But besides being annoyed and disapointed with people, I’m concerned about our country. This is mob politics, not democracy. If people aren’t willing to hold Obama accountable for things now, they surely won’t hold him accountable as president.

I used to say President Bush could eat babies and the media and his supporters would simply give it a good spin. The man could do no wrong in the eyes of some. We surely don’t want to repeat this mistake, the last thing we want is another messiah for people to worship in the white house. Nobody is perfect, nobody should be above the law. Everyone is accountable. Or so I thought.

Can you imagine trying to get Congress or the general public to put limits on a President Obama? No way, he’s The One. But see, that’s the same kind of hubris and arrogance that led our current administration to believe they had the right to out a CIA agent. Or fire all those attorneys. Or ignore subpeonas.

I always thought it was an American tradition to hold our leader’s feet to the fire. And to be irrevent. That’s a dangerous ideal for us to throw away.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obama05.article

I’d also like to know why Obama either lied outrigiht or wasn’t aware of the total raised via Rezko. He says in this article it was $60,000, but it turned out to be more like $150,000 didn’t it? So, which is it?…is he a liar or just doesn’t have a clue what’s going on around him?

Q: Senator, when did you first meet Tony Rezko? How did you become friends? How often would you meet with him, and when did you last speak with him?

A: I had attracted some media attention when I was elected the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. And while I was in law school, David Brint, who was a development partner with Tony Rezko contacted me and asked whether I would be interested in being a developer. Ultimately, after discussions in which I met Mr. Rezko, I said no.

Now, why would a developer call a law student to offer him a job as a developer?

I smelled BS the second I read that explanation.

I gave up on HuffPo entirely after seeing the regulars there on debate night completely trashing Clinton’s clothes and hair (oh, and even Taylor Marsh’s hair) as well as refer to the female bloggers as “hens blogging”, and to Hillary as “she must be on her period”…ALL of it unchecked by any other Obama supporter. It was disgusting, and more than disappointing.

What really freaks me out though, is this Obamabot meme that if you’re not on board with O, you’ll suffer the fate of being ostracized. WTF?

Not active politically at all. Sorta like his Senate Career.

Perhaps the Columbia days – normally an important formative stage of adult life – were part of the drug years.

BTW, some Canadians are onto Obama. Apart from the very well-respected CBC Washington correspondent Neil Macdonald’s piece I linked to earlier, this week one of our comedy troupes, CBC’s “The Air Farce”, performed a scathing parody titled ‘Obama Speaks From Someone Else’s Heart’.

Here’s a Globe & Mail piece on Hillary:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080301.wfocusclinton0301/BNStory/International/?pageRequested=1

(apologies if it’s a repost…it’s hard to keep up with the action on the blogs these days!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOFT8jtuVpo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXAQ3BHTbjs

Perhaps one of the Obamabots would like to reconcile their guy’s ever-changing stories on Rezko.

It’s so sad. Every so often, I switch on XM Channel 167 (Air America and Ed Schultz) for a few seconds, only to turn it off, wincing. I try to read the editorial page of the Washington Post, but that’s become a virtual clearing house for Why We Hate Hillary screeds. Even the Post Style section includes Tom Shales telling us “of course Obama won the debate, it wasn’t close” and friendly profiles of Michelle Obama, Chris Matthews, etc.- all of which spend more time smearing Hillary than actually talking about the alleged subject of the piece.

Where are we to go? What are we to do?