Obama’s paper trail in Illinois
For many years Obama has carefully cultivated his history to assure that he remains a blank screen on which people can project whatever they want to see. For example, he is unique in being a Harvard Law Review President and later a University of Chicago law professor whose published works number exactly zero (see this and this). His record in the US Senate is so scant as to be nearly nonexistent.
But Stanley Kurtz has done some fine work for the Weekly Standard, delving into what he calls Obama’s “lost years”—the job he held the longest of any in his life so far, Illinois State Senator. Kurtz unearths a surprising amount of information that belies Obama’s new post-racial, nonliberal incarnation.
Now it’s often the case that when legislators represent a district (Obama’s was highly liberal), they tailor their views and votes to those of their constituencies. That’s politics, and that’s the way to be reelected. It’s also sometimes the case that, over time, politicians evolve and change their positions because they actually change their minds on certain issues.
But Obama’s stances when he was in the Illinois Senate are far more telling because they are so recent, and because they constitute virtually the whole of his political performance to date—unless you call constantly shifting rhetoric while running for the office of the Presidency a “performance” (although come to think of it, that’s exactly what it is).
Obama has a juicy record in Springfield– he supported live birth abortions, sex ed for Kindergarteners, porn in schools, reduced penalties for gang crime, higher taxes on just about everything — the guy is the avant-garde of the avant-garde, even here in Chicago. And I’m not even getting into his creepy associations.
Obama’s record doesn’t surprise me though.
What surprises me is how conservatives out of state paint Obama as an inexperienced, fresh face. They could have been painting him as the second coming of Vladimir Lenin for months.
Neo –
Just let me denounce you for being a racist now.
I’m sure that somebody else will be along by the by and explain why.
Citing a man’s record. Or lack there of. Well I NEVER…!
I am convinced that the major networks, including FOX, have a vested interest in not digging too hard into Obonga’s past, for the reason that they don’t want a bridge burned behind them. They want to hold out the hope that he might just consent to come on their show some time in the future. So, they won’t report his Far Left proclivities and thinking, for fear that someone else will get that interview and not them.
Bill O’Reilly, on the The Factor, has been kind of tame and lame about Obonga. I am sure that some of this is O’Reilly being cautious. But some of it just may be that he and FOX would love Obonga to come on the air and be interviewed.
They all agree to not cross certain lines. And it’s really up to us, the people, and the less visible journalists to venture beyond and take a hard look at his record, his associations, and his ideological formation.
I kind of accept this status quo, since there is not a damn thing we can do about it. It’s just the way it is.
There are things we can do. Neo’s an example. The Venezuelan anti- Chavez crowd is another; I have previously posted my fear that Obama is our Chavez. I am getting out my checkbook, talking to my (GOP) congressman, calling my state GOP to volunteer. The word must get out more widely. The bland, closed-eyed, hesitant-to-speak-out passivity which infects even McCain just won’t cut it. The Republic is in grave danger.
Obama left his his history as a blank screen to fill it later.
But for now enjoy your current George Bush resume-funny but true
Good article by Stanley Kurtz; thanks for posting the link.
The whole premise put forth by the democrats is that a black candidate should be immune from a realistic vetting process. There wont ever be a better time than now to expose the absurdity of such a notion.
Its high time this man had multiple microphones shoved in his face on a daily basis and asked what part of the communist manifesto he actually disagrees with.
Very funny, Truth, especially as the Iraq War winds down as a solid victory for the U.S. and cataclysmic defeat for Al Qaeda.
My prediction – in 10 years all these moonbat anti-bushie Liberals will be swearing up and down that they had supported GWBush all along…just like Truman and Korea.
Danny Lemieux
solid victory for the U.S.
Very funny, Danny Lemieux ,Yes its is a solid victory for the U.S. by training given by Paul Bremer and US fraud companies who theft billions of reconstructions led to creation of Thieves Republic of Iraq, Very Funny ah?
Those who believe in bushie liar’s victory they not more like him and his administration. Whatever you labelled your victory today; this victory by liars how long will last question the time will tell.