What Me Worry?
Posted on 02/28/2008 4:25:47 PM PST by Stat-boy
It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator
It's not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.
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Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
"I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen," State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. "Barack didn't have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.
"I don't consider it bill jacking," Hendon told me. "But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book."
During his seventh and final year in the state Senate, Obama's stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law — including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
It was a stunning achievement that started him on the path of national politics — and he couldn't have done it without Jones.
Before Obama ran for U.S. Senate in 2004, he was virtually unknown even in his own state. Polls showed fewer than 20 percent of Illinois voters had ever heard of Barack Obama.
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(Excerpt) Read more at houstonpress.com ...
illinois political history matters about as much in this election as arkansas political history did in 1992.
What Me Worry?
A very large number of ‘successful’ and ‘famous’ people got where they got because of the efforts of others. No scientific discovery, for example, occurs out of the ‘ether’ without owing something to the foundations built by others. The same is true in all walks of life. At the end of the day, we all die. What matters is if we contribute, not whether or not we get credit for it. I’m not in any way defending Obama. What I’m saying really is that there are a boatload of people who every day make the world a better place, and they get no credit. On the other hand, politics is way overpopulated by people of marginal talents and huge egos who do get credit, often for a lot more than they deserve. It’s just one of the ironies of life.
Good post
Don’t miss this:)
Big difference now is that there is an internet. The MSM can ignore stories like these as much as they choose, but the alternative channels will make sure this gets disseminated so people can learn what a lightweight this guy really is. Smart, but empty, no convictions but to seek higher office tp stole he and his wife’s egos.
Forwarded to Drudge with a hope he posts the story. I forwarded John Kerry stuck in Irak picture story to him and it was bannering Drudgereport within 30 minutes and killed any chance that traitor had of becoming president. Can only hope Drudge posts this, although will not be that damaging, it will paint a different portrait of the junior senator from Illinois than the MSM is showing.
Where in the world can a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER become President of the United States thanks to a dumb and numb public!
This guy hasn’t done anything except run for, and get elected to, various offices.
With the insight from this article- even his accomplishments in chicago are without substance- his name on all those bills- meaningless.
Oh- except for the one banning ephedra- now THERE’s some landmark legislation :)
to get Drudge to banner it!
From Todd Spivak's story: A ...record filled with core liberal issues. But what's interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
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Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
"I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen," State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. "Barack didn't have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.
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So how has Obama repaid Jones?
Last June, to prove his commitment to government transparency, Obama released a comprehensive list of his earmark requests for fiscal year 2008. It comprised more than $300 million in pet projects for Illinois, including tens of millions for Jones's Senate district.
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"He's been given a pass," says Harold Lucas, the community organizer in Chicago.
Thank you very much for the ping, Bender2.
You are right about this piece being a must read. I’m sending it to my email list.
Excellent idea!
” built his entire legislative record in a single year”
——in the same way, Hillary Clinton turned $1000 into $100000 within a year. This is the way the Left always does it, with a cynical sleight-of-hand buoyed up by the conviction that they’re the Anointed Ones, and are “entitled” to be just as corrupt as their “enemies”, because their cause is noble-—when you’ve convinced yourself of that, anything is OK, because it’s seen as long-deserved and overdue payback from “the bad guys”.
The question here is, will Obama’s likely rival on the (R) side make use of something as “subtle” as this?
And to think I know of all these Hyde Park places he writes about! Though I’ve never met Obama.
Even if I knew nothing else about him , his silence on eminent domain and historic preservation would be enough to sink him, and show him as a man of NO principle, and a Clintonian attitude of “go-along-to-get-along.” I’ve been involved with the Historic Preservation movement and fights against vulture/developers, and we get precious little help from any local politicos,but at least they lent their names to our inititatives——Obama will try to appoint more R B Ginsburgs to the court. He is absolutely the most over-confident indivdual to ever run for this high an office, AND IT WILL BACKFIRE ON HIM.
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