Obama & The Chicago Way

Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: In Arkansas, we know about the Little Rock Clinton machine. Fortunately with their departure for D.C., much of the machine went with them and never returned and other parts of the machine wound up in jail. It is interesting that, Hillary choose not to return to her home state of Illinois to pursue her political ambitions after graduate school or after her time living in the White House. She found it easier to marry an unknown guy from Hope, Arkansas and later to establish redundancy in New York to run for the US Senate than it was to return to Illinois to work with the Chicago political machine.

With the current struggle between Hillary and Barack, it seem reasonable and critical for us to look at Obama rapid rise in Illinois politics. We have heard about his Muslim childhood, his wild youth and college years, his adoption of the Christan faith and his membership in a church biased solely toward those of African ancestry. But where did first term Senator come from politically to take on the First Lady of the Democrat party? Rick Moran at Right Wing Nuthouse reflects that "Many of us familiar with Chicago politics have been wondering for months at the apparent disconnect of the media regarding Obama’s relationship to the Chicago political machine. Where did they think this guy came from?" Moran then lays out for us a clearer picture. I join is supporting the recommendation of Al Czervic, editor of The Catskill Commentator who advises his readers:

You simply MUST read the exhaustive piece by Rick Moran over at rightwingnuthouse.com concerning how things are done in ChiTown and how the ‘outfit’ controls every aspect of life, in particular how Hussein Obama flimflammed his way into the Senate. For a complete history of Chicago corruption and the Dem Machine read here. Another must-read-for-your-education link. If there’s only one thing you read about the elections this month, this is the one: Excerpt from OBAMA, REZKO AND MEDIA IGNORANCE –THE CHICAGO WAY: Besides, examining Obama’s first state senate race should have been a tip off to the national press that this fellow can play the game of politics “The Chicago Way” as well as any corrupt Daleycrat:

The day after New Year’s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens. But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.

A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it. . . . [Read More]

See also: Glorifying Obama is one of the greatest journalistic failures in American history

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