April 12, 2008

Gettygate?

Few of the press accounts of Obama getting caught telling San Francisco supporters what they wanted to hear about why those Pennsylvanians have such retrograde values, like religion, mention where exactly in San Francisco he was. It appears most likely that he was at a fundraiser in Gordon Getty's mansion on Billionaire's Row, a street where Larry Ellison and a number of other Forbes 400 folks live. Getty is the chief heir of the J. Paul Getty's vast oil fortune.

Kinsley Gaffe Mark II--Obama Says What He Really Thinks About Working-Class Whites

We all know that gaffe is when a politician tells the truth--in the words of Colonel Jessep, "You can't handle the truth!"

But worse, according to Mickey Kaus, is a politician who tells you what he really thinks, as Obama has just done:

Saturday Forum

An Idaho Reader, Refugee From California, Says It's Impossible To Calculate How Much Aliens Pay In Taxes Since No One Knows How Many Are Here; etc.

From: Peter Brittain (e-mail him)