<div>Let's keep it real. I also disliked the FISA vote but frankly you will never find any candidate</div> <div>who votes completely the way you wish that they would. I don't agree with everything that my husband votes for either but that hasn't made me demand a divorce. We can't be certain how Obama will be as President but we are positive what McCain will be like. He wants</div> <div>to make permanent the tax cuts for the rich and he is already drooling at the idea of attacking other countries. Iran would definately be a target for him. He is after all Bush III.</div> <div>I'll take my chances with a far less militant candidate. I can accept warts but I would demand that the checks and balances be restored. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Melinda<BR><BR><B><I>rebelljb@aol.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">However, this does not take away his vote for the
FISA/wiretapping/telecom immunity bill. I judge a candidate on how he votes on certain issues that are important to me.<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Melinda Iley-Dohn <iley_dohn@yahoo.com><BR>To: graham2639@mindspring.com; Discuss@paa-tx.org<BR>Sent: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 9:55 pm<BR>Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Let us dispense with racist rhetoric....its the 21st Century<BR><BR> <DIV id=AOLMsgPart_3_d1c9edf1-a72a-47b9-b4c0-8e4c5e16628b> <DIV>Have you checked out Open Secrets for Obama's finanial Reports? I don't see a lot of corporate support here. He only has a tiny PAC amount. He's also been very transparent, unlike McCain, whose cash source of a wife has never disclosed any sources of income until she was forced to in this election. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008" target=_blank>http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008</A></DIV>
<DIV></DIV> <DIV class=pietable_container> <TABLE id=source_of_funds style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px"> <TBODY> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.GIF"></TD> <TD>Individual contributions</TD> <TD align=right>$336,740,735</TD> <TD align=right>99%</TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend2.GIF"></TD> <TD>PAC contributions</TD> <TD align=right>$1,570</TD> <TD align=right>0%</TD></TR> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend3.GIF"></TD>=0 A <TD>Candidate self-financing</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD align=right>0%</TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend4.GIF"></TD> <TD>Federal Funds</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD align=right>0%</TD></TR> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend5.GIF"></TD> <TD>Other</TD> <TD align=right>$2,474,012</TD> <TD
align=right>1%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <H2 class=ruleAbove><A name=scoff></A><B>How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports? <A href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/scofflaw_pop.php" target=_blank><IMG alt="How to read this chart" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/icon_help_white.gif" border=0></A></B></H2> <DIV class=pietable_container><IMG class=floatleft id=scofflaw_img style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px" alt="Quality of Disclosure" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/scoff_img.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638"> <TABLE id=scofflaw style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 50px"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.GIF"></TD> <TD>Full Disclosure</TD> <TD align=right>$181,250,335</TD> <TD align=right>(94.0%)</TD></TR> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend5.GIF"></TD> <TD>Incomplete</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend
src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend6.GIF"></TD> <TD>No Disclosure</TD> <TD align=right>$11,540,120</TD> <TD align=right>(6.0%)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Unlike most Senators, Obama has been an activist in the South side of Chicago.</DIV> <DIV>Th is is hardly a K Street type of arrangement. He could have been even better</DIV> <DIV>positioned politically if he had taken his panache as the first black editor for the </DIV> <DIV>Harvard Law review and he had gone straight into a top law firm. He would have had</DIV> <DIV>an easy access to the big business money but he has chosen the approach of more than a million small donors,hardly a big business arrangement. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Check out McCains in comparrison if you want to see a corporate owned candidate....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00006424&cycle=2008"
target=_blank>http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00006424&cycle=2008</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <H2 class=ruleAbove><A name=pacind></A>Source of Funds <A href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/pacind_pop.php" target=_blank><IMG alt="How to read this chart" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/icon_help_white.gif" border=0></A></H2><A name=bli></A> <DIV class=pietable_container> <DIV class=pie_container> <DIV id=Source_of_FundsDiv align=center></DIV></DIV> <TABLE id=source_of_funds style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px"> <TBODY> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.GIF"></TD> <TD>Individual contributions</TD> <TD align=right>$121,232,420</TD> <TD align=right>83%</TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend2.GIF"></TD> <TD>PAC contributions</TD> <TD align=right>$1,220,479</TD> <TD align=right>1%</TD></TR> <TR ass="rowTint" cl> <TD><IMG alt=legend
src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend3.GIF"></TD> <TD>Candidate self-financing</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD align=right>0%</TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend4.GIF"></TD> <TD>Federal Funds</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD align=right>0%</TD></TR> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend5.GIF"></TD> <TD>Other</TD> <TD align=right>$23,013,302</TD> <TD align=right>16%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <H2 class=ruleAbove><A name=scoff></A><B>How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports? <A href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/scofflaw_pop.php" target=_blank><IMG alt="How to read this chart" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/icon_help_white.gif" border=0></A></B></H2> <DIV class=pietable_container><IMG class=floatleft id=scofflaw_img style="PADDING-RIGHT: 15px" alt="Quality of Disclosure"
