For any of you that have viewed Obama's political history, you might find some irony in the tale of Barack Obama's tactics at winning his first election to State Senate in Illinois.
He did not win the election by going head to head in the primaries with fellow Democrats. Instead he relied on election rules to have his Democratic challengers thrown off the ballot, which is what the former Attorney General of Pennsylvania is now trying to do to Obama before he can become the DNC nominee officially.
By kicking other Democrats out of the race, so that he could proceed unimpeded in Chicago, he may have negatively charged his karma. This lawsuit could possibly be a universal reach around come back to grab Obama and jerk him out of the race, or it might even be simple political revenge of friends damaged by Obama's tactics even.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/…3097.story
It's one thing to win the popular vote, and quite another to win on a technicality sending your opponents in your own party back to work selling office supplies or clerking somewhere.
He did not win the election by going head to head in the primaries with fellow Democrats. Instead he relied on election rules to have his Democratic challengers thrown off the ballot, which is what the former Attorney General of Pennsylvania is now trying to do to Obama before he can become the DNC nominee officially.
By kicking other Democrats out of the race, so that he could proceed unimpeded in Chicago, he may have negatively charged his karma. This lawsuit could possibly be a universal reach around come back to grab Obama and jerk him out of the race, or it might even be simple political revenge of friends damaged by Obama's tactics even.
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Quote from CNN article http://www.cnn.com/…index.htmlFor the detailed account of this story, read the Sun Times article
" 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.
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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? 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."
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/…3097.story
It's one thing to win the popular vote, and quite another to win on a technicality sending your opponents in your own party back to work selling office supplies or clerking somewhere.
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