Chicago Daily Observer

Barack Obama is sticking up for his woman. Very manly. But that doesn't mean he is right.

The headline on the May 20th Chicago Sun-Times reads, "Leave My Wife Out Of This." Well, that isn't up to us. It is up to the Obamas. Does she want into this hot kitchen or doesn't she?

Back when little Chelsea Clinton was struggling through puberty in a very public way she sometimes found herself the brunt of ugly and unfair "humor." Shame on those who attacked her. She didn't make her father president and she didn't make her mother a lightening rod.

But now she travels the country, mostly to colleges, stumping for her mother. She's fair game in terms of what she says and the positions she champions. So is Michelle Obama.

Barack shouldn't be so thin-skinned about this.

When Mrs. Obama told America that she has ... Read More...

I wrote a short item a few days ago when the polar bear was placed on the list of threatened species. Today I will expand on my claim that the bear is not threatened, but capitalism is.

The government of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, where a large percentage of the world's polar bears live, will not list the animal as threatened. They live with the bears, but what do they know? I realize that some will criticize Nunavut when they read that the territory feels their hunting industry will be threatened, but keep in mind that Ducks Unlimited, which works to ensure healthy duck populations, is run by hunters. They don't gain by wiping out a species.

Not everyone agrees that the ice the bears live on is threatened to the extent that has been alleged. Keep in ... Read More...

Jeremiah Wright is still a stone around Barack Obama’s neck and his supporters want to lay the same weight on John McCain by using Rev. John Hagee, televangelist and pastor of a Texas mega church who endorsed McCain at McCain’s request.

Jeremiah Wright has made it impossible to pretend that he was quoted out of context so Obama’s supporters have given the candidate a pass and taken to attacking those who told you the truth about Wright in the first place.

Frank Rich writes, in the New York Times, his belief that white people are attacking Wright/Obama and giving a pass to Hagee/McCain. Today in the Sun-Times Andrew Greeley repeats that Hagee hates Catholics.

I hear the same thing from some callers and e-mailers to my show on WLS in Chicago, hometown to Wright and Obama. Rich and the callers are wrong in their belief that the ... Read More...

“Why does Reverend Wright matter so much to you,” asks the caller to my WLS talk show. He thinks we in the media need to get over it.

Obama has thrown Jeremiah Wright off the Obama Bus and is now hoping that white people will get over it and black people will forgive him.

I find it amazing and frustrating that when I attacked Rev. Wright’s maligning of America I was called a racist, but when Barack Obama used some of the same language I had used he is compared on the Huffington Post to Jackie Robinson, an exceptional man standing tall against the hard wind of racism.

But this is not an issue of race. It is not an issue of partisan politics. It is not an issue of casual association – minster to congregant – or one of taking the Reverend out of context. Obama tried to ... Read More...