We’ve been asking economics students who support Obama a few questions. Here they are, with a representative sample of the answers: Did you support NAFTA and CAFTA? “Yes.” Do you support the Columbia Free Trade Agreement? “Sure.” Do you support the South Korea Free Trade Agreement? “Yeah.” Do you support increasing tariffs on Chinese goods? “No.” Do you support farm subsidies? “No.” Do you support | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. How… interesting. – Moe Lane Yesterday speaking at a rally in Cleveland, Barack Obama thanked Rev. Otis Moss III, the incumbent pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ and successor to Jeremiah Wright! Fast-forward to 5:37 – “And also, a great friend and one of the wisest men I know. Please give a big round of applause to Reverend Otis Moss!” This | Read More »
I don’t know Rob Boyce, but kudos to him for spotting the possible true source of Obama’s “righteous wind” refrain. Boyce cites Google Books: The Ill Wind of Opportunism is Falling, the Righteous Wind of Socialism Is on the Rise” Get out the vote, RedStaters. If we don’t turn some more states Red, we’ll be reading from Little Red Books.
Most people have overlooked the fact that Sen Barack Obama wasn’t the only guest at Rashid Khalidi’s farewell. The guest list included Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who would surely be embarrassed by the release of the tape of the event currently being held by the L.A. Times. The fact that the L.A. newspaper is owned by the Tribune Company of Chicago is of more than | Read More »
Wow. Barack Obama’s endorsement in 2000 from the Democratic Socialists of America: Barak Obama is serving only his second term in the Illinois State Senate so he might be fairly charged with ambition, but the same might have be said of Bobby Rush when he ran against Congressman Charles Hayes. Obama also has put in time at the grass roots, working for five years as | Read More »
Via a local merchant, who will talk politics when no one else is in the store, comes the story that e-mails are circulating in the Cuban-American community claiming that Sen. Barack Obama’s father was Cuban. The e-mails are apparently being circulated (in Spanish) by Obama supporters to encourage Cuban-Americans to vote for him. (I have yet to find independent information to confirm this.) The story–which | Read More »
“What’s he done?” Jeffrey Sachs, who has had months to think of an answer to the question, waffles on MSNBC (no less). He tries to argue that Obama “has brought the country together.” Say what? Half–more than half, I dare say–of the country is about to vote against him. Got anything else, professor? Evidently not. And neither does Obama.
Barack Obama apparently wants to create a Second Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution. This would provide “positive rights” such as those enshrined in the South African Constitution–rights to health care, housing, work, a clean environment, et cetera. It sounds lovely, and is a much-beloved dream of the legal academic left. Unfortunately, it is an absolute disaster. History and present-day experience teach us that | Read More »
HotAir has the goods on an Obama speech to the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in 1996: The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The | Read More »
Here’s the question that has ended every single argument I have had with Obama-supporting colleagues, friends and relatives about this election: What makes Barack Obama more qualified than Sarah Palin? They hate that one, because they know the answer: nothing. I get responses like: “Well, Obama seems to have heard of the issues.” – Famous Intellectual “If you have to ask that, there’s no point | Read More »
Here’s the question that has ended every single argument I have had with Obama-supporting colleagues, friends and relatives about this election: What makes Barack Obama more qualified than Sarah Palin? They hate that one, because they know the answer: nothing. I get responses like: “Well, Obama seems to have heard of the issues.” – Famous Intellectual “If you have to ask that, there’s no point | Read More »
Via Stop the ACLU, here is Obama in his own words in 2001, giving up on the courts as a mechanism for radical change and suggesting a political approach instead: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so | Read More »
A little anecdotal evidence from the campaign trail: Independent voters seem to be breaking for McCain. Perhaps by 10-20%. I have no scientific basis for this, only my daily conversations with New Hampshire undecideds and independents. You meet some Obama people out there… but many of those making their minds up late seem to be going for McCain. If this continues… look out. Election Night | Read More »
1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
Much has been made lately of Sen. Barack Obama’s proposal to tax the rich. Obama and the slavish pro-Obama media have gone after Joe the Plumber for daring to imagine that he might have to pay the taxes aimed at his wealthy compatriots. Well, the WSJ and the AEI actually examined Obama’s plan, and found: Middle-class families will pay effective marginal tax rates equal to | Read More »
Google 2001 strikes again, and leads to an interesting find. In his 2000 congressional campaign to unseat incumbent Bobby Rush, State Senator Barack Obama turned to his allies in the pulpit to support his candidacy. Over a dozen backed him–including Rev. Michael Pfleger (and perhaps a few other familiar names): More than a dozen South Side ministers said Monday that they won’t back U.S. Rep. | Read More »
More fun with Google 2001. Earlier this year, Sen. Barack Obama was accused of flip-flopping on decriminalizing marijuana. The Washington Times uncovered a tape of a debate in the 2004 Senate race in which Obama had favored decriminalization but opposed legalization. Then, in a debate in the fall of 2007, Obama raised his hand in opposition to Sen. Dodd’s proposal to decriminalize marijuana. The campaign | Read More »
Google 2001 is a fun tool. It’s not going to be around much longer, so make the most of it. As late as 2001, Senator Obama was listed as one of the many speakers in Jodi F. Solomon’s agency in Boston. For under $3500, you could secure his services: A STORY OF RACE The first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, civil rights attorney | Read More »
I have been getting lots of e-mails and phone calls lately from old friends and ex-girlfriends who haven’t spoken to me for a while. I am not sure whether they’re acting on instructions, but the conversations are remarkably similar. Here’s one:
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