Barack Obama’s “Sin of Omission” – Part 3

My Saturday article and Marathon Pundit’s on the same day were not the only Illinois-based musings on the corruption fighting credentials of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and U.S. Senator Barack Obama.

When I got the Sunday Chicago Tribune, John Kass wrote on the same theme.

Here’s the end of his column, which squarely identifies the contrast on fighting corruption:

“And all weekend, analysts will define Palin by gender, guns, her opposition to abortion, her Obama-like inexperience. Since most talking heads are themselves Beltway insiders, they might miss the point as they did with Obama:

“It’s the political reform, stupid!

“The young Alaska Republican put her political career on the line by challenging the corrupt, old Alaskan Republican bulls on their sleazy pay-for-play politics and their use of the public trust to fill the pockets of their friends. She didn’t merely talk about abstract change in Washington. She challenged corruption at home, challenged her own party bosses—some of whom are already in prison—at great risk to her political future.

“It is something I’ve begged and begged Obama to do with the ham-fisted pols in Chicago and Illinois—to not merely talk about change far away, but to take a principled stand even if that stand runs counter to his political interests at home; to challenge the thugs of his own party, to give us a reason to believe he’s the man he says he is. He has politely declined.

“In this, Obama obviously has more experience than Palin.”

Again, I ask supporters of Democratic Party presidential candidate and former Illinois State Senator Barack Obama to share with us in the comment section below what Obama did to fight corruption in the Illinois Democratic Party.

I’ve been waiting since Saturday and no one has taken up the challenge.

The comment section below awaits your defense.


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