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The breakfast (at Valois, a restaurant not far from Obama's South Side home) came after Obama headlined a get-out-the vote rally for Giannoulias and Quinn in a park flanked by the University of Chicago campus -- down the street from the law school where Obama once taught.cjjanis- Neither of the candidates Quinn or Giannoulias you think of so highly ran on their record here in Illinois. What should that tell you? Promises are easy, but their record of what they've done for the state tells more.
November 02 2010 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyI wonder If His trip to Illinois was a good idea on election day. his batting average for supported candidates is not the greatest. If I was either one of these two candidates I would want Obama as far away as possible as the old saying goes out of site out of mind. If anyone could have helped it would have been Bill Clinton. If their was that much support for Obama in his home state the polls would be a lot different. Losing an election like this in your home sate would be a true slap in the face. Especially when it was your old seat.
November 02 2010 at 3:32 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyI don't see the races in Illinois as a referendum on Obama so much as a criticism of the primary system, which produced the ultra-lightweight [and possibly ethically challenged] Giannoulias as the Dem candidate over at least two much more highly qualified candidates, including State Comptroller Dan Hynes, who would have breezed into the Senate in a general election. Much the same can be said on the other side of the aisle, where the Republican primary produced a Gubernatorial candidate [Brady] who is similarly 'light' [and possibly ethically challenged] while either of his primary opponents would have walked untouched into the Governor's mansion. In the olden days, when party bosses picked the candidates and told them when to run, this didn't happen as much. All politics is local and [very] personal. Few office holders have long coattails any more.
November 03 2010 at 12:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhen you vote remember your liberty and whether your vote will increase or diminish one citizens freedom over another. We Americans ought to find it detestable to confiscate OR command any citizen’s lawfully earned property to improve the condition of another. Soothe your conscience with your own sweat and treasure, ...I’ll do the same. Spend your vote though on liberty so that it increases, an equal benefit for all.
November 02 2010 at 10:27 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyLet's hope and pray that Obama's poison to candidates he supports has the same effect in Illinois that it has elsewhere. Mark Kirk isn't a strong Republican candidate, BUT Alexi Giannoulias is pure corruption with an eye on furthering all of Obama's fiscally destructive policies. It's "Dumb and Dumber" on a political scale, but "Dumber" (Giannoulias) spouts the higher taxes, higher spending, everyone must suffer to make us all "equal" mentality that Obama has employed in his purposeful destruction of our country. It's tough living in a state that on a corruption scale of 1-10, is an 11. But anybody Obama supports should be avoided like the plague that he is to our American culture. His "Enemies" comment tells everyone exactly what he thinks of America. He's an outsider that is trying to destroy what the founding fathers labored to put together. The only hope for this democracy is clean sheet of paper thinking towards reaffirming what's in the Constitution.
November 02 2010 at 9:30 AM Report abuse Permalink +7 rate up rate down ReplyI would not trust Kirk or Brady as far as I could throw them...they have both embelished on their backgrounds and Brady was involved in a real estate scandal. Quinn is clean and Alexi is being blamed for a failure of a family owned bank but he was just a loan officer and his older brother was the president and ceo. He is a good guy.
November 02 2010 at 12:19 AM Report abuse Permalink -12 rate up rate down ReplyThar sounded nice but there is no one clean in this race. It is not who has not done something wrong but who has done the least wrong. Is there a none of the above on the ballot, because it is hard to pick the lesser of two evils.
November 02 2010 at 9:20 AM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyThar sounded nice but there is no one clean in this race. It is not who has not done something wrong but who has done the least wrong. Is there a none of the above on the ballot, because it is hard to pick the lesser of two evils.
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