THE MAKING OF A MESSIAH
By Divine Democrat on September 9, 2008 at 6:55 PM in Current Affairs
Since John McCain picked Sarah Palin to run on his ticket as Vice President, the Obama campaign and his faithful followers have been busy trying to discredit her as having less experience than Barack Obama.
Of course, they try to ignore her extensive list of accomplishments as Governor and only speak of her role as Mayor of City of Wasilla. I’ve also noticed that they are rolling out a list of Obama legislative accomplishments in Illinois when he was State Senator.
But the real story here isn’t what they say he did, the real story is what he didn’t do and took credit for.
An article written in February of 2008 by a journalist, Todd Spivak, who worked for a small paper in Chicago — The Hyde Park Herald, knew Obama before he donned that glowing halo his supporters have encased him in. I won’t go into the entire story about how he met him, and what his contacts were, you can read that in his very lengthy and fascinating story, Barack Obama and Me. [SusanUnPC's Note: I'm so glad that Divine is linking to this critically important story -- it is essential reading for ALL voters.]
However, I will point out the true résumé of Barack Obama.
Before 2002, when the Democrats swept nearly all of the Illinois state government positions because the public were sick of President Bush and the Republicans, in general, Obama was going nowhere fast. Every bit of legislation in his name sank like a mob hit wearing cement boots in the Chicago River. It wasn’t until the Democrats controlled the governor’s office and both legislative chambers that the star shown over Obama. But how does this happen to a man who was relatively unknown, even in his own State of Illinois?
The shining light came from one person, Emil Jones, Jr., who represented a district on the Chicago South Side that wasn’t far from Obama’s own district. According to Todd Spivak, and confirmed by Jone’s himself, this is how it all went down.
Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city’s most popular black call-in radio program.I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:
“He said, ‘Cliff, I’m gonna make me a U.S. Senator.’”
“Oh, you are? Who might that be?”
“Barack Obama.”
Jones then proceeded to appoint Obama as sponsor of every high-profile piece of legislation that has been in the works by other senior rank-and-file legislators. Needless to say, they weren’t happy. State Senator Rickey Hendon said this,
“I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen,” State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. “Barack didn’t have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.“I don’t consider it bill jacking,” Hendon told me. “But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book.”
Recently, when Sarah Palin dissed Obama for his community service in Chicago, the Obama supporters have been up in arms. “What’s wrong with Community Service?”, they asked indignantly. Well, there’s nothing wrong with community service, when it’s done for the community and not for your own political aspirations. Some on the South Side of Chicago saw through the phony facade that Obama was presenting to the public.
But, as a state senator, Obama evaded leadership on a host of critical community issues, from historic preservation to the rapid demolition of nearby public-housing projects, according to many South Siders.Harold Lucas, a veteran South Side community organizer who remembers when Obama was “just a big-eared kid fresh out of school,” says he didn’t finally decide to support Obama’s presidential bid until he was actually inside the voting booth on Super Tuesday.
“I’m not happy about the quality of life in my community,” says Lucas, who now heads a black-heritage tourism business in Chicago. “As a local elected official, he had a primary role in that.”
You might wonder how Jones was repaid for his roll in presenting us with a Messiah. Well, Obama released a comprehensive list of earmark requests which comprised of more than $300 million in pet projects for Illinois, including tens of millions for Jone’s Senate district. Spevick recalls,
Shortly after Jones became Senate president, I remember asking his view on pork-barrel spending.I’ll never forget what he said:
“Some call it pork; I call it steak.”
And speaking of pork…we’ve all heard Obama and his disciples talking about how Palin was for the “Bridge to Nowhere” before she was against it? Well, the fact is, she was for a “link”, which could be anything from a bridge to a ferry. Her exact quote (one you won’t hear from the MSM or Obama) was, “The money that’s been appropriated for the project, it should remain available for a link, an access process as we continue to evaluate the scope and just how best to just get this done. This link is a commitment to help Ketchikan expand its access, to help this community prosper.”She ended up not supporting the bridge to nowhere, but guess what? Obama just loved the idea! In the US Senate, Obama VOTED FOR the $400 million Bridge to Nowhere.
Let’s make this clear, though… Obama won’t call that “pork”, he calls it “steak”. Only the best for “The Messiah”.
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