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New Yorker Cover Cartoon NOT a Satire? »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 18, 2008 in Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Muslim | View Comments

It is being reported today that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times has in his possession a tape recording of an interview he once had with Barack Obama that may be very damaging to the latter’s campaign for the presidency. The tape (and the transcript of it) stem from a February 27, 2007 visit [...]

Portrait of the Politician as a Young Man on the Make »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 18, 2008 in Allison Davis, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, New Yorker, Qualifications, Tony Rezko, William Ayers | View Comments

The recent article in the New Yorker about Barack Obama’s rise in Chicago politics has been overshadowed, of course, by the controversy surrounding the satirical cover illustration of the same issue. This is unfortunate in that the piece has much good information about Obama’s past. Although it is still far too fawning with respect to [...]

Our Noquarterusa.net Contest: The Sweet Sixteen »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 18, 2008 in Barack Obama | View Comments

For those of you who don’t know, we have been conducting a contest to pick the best title for a hypothetical book about the Hillary-Obama wars. Unfortunately, the initial voting in our poll has been about as robust as participation in the Iowa caucuses—not very. Original contest rules called for participants to narrow the field [...]

Who Doesn’t Get Satire NOW? »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Daily Kos, Michelle Obama, New Yorker | View Comments

The absolutely brilliant cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine has progressive Internet sites up in arms. (Check out Memeorandum.com‘s tracking of the flood of blog posts.) For example, at dailykos.com over 1,400 comments have been made in less than two hours about the topic, “OMG and WTF, have you seen this?” The cartoon shows [...]

“Backtrack Obama” »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 13, 2008 in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Democratic Nomination, Electability, Hillary Clinton | View Comments

I propose a new name for the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party: Backtrack Obama. I have no idea what I am going to do this fall but I do know that Obama is a complete and unadulterated fraud. He is NONE of the superior things he held himself out to be in Iowa and [...]

Noquarterusa.net: The Contest »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 13, 2008 in Barack Obama | View Comments

The response to “Hillary versus Obama: The Book” was so outstanding that it seems a contest to pick the best title for such a tome is in order. It will be sponsored by Willnotmoveon.org (whose battle cry is “Ho! Ho! Ho!”) and its rules will be about as arcane as those that govern the balloting [...]

Hillary versus Obama: The Book »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 13, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Media Bias, Obamedia, Superdelegates | View Comments

Some reputable journalist or historian needs to write the real story of the Hillary-Obama war that took place over the past year. I went to a web site listing the one hundred greatest books ever written and came up with the following suggested titles: Hillary Shrugged Hillary’s Complaint I, Obama Obama and the Art of [...]

Don Imus versus Bernie Mac »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 12, 2008 in Barack Obama, Sexism | View Comments

In the spring of 2007 when Don Imus referred to the players on Rutgers Women’s basketball teams as “nappy headed ‘hos” on his radio program, Barack Obama called for Imus to be fired immediately for remarks that were racist (and, one would hope, sexist). Last night Bernie Mac referred to a woman in a joke [...]

Iowa and an Obama Campaign Thug »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 12, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Federal Elections Commission, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Obama's Thugs, Patriotism | View Comments

I learned from personal experience–and earlier than most–the lengths to which Obama supporters will go to stifle opposition to their candidate. My exposure involved a Des Moines attorney, Gordon Fischer, who is a past chairperson of the Iowa Democratic Party. Perhaps it is no coincidence that he is also a native of Illinois where he [...]

Patti Solis Doyle and the 2008 Iowa Caucuses »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 11, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iowa | View Comments

As someone who lives in Des Moines, Iowa and worked as a volunteer precinct captain in Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency prior to the 2008 Iowa caucuses, I am still haunted by what happened to her candidacy here. Earlier this week it was reported that Hillary’s national campaign manager at the time of the [...]

Obama-Rezko Redux »

By Kirk Tofte on Jul 10, 2008 in Allison Davis, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Cullen Davis, Michelle Obama, Patrick Fitzgerald, Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, Woods Fund | View Comments

Barack Obama was recruited to become a community organizer in Chicago twenty years ago. After three years of doing this work, Obama realized that he could have far more influence in Illinois if he pursued a career in politics as had Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington. In furtherance of this notion, Obama began to [...]