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Cubschokeagain
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10/16/2008 12:13 PM
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We usually vote for Politicians based on their legislative records... when they have no record to run on, then we judge them based on their character and judgement, not on making promises and telling us what we want to hear. I still have yet to learn what Obama has ever done to qualify him for the Presidency... what important legislation has he championed? His Senate record shows him a lazy and more interested in running his Prez campaign than doing his job as Senator. Is he a great charismatic orator, a great debater? Sure! Does he have grand, idealistic dreams for our country? Sure! Is that enough to make him President? NO.

Democrats don't like it when you say that Barack Obama won his first election in 1996 by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot on technicalities.

By clearing out the incumbent and the others in his first Democratic primary for state Senate, Mr. Obama did something that was neither illegal nor even uncommon. But Mr. Obama claims to represent something different from old-style politics -- especially old-style Chicago politics. And the senator is embarrassed enough by what he did that he misrepresents it in the prologue of his political memoir, "The Audacity of Hope."

AP
Barack Obama talks with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, June 6.
In that book, Mr. Obama paints a portrait of himself as a genuine reformer and change agent, just as he has in this presidential campaign. He attributes his 1996 victory to his message of hope, and his exhortations that Chicagoans drop their justifiable cynicism about politics.

When voters complained of all the broken promises politicians had made in the past, Mr. Obama writes that he "would usually smile and nod, and say that I understood the skepticism, but that there was -- and always had been -- another tradition to politics, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."

Mr. Obama writes that even if the voters were not impressed by this speech, "enough of them appreciated my earnestness and youthful swagger that I made it to the Illinois legislature."

In real life, it did not matter what Mr. Obama said on the stump or whether South Side voters were impressed. What mattered was that, beginning on Jan. 2, 1996, his campaigners began challenging thousands of petition signatures the other candidates in the race had submitted in order to appear on the ballot. Thus would Mr. Obama win his state Senate seat, months before a single vote was cast.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Obama's petition challengers reported to him nightly on their progress as they disqualified his opponents' signatures on various technical grounds -- all legitimate from the perspective of law. One local newspaper, Chicago Weekend, reported that "[s]ome of the problems include printing registered voters name [sic] instead of writing, a female voter got married after she registered to vote and signed her maiden name, registered voters signed the petitions but don't live in the 13th district."

One of the candidates would speculate that his signature-gatherers, working at a per-signature pay rate, may have cheated him by signing many of the petitions themselves, making them easy to disqualify.

In the end, Mr. Obama disqualified all four opponents -- including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, and three minor candidates. Ms. Palmer, a former ally of Mr. Obama, had gathered 1,580 signatures, more than twice the 757 required to appear on the ballot. A minor, perennial candidate had gathered 1,899 signatures, suggesting the Obama team invested much time working even against him.

The act of throwing an incumbent off the ballot in such a fashion does not fit neatly into the narrative of a public-spirited reformer who seeks to make people less cynical about politics.

But Mr. Obama's offenses against the idea of a "new politics" are many, and go well beyond hardball election tactics. It is telling that, when asked at the Saddleback Forum last weekend to name an instance in which he had worked against his own party or his own political interests, he didn't have a good answer. He claimed to have worked with his current opponent, John McCain, on ethics reform. In fact, no such thing happened. The two men had agreed to work together, for all of one day, in February 2006, and then promptly had a well-documented falling-out. They even exchanged angry letters over this incident.

The most dramatic examples of Mr. Obama's commitment to old-style politics are his repeated endorsements of Chicago's machine politicians, which came in opposition to what people of all ideological stripes viewed as the common good.

In the 2006 election, reformers from both parties attempted to end the corruption in Chicago's Cook County government. They probably would have succeeded, too, had Mr. Obama taken their side. Liberals and conservatives came together and nearly ousted Cook County Board President John Stroger, the machine boss whom court papers credibly accuse of illegally using the county payroll to maintain his own standing army of political cronies, contributors and campaigners.

The since-deceased Stroger's self-serving mismanagement of county government is still the subject of federal investigations and arbitration claims. Stroger was known for trying repeatedly to raise taxes to fund his political machine, even as basic government services were neglected in favor of high-paying county jobs for his political soldiers.

