Barack Obama, Aspiring Commissar

National Review ^ | 8/28/08 | By the Editors

[jessduntno]

Barack Obama, Aspiring Commissar By the Editors

While the Obama coronation proceeds apace in Denver, it is in Chicago that Americans are getting a disturbing demonstration of his thuggish methods of stifling criticism.

Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Harvard-educated social anthropologist and frequent contributor to National Review, among other publications. He is widely respected for his meticulous research and measured commentary. For months, he has been doing the job the mainstream media refuses to do: examining the background and public record of Barack Obama, the first-term senator Democrats are about to make their nominee for president despite the shallowness of his experience and achievement.

[jessduntno]

Chicago politics? Thuggish? Why isn't the oDrama campaign filling out his resume with his Annenberg Foundation leadership experience? Leadership, finance, its all there! Great stuff, Mr. Kurtz!

[alecqss]

This episode could be an alarming preview of what life will be like for the media should the party of the Fairness Doctrine gain unified control of the federal government next year.

Obama starts early... Hopefully he will ends that way, too. In November the latest.

[counterpunch]

The McCain Campaign should hit themes of Obama representing “Radical Change” while McCain would bring “common sense reforms”.




 

[bvw]

Welcome to Post The NR “Obama Commissar” Article Day.

[peeps36]

I can't believe this country is on the verge of electing an empty suit like Obama. How could any American cast a vote for someone they know almost nothing about? We don't even know his real name or if he's a citizen of this country. The little bit of information we have paints Berry as a racist communist who likes to associate with America hating terrorist. If he can be elected it means we have too many idiots living in this country.

[jessduntno]

Thank you. Please ignore if it is something you have already seen; I just got in from work and haven’t had the chance to read through the posts of the day, heard it on the radio in the car that Kurtz has taken another big step forward and thought that the poor ignorant behind-the-times dolts like meself would be interested, too. I will try to be more mindful and not trouble cognescenti like yourself again. Did I use too much bandwidth, dear boy? Have a martini and keep moving, there must be SOMETHING of which you are not already aware.

[bvw]

I can't afford a martini until T Boone finishes that windmill in my front yard. Let me yell out to him and tell him to get going.

For the nonce I'll have to make do as well as can with the last few ounces in my last Jack Daniels bottle.

[jessduntno]

Cheers. Why not have a Cutty Snark?

[bvw]

I'd choke on the rudder.