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A new ad by John McCain attempts to connect Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to the storied Chicago "Machine." The ad connects Obama to Rezko, Emil Jones, and beleaguered Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Obama Campaign has responded by calling the new ad a “false, gratuitous attack." Obama's ties to the local political structure have previously been examined by the Trib and, more famously, in The New Yorker this summer, an article that was over-shadowed by The Great Cover Controversy of 2008.
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Does John "Keating Five" McCain really want to talk about guilt by association?
Tony Rezko was a non-starter for Hillary, hell, it got her booed by DEMOCRATS.
If McCain tries to pull a Rezko out of his hat in the debates he's going to look even more dirty and slimy than his ridiculous ads have already.
Well, no sense in thinking that being from corrupt-o Illinois will help him, and being from Chicago definately will NOT be good for him.
Unless of course your a chicago/cook county democrat, then its' fine.
Me thinkst that McCain has particularly bad timing pulling this trick out of his hat, especially with his history surrounding Charles Keating and his votes for deregulating the banking industry.
We here in Chicago/crook county are used to and accept a certain amount of corruption and machine politics. the rest of the country may be unaccepting of the unique brand of democracy we here get to enjoy. Obama should have been running away with this election being a deity and all. But Mcain made him get of the pulpit and show himself to be human. This race won't be over until the morning of 5 Nov now. If were lucky.
Does John "Keating Five" McCain really want to talk about guilt by association?
We have a winner....
We here in Chicago/crook county are used to and accept a certain amount of corruption and machine politics. the rest of the country may be unaccepting of the unique brand of democracy we here get to enjoy.
He got a sweet deal on an easement. I'd hardly equate that with, say, a governor who has shut down the executive branch in a slap fight with the speaker of the house. Or a county board president with private elevators and his entire extended family on the payroll.
Obama did something startling a few months back, he sat down with a room full of reporters and let them open fire about Rezko.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/844597,transcript031508.article
Todd Stroger won't answer questions, and Blago runs away from high school kids with microphones. Rezko is a non-starter, and your presumption about the moral clarity of most American's is startlingly naive.
Obama should have been running away with this election being a deity and all.
The modern electorate doesn't work like that. You have about 10-15 of the electorate to grab any given cycle. I think Obama is going to win and win by a good margin, but blow-outs aren't going to happen in this political climate.
And drop the messiah/god bull crap. If you can't come up with anything better than "He's too popular to be president!" you're in a pretty sorry state.
Just a quick note to the young ones here regarding the "Keating Five", circa 1991:
"Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly"
Just a quick note circa 2008:
"Obama has been cleared from Rezko"
Rezko's nothing compared to McCain having Phil 'enron loophole' Gramm as his economic advisor. He's def. one of the architects of the current of the financial crash (capitalize the profit, socialize the risk) we've got going now.
And drop the messiah/god bull crap. If you can't come up with anything better than "He's too popular to be president!" you're in a pretty sorry state.
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I am not saying he is to popular to be president he is polling under 50% so he is not as popular as you think. A certain group of his followers are a cult like group. I find it amusing.
He got a sweet deal on an easement. I'd hardly equate that with, say, a governor who has shut down the executive branch in a slap fight with the speaker of the house. Or a county board president with private elevators and his entire extended family on the payroll
He got a nice deal on his morgage that alot of people in foreclouser would have liked. Rezko buying the lot next door that was originally part of the sale but broken up for Obama. then Rezko selling a portion of it to Obama later. Yes it was all on the up and up. But it not even that stuff that will matter.
Obama peaked to early. The elections in the country last almost 2 years now it is a freakin joke people are getting burnt out on this.
Just my opinon but Obama would have been better served by staying above the muck of the Mcain BS attacks. He was seen as above a lot of the politics as usual. By getting down in the mud he has been exposed as human and a typical politican not some mythical agent of change which would of carried him into the white house. Yes I am aware Kerry tried to stay out of the mud but Obama was viewed by the masses in a way Kerry never was. Obama may still win this thing but it is a toss up because of some mistakes by the Obama camp and some good strategy by Mcains people.
"He got a nice deal on his morgage that alot of people in foreclouser would have liked."
A lot of us with jobs, good credit scores, and incomes appropriate to the price home we bought got mortgages that people in foreclosure would have loved to have. That's how it works. I bet each of the McCain homes has a very favorable purchase structure.
Also, Obama is right to fight tooth and nail. "Stay above it" and you are a wimpy Democrat. Kerry was a genuine war hero, and look at the treatment he got. Obama did not peak too early. Barring some unforeseen change in the facts of this election, Palin did.
Chicago politic = bad
McCain politics = equally bad