Larry, have you given up life in your devotion to bash Obama?
A pity…

Obama could add drama to Senate race
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Author: Steve Neal
Date: July 3, 2002
Publication: Chicago Sun-Times
Page: 41
Word Count: 826
Excerpt:
He could win it all. State Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago), the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, who teaches constitutional law at the University of Chicago, is hoping to be the 2004 Democratic nominee against Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald.
Earlier this week, Obama launched a campaign committee to challenge Republican Sen. Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.

Obama: “Because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama, Jr. was born. So
don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama.” (Senator Barack Obama, Remarks At Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, AL, 3/4/07)

Meaning, Bush is starting to look good to me, now.

“It was Barack re-reading a portion of the speech. As I told you, there is no original tape,” Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, told me in an e-mail exchange.

The 77-second ad uses sound effects that could easily lead one to conclude that one is listening to Obama making the original speech at the plaza rally outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop.

It is a sound effect to make the Obama spot seem something it is not.

Obama’s voice sounds as if it were recorded off a loudspeaker. The sound effect gives Obama’s voice a reverberation, or echo-like quality.

The spot is titled “Blank Check” and is designed to underscore one of — perhaps the most potent — calling cards of Obama, his early opposition to the Iraq war.

Obama’s new voice-over uses a key quote from the Oct. 2 speech at the rally in which protesters tried to head off the Senate’s Oct. 11, 2002, vote to authorize the Iraq war:

“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length at undetermined cost with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida.”

WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign readily admits that White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) recently recorded a portion of the Oct. 2, 2002, anti-Iraq war speech he originally delivered at an outdoor rally in Chicago for a new ad that went online Thursday.
There is no good audio tape of the speech, which is playing a pivotal role in the Obama campaign. But the campaign used a sound effect to create the impression one was listening to the original speech.

“It was Barack re-reading a portion of the speech. As I told you, there is no original tape,” Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, told me in an e-mail exchange.

The 77-second ad uses sound effects that could easily lead one to conclude that one is listening to Obama making the original speech at the plaza rally outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop.

It is a sound effect to make the Obama spot seem something it is not.

Obama’s voice sounds as if it were recorded off a loudspeaker. The sound effect gives Obama’s voice a reverberation, or echo-like quality.

The spot is titled “Blank Check” and is designed to underscore one of — perhaps the most potent — calling cards of Obama, his early opposition to the Iraq war.

Obama’s new voice-over uses a key quote from the Oct. 2 speech at the rally in which protesters tried to head off the Senate’s Oct. 11, 2002, vote to authorize the Iraq war:

“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length at undetermined cost with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/601567,CST-NWS-obama13.article

More analysis:

http://cliffpotter.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/01/1271077-bolstering-obamas-iraq-war-claims-is-obama-manipulating-the-public

Found an interesting article on “Time” about this yesterday.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1718255,00.html

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2008/02/iraq-snapshot_28.html

And C.I. ran through his record here:

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2008/02/i-hate-war_28.html

C.I. and Elaine
http://likemariasaidpaz.blogspot.com/

have repeatedly blogged on Barack Obama not being “anti-war.” They found out at a 2004 fundraiser. They’ve been writing about that since long before he announced he was running for president.

Not only did C.I. catch it on Tuesday night, I left a comment on Susan’s post about that:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/02/26/lets-fact-check-the-bamboozler/

Here’s the comment I left on Tuesday:

Great job Susan. Here’s one more. C.I. points out B.O. lied in the debate:

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2008/02/barack-obama-lied-in-debate.html

Quote: “My objections to the war in Iraq were simply — not simply a speech. I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high-stakes campaign.”

He wasn’t running for the US Senate. He was running for re-election to the state senate.

C.I.: “He lied. This isn’t “mispoke.” He said “US Senate.” It made him sound better. And it was a lie. That speech is not something new to him, he has referenced it over and over. He knows when he gave it. He’s reference that over and over. He was not running for the US Senate. He thought he could get away with it (and during the debate he did).”

Considering that C.I. hasn’t slammed Larry the way a lot of other people have been doing online, I’m really offended that Lambert’s getting credit.

Isn’t one of our problems with Obama that Hillary does the work and Obama comes along and says “Me too” and he’s hailed as a genius?

C.I.’s just one more woman getting ripped off online and I’m not going to pretend it’s not happening.

Give credit where it’s due, to C.I. of The Common Ills.

Not only is the printed press so godawful (I can count at least one spelling mistake every 2 articles — you know one even a basic word processer can fix?), the TV thinks pundits ARE the news.

I’d rather return to days when my morning and evening news were delivered in monotone, by old men who saw the worst life could offer, than some peppy 20 year-old who’s smart on fashion and fads, but brick dumb on decency and taste.

But, that’s liberalism. Free to do everything anyone pleases, hells bells on any class or decency.