DISUNC
<font color=peach>I cried like a baby watching the
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It seems that Obama used the "rules" logic before, so that he ran UNOPPOSED in his first State Senate race, all the way back in 1996!
Not too mention that due to a few sex scandals, and the GOP throwing Alan Keyes in at the last minute, he really ran unopposed for the US Senate too.
Seems like Obama likes to win by eliminating the competition!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for his "landslide victories"
I will guess with most certainty that Obama was behind the stupid "McCain is not a Legal US citizen" campaign a few months ago.
Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
"The Obama campaign called this report "a hit job." It insisted that CNN talk to a state representative who supports Obama, because, according to an Obama spokesman, she would be objective. But when we called her, she said she can't recall details of petition challenges, who engineered them for the Obama campaign or why all the candidates were challenged."
"Palmer, who has campaigned for Clinton, told CNN that she did not want to be part of this story. "
'But Palmer supporters, who did not want to be identified, said that she never anointed Obama as her successor and that the retelling of the story by Obama supporters is designed to distract from the fact he muscled his way into office.'
Kass, the Chicago Tribune columnist, said the national media are naive when it comes to Chicago politics, which is a serious business.
He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer. The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.
"It's not the tactics of 'let's all people come together and put your best ideas forward and the best ideas win,' " Kass said. "That's the spin; that's in the Kool-Aid. You can have some. Any flavor. But the real deal was, get rid of Alice Palmer.
"There are those who think that registering people to vote and getting them involved in politics and then using this tactic in terms of denying Alice Palmer the right to compete, that these things are inconsistent. And guess what? They are. They are inconsistent. But that's the politics he plays."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html
Yup...he is ALL ABOUT "Hope & Change".....
Not too mention that due to a few sex scandals, and the GOP throwing Alan Keyes in at the last minute, he really ran unopposed for the US Senate too.
Seems like Obama likes to win by eliminating the competition!!!!!!!!!!!
So much for his "landslide victories"
I will guess with most certainty that Obama was behind the stupid "McCain is not a Legal US citizen" campaign a few months ago.
Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district.
"He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race, he made sure voters had just one choice."
"The Obama campaign called this report "a hit job." It insisted that CNN talk to a state representative who supports Obama, because, according to an Obama spokesman, she would be objective. But when we called her, she said she can't recall details of petition challenges, who engineered them for the Obama campaign or why all the candidates were challenged."
"Palmer, who has campaigned for Clinton, told CNN that she did not want to be part of this story. "
'But Palmer supporters, who did not want to be identified, said that she never anointed Obama as her successor and that the retelling of the story by Obama supporters is designed to distract from the fact he muscled his way into office.'
Kass, the Chicago Tribune columnist, said the national media are naive when it comes to Chicago politics, which is a serious business.
He said they have bought into a narrative that Obama is strictly a reformer. The truth, Kass says, is that he is a bare-knuckled politician. And using the rules to win his first office is part of who Obama is.
"It's not the tactics of 'let's all people come together and put your best ideas forward and the best ideas win,' " Kass said. "That's the spin; that's in the Kool-Aid. You can have some. Any flavor. But the real deal was, get rid of Alice Palmer.
"There are those who think that registering people to vote and getting them involved in politics and then using this tactic in terms of denying Alice Palmer the right to compete, that these things are inconsistent. And guess what? They are. They are inconsistent. But that's the politics he plays."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html
Yup...he is ALL ABOUT "Hope & Change".....
not one that I heard defended Hillary. I talked with my friend who has been on the fence as me...and he said he will not vote Obama either after this fiesco. 
You realize she HERSELF is a Uncommited SD! She is telling everyone else what she herself hasn't done yet!
Here's to you and the other wonderful HS on this thread!
Gonna put him to work this year!!!!!!
