Posted on 09/08/2008 9:17:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
I hope Palin has a job for him
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
McCain-Palin should consider giving him a cabinet post.
http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/2
“{Emil} Jones had served in the Illinois Legislature for three decades. He represented a district on the Chicago South Side not far from Obama’s. He became Obama’s kingmaker.
Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city’s most popular black call-in radio program.
I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:
“He said, ‘Cliff, I’m gonna make me a U.S. Senator.’”
“Oh, you are? Who might that be?”
“Barack Obama.””
Informative piece - thanks.
Former Senator Fitzgerald is an heir to the Harris Bank fortune and was able to basically self finance his win in 1998 against Incumbent Carol Mosley Braun.
He left Illinois and moved to Virginia and did more to clean up gutter Chicago Politics than anyone in Political History.
I agree. He was never afraid of Mayor Daley as many IL Republicans are.
When Daley would visit Washington trying to get Federal $$$ for various pork projects, The Mayor would get the brush off from Fitzgerald.
Just what we need. Now we have two - Sarah and him to clean up government dirt. Since honorable politicians are a rarity, I believe Sarah will need him.
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The Obama hasn’t won an election yet that didn’t involve either disqualifying the opposition or forcing him out of the running.
Thank You.
People should not forget about Hillary. Her home state was Illinois, but she thought New York was a better road to the White House. She would have been and Illinois senator and totally overshadowed Obama. In retrospect, that is quite a political mistake. Also, don’t forget about the death of JFK, Jr. He may well have been the senator from New York, and the with would have then run from Illinois. Poor Hillary. It was all so well planned, but it blew up in her face.
That situation simply never happens.
Excellent Points. The IL Dems wanted Hillary to wait for Fitzgerald’s seat, but she was impatient.
If JFK Jr was not sadly killed, He would have been given a clear path for the Seat in NY and Clinton would have been tossed aside.
I know this is a reach, but my Idol Ronald Reagan was born in Dixon, Illinois. So Illinois has produced Greatness.
Ronaldus Magnust moved before he became a politician.
Well, there are two sides to the coin. Fitzgerald killed the corrupt Republican establishment in Illinois, but he never touched the corrupt Democrat establishment in Chicago.
As a result, the Democrats now have no competition in vote-packing and corruption.
And we saw what kind of “honest prosecutor” the other Fitzpatrick was in the Scooter Libby case. He was a leftist tool. He did a great job in Illinois putting corrupt Republicans in jail, but it turned out that he was working for the Democrats. That’s what happens when you “reach across the aisle,” unless you are VERY careful.
Same thing happened to the Nassau County Republican machine in New York. Sure, they were crooked, and eventually fell of their own weight. That was good, in a way. Only trouble was, the vacuum was seemingly permanently filled by corrupt Democrats, who now have very little competition to balance them.
I should have said one thing more. If you have reform, it needs to be evenhanded, as was the case with Sarah Palin, who won the governorship by crushing TWO corrupt candidates, one Republican and the other Democrat.
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