Reply #44: Read some of Paul Street's other pieces. He has hated Obama since

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the 2004 keynote address at the convention. Most of his writing is overblown opinion (in my opinion, of course) and a spin on many issues. One easy example is “he posted a long article on the liberal blog Daily Kos criticizing attacks against lawmakers who voted for right-wing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.” If you read the blog, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/102745/165 you can see that this is a lazy summary about what Obama wrote, and he also neglects to mention that Obama voted against Roberts. He actually leaves the impression with his wording that Obama supported Roberts, in my opinion.

Read over other pieces of Street's writing on various topics and you can then decide for yourself how much credence to give his opinions.