Editorial Opinion

Obama?  Obaloney!

Editorial Opinion: Maryland Democratic Primary
Democrats in Maryland: The Presidential primary lurks around the corner.  Barack Obama, were he a dish soap, would not be as well known as Dove or Joy but he thinks you should select him as the next President... Obama is not the next JFK, he isn't even the next Jimmy Carter, who served as the Governor of Georgia and won the Presidential election in 1976 over President Gerald Ford.  

When Sen. John F. Kennedy ran for President, he had already served 14 years in the Congress, first in the the House of Representatives and then the U. S. Senate. 

Obama served for 1 year as a U.S. Senator before he was inspired to get out of that boring job and run for president. What took place in that one year which could have possibly prepared him to be president? Don't vote for this cat just because he has ambition.

President Kennedy had competed for the Vice Presidential nomination in 1956, losing to Sen. Estes Kefauver.

Sen. John Edwards is much better known to voters but if the real purpose of the nomination process is to put up the party's best candidate, Hillary should be selected by Democrats.
Obama's baloney over race-baiting with Clinton is silly. 

She was right to give credit to LBJ, but heck, its more fashionable for some blacks in America to simply make up history than it is to learn it. 

There is no doubt that the bulk of the credit for moving America forward to equal rights goes to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

 Kennedy and his brother Attorney Gen. Robert Kennedy slowly but finally came to the rescue of King and propelled the civil rights movement.

Hillary was right when she said that the credit for turning King's dreams into reality belongs to President Lyndon Baines Johnson who ramroded the civil rights act through Congress, but lets not forget who the final credit should go to: to the Republicans in Congress, particularly Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois, who provided the winning margin of victory in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

Should we expect the truth from all these Democrats?  Only The Shadow knows for sure!  Democrats should vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton in Maryland's Democratic Primary and let Obama stay in the Senate to get a little better seasoned. 

He could spend some time in the boring meetings reading history books and wondering why he didn't pay his dying mother's hospital bills while he was working as a lawyer.

Hillary Clinton is experienced, is well known, has won twice for the U. S. Senate and while not this newspaper's choice to be president, she should be the top Democrat.  She is capable and experienced.   God help us if she is elected but she will be the strongest Democratic candidate.