D
oston Globe reporter Sally Jacobs has a book coming out next week on Barack Obama Sr. titled “The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama’s Father.”
In his disingenuous State of the Union speech President Barack Obama called for “a return to the American values of fair play and shared responsibility,” a theme he repeated throughout the speech.
“We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of Americans barely get by,” said the president, “or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”
Fair shot? Fair share? Same set of rules? Not so fast.
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D'Souza doubles down on Obama's 'Rage'
(WND.com - January 18, 2012)
If further evidence were needed of the upstairs-downstairs quality of American political life, a writer whom I once admired, Dinesh D’Souza, amply provides it in a new introduction to his best-selling book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”
Upstairs, the gentry, left and right, chatter on about their many friendships, feuds and honors. In the new intro, for instance, we learn of D’Souza’s alliance with Steve Forbes, his praise from Newt Gingrich, his ascent on the New York Times best-seller list and his breathless battles with fellow old-media patricians like Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.
Downstairs, meanwhile, . . .
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