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Posted by: pc25 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side.

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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago

Change we can believe in? Hardly
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"A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.
"Why say you're for a new tomorrow, then do old-style Chicago politics to remove legitimate candidates?" Askia said. "He talks about honor and democracy, but what honor is there in getting rid of every other candidate so you can run scot-free? Why not let the people decide?"
Obama the candidate of change is an old style Mayor Daley, Tammany Hall type politician..no change here just a bunch of hot air........an empty suit with an eloquent message
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  bobo-in-texas3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Looks like he's trying to do the same with Hillary.
  I wonder how he'll try to get McCain to quit early?
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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago

whats wrong Jovi? the bloom is coming off the Obama rose?
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  libsRfunny3 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Now, now, you know only Republicans are bad in Jovi's eyes. It pains him or here to see the High Priest of Change exposed as a charlatan.
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    pc253 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    LOL
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pc253 months, 2 weeks ago

of course the 2 sinks as of now to this story come from Beavis and Butt-head
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GHOSTWHOWALKS3 months, 2 weeks ago

Did you really expect Obama to be anything but a dishonest politician? After all he is from Chi town.
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