This is what I'm seeing, even on this board

[MDFINFAN]

This is what I mean, someone from Chicago who knows Obama and isn't voting for him in the general because he's a republican, at least he's not telling anyone he's voting for Obama.. So all these associations and character assinations are just that..BS.

Chicago Republican Sen. Kirk Dillard, who took office in 1993, says he gravitated to Obama when the rookie arrived in Springfield in 1997.

Intensely competitive, Obama typically saves his fiercest battles for the Scrabble board, the basketball court, or the golf course. He has navigated his political career in a way that has created few real enemies. “If Barack has any enemies out there, they come from just sheer jealously,” says Illinois state senator Kirk Dillard, a Republican. “I don’t believe he has any enemies who have a good reason.”

“Obama has a great intellect and the leadership characteristics of our great American presidents,” said state Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Republican who befriended Obama in Springfield. “But the unknown is the administrative and foreign policy experience.”

While Dillard expects to support the GOP presidential nominee, “I would not lose a night’s sleep worrying about my young children’s future if Senator Obama were my president because I know he would probably surround himself, like Ronald Reagan, with exceptionally experienced people.”

And he's said plenty more..

Republican IL Senator Kirk Dillard on Barack Obama Think On These Things

I'll listen to someone who knows Obama from chicago before I listen to all these other ppl who don't know Obama.. I've always said, no one from chicago has been saying the things outsiders have been saying about Obama..to include going to a church for 20 years.

[maynard]

in other news, john mccain's friends like him too

[DonShula84]

Originally Posted by maynard

in other news, john mccain's friends like him too

link?

[adamprez2003]

Any politician who doesnt have enemies can't be trusted. As Frank Sinatra said "a man without enemies is a man without character and if you stand up for anything, someone is going hate you."

[DeDolfan]

Originally Posted by MDFINFAN

This is what I mean, someone from Chicago who knows Obama and isn't voting for him in the general because he's a republican, at least he's not telling anyone he's voting for Obama.. So all these associations and character assinations are just that..BS.

Chicago Republican Sen. Kirk Dillard, who took office in 1993, says he gravitated to Obama when the rookie arrived in Springfield in 1997.







And he's said plenty more..

Republican IL Senator Kirk Dillard on Barack Obama Think On These Things

I'll listen to someone who knows Obama from chicago before I listen to all these other ppl who don't know Obama.. I've always said, no one from chicago has been saying the things outsiders have been saying about Obama..to include going to a church for 20 years.

This really touches on something I've said for years. I really don't, or unable to anyway, understand the mentality of ppl who vote straight tickets in every election and believe me, they are plaenty on both sides. Just like the liberal and conservative politicians. They conduct daily business with blinders on with the mindset that "their way is the only way" or else. There are many out there that won't vote for Obama simply because he's not a rep or even because he is black, even tho they fail to remeber that he is as much white as black. but point is, that with these "radical" types, voters and poiticians, it only goes to slow down real progress. Most folks and even alot of politicians will give a little to get a little and that's the way it should be as either side has it's good points as well as their bad. How does that saying go? Something like "a houseunited will not fall"??

[King Felix]

i'd like to know why this thread was voted one star...speak up

[DeDolfan]

OK, I'll kick it up. But alot of "anti rep" threads get only one star!!

[cnc66]

interesting that the "one star" vote came from someone who did not make a post.

[Darkoak]

Originally Posted by cnc66

interesting that the "one star" vote came from someone who did not make a post.

Not surprising to me cnc66, that's been an issue for me all along.

[GARDENHEAD]

Originally Posted by adamprez2003

Any politician who doesnt have enemies can't be trusted. As Frank Sinatra said "a man without enemies is a man without character and if you stand up for anything, someone is going hate you."

Good point. I'd go so far as to say that any person without enemies is spineless.