User profile: denwa

Look who the media and party pundits attack most on each side and you have the most feared candidates.

Democrats attack Romney and give Huckabee a pass; Republicans attack Clinton give Obama a pass. Romney and Clinton are the candidates the opposing parties are most afraid to run against.

On the other hand, Republicans are dying to run against Obama and Democrats are salivating at running against Huckabee.

With his two whopping years of federal experience (most of which he has simply spent posturing and campaigning for the presidency), Obama's foreign relations experience includes...well, nothing except regular long distance telephone calls to talk with his relatives in Kenya (that's "foreign relations," right?).

Sure, Winnie the Poohbama is qualified to become the most powerful leader in the world during these especially challenging times. LOL

Senator Obama, I served with Jack Kennedy;

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine;

Jack Kennedy was a military hero; Jack Kennedy had nearly a decade of experience serving in the U.S. Congress before he became president.

Senator Obama, you're no Jack Kennedy.

The further away you get from Chicago, the more the saintly image takes hold.

Publications like the New Yorker may coo for Obama, but the two Chicago newspapers are much more interested in Obama's close 17-year friendship with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a long-time Obama pal and donor, and property developer awaiting trial on charges of attempted extortion, money laundering and fraud. A low-income housing project received more than $14m from taxpayers while Obama was a state senator, but he consistently denied that he had done any favours for Rezko. That was until the Chicago Sun-Times unearthed two letters Obama wrote to state officials in 1998 urging them to grant extra funds for Rezko's project.

Democrats and Republicans alike in Chicago, too, are intrigued by the question of why Obama paid $1.65m for a mansion in the city's south side in 2005 - $300,000 less than the asking price - on the very same day Rezko's wife happened to buy the house next door for the asking price.

Obama is a con man, folks.

Regarding Obama the con man, columnist John Kass said it best in the Chicago Tribune last week:

"All this pro-Barack hope and change and excitement, all these delicious, Barack-inspired comparisons to the Kennedys and Camelot and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., it's all quite overwhelming, until you consider what's been left out:

"That Obama is only a few short years removed from taking orders in Springfield, in the Illinois State Senate, and you know how clean Illinois politics is. So as we wait for Obama to transform our politics, let's hold our breath and see who turns purple first."