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    <author><![CDATA[Sharon Wood  Wilkins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Obama all the way...to the White House. I used to be a Bill and Hillary supporter...however, during the Primary...I saw them at their very worst.And that includes their daughter. Ms. Cobb has her opinions...and she is definitely not an Aunt Jemima!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[I think black folk have such a love affair with the Clintons, they forgot about Ron Brown!!!
    http://imby.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/death-of-ron-brown-still-haunts-clintons/
        
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      <![CDATA[Like that Obama whore Lynn Sweet???????.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Are You Gene Pincham ?]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Racist? somebody call me?
    it ain't nice to speak ill o the dead?
    Just cause I'm dead now don't mean I can't sue you...and bill you for hours.
        
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      <![CDATA[Plenty of ideologues here. Race, race.. race and more race.. 
    Wow. I wonder why.. isn't immigration "reeeeally" about race? 
    Isn't affirmative action racist?
    Oh, that's right it's only racist if it is "people without color" (whites) if they say something.. 
    
    Obama only addressed white racism.. why not black racism. After all he's had the spiritual advise of a black racist for 20 years.. oh there I go again.. being racist. 
    Go to www.fatheromalley.com 
    plenty of videos.. 
    
    May God Bless,
    Father O'Malley
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Carter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a surprise, a veteran spin master trying to portray the opposition's campaign as being dirty.
    
    Too bad you forgot to ask her about Ferraro's knuckleheaded comments, Mick.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[John Powers]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a weak interview Mick,
    
    Wasn't Sen. Obama an Illinois Senator representing some of the worst school districts in Illinois?
    
    How did he bring people together to solve education issues?  Or did he just tow the line of the teachers unions?  
    
    How about reminding people that Sen. Obama has not represented much of Illinois, especially his own wards throughout most of his political career rather than imagining that Republicans are somehow racist because quite a few Democrats don't like bizarre speech coming from Rev. Wright.
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Orion]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Who cares what this Judas, Aunt Jemiamah Del Marie thinks ?
    
    She should concentrate on paying her outstanding debts.....
    
    "What's Your Problem?
    
    March 30, 2008
    
    When Pat Dowell lost her bid for 3rd Ward alderman in 2003, Dan Donahue figured his chances of getting paid were slim.
    
    Candidates, he said, often run large debts. When they lose, some simply don't pay.
    
    So Donahue gave up his quest for the $5,771.03 he said Dowell owed him for producing a 14,000-piece direct-mail advertisement.
    
    "It's usually once a [political] cycle that you get stiffed," Donahue said. "I thought I was cooked. If she never ran again, she'd never pay me."
    
    But Dowell's political career was not over&acirc;&#128;&#148;and neither was Donahue's pursuit of the money. In 2007, Dowell ran again for 3rd Ward alderman, this time defeating incumbent Dorothy Tillman.
    
    Dowells' campaign was flush with money. According to campaign disclosure forms, it raised $259,330 last year. Donahue reasoned there was more than enough in the coffers to pay him. 
    
    Because he had received the direct-mail job through a political consulting firm, The Publicity Works, he called there first. The owner, Delmarie Cobb, said Dowell hadn't paid her either, so she had no money to pay Donahue.
    
    Donahue then called Dowell's aldermanic office, and said he was asked to fax over an invoice. He said he faxed Dowell's office twice, but did not get paid.
    
    Before chalking up the loss as a cost of doing business, Donahue wrote What's Your Problem? for help.
    
    "I don't want to cause the lady any embarrassment," Donahue said of Dowell. "But she should pay her bills."
    
    The Problem Solver called Dowell's office and Cobb at Publicity Works. Both agreed Donahue hasn't been paid. They could not agree, however, on who should pay him.
    
    Cobb said her office did $26,741.38 worth of work for Dowell's campaign in 2003, and subcontracted for an additional $10,645.26 of work, including Donahue's direct-mail piece.
    
    After Dowell lost in 2003, Cobb said, none of those bills were paid.
    
    When Dowell announced she was running again in 2006, Cobb approached her and asked for the outstanding debts to be paid, Cobb said.
    
    Cobb said Dowell paid her the $26,741.38, but did not pay the other $10,645.26, which included Donahue's money. Cobb said Dowell was told at the time she still owed Donahue and other subcontractors, and that it was Dowell's responsibility to pay them.
    
    Dowell's office gives a different version of events. The Problem Solver briefly spoke to Dowell, who then had spokesman Kevin Lampe call back.
    
    Lampe said the money paid to Publicity Works in 2006 was a settlement, in which both sides agreed Dowell would pay the $26,741.38 but not the money owed the subcontractors. Lampe said it was Cobb's responsibility to pay Donahue and other subcontractors from the settlement amount.
    
    "There was a negotiation, and there was a new price," Lampe said. "We paid that, and out of that [Cobb] is responsible for paying her own vendors."
    
    Because the settlement agreement was oral, neither side could produce documents to prove their version. Cobb said Dowell knows she still owes Donahue and the other subcontractors their money.
    
    "She's lying, and I don't have a problem saying she's lying," Cobb said of Dowell and her campaign. Complicating matters further is the fact that Donahue did not keep receipts for his expenditures on the direct-mail piece. He also does not have a signed contract for the work, with either Publicity Works or the Dowell campaign.
    
    "If he can produce a contract between us, let's talk about that," Lampe said. "But he can't produce a contract. Can he produce a receipt from any of the expenses he claims to incur? He can't."
    
    Still, Lampe acknowledged Donahue had produced the direct-mail piece, and he hadn't been paid. So on Wednesday, Lampe called Donahue and offered him $2,000 to settle the case.
    
    Donahue declined.
    
    "You either owe it to me or you don't," he said. "If you're claiming you don't owe me anything, don't pay me a dime." 
    
    Donahue said he made a mistake by not getting a written contract or keeping his receipts. Still, he believes Dowell is dodging her responsibility.
    
    "They're going to hide behind semantics, but that's the business we're in," Donahue said.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Robin]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Larry Sinclair has filed an affidavit with the Chicago Police Department, ref: Donald Young.
    
     
    
    http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/fax-cover-to-chicago-police-department/
    
     
    
     
    
     
    
    Larry Sinclair says he received several phone calls and text messages from Donald Young shortly before he was murdered.  He called Larry on behalf of Barack Obama and Rev. Wright.  I think the family of Donald Young would like to know this new development.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Levois]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Long time reader first time poster. Republicans don't think they need blacks to win because blacks won't vote Republican. Thus Republican resort to going to their base which might be white, suburban, evangelical, etc. Either way perhaps if Republicans were serious about getting the black vote they wouldn't resort to using Willie Horton or swift boats. 
    
    I should add an ad that was done against Harold Ford in Tennessee when he ran for senate in 2006. A white woman being suggestive was used against him and it worked. We don't have a second black man in the US Senate right now.
        
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