src="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/scoff_img.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00006424"> <TABLE id=scofflaw style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 50px"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend1.GIF"></TD> <TD>Full Disclosure</TD> <TD align=right>$106,364,853</TD> <TD align=right>(88.7%)</TD></TR> <TR class=rowTint> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend5.GIF"></TD> <TD>Incomplete</TD> <TD align=right>$0</TD> <TD> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD><IMG alt=legend src="http://www.opensecrets.org/img/legend6.GIF"></TD> <TD>No Disclosure</TD> <TD align=right>$13,575,369</TD> <TD align=right>(11.3%)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV class=ruleAbove id=disclaimer>< div> </DIV> <DIV>Note the amount that is not disclosed from a "straight talker". That's a lot of undisclosed cash.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Melinda</DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Ron and Kris Graham <<A
href="mailto:graham2639@mindspring.com">graham2639@mindspring.com</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV class=Section1> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Here are the references for the Paul Street ZNet article, Melinda. I didn’t post them because there are 56 of them, and I figured my post would be “bumped” because of length if I included them. I also included a comment from the author of the article, Paul Street. If you are citing Glen Ford talking about Obama’s black heritage I don’t see where the racism is. Obama is half African. Ford saying black face means nothing. I have a white face. Who gives a shit? Ford didn’t call him a derogatory term, so get over it. You seem to be looking for a way to make Glen Ford a racist when he
purely states his take on Obama and Obama’s seeming indifference to the plight of African Americans and especially poor ones. This indifference should be baffling given that Obama is “half black”. Of course if one realizes that Obama doesn’t wish to be seen as “uppity” by the whi te boys’ club establishment then his indifference makes perfect sense. You state we should look at Obama’s policies and not his heritage, and I would agree. His voting record and the things he has said in the past and continues to say today tell me the man has no moral convictions. He is merely a political opportunist who is looking to be president and will say and do anything to get that position.</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"></SPAN></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">K</SPAN></FONT></B></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"></SPAN></FONT></B> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">NOTES</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 ace="Verdana" f><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Verdana"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">1. Paul Krugman, "The Obama Agenda," New York Times, June 30, 2008. p. A23.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">2. Paul Krugman, "Mandates and Mudslinging," New York Times, November 30, 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">3.
Barack Obama, "A Way Forward in Iraq," Speech to Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Chicago Illinois (November 20, 2006), available online at <A href="http://obama.senate.gov/speech/061120-a_way_forward" target=_blank>http://obama.senate.gov/speech/061120-a_way_forward</A> _in_iraq/index.html; </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">; Barack Obama, "Renewing American Leadership," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2007), read online at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701fae ssay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html" target=_blank>http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html</A>; Barack Obama, "Moving Forward in Iraq," Speech to Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, November 22, 2005, read at <A
href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://obama.senate.gov/speech/051122-moving_forward/" target=_blank>http://obama.senate.gov/speech/051122-moving_forward/</A>; Lance Selfa, "The New Face of U.S. Politics," International Socialist Review (March-April 2007); Stephen Zunes, "Barack Obama on the Middle East," Foreign Policy in Focus (January 10 2008), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4886" target=_blank>http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4886</A>; Juan Gonzales, Amy Goodman, and Jeremy Scahill. "Jeremy Scahill: Despite Antiwar Rhetoric, Clinton-Obama Plans Would Keep US Mercenaries, Troops in Iraq for Years to Come," Democracy Now (February 28, 2008) read text version at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/28/jeremy_scahill_despite_anti_war_rhetoric;" target=_blank>www.democracynow.org/2008/2/28/jeremy_scahill_despite_anti_war_rhetoric;
</A>Jeremy Scahill, "Obama's Mercenary Position," The Nation (March 16, 2008); Paul Street, "The Audacity of Deception: Barack Obama and the Manufacture of Progressive Illusion," Black Agenda Report (December 12, 2007), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content%26task=view%26id=463%26Itemid=1" target=_blank>http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id3D463&Itemid=1</A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">4. David Moberg, "Obamanomics," In These Times (April 2008); Max Fraser, "Subprime Obama," The Nation (February
11, 2008); Doug Henwood, "Would You like Change With That?" Left Business Observor, No. 117 (March 2008); Paul Street, "Obama's ‘Shift to the Center' and the Narrow Authoritarian Spectrum in U.S. Politics," ZNet Magazine (July 1, 2008), read at <A href="http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18052" target=_blank>www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/18052</A>; Susan Davis, "Obama Tilts Toward Center," Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2008; Michael Powell, "For Obama, a Pragmatist's Shift Toward the Center," New York Times, June 27, 2008; Janet Hook, "Obama Moving Toward Center: Democrat Edging Away From Left on Some Issues in Effort to Woo Independent Voters," Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2008.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">5. Barack Obama,
