…need to read it.
You might also want to send a link to your friends who support Obama and see what they have to say about it.
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
August 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
This description of Chicago politics, hence Obama’s character, exactly fits the description given to me by an Army buddy, a Chicago Jew, who, along with a Boston Irishman, and myself, a midwestern Unitarian, spent several months together, out in the boonies of South Korea in ’54. Benny worked his way through Engineering at U.I., Urbana, by selling hot hubcaps on Maxwell Street. A sample comment: his uncle, a Dairy Inspector, couldn’t afford to drive the City pickup, because it didn’t have a trunk into which cases of butter and cheese could be placed.
Guess why my first doubt about Obama.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I have a wonderful friend who for several decades has owned and operated a medium-sized business inside the Loop. At a beer-focused get together he was asked about his personal politics.
With pity he looked at the naive questioner and said “I live and work and employ many people in Chicago, therefore I am a democrat. I exist by the rules of the Chicago machine. If I wanted to be otherwise and do otherwise, my people would be jobless and my family forced to relocate. And we have lived in Chicago for many generations now. Where would we all go? What would we all do?.”
This man is a realist who makes no apology and does not pretend to be anything but a small-time enabler of the Daleys, et. al. Would that Obama could be so honest, and the voters could decide so transparently if they wanted to live and work as my friend must!
Only a liberal could look at a political background like Obama’s and talk with a straight face about “change” and “new hope.” Apparently believing several impossible things before breakfast is the new litmus test of a Democratic party faithful.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I’ve summarized the most important things to know about Barack. I think the post is admirably short, as I left out SOOOO MUCH potential material.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:01 am
He’s a lying, cheating, corrupt SOB.
Not news to me.