As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of new 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.
“That was Chicago politics,” said John Kass, a veteran Chicago Tribune columnist. “Knock out your opposition, challenge their petitions, destroy your enemy, right?” Kass said. “It is how Barack Obama destroyed his enemies back in 1996 that conflicts with his message today. He may have gotten his start registering thousands of voters. But in that first race he made sure voters had just one choice.”
The corruption never ends...he is covering his birth record, he is covering his using a foreign passport at Occidental College for financial aid reasons, he used the poor in Chicago to get into office, he sold his integrity to get to be state senator, a United States Senator and now is President....
All these things still don't matter to the mass media, whose obligation is to challenge government to be transparent and above board...not on board with the ruling junta, whomsoever party that maybe.
It may in fact be time for Americans to do the unthinkable. If we the People can't reclaim our government by electing representatives who view government has an opportunity to serve their community and not a career choice, then perhaps its time to petition our states to unhinge themselves from this dysfunctional government.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " Thomas Jefferson
I agree with you 100%
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