On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:13:51 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"BAR" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"BAR" wrote in message
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010700846.html


Why were you surprised?

It isn't like them to do a hit piece on a Democrat. They usually reserve
that for Republicans.



If you enjoyed that, you'd love reading Matt Taibi's articles in Rolling
Stone. Nobody is spared. You probably don't like the source, though.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...s_moment/print
But mostly, Obama is selling himself. When he talks about "showing a new
face to the world," it's not exactly a mystery that he's talking about his
face. In person, Obama is a dynamic, handsome, virile presence, a stark
contrast to the bloated hairy ****bags we usually elect to positions of
power in this country.

Moreover, he completely lacks that air of grasping, gutter-scraping ambition
sickness that follows most presidential hopefuls around like a rain cloud -
the vengeful impatience that hovers over Rudy Giuliani, or that creepy
greediness for media attention that strikes one like an oar in the face in
the presence of Mitt Romney. To use a sports cliché, Obama acts like he's
been there before, and his handlers are aware enough of how well their
candidate is wearing his climb to power that they've consciously chosen to
contrast it with that of his rivals.

In particular, the Obama camp harps incessantly, without naming names, on
the sense of entitlement that infects Hillary Clinton's campaign persona.
Poor Hillary: While Obama glows like the chosen one, taking Kennedy-esque
flight on the wings of destiny, next to him Hillary sometimes comes off like
an angry drag queen, enraged that some other tramp has been allowed to
"Danke Schoen" in her Las Vegas. Obama sees this and isn't above pointing at
her Adam's apple. "I'm not running for president because I think this is
somehow owed to me," Obama says.


Obama makes a good point. He doesn't seem to have that vengeful impatience
that hovers over Hillary nor the greediness for media attention that
strikes like an oar in the face in the presence of John Edwards.

It's rare to see the Washington Post exercise honesty in a political story.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."