This National Review writer can’t get to Obama-related archives at U. of Ill. at Chicago, he says.  I wrote a letter:

Dear [UIC] Pres. [B. Joseph] White:

 

I am quite exercised over your apparent denying public access to public records in the Stanley Kurtz case, as explained here and here.

 

I can only hope there’s some mistake, which you will correct as soon as possible.  I hadn’t seen my friend the late Bob Adelsperger in years before he died two years ago.  We used to meet at gatherings of the Society of Midland Authors, when he was on the board and I was president.  I can’t imagine Bob the UIC librarian doing what Kurtz reports your people doing. 

 

Thanks much for your prompt response to this potentially devastating problem.

 

Sincerely,

I give you this to chew on, as example of Tricky O.’s ways:

Does Barack Hussein Obama want to SILENCE RUSH?

His campaign now says he doesn’t support the so-called “Fairness Doctrine” (a measure that liberals are trying to impose to get rid of the only medium that gives equal time to conservative thoughts and opinions; namely, conservative talk radio) — athough he supported it several months ago.

Michael Ortiz, the Obama campaign’s press secretary, told Broadcasting and Cable:

“Senator Obama does not support re-imposing the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters.”

But what many liberal media outlets are not reporting is THE REST OF ORTIZ’S STATEMENT!

Ortiz continued:

“He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible. That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets.”

Forget about those short-sighted liberal plots to silence Rush Limbaugh and all those other pesky conservative talk-radio hosts.  Obama has a bigger vision!

It’s from Human Events, complete with scary coloring.  We report (what we think is worth reporting), you decide.

As for his support for neutrality, etc., that’s clearly a shot at free speech in a free market, in which he’s no worse than Pelosi, right.

I share Tom Roeser’s skepticism about Mrs. O. as convention speaker:

[I]t will take formidable image-making cosmetology . . .  She has done almost irreparable harm to herself by allowing her words to make her a symbol of black grievance and anti-whitey figure… when she has been a remarkably coddled black woman at that.

Imagine someone who got to Princeton not through academic excellence but through other means who lamented that she felt alone and discriminated against there. Her [undergraduate] thesis . . . smacks of hot grievance.

Or someone who graduates from . . . Harvard Law school who continues the grievance until when her husband was winning primaries… while she was in her 40s… announced that for the first time she was felt proud to be an American.

Who earned $300,000 from the University of Chicago based on her connection with [superlatively well-connected] Valerie Jarrett and who still has the temerity to tell young black women that [they] should forego . . . big bucks [and instead choose careers of] community service where they would earn far less . . . 

Will she help him with the undecided?  That is the question.

In the Rose Garden, Bush told Russia to go home from Georgia:

“The United States stands with the democratically elected government of Georgia and insists that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia be respected,” Bush said sternly during brief remarks . . .

He is sending C. Rice to Paris and Tbilisi to show “solidarity” with Georgia.  Soldiers are already in Georgia, part of “a massive U.S. humanitarian effort . . . already in progress” that will “involve U.S. aircraft [and] naval forces.”

A military cargo plane has landed, and Russia must ensure that “all lines of communication and transport, including seaports, roads and airports,” remain open to let food and medical deliveries and civilians through, he further said.

Another is due to arrive tomorrow, plus “an assessment team . . . to determine other needs.” A hospital ship too, if needed, in a few weeks.

Last but not least in this listing:

The administration also will review what military help is needed for Georgia’s now-shattered armed forces, Whitman said.

McCain has said, “We are all Georgians now.”  Obama’s foreign-policy spokesperson, S. Rice, has accused him of “shooting from the hip.”  We should not approach with “preconceived notions,” she said.

Now that’s a true liberal for you right there.  No preconceived notions.  Come as if there’s no history here.  We have to be a regular tabula rasa about it all.  O. sure knows how to pick his advisors.

He’s their guy, apparently:

The Communist Party USA’s newspaper is defending Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama against potential defectors on the left, saying his candidacy represents a “broad multi-class, multicultural movement.”

In a July editorial, “Eye on the Prize,” the People’s Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, admonished anyone on the left who might consider abandoning Obama.

OK, he’s not one of us, they say, but so what?

“Barack Obama is not a left candidate,” the editorial said. “This fact has seemingly surprised a number of progressive people who are bemoaning Obama’s ‘shift to the center.’ It’s sad that some who seek progressive change are missing the forest for the trees.

It’s called bucking up the troops.

“But they will not dampen the wide and deep enthusiasm for blocking a third Bush term represented by John McCain, or for bringing Obama by a landslide into the White House with a large Democratic congressional majority,” it added.

Now this makes sense.  Liberal Dems have always represented the camel’s nose under the tent flap.

“The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obama’s election,” the editorial said. “But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward.
 
“One thing is clear. None of the people’s struggles — from peace to universal health care to an economy that puts Main Street before Wall Street — will advance if McCain wins in November. Let’s keep our eyes on the prize,” it added.

There they go, sounding like Democrats.

Fans of Big O. are invited to join

A video comes with it.