When liberals and conservatives worked together to clean up Cook County's government, they were displaying precisely the postpartisan interest in the common good that Mr. Obama extols today. And Mr. Obama, by working against them, helped keep Chicago politics dirty. He refused to endorse the progressive reformer, Forrest Claypool, who came within seven points of defeating Stroger in the primary.

After the primary, when Stroger's son Todd replaced him on the ballot under controversial circumstances, a good-government Republican named Tony Peraica attracted the same kind of bipartisan support from reformers in the November election. But Mr. Obama endorsed the young heir to the machine, calling him -- to the absolute horror of Chicago liberals -- a "good, progressive Democrat."

Mayor Richard M. Daley -- who would receive Mr. Obama's endorsement in 2007 shortly after several of his top aides and appointees had received prison sentences for their corrupt operation of Chicago's city government -- was invested in the Stroger machine's survival. So was every alderman and county commissioner who uses the county payroll to support political hangers-on. So was Mr. Obama's friend and donor, Tony Rezko, who is now in federal prison awaiting sentencing after being convicted in June of 16 felony corruption charges. Rezko had served as John Stroger's finance chairman and raised $150,000 for him (Stroger put Rezko's wife on the county payroll).

Mr. Obama has never stood up against Chicago's corruption problem because his donors and allies are Chicago's corruption problem.

Mr. Obama is not the reformer he now claims to be. The real man is the one they know in Chicago -- the one who won his first election by depriving voters of a choice.

[link to online.wsj.com]

Anonymous Coward
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10/16/2008 12:21 PM

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Even Joe Biden said it [link to www.youtube.com]

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 326376
10/16/2008 12:30 PM

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He's a thug. Fukim

ATTC
User ID: 516748
10/16/2008 12:32 PM

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And how did Sarah Palin qualify to be Vice President? How did Jimmy Carter become President? You all disappoint me. Out of all sites on the net, this one should have the least amount of ignorance. Yet all I see is a bunch of ignorant people who have no idea how rigged this whole process is.

Anonymous Coward
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10/16/2008 12:42 PM

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Rigged is Obama coming out of NOWHERE to run for Prez and people such as George Soros supporting him. I don't go for left or right wing, I do my own research and take it from there and my research since last year has done nothing but reaffirm just how deluded Obama and his followers are. I went from being a Democrat (supported Hillary) to being an Independent, although I do find McCain's experience (good and bad) comforting and I do find him quite likeable. oh but i guess that makes me a racist!

ATTC
User ID: 516748
10/16/2008 12:48 PM

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Quoting: Anonymous Coward 358376

No just someone who is ignorant.

Look at how Jimmy Carter miraculously won the Presidency out of nowhere. No one knew who Sarah Palin was before this election either.

Hillary Clinton is pretty much the exact same thing as Barrack. They both are CFR scum. Puppets for the NWO.

Voting for McCain does not make you racist, it makes you uninformed.

But likewise for Barrack.

These debates are literally fixed. 3rd party candidates are not allowed and they are run by the two parties that are corporate sponsored with co-chairs that are registered corporate lobbyists.

This whole process is a sham.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 358376 (OP)
10/16/2008 12:55 PM

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oh jeez another conspiracy loon

anonymous
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10/16/2008 1:24 PM

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obama used the same strategy that is used in all Black cities to elect Black Mayors ..it is "vote for me, i promise everything""...Black Mayors then fail to deliver the goods and then require massive Federal Block Grants to keep the city running and pay the massive layers of welfare aid to lifelong deliberate low income welfare reciepiants .rent subsity ad medicaid and food stamps ..free scool lunches and breakfast, free school uniforms free child care for low income workers too, who still qualfy for rental subsity houses and apts, medicaid food stamps .free holiday food baskets free christmas toys free clothing from tax exempt charity orgs nearly free bus passes to ride all day every day ..free lawyers for carreer criminal to walk..after wearing down witnesses and victims who then simply give up especially after being threatened and stalked for yrs..........free lawyers for youths who beat up school teachers and wreck property.....etc..along with ACLU support to prevent order and low crime enviroments..plus Al Sharptoins support can be guaranteed to support Black violent criminals add jesses jacksons mob... ACORN now heads the list...High crime of course..could you expect anything less ..no consequenses for lack of responsiblity..and lack of moral codes, and ongoing failure stand on ones own good stregnths of good charater and dedication to a carreer that will make one self sufficent ..

kat
User ID: 543923
11/5/2008 2:21 PM

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he is not even a natural born citizen

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