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From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Subject: Obamacon
To: Caleb Alan Pritchard <cpritchard2001@gmail.com>


The prototypal Obamacon may be Larry Hunter, recognized inside the Beltway as an ardent supply-sider. When it became known recently that Hunter supports Obama, fellow conservatives were stunned. Hunter was fired as U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief economist in 1993 when he would not swallow Clinton administration policy, and he later joined Jack Kemp at Empower America (ghostwriting Kemp's column). Explaining his support for the uncompromisingly liberal Obama, Hunter blogged on June 6: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501942.html