Tuesday, September 23, 2008
60 Minutes - pfaff -- Updated & Bumped
can. not. watch.
So instead, I’ve been reading The Case Against Barack Obama - the unlikely rise and unexamined agenda of the media’s favorite candidate. Interesting stuff.
David Freddoso first goes through The One’s rise in and acquiescence to Chicago politics—names like Emil Jones, Richard Daley, John Stroger, Todd Stroger, Alice Palmer, Forrest Claypool.... I still haven’t gotten to the part where Freddosso lists Uh-bama’s accomplishments at comuuuunity organizer...
Then Freddoso goes through the odd circumstances and bit of luck that actually led to Obama’s win in the early caucuses [Hillary was no body’s second choice] and on to his voting records as compared to his claims of being a “reformer.” Which he seems to be - if by “reformer” you mean “guy who votes the strict party/machine line.
After a discussion of the absurd cult-of-personality Obamessiah phenom, Freddosso goes into some things I had missed, for instance:
Obama wants—and has effectively voted—to abolish secret-ballot elections in the workplace when employees determine whether to unionize. This is a gift long sought by union organizers who have watched their ranks deplete over the years as private sector unions become less relevant to workers.
[110th Congress 1st session, roll call vote no. 227 June 26 2007]
Every assertion is footnoted to the source. I like that. Kinda dispels the notion that this is a an author passing off fiction as biography, duddn’t it?
I also found interesting Obama’s recollection of “just
Frank” - Frank Marshall Davis, black poet and Communist whose presence got the charter revoked from the Hawaii chapter of the NAACP. In Audacity, Obama quotes [or recreates] his conversation with “Frank” after the incident when his Grandmother was, in the fashion of the “typical white person,” so effected by the black man on the street. Obama sought Frank’s council on the matter. Obama’s grandfather and Frank were buddies who would sit, converse, sip whiskey and enlist the help of young Obama to create dirty limericks.
[Your grandfather] can’t know me, not the way I know him. maybe some of those Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They’ve seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like. That’s why he can come over here and drink my whiskey and fall asleep in that chair you’re sitting in right now. Sleep like a baby. See that’s something I can never do in his house. Never. Doesn’t matter how tired I get, I still have to watch myself. I have to be vigilant, for my own survival ... [snip in Freddosso] What I’m trying to tell you is your grandma’s right to be scared. She’s at least as right as Stanley [grandfather] is. She understands black people have a reason to hate. That’s just how it is. For your sake, I wish it were otherwise. But it’s not. So you might as well get used to it.
I guess he learned well from Frank the divisiveness of “typical white people.”
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Yet More:
Looking up the above vote I ran across this bit of data:
Barack Obama has missed 295 votes (45.9%) during the current Congress.
Barack Obama has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues 96.0% of the time during the current Congress. This percentage does not include votes in which Obama did not vote.
Yeesh - someday, instead of banging on endlessly about the creepy crap the oppo has done, I’ll be able to write glowingly about the terrific and *cough* hopeful policies that my favorite candidate has just proposed.
[... yeah.. I know… don’t wake me up just yet, ‘k?]
Amazing. My tiny moronblog has been monitored *cough* by the Obamathugs. I’m ...honored.
brb *quick shower* *checks locks* Ok - what was I saying?
For a ...refutation of the claim that “Frank Marshall Davis… whose presence got the charter revoked from the Hawaii chapter of the NAACP” [which info I got from Freddosso] see comments to this post.
Therein also find one of the dumbest statements ever about what America “professed to be” and communist tools. Authored by an actual communist tool. Who claims to be “Frank’s” offspring. ‘mazin’...
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