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Newsmax,
During his White House run Democrat Barack Obama has spoken often of the need for “change” and “reform,” but if there were ever a place in need of change and reform it is Obama’s Chicago.
That’s one of the telling points author David Freddoso makes in his new book “The Case Against Barack Obama.”
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Writing about the book for the Wall Street Journal, Fred Siegel — a contributing editor for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal — observes that Freddoso describes “the tension between Mr. Obama’s public persona and his practical politics.
“The key, for Mr. Freddoso, is the Chicago world in which Mr. Obama made himself first a community organizer and then a state senator, before heading off to Washington in 2005. It is by viewing Chicago that the gap between Mr. Obama’s rhetoric about reform and his career as a conventional Chicago pol is most visible.”
And Chicago is a city in decline, Siegel notes:
In recent years the city has lost its two leading banks and thousands of jobs in the futures and commodities markets.
Chicago’s middle class continues to flee — between 2000 and 2006, 63,000 people left the city.
Chicago has the highest retail sales tax in the nation, 10.25 percent, and is the only city with a head tax on employment.
Corruption and crime continue to thrive — Chicago has a murder rate three times higher than New York’s.
Siegel writes: “And yet, Mr. Freddoso argues, reform for Mr. Obama ‘is something to discuss during election campaigns, not to be implemented or followed’ when it might jeopardize his ambitions.
Continuing his report on Freddoso’s book, Siegel writes: “By his own admission, Mr. Obama’s eyes were long on the prize of becoming the mayor of Chicago. Thus his willingness to make common cause with Tony Rezko, Allison Davis and Valerie Jarrett, locally wired political figures who did well for themselves by using state dollars to build publicly subsidized slums…
“What Mr. Obama did was unexceptional. He simply cultivated the people he needed to cultivate in order to climb the greasy pole of local preferment, giving beautiful speeches along the way.”
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From Rush Limbaugh,
We have 300 million people in this country, and the best we can come up with to run for president is McCain and Obama? Talk about Sophie’s Choice!”
“The way I see it, the biggest challenge Joe Biden has is to not be himself. He has to find a way to hide himself because if Joe Biden’s there, it’s, ‘Chuck, stand up! Let ‘em see you! Oh, God!’”
“Just as Neville Chamberlain went back in the 1930s to meet with Hitler, Obama will also declare some kind of diplomatic victory in Iran, and Iran will take it to mean that they can act with impunity and Obama won’t do a thing about it.”
“There is no contest between Sarah Palin and Obama and Biden in terms of understanding the traditions and the institutions that made this country great. She has lived them!”
“Why is it that Joe Biden has been rejected time and again in the Democrat primaries, receiving less than 1% in the Iowa caucuses? What suddenly makes either of these guys leaders?”
“When you examine Obama’s career, you basically see two things, and only two things: a man-child who has spent his life both as a college and law student, and an adult working hand in hand with domestic terrorists.”
“What kind of man sits in the pews of a church where the preacher spews hate for his own country, for Jews, for whites, and for blacks who don’t agree with him? Ask yourselves if you see such a man representing your country as president of the United States.”
“I have the perfect opening for Sarah Palin. She should say, ‘Ms. Ifill, first thing, I want to congratulate you on your new book on Obama, and I am not going to ask you to stand up.’”
“Barack Obama has never held a real job in this country, and by that I mean one that requires you to make a profit for yourself or for your employer. He has been paid by foundations and the taxpayer most of his life to promote a socialist agenda that will destroy everything that you have worked for.”
“You know, there’s a country song out there that fits us you and me, Kathleen: ‘How can I kiss you on the lips when you chewed my ass out this morning?’”
