Posted on 12/11/2008 3:27:30 AM PST by NCDragon
CHICAGO - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama liked to boast that he was a tough survivor of the bare-knuckled world of Chicago politics. But the president-elect has also steered clear of most of its scandals, navigating a careful middle ground that has left him relatively unscathed in a city synonymous with corruption.
Obama's awkward link to the seamier side of Chicago politics was thrust into the spotlight Tuesday when federal prosecutors charged Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich with trying to auction off the president-elect's vacant Senate seat.
There was nothing in the 76-page FBI affidavit to suggest that Obama did anything wrong, and on Wednesday, he called for Blagojevich to resign. But this latest in a series of Illinois political scandals also raised questions about whether it's possible to avoid completely the taint of patronage and payoffs that are so common in Chicago.
Obama has managed to remain mostly -- but not entirely -- untarnished by local political corruption. Some analysts and former legislative colleagues cite his path to power, which did not involve climbing through the ranks of the Chicago Democratic Machine.
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Tony Rezko. 'nuff said.
Rezko, Wright, Ayers to name a few.
yes a “cleaner” trail.
Diogenes could not find an honest man in Chicago politics.
Let’s ask again how his wife got a six figure raise on the strength of his election to the Senate. They could not possibly have expected something in return from this saintly pol, could they?
Up is down and down is up in the main stream press’s world.
Their treason is boundless in what they know and fail to report to the public.
IMO they purposely select to breach the public trust for political and financial gain.
If there is EVER to be a fairness doctrine, start with the main stream press and not the radio, at least the people on radio can't hide who and what they are.
There can be no reasonable assumption that this man is clean. This is all just wishful thinking on the part of the media which worships Obama as some sort of living god.
Investigative journalism is only operative when a Republican can be put in the cross-hairs.
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
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I'll keep doing it as long as there's something to say- or until we really are silenced.
As far as I am able, I will mirror this on our Canadian sister site, which has been moved to Panama due to censorship issues:
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
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"....They've been clinging to the ridiculous notion that Chicago is Camelot for months now, cleaving to the idea with the willfulness of stubborn children.
It must help them see Obama as some pristine creature, perhaps a gentle faun of a magic forest, unstained by our grubby politics, a bedtime story for grown-ups who insist upon fairy tales."
Bwahahahah......
Advocacy Journalism is killing Big Media morally, ethically and financially.
The press is who helped Obama steer clear of any scandal by not reporting his name and involvement with any one scandal. This is just sickening!
So he is some sort of hero for walking a middle ground in a dirty political machine?
Compared to Sarah Palin who took on the machine? She was fair game to be smeared, destroyed, and slandered by the media for taking the risks to change politics as usual in Alaska?
I s’pose that means he’ll be able to negotiate the likes of Chavez, Imanutjob, Putin and keep the status quo...that sure ain’t change though.
You don't 'fight' Chi politics without scars, and you ain't got any.
You ain't got a paper trail.
You ain't got nuthin 'cept them big @$$ ears, and lemmee tell ya somethin', @$$hole ... maybe they got that way by being used for handles ... many, many, many times.
Please. Zero is now head of the Chicago Machine that got him elected, and that isn’t clean.
Telling ya’, this guy is a walking impeachment.
The Gov was shaking down hospitals for building permits. His bagmen were appointed to the state committee that approved, or not, those permits. Obama made the appointments to the state commission. Michelle Obama got a no show,350k job at Chicago’s largest and growing hospital. The Governor’s wife was the Obama’s Real Estate agent for their house. Rezko was their partner in the house, and land. The money came from a Mafia bank.
Obama, the Governor, Emanuel all had Axlerod as their campaign manager. Ron Emanuel took Blog’s seat, after he became Governor.
Nothing to see, nothing to see.
LLS
Propaganda at its finest.
C-R-A-P!!!!!!!!!!
He’s in the slime up to his scrawny neck!
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