Fairly Conservative

…it corresponds to what I know about my grandfather, his tendency to rewrite his history to conform with the image he wished for himself.
Gosh! Obama’s ability to make up his past as he goes along seems to run in the family.

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…my mother is born at the army based where Gramps is stationed; my grandmother is Rosie the Riveter working on a bomber assembly line; my grandfather sloshes around in the mud of France, part of Patton’s army.
So if Obama’s grandfather, the dominate male figure of his childhood, was in Patton’s army soldering in France during […]

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I started into Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama last night. My first impression? This man has abandoned his white heritage and white upbringing because in his mind, he’ll get further if he’s black. He admits in the book that he stopped explaining his half white/half black genetics at the age of 12 or […]

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Hey, his word, not mine.
McClellan from a 2004 White House briefing where he was talking about Richard Clarke’s tell all:
Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising […]

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There was real slapback from our own Governor Jim Doyle regarding Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s visit to Wisconsin. Doyle and former presidential candidate Senator John Kerry hustled up a phone interview this morning as coordinated by Democrat Barack Obama’s people. (McCain’s group has a phone call talk back that took place at noon central.)
The […]

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This is good, Brookfield, but I doubt very seriously that the reporter so friendly with city hall will ever cover it, so I will.
Last October I wrote this:
It always amazes me what becomes news. Mayor Jeff Speaker had actual campaign finance violations, but it didn’t end up on the front page of the MJS. Yesterday’s […]

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Since Senator John McCain is a bit under the weather, he’s canceled his trip to Pennsylvania and staying in Milwaukee today. Staff sent a release saying there’d be time available with the Senator at 1:00 p.m. In short - expect to hear more on McCain locally today.
(Nope, I’m staying put, so it won’t be from […]

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My goodness, what a beautiful facility you have here. I am dumbfounded that such facilities exist without the tax dollars other districts demand.
You should be very, very proud. From what I can tell of your audience, you’ve got something very right going on here. Congratulations. Your hard work shows.

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