"Renewing American Leadership," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2007), read online at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/red%20%20ir.asp?URL=http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html" target=_blank>http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html</A>; Paul Street, "Running Dog Obama," ZNet (July 29, 2007), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14853" target=_blank>http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14853</A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">6. For unpleasant details and sources, see my following articles: "Obama's Audacious Deference to Power," ZNet Magazine (January 24, 2007), read at <A
href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936" target=_blank>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11936</A>; "Imperial Temptations: John Edwards, Barack Obama, and the Myth of Post-World War II United States Benevolence," ZNet Magazine (May 28, 2007), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12928" target=_blank>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12928</A>; ‘Angry John' Edwards v. KumbayObama," SleptOn Magazine (December 28, 2007), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=1234" target=_blank>www.slepton.com/slepton/viewcontent.pl?id=1234</A>-; "Obama Speaks: ‘Oh Great White Masters, you Just Haven't Been Asked to Help America,' " Black Agenda Report (December 19, 2008); "The Audacity of Imperial Airbrushing and Why
It Matters," Black Agenda Report (July 9, 2008), read at <A href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?ption=com_content%26task=view%26id=695%26Itemid=1" target=_blank>www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?ption=com_content&task=view&id=695&Itemid=1</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">7. John B. Judis, "American Adam: Obama and the Cult of the New," The New Republic (March 12, 2008).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">8. For useful accounts, see Janny Scott, "In 2000, a Streetwise Veteran
Schooled a Bold Young Obama," New York Times, 9 September, 2007, pp. A1, A20; Liza Mundy, "A Series of Fortunate Events: Barack Obama Needed More Than Talent and Ambition to Rocket From Obscure State Senator to Presidential Contender in Three Years," Washington Post Magazine (August 12, 2007); Janny Scott, "At State Level, Obama Proved to Be Pragmatic and Practical," New York Times, 30 July 2007, p. A1; Rick Pearson and Ray Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead," Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2007; David Mendell, OBAMA: From Promise to Powe r (New York: HarperCollins, 2007); Scott Helman, "In Illinois, Obama Dealt with Lobbyists," Boston Globe, 23 September 2007; Bob Secter and John McCormick, "Portrait of a Pragmatist," Chicago Tribune, 30 March, 2007; David Jackson and John McCormick, "Building Obama's Money Machine," Chicago Tribune, 13 April 2007.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">9. Ryan Lizza, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">10. Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?," The New Yorker (May 7, 2007</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">11. Larissa MacFarquhar, "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?," The New Yorker (May 7, 2007). </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 20Verdana">12. Mundy, "A Series of Fortunate Events." </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">13. Mundy, "A Series of fortunate Events."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">14. Janny Scott, "A Streetwise Veteran;" Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead;" Janny Scott, "At State Level;" p. A1. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">15. Scott, "At State Level, Obama Proved to Be Pragmatic and Practical." </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">16. Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead." </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">17. Quoted in Lizza, "Making It."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">18. Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead;" David Jackson and Ray Long, "Obama Knows His Way Around a Ballot," Chicago Tribune, 3 April, 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">19. Scott, "At State Level." </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">20. Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE:
10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">21. Salim Muwakkil, "The Squandering of Obama," In These Times, August 14, 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">22. Mendell,20OBAMA, pp. 249-51, quoted phrase on p. 250. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">23. Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:
Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">24. Mendell, OBAMA, p. 250-51. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">25. Scott Helman, "In Illinois, Obama Dealt with Lobbyists," Boston Globe, 23 September 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">26. Barack Obama,"Against Going to War With Iraq," speech delivered in Chicago, Illinois, October 2, 2002, read online at <A
href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/28/7343/" target=_blank>www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/28/7343/</A>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">&nb sp;</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">27. Jodi Kantor, "A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith," New York Times, 30 April 2007, p. A1. On U.S. foreign policy as context for terror attacks on U.S., see Johnson, Blowback. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">28. Carl Kaysen et al., War With Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives (Cambridge, MA: The Committee on
International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, December 2002); Paul Street, Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004), pp. 57-63. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">29. Pearson and Long, "Careful Steps."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">30. Lizza, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></S PAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">31. Davidson is quoted in Adam Turl, "Is Obama Different?" Socialist Worker Online (February 2, 2007). Davidson's comment should not be taken to mean that Obama ever questioned whether the Iraq invasion was morally and/or legally "wrong." Obama has never publicly questioned the invasion in moral or legal terms. Davidson has nonetheless spent hours (as part as his role as a leader of "Progressives for Obama") opposing my Left critique of Obamaism in the readers' comments section of ZNet this year.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">32. Paul Street, "Kerry is Coke, Bush is Crack," ZNet Magazine (March 24, 2004), available online at <A
