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"Radical chic"? Lady, keep your assumptions/assertions to yourself. Maybe that's your game and it's become your perception. As a columnist, be honest enought to admit "radical chic" is only how you view his choices....fancy writing, though. You'll convince many people who won't put it together that it's your perception, not his. Also, considering you are a white/hispanic female, it's highly unlikely that you could know the inner workings of Barak Obama's mind or why he made the choices he made. In fact, I doubt you realize there's no way you could possibly "get" Barak Obama. For those of us who do "get" him and his choices, we understand his frustration and pain is not due to his association with Rev. Wright, but with the closed minds and stone throwers who profess to be othewise. Hilary, Barak, or the Republican, not one is w/out sin and neither are we. If you want to or must criticize the man, find a legitimate platform instead of joining the feeding frenzy.

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Re: "Obsama missed several chances" Obama "missed" chances your say? Let's see, last month was the deadliest one in Iraq as GIs continue to die - 7 or more in the last several days; new allegations that Pentagon brass were "indoctrinated" by conservatives in the WH on how to carry water for the White House POSITIONS in their "interviews" on tv; A non-minority, not "disadvantaged" 23 yr old gets a no-bid multi-million dollar contract to sell arms/ammo to Afghanistan, which he does - except that the ammo is 20 yrs old and doesn't function (oh, yeah, his VP is a 21 yr old masseuse); the National Debt is in the stratosphere and growing by the billions every week due to bush's war of choice, foisted on us by bush's lies and massaged intelligence. We have lost all of the good will we had immediately after 9/11 and most foreigners know our president to be an empty suited screw up (*29% Approval Rating); Most Americans suffering at the gas pump as oil companies to post obscene record billion dollar profits; Congress can't settle on an energy policy and bush fails to exercise leadership on the issue so our stale "energy policy" trails Spain, France, and Germany where they have 20 yr forward credits that encourage wind power and solar energy research - costs U.S. hundreds of high paying jobs (engineers, researchers) and we lost precious ground to foreign companies - does this matter when unemployment and underemployment is the U.S. is a major concern?; China holds 30% of our $900 billion National Debt, Arab countries hold 20%! Should we be concerned? Who "missed" an opportunity? You Ms. Chavez did, in pandering to your handlers for another "attaboy" as you posit a moronic, ideologically myopic position as you do in all of your articles. How many GIs died in the last 30 days Ms. Chavez? Do you know? Do you care? Nah, let's write about Obama's "missed" opportunity. Sheesh! Richard in Denver

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I doubt if Ms. Chavez reads her detractors any more than Coultergeist. Pity. I wonder how lonely she feels among the 27% who apparently don't use rationality to describe their world view. How could she understand how a sensitive, intelligent man is unable easily to turn off a lifetime of love and respect, as she and Hillary would do?

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Re: liz Liz, Some of these right wing hacks are paid to promote the party mantra. As such, they sell their souls to their handlers. In point of fact, I seriourly suspect that some of the articles are even ghost written for them or that their articles aren't original thought. Rational people have politically diverse thoughts. The Coulters, Linda Chavez and their ilk never seem to ideate anthing other than der party mantra. As a female Hispanic Chavez sells her soud and is used, or so it seems as an Uncle Tom and that is her value. How can a rational person nver develop a a divertent thought? When you're water boy/water girl Linda for the lright wing handlers. Coulder and Chavez would appear to have been sleeping on their right sides for too long - the blood has all flown out of their left brains dand all they are left with is shrill positons that please the Right. Their marching orders don't include original thought, They include party mantra to be espoused and revered in lack step - can the jack boots be far!! Chavez as a middle aged Hispanic probably benefited from Affirmative Action programs and some her education may have been paid for my the very minority programs she detests. How to you endear yourself to the right wing handlers, why abandon your principles and start espousing right ring antra, I stopped reading her partisan drivel as it's mimeographed regurgitation of the party line - again, never a national though , These people should try lying on their backs and left some sanity and blood to return to the middle part of their brain - could be some life left there! Don't thnk we'll see this slllll - until their mantra is burning at their heelsl ....Like Iraq is, like the National Debtis, right wing drivel continues that persist in the bush admistratioon. Their biggest threat is the awakening populace who are readhing critial mass in opposition to theri drivel and thus dimish their value to the party, never mind that is is quixitoc and the're tilting at windmills while the real enemy Al QWsda spreads. aeda Richared