Monday, January 7, 2008
News / Chicagoland Yeah, Hillary's done for
Posted by Whet Moser on 01.07.08 at 08:50 AM
There's a lot of time left before November but I think this is already the bottom of the barrel from either side:
"Hillary's aides point to Obama's extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with "left-wing" intellectuals in Chicago's Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants' rights as subjects for examination."
That would be the University of Chicago, that notorious hotbed of crazy extremist liberalism that's done so much to undermine conservative values. Maybe Obama got coffee with Thomas Frank or something.
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Uh, Hyde Park's politics is NOT the politics of the University of Chicago's School of Economics. You are worse than Hillary! Worse than a politician at dissembling. Wow. That's bad.
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And by most accounts, Enrico Fermi was a liberal, as well as most of the Manhattan Project scientists, except Teller.
Hyde Park isn't the most conservative place on earth, but it ain't Madison, either. I'll grant that anyone who lives in Hyde Park--like me, for instance--associates with left-wing intellectuals, but the idea that Obama could be tarred for teaching at the same place as Antonin Scalia and living in the moderate-for-a-university-community neighborhood that surrounds it is what kind of makes me crazy.
In other words, if Obama lived above a head shop in Portland across the street from Reed, fine, but the idea forming "alliances" with "left-wing intellectuals" in any university neighborhood would get Obama killed in the prez election is totally insane and reeks of desperation.
Well, OK, but the article doesn't mention the U of C. "Hillary's aides point to Obama's extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with "left-wing" intellectuals in Chicago's Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants' rights as subjects for examination." I assume, when reading that, that they are talking about his activism, not his teaching. Obama is a great candidate, but he's not a saint and he does play hardball politics, too. I don't think he's better than Hillary or Biden or Dodd or Edwards, especially not in that regard. /He is better than ALL the GOP candidates, that's for sure.