href="https://mail.zmag.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=33%26ItemID=5204" target=_blank>http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=33&ItemID=5204</A>. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">33. New York Times, 26 July, 2004. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">34. Chicago Tribune, 24 July, 2004. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">35. Janny Scott, "At State Level, Obama Proved to Be Pragmatic and Practical," New York Times, 30 July 2007, p. A1. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">36. Bob Secter and John McCormick, "Portrait of a Pragmatist," Chicago Tribune, 30 March, 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">37. Joe Klein, "The Fresh Face," Time (October 17, 2006).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">38. Ryan Lizza, "The Agitator: The Unlikely Political Education of Barack Obama," The New Republic (March 19, 2007). </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN Verdana? FONT-FAMILY: 10pt; style3D?FONT-SIZE:></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">39. Adolph Reed, Jr., "The Curse of Community," Village Voice (January 16, 1996),reproduced in Reed, Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (New York, 2000).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">40. See Michael C. Dawson, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American
Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">41. David Jackson and John McCormick, "Building Obama's Money Machine," Chicago Tribune, 13 April 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">42. Pearson andLong, "Careful Steps, Looking Ahead."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZ: 10pt">43. Janny Scott, "At the
State Level, Obama Proved to Pragmatic and Practical," New York Times, 30 July 2007, p. A1.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">44. Scott Helman, "PACs and Lobbyists Aided Obama's Rise," Boston Globe, 9 August 2007. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">45. Jackson and McCormick, "Building Obama's Money Machine." </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">46.
Binyamin Appelbaum, "Grim Proving Ground for Obama's Housing Policy," Boston Globe, June 27, 2008. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">47. For an extensive critical review, see Street, "Audacious Deference to Power."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> </SPAN></FONT></DI v> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">48. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown, 2006); Mundy, "A Series of Fortunate Events."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">49. Ken Silverstein, "Barack Obama, Inc.: The Birth of a Washington Machine," Harper's (November 2006). </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">50. Mendell, OBAMA, pp. 248-249.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">51. Adolph Reed, Jr., "Obama No," The Progressive (May 2008). </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">52. Reed, "The Curse of Community."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></ FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">53. Lizza, "Making It."</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">54. See the haunting and brilliant reflections of Sheldon Wolin in his latest book Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV
class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">55. Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (New York: Verso, 2000), pp. 17-18. Also less than novel is the Obama campaign's exploitation and occasional pure embodiment of what might be considered a second great dark "essence of American politics": the tendency of candidates, party managers, public relations handlers, and media authorities to treat citizens as mere spectators by focusing elections on often trivial questions of candidate character and qualities over substantive matters and issues of policy, power, and ideology. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV class=msonospacing le="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" sty><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">56. Richard Hofstader, The American
Political Tradition (New York, 1948), pp. 3-56; Herbert Aptheker, The American Revolution, 1763-1783 (New York: International, 1960); Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990); Paul Street, "By All Means, Study the Founders: Notes from the Democratic Left," Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies Volume 24, Number 4 (October-December 2003): 281-303.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <H3><B><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt">A Note on Notes <BR>By <A href="http://www.zmag.org/zspace/paulstreet" target=_blank>Street, Paul</A> </SPAN></FONT></B></H3> <DIV><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: italic">I doubt they do endnotes over there. It's not
what's generally done in our intellectual and political culture and they are all about and not challenging what is conventionally done. I occasionally catch some Hell when I do long pieces with notes . People will complain in private e-mails about having to read a long time and flip back to see sources. There's a big premium on concision and brevity - nothing more than 1000 words -- in our sound bite era. I'm sympathetic to the complain t in at least one way --- time is short in overworked America --- and I'll do the occasional op-ed length piece and drop the notes and sometimes enjoy that. But the annotation to me is like a record of a big part of the the labor process --- the real work of research and reflection ---- that goes into demystifying (...some would say misunderstanding) mystified subject matter. I think there's an egalitarian component in that it lets the reader go sample the sources
themselves and draw their own conclusions and check the writer's research. Don't take it from me - go check it out yourself. </SPAN></FONT></I></DIV> <DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Melinda Iley-Dohn [<A href="mailto:iley_dohn@yahoo.com?">mailto:iley_dohn@yahoo.com</A>] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:36 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <A href="mailto:graham2639@mindspring.com">graham2639@mindspring.com</A>; <A href="mailto:Discuss@paa-tx.org">Discuss@paa-tx.org</A><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT:
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