Mini Break
24 March 2008 9:00 am by Taylor Marsh
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Radio show will come back next Tuesday, April 1. Featuring posts and links, so if you know of a good one send it our way.
This morning’s link is a doozy: Barack
Obama: toxic mentors start to corrode pristine campaign. Here’s
an abstract of it:
Long before Barack Obama launched his campaign for the White House, when
he was considering a run for the US Senate in 2003, he paid an intriguing
visit to a former Chicago sewers inspector who had risen to become one of
the most influential African-American politicians in Illinois.“You have the power to elect a US senator,” Obama told Emil Jones,
Democratic leader of the Illinois state senate. Jones looked at the ambitious
young man smiling before him and asked, teasingly: “Do you know anybody
I could make a US senator?”According to Jones, Obama replied: “Me.” It was his first, audacious
step in a spectacular rise from the murky political backwaters of Springfield,
the Illinois capital. … ..
Then Larry Johnson takes it to the Obama team.
Oh, and lastly, a former Obama supporter apologizes to you. A Missourian, by the way.
One more reason to read Bob Somerby.
