GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - May 4, 2008
WASHINGTON POST
-- Jeremiah Wright's Wider Toll - Gary MacDougal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050202794.html
-- Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism - Alec MacGillis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/03/ST2008050302296.html?hpid=topnews
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- PRINT EDITION INCLUDES INCLUDES 10X8.5-INCH 4-PANEL COLOR ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID COWLES: Obama's painful damage control A pastor most impolitic - T. Shawn Taylor
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-obama-wright-trinitymay04,0,7478501.story
-- What led Obama to Wright's church How a man of ambition found connections at Chicago's Trinity - Christi Parsons and Manya A. Brachear
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-obama-church_bdmay04,0,1524932.story
-- Obama's appeal to working-class whites faltering, polls show - Alan Fram
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/wire/chi-ap-obama-working-classwh,0,39536.story
-- Obama tries to put 'rough couple of weeks' behind him - John McCormick and Rick Pearson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-campaign_04may04,0,2917218.story
-- Wright's past, Obama's future - Clarence Page
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0504pagemay04,0,5397177.column
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Steve Chapman equates G. Gordon Liddy with Bill Ayers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,6061828.column
-- Obama and Wright: Faithful discuss where loyalties lie - Manya A. Brachear
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-trinity_bdmay04,0,1922890.story
-- VERY SAD: Indiana, go with Obama - Editorial
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0504edit1may04,0,3206628.story
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- U.S. House GOP giving up on earmark crackdown, Obama's pals, McCain's mistake, Casey for VP, Combat California? - Robert Novak
http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/930060,CST-EDT-novak04.article
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Pfleger promotes Obama and Wright
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/931164,CST-EDT-open04.article
-- ID theft twist: Law hurts legal Hispanics now Social Security match rule means crooks take names, too - Mark Brown
http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/930726,CST-NWS-brown04.article
-- Legislators don't trust us? Feeling is mutual - Carol Marin
http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/930349,carol050408.article
-- Hillary rallies as Obama's N.C. lead shrinks - Lynn Sweet
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/931154,CST-NWS-Sweet04s1.article
-- In N.C., Hillary, Obama vow unity - Lynn Sweet
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/930249,CST-NWS-Sweet_a04.article
-- Obama camp wants to 'Move it forward' -- but can they? - Abdon Pallasch
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/930347,CST-NWS-obama04.article
-- Both hurt when Obama turns his back on Wright In trying to transcend race, candidate shuns black leaders - Mary Mitchell
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/930244,CST-NWS-mitch04.article
DAILY HERALD
-- Wright should be mad at Democrats - George Kocan
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184038
-- Obama renouncement of Wright looks blatantly expedient - Charles Krauthammer
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184136
-- U.S. can't afford Obama's Global Poverty Act - Flo Brinacombe, Schaumburg
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184728
-- Voters have a right to judge Obama - Dana Albers, Arlington Heights
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184228
-- GOPUSA ILLINOIS VEHEMENTLY OPPOSES CROSSOVER VOTING BY ANYBODY FOR ANY REASON: GOP voters may be the key in Indiana - Joseph Ryan
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184911&src=109
-- Peraica, Greenberg heard our voices - Andrew Kretschmar, Palatine
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184725&src=
-- What if GOP had superdelegates? "Would the liberal wing of the media portray these superdelegates as well-fed bald guys smoking cigars in a back room?" - Richard J. Piagari, Des Plaines
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184726&src=
-- A Chicago politician once said that "Chicago was not ready for reform," and evidently neither is Iraq. - Richard F. Nelson, Aurora
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184729&src=
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Bloomington Pantagraph, LaHood, McKenna, and Trover promote LaHood for Illinois Republican Party National Committeeman
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/05/03/news/doc481d1cbbab624112615973.txt
(NOTE: According to Ibendahl, the Combine's announced replacement choice for Kjellander is LaHood (SEE http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=943)
CRAIN'S CHICAGO BUSINESS
-- Don't recall governor; give voters better choice - John F. DiLeo, Palatine
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?articleId=29766
(THE LETTER: Greg Hinz is absolutely right in his evaluation of the recall bill pending in the state Legislature ("Recall a bad idea for a bad guv," ChicagoBusiness.com, April 16). I would just add two more points. First, there are times when a recall is justified, but this isn't one of them. Consider Bill Clinton, who in 1992 ran for president on a promise of a big middle-class tax cut. Weeks after he won the election, he announced that he would break that promise and then pushed and signed a massive tax increase in the spring. Those are grounds for recall. We cannot say the same of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a tax-and-spend Democrat who governs roughly as he said he would in 2002. Second, Illinois Republicans have had two shots at Mr. Blagojevich. Each time, the GOP passed up the opportunity to present a clear contrast to the voters. The GOP could have run conservative Sen. Patrick O'Malley in 2002, but nominated the more moderate Jim Ryan instead. After Mr. Blagojevich spent four years showing Illinois voters why we should throw him out, the GOP could have run conservative Sen. Bill Brady in 2006. Instead, who did it nominate? The very liberal Judy Baar Topinka. We don't need to recall our governors. The opposition party just needs to recall its "circular firing squad" primary voters. What we need is a real two-party system, one in which the Republicans present a clear choice — a conservative choice — for every race.)
