I’ve Got My Mind Set On You

I’m a big fan of Scott Reeder. He has done a lot of good work for SNG and when he does, I always shout loud hosannahs.

Unfortunately, like so many journalists, Reeder has fallen into the Obama Vortex.

Today, Reeder has a column in the Dispatch attempting to exonerate Obama for his 20 year connection with Rev. Wright.

It doesn’t help that Reeder choses to compare (favorably) Obama to Jimmy Carter, but Reeder’s logic fails with his final quote: “It says much about both men (Carter and Obama)—choosing to live in an environment where intolerance is tolerated by also choosing to rise above it.

But Obama did not “rise above” the intolerance and hate that Rev. Wright preached, he was part of it for 20 years, and more than likely used it to his political advantage.

If Obama was truly to “rise above” Wright’s intolerance, he would have worked to become a race ”healer” within his own church.  How can we believe that Obama will bring us together, bridge racial divides, etc. when he can’t or won’t even confront his own church for their racism?

Your Nose Is Longer Than My Nose

It seems the Democrat race for POTUS is turning into a liars contest.

After Hillary was busted on her Excellent Tuzla Adventure, she fired back with this little gem listing Obama’s Top Ten “Exaggerations & Misstatements”.

You can go to the link to see these “exaggerations” for yourself, but here’s the Cliff Notes version:

1. Obama claims he was a law “professor” at the University of Chicago, but the truth is that he was only a “lecturer”.

2. Obama claimed credit for nuclear leak legislation that never passed. Well, no politician has ever puffed his record like THIS before! *snork*

3. Obama said he was conceived because of Selma, when in fact he was born four years BEFORE the civil rights confrontation at Selma.

4. Obama took too much credit for his community organization efforts. See #2 above.

5. Obama’s claim that nobody had indications Rezko was engaging in wrongdoing “strains credulity”. I might agree with this one. If Obama is this clueless about Chicago politics, I doubt he will be able to deal with all the bad actors on the international stage. On the other hand, he did get that sweet deal from Rezko on land adjacent to his ritzy new house, so what would any good Illinois politician say about his benefactor—-it’s the Chicago Way!

6. Obama was forced to revise his claim that lobbyists “won’t work in my White House.” I’ve had something on the back burner for sometime about how Obama has parsed his statements about lobbyists, but gee Hillary is a fine one to be criticizing others about the meaning of “is”.

7. “Selective, embellished and out-of-context quotes from newspapers pump up Obama’s health plan.” Yeah, that never happens, but what I find amazing is considering how in the tank the establishment press is for Obama, he had to embellish at all—most MSM reports on him read like press releases.

8. Obama claims he “passed a law that put Illinois on a path to universal health coverage” but all he did was set up a task force—-and we’re still fighting about how to finance this program.

9. Obama exaggerated the legislative progress he made on ethics reform. More ZZzzzzz.

10. Obama drastically overstated Kansas tornado deaths during campaign appearance. Gee, none of us have ever quoted the wrong number on anything, ever.

All this is really small potatoes and doesn’t make Hillary look good—in fact it makes her look desperate.

On the other hand, Obama has just backpedalled about the Kennedy financed airlift of Africans that his father was on. Zzzzzzz.

With so little difference in policy, we are constantly bombarded with this sort of trivia—–Democrats, spare us, PLEASE!