T-Shirt vendors everywhere. Obama's messianic countentance on all of them. Change. Hope. People chanting Oh - Ba - Mah all over the place. It was an embarrassing display, even for Chicago. I don't mind folks trying to make a few bucks off the savior of the day. Heck, they sold Pope stuff in DC for his Holiness' 3 day visit.
But what gets to me is how many millions of people actually buy into this "change" and "hope" BS.
Keep in mind that Obama has risen from the primordial ooze and slime that defines and defiles Illinois politicians from both parties. These of the names of former state governors who have GONE TO JAIL in my lifetime for various crimes: Otto Kerner, Dan Webb, George Ryan. Here's one that testified in defense of both Ryan AND the convicted Sun-Times owner Conrad Black: James R. Thompson. How many states can claim that many CONVICTED FORMER GOVERNORS? And we ain't done yet padding that list.
The current Illinois governor, Rod (the reformer) Blagojevich, now under federal investigation himself, just waved bye-bye to his chief fundraiserTony Rezko, who's headed for the slammer. Oh, and Rezko was Obama's next door neighbor while all that funny fundraising was going on.
Obama endorsed Blagojevich. So much for Obama's god-like judgment.
Obama also endorsed Todd Stroger for chairman of the Cook County board. Stroger just passed the biggest sales tax increase in county history, giving Chicago the highest sales tax rate of any city in the USA.
If this is the kind of Change and Hope Obama stands for, I'll gladly pinch my nose and vote for McCain.
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