The Case Against Barack Obama-Part 2
Along with Richard Daley, Barack Obama learned his "new politics" from paying close attention to the former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, John Stroger and later, his son Todd.
Before a federal investigation into the corruption allegations within the CCBC office and a FBI raid on the Cook County office building in September 1996, the county's government was "John Stoger's personal, agenda-driven cash-cow."
In Stroger's Cook County, if you have the right political connections, you get the job or raise. All you need is the right amount of campaign contributions. If you don't have the contributions, you "languish at the same desk while 'unqualified stooges take the best jobs for which you were better qualified for."
Obama knew exactly how Stroger's political army worked when it was "sending out cheques that would make their way to his campaign."
Obama certainly did not engage in illegal patronage hiring and other corrupt practices in Cook County's government, but he has repeatedly and knowingly enabled those who do.
When Stroger faced a credible challenge in the 2006 primaries from a reform-minded liberal Democrat, Obama said nothing and did even less. The pitchforks and torches were at the ready and their target in plain sight, when "politicians from both sides of the aisle were lined up against Stroger, while Obama said nothing and the reformer narrowly lost."
The only thing separating Stroger and Daley is that the latter "has managed to avoid being directly implicated."
If Obama had done anything in the name of "change you can believe in," there would be no corrupt power-mongers abusing civil-servants and pocketing tax-payer cash in Chicago and certainly no "Soldiers for Stroger" in power today.
As soon as Stroger fell ill suddenly, his son, Todd took his place on the ballot (under suspicious circumstances) for the general election. Many Democrats refused to back their own party's candidate. That's when Obama suddenly "found his voice."
He endorsed the junior Stroger, even going so far as to call him a "good, progressive Democrat." Barack Obama has never stood for up for "change" or "reform" in Chicago.
From reporter, John Kass's column from the Chicago Tribune, dated Oct. 8, 2008:
Why Obama is allowed to campaign as a reformer, virtuallu unchallenged by the media, though he's a product of Chicago politics and has never condemned the wholesale political corruption in his hometown the way he condemns those darn Washington lobbyists?
...He has endorsed Daley, endorsed Daley's hapless stooge Todd Stroger for president of the Cook County Board. These are not the acts of a reformer."
By this time, Obama "the reformer" was a U.S. senator. He passed on the chance to change things in Cook County forever. He also had a chance not to advocate a corrupt system just by excusing himself from the scene and keeping his mouth shut, but he chose to endorse corruption one again by lending his name to it.
Everybody in Chicago, including media outlets of both the left and right knew how the Stroger machine worked, including Obama, yet he chose not to endorse" change." A very different mode of the post-partisianship that Obama extols today.
David Freddoso, "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate". Regenery Publishing. Washingtom, DC. 2008. p. 1-3, 6, 8, 20.
David Jackson and Ray Long, "Showing His Bare Knuckles," Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2007.
John Kass, "Anti-Daley Forces Start to Beat Campaign Drums," Chicago Tribune. July 29, 1994, and Steve Neal, "2nd District Race May Get Crowded." Chicago Sun-Times. July 30, 1995.
Sunya Walls, "Alice Palmer from Race for Re-Election." Chicago Weekend, January 21, 1996.
Ibid, 12, 14, 15.
Fran Spielman, "Daley Blasts Tillman for Waiter Request." Chicago Sun-Times. February 12, 2004.
John Kass. Chicago Tribune. October 8, 2004.
Before a federal investigation into the corruption allegations within the CCBC office and a FBI raid on the Cook County office building in September 1996, the county's government was "John Stoger's personal, agenda-driven cash-cow."
In Stroger's Cook County, if you have the right political connections, you get the job or raise. All you need is the right amount of campaign contributions. If you don't have the contributions, you "languish at the same desk while 'unqualified stooges take the best jobs for which you were better qualified for."
Obama knew exactly how Stroger's political army worked when it was "sending out cheques that would make their way to his campaign."
Obama certainly did not engage in illegal patronage hiring and other corrupt practices in Cook County's government, but he has repeatedly and knowingly enabled those who do.
When Stroger faced a credible challenge in the 2006 primaries from a reform-minded liberal Democrat, Obama said nothing and did even less. The pitchforks and torches were at the ready and their target in plain sight, when "politicians from both sides of the aisle were lined up against Stroger, while Obama said nothing and the reformer narrowly lost."
The only thing separating Stroger and Daley is that the latter "has managed to avoid being directly implicated."
If Obama had done anything in the name of "change you can believe in," there would be no corrupt power-mongers abusing civil-servants and pocketing tax-payer cash in Chicago and certainly no "Soldiers for Stroger" in power today.
As soon as Stroger fell ill suddenly, his son, Todd took his place on the ballot (under suspicious circumstances) for the general election. Many Democrats refused to back their own party's candidate. That's when Obama suddenly "found his voice."
He endorsed the junior Stroger, even going so far as to call him a "good, progressive Democrat." Barack Obama has never stood for up for "change" or "reform" in Chicago.
From reporter, John Kass's column from the Chicago Tribune, dated Oct. 8, 2008:
Why Obama is allowed to campaign as a reformer, virtuallu unchallenged by the media, though he's a product of Chicago politics and has never condemned the wholesale political corruption in his hometown the way he condemns those darn Washington lobbyists?
...He has endorsed Daley, endorsed Daley's hapless stooge Todd Stroger for president of the Cook County Board. These are not the acts of a reformer."
By this time, Obama "the reformer" was a U.S. senator. He passed on the chance to change things in Cook County forever. He also had a chance not to advocate a corrupt system just by excusing himself from the scene and keeping his mouth shut, but he chose to endorse corruption one again by lending his name to it.
Everybody in Chicago, including media outlets of both the left and right knew how the Stroger machine worked, including Obama, yet he chose not to endorse" change." A very different mode of the post-partisianship that Obama extols today.
David Freddoso, "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate". Regenery Publishing. Washingtom, DC. 2008. p. 1-3, 6, 8, 20.
David Jackson and Ray Long, "Showing His Bare Knuckles," Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2007.
John Kass, "Anti-Daley Forces Start to Beat Campaign Drums," Chicago Tribune. July 29, 1994, and Steve Neal, "2nd District Race May Get Crowded." Chicago Sun-Times. July 30, 1995.
Sunya Walls, "Alice Palmer from Race for Re-Election." Chicago Weekend, January 21, 1996.
Ibid, 12, 14, 15.
Fran Spielman, "Daley Blasts Tillman for Waiter Request." Chicago Sun-Times. February 12, 2004.
John Kass. Chicago Tribune. October 8, 2004.
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