Barack Obama gets around. His social penetration is astonishing in one so young and supposedly naive. Obama’s name is mentioned in connection with so many of today’s rich and notorious — Daniel Ortega, Raila Odinga, Louis Farrakhan and now FARC segundo Raul Reyes, for starters — I’m on the verge of co-opting time on a Cray Supercomputer to keep track of them all. If Obama wanted to introduce U.N.-style corruption in the White House, his social(ist) network would undoubtedly be up to the task.
The question for U.S. voters is whether the American press — trained as so many of them were by lackluster U.S. “journalism” programs — are capable of comprehending and communicating the depth, breadth and significance of Obama’s network in time for the general election in November. So far, the signs are not encouraging.
On Obama, what we get so far from U.S. press sources is a s–t load (Southern term, apologies to friends West and North) of fawning biographical smarm intermixed with a few tempting but isolated peeks into what so far resembles a pail of cold pig entrails in a dark basement — real Halloween fare.
For a change of pace and a lucid exploration of one strand of Obama’s social viscera, check out Andrew Walden’s excellent blog entry, Obama’s Iraqi Oil for Food Connection, at American Thinker.
ht: Hugh Hewitt
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j.t.evans 03.10.08 at 8:00 pm
Having lived on Chicago’s south side for three years, I should have wondered how Obama could rise to any position of power without being corrupted. You don’t travel through that place and come out clean. Chicago deserves its reputation.
But Obama hasn’t settled for anything but the “best,” it appears. Rezko, Auchi, Alsammarae, Saddam, what an illustrious line of crooks to find him connected with. And this cannot be the whole story. What other money is coming to him from the Middle East?