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Michael Barone: “Obama’s ‘Chicago Way’ plunders the private sector”

protein wisdom: “Gee. Ya think?”

13 Replies to “Michael Barone: “Obama’s ‘Chicago Way’ plunders the private sector””

  1. Joe says:

    Whenever these Chicago style shennangins come up you have to go back and ask yourself…

    Who sent Obama?

  2. Bob Reed says:

    Robert Gibbs said that the phenomena that Barone is referring to is Boooooooooooooosh!’s fault. Everyone knows that, “Happy Days! are here again!”, and the private sector, indeed the economy overall, is booming.

    Now go spend some money you don’t have, please.

  3. Joe says:

    Michael, Barack Obama is not some magic Hawaiian Indonesian salmon who just managed to swim into Lake Michigan and up the Chicago River. He went to Chicago for a reason. How about Frank Marshal Davis? Who is Obama’s spiritual father (if not his real one). Then there is the connection to Bill Ayers (and more importantly) Tom Ayers and his connections to the Democratic Machine in Chicago.

  4. Blake says:

    Joe, you forgot Reverend Jeremiah Wright. One of our local radio personalities (he’s black, by the way) thinks President Obama joined the Trinity United Church in order to get his “Black Cred” along with making political connections.

  5. Joe says:

    Absolutely about Wright, but he was not the initial draw to the windy city. The initial draw was what was instilled in young Barry by Davis and then the ties to Ayers.

    I have said this before, Ayers fucking owns Obama.

  6. cranky-d says:

    I’ve been doing my part and spending money I don’t have for years. Can I have a bailout?

  7. Rahm Emanuel says:

    It depends cranky-d, who sent you? I do not see your name on our elite donor list.

  8. alppuccino says:

    The Dow seems to sense the improving impeachment odds.

  9. Sorry to go off topic, but as Mickey Kaus says, I am excitable:

    In her column today, [Maureen Dowd] doesn’t offer any substantive proposals for the president to stop the oil-gush. His language has been full of rage; he has launched a criminal investigation; he is obviously exasperated; and this is a narrative he simply cannot control. Almost from the start it was clear that only relief wells could stop this, and they take time to drill in that kind of depth.

    Maureen has long wanted Obama to be what he isn’t. We have a temperamental WASP in the White House. And the whole point of a WASP president – like GHWBush – is that they are best judged over the long term of results rather than the short term of emotion. I can quite see how emotionally, Obama is losing this p.r. war. But since he literally cannot win against a narrative determined by physics, it seems to me that columnists should be pointing out the reality of reality rather than the “reality” of “narrative.”

    Althouse is questioning me on this. But tell me, what is wrong with my argument above?

    And p.s. to Kristol and Podhoretz: I am not anti-semetic. I am just anti neocon.

  10. JD says:

    Andy Sullidouche is a mendoucheous twatwaffle. But a Sullidouche vs Dowd catfight would be rather amusing.

  11. Dowd might rape me with her rapier wit.

    But I would piss on her. And I can girl slap with the best of them.

  12. cranky-d says:

    Rahm, I donated using a credit card, and as you know, you turned off the system that monitors donation levels, so you don’t have a record of me donating, or how much I gave.

  13. geoffb says:

    The problem with Obama’s Chicago Way is that Chicago isn’t America. The Chicago Way works locally because there is an America out there that ultimately pays for it. But who will pay for an America run the Chicago Way?

    The “Chicago Way” replaces the trust with greed and fear.

    That isn’t stable without some outside source to suck sustenance from. A city can do that, for awhile. A 3rd world nation can also. The USA can’t. There is no host we can vampire to keep the payoffs going.

    heh.

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