Posted on 05/28/2012 12:53:06 PM PDT by Brown Deer
State Sen. Barack Obama picked up several endorsements on Sunday in his bid to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, including the backing of former congressman and White House counsel Abner Mikva.
"I can't think of any candidate I've had more enthusiasm for," Mikva said.
Obama is "bright, thoughtful and articulate" and a natural leader, Mikva said.
Mikva said he admired Obama's efforts on campaign finance reform. And Obama shed leadership as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a community organizer and a state senator, Mikva said.
Mikva, a former federal appellate judge, said he first met Obama about five years ago when he tried to hire him as a law clerk. Obama turned him down, and Mikva later learned it was because Obama planned to return to Chicago to run for the state Senate, something that earned him Mikva's admiration.
Obama also was endorsed by former Chicago Alderman Leon Despres; Dr. Quentin Young, an advocate for universal health care; Michael Shakman, an attorney who led the legal fight to eliminate patronage positions in city government, and Eugene Ford, a former aide to late Mayor Harold Washington.
I met your brother John.
Incest is a disgusting thing.
No sh*t, who'd a thunk it!
KEYWIKI - (TREVOR LOUDON)
excerpt:
The Obama/Ayers/Dohrn gathering
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, at a gathering in the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.” Barack Obama and Alice Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Quentin Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends[30].”
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Quentin_Young
There are so many connections.
I used to refer to that as a “clusterf***”.
Just one really, Communism.
Obama introducing a national health care plan early and blindingly pursuing it at ANY cost to the democrat party of course is part of the blueprint.
Hillary Clinton of course from Chicago, as her first initiative as First Lady was introduce a national health care plan.
Billy boy may be many things, but he was smart enough to pull back and allow things to mature and fight another day.
Am thinking with Barack, the communist leadership was getting a little impatient and/or believe they have all things in place and decided to pull the trigger.
In 1969 Saul Alinsky established Industrial Areas Foundation, a formal training program, run by Edward T. Chambers and Dick Harmon, with a grant from Gordon Sherman of Midas Muffler company. Yeah, who woulda thunk that?
His work started in 1939 organizing Chicago's meat packing industry. Kinda been downhill since
I guess one could say the presidency of Obama comes from this.
>>>And Obama shed leadership as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, a community organizer and a state senator, Mikva said.<<<
That improper verb is certainly an interesting Freudian slip.
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