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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:27 PM Original message |
Obama's Illinois kingmaker gets "steak" not "pork" |
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rox63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Part of a Senator's job is to secure funds for projects in their states n/t |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And specifically, for those who made them. |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Obama's list has been published |
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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. But one "hoped" for a change...but one doesn't really change one's stripes... |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. Evidently you didn't read the article? The pork issue is a sliver of the subjects covered. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. And Jackson Stephens got BCCI, IranContra and CIA drugrunning matters deep-sixed throughout the 90s |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. I can't hear you until Clinton releases her tax returns... |
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troubleinwinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 06:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. It is an article about "Barack Obama and Me". You aren't interested in reading about Obama? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. Spivak's got a grudge against Obama, though... |
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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Why does he have a grudge? Based on what? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Wonkette has a good summary of the article you posted: |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. more cut and paste bullshit from people who couldn't find illinois |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. yeah well wait till Fitzgerald starts his case... |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Obama isn't the target of that case. |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-29-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. neither were the 59 others that Fitz got in the Ryan case .. |
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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Wouldn't this have happened in the Illinois statehouse? Springfield (get your GPS out)! |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. you think so? |
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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Just geography, that's all. Isn't Springfield the capital of Illinois... |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. goodness. what a lot of people "made" Obama |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Well, my dear, would you love it if it were the reverse? |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. I haven't heard that one yet, but actually it's pretty spot-on. |
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candice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. He's barely self-made, but gets lots of free rides. |
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elixir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I guess you haven't taken the "nice posts for 24 hours" pledge. I have and I feel great. |
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elixir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. Nice post. Thanks. |
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Peregrine Took (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
21. I'm a born and bred Chicagoan and I never heard of BO until a year or so |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. The article lacks backing facts or substance. |
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MagsDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
23. Nice to see some reality in the press |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Not everything that tells you what you want to hear |
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carlotta (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-28-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. Obama's Dick Cheney moment |
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