[lbo-talk] further evidence of why Obama sucks

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 15 09:13:43 PDT 2007


[Is my inner Trotskyist ever running wild. On one hand, Hillary says she'd keep troops in Iraq and can't really say whether homosex is immoral or not. And on the other, this, from The Note]

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=3>

A key New York Times correction: "An article yesterday about competition for Jewish support between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama incorrectly described Mr. Obama's views about the culpability for stalled peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis. Mr. Obama blames Hamas, which controls much of the Palestinian government, for the stalled peace talks; he does not blame Israel." LINK

In a story looking at the ways in which Sen. Obama "crossed a cultural divide" as a child in Indonesia, the Los Angeles Times' Paul Watson writes: "At the local primary school, he prayed in thanks to a Catholic saint. In the neighborhood mosque, he bowed to Allah." LINK

As Sen. Obama's campaign has already pointed out, he is not and has never been a Muslim — not that there's anything wrong with it. In their hard-hitting press release critiquing the Times' story, the campaign proves once again that they are positively Bushian in their willingness to hammer the Old and New Media when they believe they have the facts on their side.



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