The new face of the Democrats?

Salon.com ^ | 3/30/2004 | Scott Turow

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It is a shame since he was such an unlikely candidate to get elected in the first place. The GOP in Illinois isn't much different than the dems. Although, to be fair to George Ryan, he didn't raise taxes like Chicagovich (blagojevich).

[refusenix]

But what does that mean?

[anonymous_user]

unlikely candidate to get elected in the first place...

All he had to do was appear more competent than a lady who thought we planted a flag on Mars. :)

[capt. norm]

His name sounds (and looks) too much like Osama.

If you think voters are too intelligent to base their votes on soomething that stupid, you are failing to heed the advice of P.T. Barnum.

[techcor]

FEE FIE FO FOMA OSAMA"

Ok, now lets do "Chuck"!

[petercooper]

whatever you want it to mean

[dirtboy]

I see our belligerent newbie is no longer with us. Was he a frequent flier?

[glock rocks]

good nose there, dirtboy.

he wanted discussion?

I'm shocked... he never replied to #5.

[q_an_a]

fair to geo. ryan?? he is under a dozen clouds for graft and in his last days cancelled all death penalty sentences. Ryan was easliy the worst gov in any party in the last decade.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He will be found to be better than Chigagovich or Walker.

And while the only surprise is that there are politicians in Illinois that aren't indicted, it's ironic that Ryan gets indicted for running a scam in a heavily controlled democratic area, when there are geographically so many more Republican controlled areas that he could have made a fortune in without anyone ever noticing.

[Qwinn]

Who the new face of the Democrats is doesn't matter all that much when Al Franken has just become the designated voice of the Democrats. It'll still sound like a dork.

Qwinn

[petercooper]

go to hell, schmuck

[Admin Moderator]

A personal attack for your very first post? Not a good start but a good ending. Goodbye.

[DMZFrank]

Is any one out there worried about the outcome of the Senate race? I am.

While I agree that Jack Ryan should be the next Senator from the State of Illinois, he might not be. Unlike Carol Mostly Fraud, Obama is genuinely articulate, polished, charismatic, well educated (in semi-Marxist philosophy) and presents a great appearance. He is the type of black liberal that the liberal press loves to extol. They will give short shrift to the bankrupt liberalism of his ideas and focus on the opportunity that the Illinois electorate has to make history and send this anointed liberal political saint to the Senate. If ever a political race should be about ideas and philosophy, then this one should be it. It's hard to imagine a starker contrast between the ideas of the candidates. Barack Obama thinks that the purpose of government is to equalize outcomes between different groups of people, and Jack Ryan thinks the free market and individual merit should prevail. I fear that this race will be framed by the mainstream media has an opportunity for Illinois to show the nation how progressive we are by voting in the socialist Barack Obama.

At every opportunity we must bring the focus of this race to a comparison of the merits of the ideas of the respective candidates rather that a forum on PC.

[dirtboy]

The trolls seem to think they can disguise themselves. As if we haven't seen just about every troll disguise variation many times already.

Makes me pine for ol' Toiletman. Now THERE was a troll. No disguises, just in your face posting until he was booted. And highly entertaining abuse and personal attacks, instead of this lame-assed "echo chamber" bleating we get from the twits nowadays.

[dirtboy]

I mean really, do you think this is clever?

This coming from a troll who misrepresented himself throughout the thread.