Posted on 02/03/2010 7:24:17 AM PST by raptor22
Lech Walesa, a Nobel Laureate and former leader of the Solidarity trade union in Poland, which helped topple 50 years of Soviet occupation there and end the Cold War, went to Chicago, Ill., last week to endorse a conservative Republican in the gubernatorial primary race but the local media largely ignored him.
This near-blackout by the media occurred despite the fact that 1 million people of Polish nationality live in Chicago, making it the city with the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, Poland, and despite the fact that Walesa himself was the first post-Soviet president of Poland (from 1990 to 1995).
On Jan. 29, Walesa endorsed Adam Andrzejewski in the Republican primary for governor of Illinois at a rally in Chicago. Walesa stressed that he and Andrzekewski shared the same conservative values and commitment to freedom and opportunity. (The Illinois governor’s seat is up for grabs in a special race since Democrat Rod Blagojevich was impeached last year for corruption.)
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The media in this country is a discrace to it’s name!
“a Nobel Laureate”
That’s not saying much, so is Obama.
Yeah, but he actually earned his, and if he were endorsing a Dem, they’d be all over it.
Maybe it was because even the liberal MSM realized the Nobel Peace Prize is worthless.
Unfortunately, the leftist biased mainstream media is the same everywhere in the world, and not just in the U.S., alone.
“Maybe it was because even the liberal MSM realized the Nobel Peace Prize is worthless.”
Oh, hardly worthless. It still serves to gull the ignorant into thinking that left-wing scoundrels are brilliant, wise, and benevolent.
For the life of me I can’t call to mind what the Bamtard is supposed to have done to earn his Nobel World Revolution Prize.
Some of Walesa’s comments were most revealing. He said that he thought America was moving towards socialism.
It is past time to overthrow Communism in the USA.
It's like currency: it used to be worth something.
Communism = USSR.
Cold War veteran.
I can't think of anything he's ever done to earn anything, ever, and I'm not being flippant.
Can you?
He must have written that speech in high school.
Barak Obama, on the other hand, may have been born in Hawaii to parents who could have been married; might have gone to Columbia University; apparently graduated from Harvard; may have attended some sessions of the Illinois Legislature, before being elected President of the United States.
Which city block of Chicago detritus are they clearing out to make room for this uniquely brave man’s enormous balls?
Now don’t get your babushka in a bunch ;), I was referring to Obama’s “nobel for nothing” diminishing the award’s prestige. Nothing against Lech.
I’m not surprised that getting an endorsement from Walesa a few days before the election wasn’t enough to rally a large Polish voter turnout. There has to be some ground work—meeting with various Polish groups weeks in advance to let them know stands on issues. Did Adam do this kind of ground work?
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