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George Will describing Obama’s desire to tax windfall profits (whatever they are) of oil companies in order to issue a rebate to citizens states:
Obama is unintimidated by the rule against legislating about subjects one cannot define.
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All that hype about Hillary’s speech led to a ho hum speech. She took care of herself. She was not particularly emphatic for Obama. Consider me a skeptic, but it feels like she is positioning herself for 2012.
Yeah, 2012. You heard Bill today, yes? Candidate X will not be able to deliver. It feels like that is the Clinton strategy.
How does Obama handle this?
Here is part of an interview Barack Obama gave in 1995 to pump sales of his book Dreams From My Father
At 2:14 Obama states:
In times of economic scarcity generally the politicians of this country right now want to look for scapegoats.
Contrast that with this Obama for President campaign advertisement:
It seems Obama is placing blame on his opponent and President Bush. Isn’t that scapegoating?
At 2:46 Obama speaks about Rev. Wright:
Wright, who is my pastor. And uh, he is a wonderful man.
and again at 3:50 he says:
Rev. Wright, my pastor, who I speak about in a chapter of the book represents the best of what the black church has to offer.
This is Rev. Wright:
This is the man would-be president Obama said was the best of what the black church has to offer. This is the man that inspired not only Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope but also the speech Obama gave at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
At 5:08 Obama declares:
. . .fully embrace that side of my family . . . and to understand what that country’s about. My older brother Roy . . . He reasserted his heritage Both of them teach me about family.
Obama’s younger brother has lived in a shack on about about $1-a-month and is ashamed of his penury.
The Democratic National Convention has convened to nominate this man to run for President of the United States. Are you comfortable with his statements above in light of the contrasting information?
Who would have thought that I would be linking to Paris Hilton video? And to think, I think she has done a wonderful job responding to her being dragged into the presidential race. Good job!
I am not a Daily Show viewer, but Jon Stewart nailed the kerfuffle of this week’s New Yorker cover.
