Conservative Rumblings

#7 He’s a Product of Chicago Politics

Barack Obama bills himself as a “reformer” and a “new type of politician.” In April 2008, he told the Chicago Tribune the following:

I think I have done a good job in rising politically in this environment without being entangled in some of the traditional problems of Chicago politics.

Oh really?

John Kass, a Chicago political expert, had a different take:

Why is Obama allowed to campaign as a reformer, virtually unchallenged by the media, though he’s a product of Chicago politics and has never condemned the wholesale political corruption in his home town the way he condemns those darn Washington lobbyists.

And:

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, but of a guy who, as we say in Chicago, won’t make no waves and won’t back no losers.

Obama the reformer is backed by Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Daley boys. He is spoken for by Daley’s own spokesman, David Axelrod. He was launched into his U.S. Senate by machine power broker and state Senate President Emil Jones (D-ComEd).

Axelrod, conveniently, is now Obama’s head strategist.

Yep, seems like he’s really breaking away from the whole Chicago political scene.