SOUTHTOWN STAR
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: McQueary promotes gambling
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/mcqueary/928494,050408mcqueary.article
-- An oddity in the 'no' vote for recall - Phil Kadner
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/kadner/930187,050408Kadner.article
HERALD NEWS
-- 11th Congressional District: Ozinga and Halvorson campaigns feud over recall vote - Patrick Ferrell
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/930765,4_1_JO04_RECALL_S1.article
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
-- Technology shakes up politics - Karen McDonald
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/050408/TRI_BGGM25DN.028.php
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
-- Recall amendment will be an issue in fall Democrats aren’t convinced it would hurt electability. - AP
http://www.rrstar.com/elections/x317110753
NAPERVILLE SUN
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Blagojevich program encourages his constituents -- people who lack education and/or job skills and/or have severe health, financial, and/or other problems -- to move to DuPage County
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/930635,6_1_NA04_HOUSING_S1.article
CHAMPION NEWS
-- VERY SAD: State GOP refuses to provide Cook County Chairman with list of Cook County delegates - Doug Ibendahl
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=968
DETROIT NEWS
-- Disown Wright? 'Yes, we can' - Michelle Malkin
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/OPINION03/805040306
TOWNHALL
-- Wright Controversy Affects the Polls - Michael Barone
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2008/05/03/wright_controversy_affects_the_polls
NEW YORK TIMES
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: The anti-religious New York Times blasts one of Wheaton College's rules
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntget=2008/05/04/education/04wheaton.html&tntemail1=y&oref=slogin
-- Obama's appeal to working - class whites faltering, polls show - AP
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Obama-Working-Class-Whites.html?scp=1&sq=Obama+Wright&st=nyt
-- Wright's New Pulpit - Clark Hoyt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04pubed.html?scp=2&sq=Obama+Wright&st=nyt
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: THOSE WHO HATE WHITES AND HATE REPUBLICANS ARE OVERJOYED: Frank Rich demonizes white Republicans
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?scp=3&sq=Obama+Wright&st=nyt
-- Race and the race: A Fault Line That Haunts the Democrats - John Harwood
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/weekinreview/04harwood.html?scp=6&sq=Obama+Wright&st=nyt
-- Race and the race: A Fiery Theology Under Fire - Michael Powell
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/weekinreview/04powell.html?scp=7&sq=Obama+Wright&st=nyt
LOS ANGELES TIMES
-- How and why Barack Obama allied himself with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/obamawright.html
DES MOINES REGISTER
-- Wright could derail Obama - David Yepsen
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/OPINION01/805040318/-1/ENT06
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: SOMEONE WHO MCCAIN MIGHT LIKE TO MEET: Hazel Sig-Hester, age 86, loves her red 2008 Corvette convertible, bought her first Corvette in 1972, learned to fly at age 35
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/NEWS03/805040330/1001/NEWS
CNN
-- Analysis: The Wright effect on presidential race - John King
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/03/wright.fallout/
TIME MAGAZINE
-- Obama, Wright: How Much Damage? - Massimo Calabresi
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1737316,00.html?imw=Y
GAY WIRED
-- Is The Tide Really Turning Against Barack Obama? - Duane Wells
http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?id=18895§ion=67
