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But if he's still got horror flicks in his future, then what do we call his political career and to-date presidential-wannabe campaign? Farce? Fantasy? Political pornography? Grade-B movie? Shockumentary?

p>Whatever, filming seems to be in black and white. br> -- C. Kenna Amos br> Princeton, West Virginia /p>

One can only hope Obama's charm is limited to the folks that comprise his audience. I shudder to think we have sunk in our standards to a president who, when introducing some local pol, exhorts his supporters to "Give it up for" my friend, Mayor Sleazeworthy." Shades of Monteil Williams! "Give it up" is the hip way of asking for applause. It may have other applications.

Have you noticed Obama's hesitant speech cadence has evolved into a stutter? Started right after the SF slip of the tongue. You ask how this slip, in a private setting, got out? Easy. Far left liberals would rather be thought cutting, caustic and cute by their own than most anything else on earth. Huffington Post is home to them. It is their big, comfy couch where they feel they are among friends -- sort of "what's said in HP stays in HP." Only it didn't.

Obama was merely attempting to educate the residents of the rarefied atmosphere of Pacific Heights. Explain a sub-culture in the United States they had never heard of and could not possibly understand. Why would they? 90% of the people in this country have no idea what "red-neck" means. It describes (or did, originally) a permanent sunburn on the back of the neck of a person in the South who works out of doors, usually farming. Not his education or his politics. Of course, if you were a yachtsman, you could have a red neck, too. But your yacht and your deck shoes would separate you from the farm labor class. So, redneck has come to mean some lowly hayseed with a six-pack and a gun rack in the back of his pick-up truck and it gives rich liberals in SF something to feel superior about. Obama, the nouveau riche, brash hustler from Chi was merely ingratiating himself with the richer, nouveau and old.

p>How did Obama come to be called an elitist? I thought people of his sort were merely "climbers." How do you go from "community organizer" to elitist? What kind of organizing does a community organizer do? Something like fomenting to riot? We don't know as much about this man as we should. Of course, for Democrats, the other choice is Hillary, who defended a Black Panther before ideals collided with ambition. br> -- Diane Smith /p>

In what was an interesting article you drop this right in the middle of the piece -- "...in 2005 the newly elected senator from Illinois bought a $1.65 million dollar house for $300,000 under the asking price." I have to ask of what relevance is it? Do the math, it's only an 18% price adjustment.

p>Being a former Realtor there is an old saying: "Sellers lie and Buyers cheat." Sellers usually lie to the south of fair market value of their property and buyers usually cheat on the contract for a price south of that figure. Only in extremely hot markets do sellers get their asking price. So other than what appears to be a Big Number there is nothing paranormal, based just on price, for such an adjustment.

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