Coverage mixed back home in the Windy City as the Barackstar jets around. A breathless Lynn Sweet with amazing photos!!! Be still my heart. Then there's the reality of the Obama Health Care Plan in Chicago. Chicago Sun Times:
While on the county payroll, a top urologist at Cook County Hospital solicited nearly $1 million from drug companies over the last decade for his private foundation.Voter unease persists with Obama,Dr. Paul S. Ray's pitch was that the money would go toward medical research and education.
But most of the money hasn't gone to health care at all. Instead, Ray invested it -- mostly in Tony Rezko. [snip]
Last summer, Ray landed in the national spotlight when Obama, seeking to distance himself from Rezko, gave to charity $6,000 that Ray had contributed to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign.
latest polling from the WSJ/NBC. Sorry folks, he's no change agent. He is most experienced at selling himself, and doesn't bear much scrutiny, at home or abroad.
UPDATE: David Warren, "Dreams from Obama". It starts out this way:
Running for the Democrat nomination, Obama posed as the reliable progressive, free of all Clintonian baggage -- as a kind of "Hillary Clinton you can believe in." He would get out of Iraq, cut a deal with Iran, bomb Pakistan, trash America's free trade agreements, deliver socialist medicine, cool global warming, and "heal" everything that ails you. Shades of John F. Kennedy: at least in his supporters' imagination.Karl Rove, WSJ:Running now against a Republican, and with the progressive vote safely in the bag, he will stay the course in Iraq, confront Iran, show diplomacy in Pakistan, defend free trade, spend cautiously, ignore global warming, and "heal" everything that ails you. Shades of Ronald Reagan.
The most laughable part of the campaign is the new, first-ever, "I am the world" tour, currently in progress.
At least Mr. McCain fesses up to and explains his changes. Sen. Obama has shifted recently on public financing, free trade, Nafta, welfare reform, the D.C. gun ban, whether the Iranian Quds Force is a terrorist group, immunity for telecom companies participating in the Terrorist Surveillance Program, the status of Jerusalem, flag lapel pins, and disavowing Rev. Jeremiah Wright. And not only does he refuse to explain these flip-flops, he acts as if they never occurred.Change that you can never be sure of.Then there is Iraq.
P.S. Mayhill Fowler on the fringe in Berlin.
Posted by Anne Leary on July 24, 2008 7:29 AM
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