Obama: Just Another Cook County Democrat

Via Larwyn:

From the Minority Report:

Obama, Rezko, Auchi Timeline? A Conspiracy?

I don’t know whether conspiracy is the right word although these relationships might fit the dictionary meaning of the word. In any case this time line is interesting

It is very interesting. By choice of chance, Obama is never too far from the ‘most interesting.’

Hugh Hewitt writes on a still smoldering cannon:

Mark Steyn and James Lileks have reacted on tonight’s show to the 2007 audio of Ayers and Dohrn dug up by Guy Benson.  Much should be written about it and what it tells us about Senator Obama, but whether the MSM even notices remains to be seen.

A caller from North Carolina, Steve, noted the obvious:  We know what Dohrn and Ayers were thinking about the U.S. in 2007.  We know that they know Obama well, and have “vetted” him.  And we know they supported him from 1995 forward.

UPDATE: Powerline’s John Hinderacker begins the hard-look at “The Friends of Barack Obama.”

Keep in mind a young radio producer –Guy Benson of WYLL’s The Sandy Rios Show– found audio that no one else in all of the MSM found to launch this story.  What else will we be discovering about Barack Obama’s friends, and about the candidate?

For a terrific roundup of Rezko related stories see Rezkorama. Obamas’ relationship with the Syrian born financier makes Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Tyson Foods look like a kindergarten association.

The Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Obama’s apparent inability to confront, forthrightly, the pastor’s poisonous pronouncements and his own relationship with him is, of course, the cause of all the continuing questions on the subject. It had not been in him, for instance, to say publicly that for a pastor to have preached that the U.S. government had embarked on a project to inject blacks with AIDS was an outrage on truth and decency. He delivered a celebrated speech on race, one generally hailed as a masterwork, that was supposed to have explained it all. It was a work masterly, above all, in its evasiveness. Even its admirers, prepared to swallow his repeated resort to descriptions like “controversial” for the pastor’s hate-filled rants, couldn’t quite give Sen. Obama a pass when it came to his beloved white grandmother, or to the not so beloved Geraldine Ferraro, both of whom he suggested were racists in their own right.

These issues – the unanswered, the suspect – which outraged press partisans have for days attempted to dismiss as trivia and gossip, largely forgotten by the public, are unlikely to be forgotten, either today or in the general election, nor are they trivial. This, Messrs. Gibson and Stephanopoulos clearly understood when they chose their questions. Mr. Obama’s answers told far more than he or his managers wished.

Offered a chance to explain the meaning of his remarks about the reasons people living in small towns cling to guns and religion, he went on to repeat them all over again in different words. What there was in those remarks, what attitudes shown, that had offended people, he had still not grasped. In short, what he had said that day he’d meant to say. “What you are, picks its way,” as Walt Whitman told us.

The way has been a long one for the candidates, and what they are is, indeed, picking its way on the campaign trail and during events like that instructive debate. About which, we now learn, there is to be a protest campaign against ABC and the moderators, mounted by assorted journalists and bloggers.

We are at the beginning of a contest likely to repeat itself through November: between that part of the press prepared to put hard questions equally, and all the rest, including those who’ll mount the barricades when their candidate is threatened with discomfiture. Let the wars begin.

Barack Obama would have you believe that he is a ‘new’ kind of politician, when in fact, he is nothing more than yet another Cook County political hack. The only difference between Obama and those Daley machine appointees that preceded him is his race.

The Chicago Democrat machine hoped that Obama’s race and black base of support would camouflage his political origins. When it is all said and done, Barack Obama is more of the same of what Cook County has produced for generations.

No wonder the media is playing along.