Posted on 11/26/2004 5:15:56 PM PST by CrosscutSaw
CHICAGO -- Chicago's media gossip columnists are abuzz with news about Illinois' new political sensation, U.S. Senator-elect Barack Obama. Friday night, Obama will be featured on "Late Show" with David Letterman.
CBS released a portion of tonight's transcript, and the Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan teased readers this morning by publishing part of the interview which will air Friday night at 10:30 PM CST:
Letterman: " . . . Now was there a guy running for Senate, maybe an incumbent, maybe not, I think a Republican, and he had a problem because he and his wife would go to strip clubs and have sex."
Obama: (laughing) "Well, that was --" (audience laughs)
Letterman: "Did I dream that? Does any of this ring a bell?"
Obama: "I, uh -- there were some issues, some allegations." (audience laughs)
Letterman: (laughs) "Yeah."
Obama: "But we didn't touch that stuff."
Letterman: "I see."
Obama: "We took the high road, and --"
Letterman: "Now is this who you were running against, or he dropped out, right?"
Obama: "Yeah, he dropped out -- yeah, the Republicans, you know, they seem to have a lot of fun given all their moral values stuff." (Letterman, audience laugh) "They enjoy themselves."
Letterman: "It sounded like fun to me."
The former state senator told Letterman that not only did he receive a congratulatory phone call from the President, he recently had breakfast with Bush, Vice-President Cheney and Bush political adviser Karl Rove.
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisleader.com ...
He's sharp as a whip.
This is true.
He's sharp as a whip.
He didn't seem too sharp during the three debates.
Not really. No substance. He'll be a lightweight water carrier for Kennedy, Clinton, Harkin, et al.
I would be very surprised indeed if Senator Osama were the only Freshman Senator invited to the breakfast.
Now if he'd only served in Vietnam, he'd be the perfect presidential candidate.
Why, thank you.
And yes.
LOL...
The guy is almost as fanciful as a resume trimmer as Kerry. In some ways worse.
He had the audacity to write an 'autobiography' that used...can you believe this...'fictionalized' characters.
And the leftwing Illinois press gives him a pass on such stupidity.
The national press, of course, now continues the practice.
He bears watching in the Senate. As an Illinois state senator, his record was hard, hard left. He even voted against the Born-Alive infants legislation that was designed to protect babies who survived abortions. IOW, he voted to allow abortionists to kill live breathing babies.
He will not only be a water carrier for the worst scum in the Senate, but for every radical leftwing interest group in Washington. Take it to the bank.
Obama is the only openly liberal freshman Senator (the jury's still out with Salazar), so he'll get a lot of press. The Democrats spent $400 million on this election and Obama was pretty much all they got for it.
Ah.
Enjoy your stay.
He comes off as oily to me. I just don't trust him.
But I can see where the mindless rabble might find him likeable in a Clinton kind of way.
I agree. I heard him speak after the elections and I was not very impressed. He isn't a moron like Moseley-Braun and will probably continue to get re-elected in the People's Republic of Daley, but national aspirations will expose him. He will do the same as Kerry, I think. He will lay low, be an empty suit and focus on graft.
I think you're right.
The empty-suit label fits.
The tagline speaks for itself.
Feel free to FReepmail me for info on meetings in the Chicago area.
Why?
Maybe because MSM tells you so?
Well, not all Republicans can have sex with, and drown, women in a car, while drunk. They also cannot nail every woman EXCEPT their wives, as one prominent Rat was known to do. They also cannot make waitress sandwiches, either.
How nice that the Rat party is so pure.
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