More Obama Accomplishments, Chicago Style

The numbers tell the story about Obama leadership as State and Federal Senator from Illinois.

Body count:  In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago, 221 killed in Iraq. In July alone, 62 murders in Chicago, 5 combat deaths in Iraq.

http://chicagoist.com/2008/08/07/chicagos_murder_rate_up.php

State pension fund: $44 Billion in debt, worst in country.

http://illinoischannel.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B0DB128F5CD96151!1833.entry

Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax: 10.25% highest in country.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-county-sales-tax-web-jul01,0,6411385.story

Chicago school system one of the worst in country.

 

These are the numbers (Look'em up if you want).

Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike), Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley), the leadership in Illinois. All Democrats.  Chicago is a combat zone.  Of course they're all blaming each other.  Obama can't blame Republicans, because there aren't any!

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.    And now he is getting set to 'fix' Washington politics?

 

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on poverty list)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
 
Buffalo , NY (2nd)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1954;

Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...shasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1984;

Cleveland, OH (4th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1989;

Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis, MO (6th)....hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1949; 

El Paso, TX (7th)... has never had a Republican mayor; 

Milwaukee, WI (8th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1908;

Philadelphia, PA (9th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1952;

Newark, NJ(10th)...hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats --- yet are still disadvantaged.

Opinion: The Disadvantaged remain disadvantaged because they are looking for a Liberal Democratic Government to give them something, when all they have to do is work for it. 

Question: How can a person be 5^th Generation Disadvantaged in this Country?

The Human Gaffe Machine Helicopters On

Meet your next potential VP or President, the honorable Joe Biden!

In a Baltimore speech last week, Biden said: “If you want to know where Al Qaeda lives, you want to know where (Usama) bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me. Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains. I can tell you where they are.”

Two days later, in Cincinnati, he said Al Qaeda has re-established a safe haven and it’s not in Baghdad. “It’s in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said, “where my helicopter was recently forced down.”

At a Sept. 9, fundraiser, Biden addressed his national security credentials by talking about “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan where my helicopter was forced down. John McCain wants to know where bin Laden and the gates of Hell are? I can tell him where. That’s where Al Qaida is. That’s where bin Laden is.”

THE FACTS: In February, Biden and fellow senators John Kerry and Chuck Hagel were flying in a helicopter over Afghanistan in a fact-finding trip when a snowstorm closed in.

This self-serving lie by ommission from the guy who waggled four student deferments during the Vietnam war and consequently never served a day fighting for his country.

What's wrong with this picture?

Gwen Ifill has been selected to moderate the Vice Presidential debates this coming Friday.  Only in Pro-left Medialand can a moderator selection like this be acceptable.

This is the same Ifill who on October 5, 2004, moderated the vice presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards. In the debate when Cheney asked for more than 30 seconds to react to a particular statement, Ifill told him "Well, that's all you've got". Ifill said that though it was not her intent, Democratic partisans were delighted with her because she was seen as being "snippy" to Cheney.

However, we no longer need to get into the subject of "intent" to decern Ifill's political leaning because she has written a new book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, that will be released on election day.  The book profiles four black politicians, one of whom is, you guessed it, Barrack Obama. The lead Amazon product description is:

"In THE BREAKTHROUGH, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power."

Obviously, her book will substantially benefit if Obama is elected.  Given these circumstances, a journalist with an ounce of integrity would refuse the moderator assignment.  

But not in Pro-left Medialand!  

http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Politics-Race-Age-Obama/dp/038552501X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222864986&sr=8-1