Thursday, August 9, 2007

Barack Obama Is Out to Clean Up By Michael M. Bates

Barack Obama says he wants to clean government up. At first blush, you might not think a Chicago machine politician and chum of indicted Democratic fundraiser/slumlord/fixer Tony Rezko would be the ideal guy for that assignment. Still, Barack’s not blushing; he claims he’s serious.

He gets that earnest and really, really serious look (easily mistaken for constipation) on his face and you know that Mr. Ethics is about to speak with authority, even gravitas, as they say in the mainstream media. The Chicago Tribune reported that last month in Iowa he lectured:

“The reason that we’re not getting things done is not because we don’t have good plans or good policy prescriptions. The reason is because it’s not our agenda that's being moved forward in Washington--it’s the agenda of the oil companies, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the special interests who dominate on a day-to-day basis in terms of legislative activity.”

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