace Under Allah system have certain interesting premises.

1. That the West, meaning us, are too weak to defend ourselves from their advance, so it is time to put us to the wall.

2. That the alliance between the Left and Islam will continue until they have won and get to divide up the spoils (being the slaves, us).

I’m not too certain their assumptions on this strategic level are valid. But at the same time, Americans talking about freedom, are pretty worthless hypocrites when they won’t kill or die for such beliefs. So if the third faction in this war puts action to words, ruthlessness will surpass the meaning the Left and Islam has for it. But if the third faction just gives up and commits suicide, then it’s up to the Left and Islam to fight it out.

And that’s assuming Islam doesn’t just nuke the Left and us while we were fighting each other. That’s always a valid tactic.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 16:18:58 +0000

Lois Lerner is another with Chicago/Illinois roots (FEC harassment of Al Salvi, Republican Senate candidate in Illinois).

By: M J R

M J R — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 04:01:55 +0000

Beverly, 4:36 pm — “This is a good time to revisit the chilling documentary ‘We Will Not Be Silenced,’ by H. Clinton-supporting Democrats who were shell-shocked by the brutal and blatantly illegal thug tactics of the Obama Machine:”

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“WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE?”

[sarcasm off]

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 02:45:15 +0000

John Kass wrote a nice Trib piece in 2008 that ended with, I paraphrase, if you want paranoia elect Nixon, if you want sleaze elect Clinton, and if you want corruption elect Obama.

I remember sending it to a good friend who is quite liberal and she got quite upset, she didn’t want to hear it.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:09:42 +0000

Ymarsakar, sadly true….

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:50:18 +0000

:MollyNH:
They see it very well. It was their goal after all.

One cannot have slaves in Chicago if Chicago had a free economy that allowed just anybody to succeed.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:48:12 +0000

The other McCain obviously. Evil on the Left existed before Obama was born. Evil on the Left existed even before Obama’s father was born.

It runs deeper than might be expected.

By: rickl

rickl — Fri, 31 May 2013 22:41:09 +0000

As I remarked on another blog shortly after the 2008 election, “We are all Chicagoans now.”

By: parker

parker — Fri, 31 May 2013 22:22:02 +0000

BHO is a demagogue, nothing more. He’s too lazy and disinterested to get involved with the details. Jarrett and a handful of others are the schemers who give the actual orders.