GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - June 16, 2008

CAPITOL FAX
-- Gambling expansion and fund skimming: Should top GOP leaders follow the GOP platform? - Rich Miller
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2008/06/16/should-top-gop-leaders-follow-the-gop-platform/
-- The Tribune cowards - Rich Miller
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2008/06/16/the-tribune-cowards/
-- Emanuel: Obama helped elect Blagojevich - Rich Miller
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2008/06/16/emanuel-obama-helped-elect-blagojevich/

SOUTHTOWN STAR
-- A Madigan blunder: Blago impeachment memo - Rich Miller
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/miller/1007052,061608miller.article

BELLEVILLE NEWS DEMOCRAT
-- Not another George Ryan - Editorial
http://www.bnd.com/editorial/story/370478.html

DAILY HERALD
-- Lawmakers divided on trusting Blagojevich - Joseph Ryan
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=203721&src=109
-- Illinois must act to save marriage - James Finnegan, Barrington
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=207265&src=
-- God considers gay sex an abomination - Nancy Herman, Elk Grove Village
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=207266&src=

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Chicago Tribune promotes Obama and his "Father's Day sermon"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-61508-obama-father-apostolic,0,5902076.story
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Dawn Turner Trice plays down the offensiveness of "whitey"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-16-jun16,0,4555458.column
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: When Pfleger returns, who will the main target of his hatred be? Most likely it will be older white male conservatives.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-pfleger-profile-16-jun16,0,6020338.story

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
-- Obama tells fathers to meet their responsibilities - Abdon Pallasch
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1007021,obamaweb061608.article
-- DIERSEN HEADLINE: VERY SAD: Again, Steinberg rejects all the religions of the world and says that you are prejudiced and bigoted if you do not promote homosexual activity
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/1007522,CST-NWS-stein16.article

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
-- There will be no landslide in November - Chuck Sweeney
http://www.sj-r.com/opinions/x1470884900/Chuck-Sweeney-There-ll-be-no-landslide-in-November

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
-- Billions in matching funds could be lost (DIERSEN: UNLESS LESS IS SPENT ON OTHER THINGS, TAXES ARE INCREASED, MONEY IS BORROWIED, STATE ASSETS ARE SOLD, AND/OR GAMBLING IS EXPANDED) - Kevin McDermott
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/06/15/news/doc4855e00d0c16d755616798.txt

NAPERVILLE SUN
-- DuPage County staff to learn to implement strategic plan - Paige Winfield
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/news/998534,6_1_NA11_COUNTY_S1.article

ILLINOIS REVIEW
-- Obama: "Fatherhood doesn't end at conception" - Fran Eaton
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/06/obama-fatherhoo.html

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
-- OUTSTANDING: Illinois Republican Platform Embraces "The Traditional Family"
http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/ (Scroll down)

REPUBLICANS FOR FAIR MEDIA
-- Part 1 of Series: What's Wrong With Journalism? Russert Tribute Overblown, Journalists Think They're Celebrities - Daniel T. Zanoza
http://rffm.typepad.com/republicans_for_fair_medi/2008/06/part-1-of-series-whats-wrong-with-journalism-russert-tribute-overblown-journalists-think-theyre-celebrities.html

REUTERS
-- VERY SAD: McCain: It can be “tough” to be proud of USA - Jeff Mason
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/06/14/mccain-it-can-be-tough-to-be-proud-of-usa/

AFP
-- Obama tells black fathers to act like men
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iyFi4-jlbccgA2qM5q5gibMCUjQw

ASSOCIATED PRESS
-- Lieberman irks Democrats by criticizing Obama - Andrew Miga
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6qFnGB0A_Sm02M6_ul4uHSrBCzwD91AIUPG1

POLITICAL FORUM
-- VERY VERY VERY SAD: Prominent Republicans Back Obama
http://www.politicalforum.com/elections-campaigns/38369-prominent-republicans-back-obama.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-24). Though not officially endorsing Barack Obama, Dillard has appeared in a television advertisement for him. [13] . . . Fmr. Rep. John B. Anderson (R-IL).[9])

AMERICAN THINKER
-- Conservatives Must Not Practice the Politics of Despair - J.R. Dunn
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/conservatives_must_not_practic.html

BUFFALO NEWS
-- Obama says one thing but then does another - Douglas Turner
http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/371325.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
-- VERY SAD: "Women see themselves as more economically vulnerable than men, more likely recipients of the social safety net at some point in their lives, and they see a larger role for government," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-women16-2008jun16,0,6187010.story

USA TODAY
-- Why the Christian right fears Obama The language of faith isn’t a foreign tongue to the senator of Illinois. He talks the talk and easily engages believers. In fact, Obama has a better footing with the religious-minded than competitor John McCain. - Daniel Gilgoff
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/06/why-the-christi.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On paper, the Democrats' nomination of Barack Obama is a gift to the Christian right. Obama's liberal record on gay rights and abortion - he opposes the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal "partial-birth abortion" ban and, as a state senator in Illinois, opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which attempted to protect unsuccessfully aborted fetuses - should make him easy enough for "values voters" to oppose. And Obama has struggled among religious voters in this year's Democratic primaries. In Ohio, his 2-to-1 loss among white Catholics and a 20-point loss among white evangelicals gave Hillary Clinton's campaign a second wind that kept her in the race these last three months. That same faith-based divide undergirded Obama's losses in Pennsylvania - where Clinton took nearly 60% of weekly churchgoers - and Indiana. Heavily religious West Virginia and Kentucky, meanwhile, handed Obama his biggest defeats of this campaign, even though he appeared to have the nomination sealed up by the time voters in those states cast their ballots. Yet for months, the Christian right had been more worried about the prospect of Obama's nomination than Clinton's. The evangelical Family Research Council's frequent e-mail alerts to supporters laid into Obama while largely laying off of Clinton. One of Focus on the Family Action's recent "Action Update" explained why the Illinois senator is as "extreme as they come on family issues" - using 26 footnotes to make its case - but barely mentions his Democratic opponent.)