Posted on 06/22/2008 3:30:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is "We don't want nobody that nobody sent" - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.) As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out the his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: "Who sent you?" Mikva replied, "nobody sent me." And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: "Well, we don't want nobody that nobody sent."
So it is reasonable to ask, who "sent" Barack Obama? In other words, how can his meteoric rise to political prominence be explained? And, of course, in an answer to that question might lie a better understanding of his essential world view. When I started looking at this question a few weeks ago I quickly grew more concerned about the kinds of people that seem to have been very important in Obama's ascendancy in Chicago area politics. It is the connection of some of these people to authoritarian politics that has me particularly concerned. And a key concern of this blog has been the rise of authoritarian tendencies in the global labor movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at globallabor.blogspot.com ...
OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT
The MSM, including Fox on occassion, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to any major revelations about who this charlatan has surrounded himself with.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Just why exactly did Barack Obama suddenly become concerned with providing security for Iraqi reconstruction in April, 2004? I look at the question at Pajamas Media. Here's Obama in April, 2004.
What exactly happened at around that time that might be of interest? Here's what I think, and try to document in the Pajamas Media article. The shifts in Barack Obama’s policy toward Iraq show a remarkable correlation with the rise and fall of Tony Rezko’s business prospects in the Chamchamal Power Plant. As the story of the Rezko syndicate is exposed in his Chicago trial, the subject of its Iraqi commercial interests will come under a brighter light. Barack Obama has already said of his convicted ex-fundraiser, “this is not the Tony Rezko I used to know.”
Interesting:
So, who did “send” Obama? The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers – not just Bill Ayers, but also Bill’s father Tom Ayers and his brother John as well. Obama was a community organizer from about 1985 to 1988, when he left Chicago for Harvard Law School. During that time a critical issue in Chicago politics was the ongoing crisis in the public schools. A movement was underway from two angles: below in black, latino and other communities for more local control of schools and from above by business interests who wanted to cut costs.
(For a fascinating account and analysis see Dorothy Shipps, The Invisible Hand: Big Business and Chicago School Reform, Teachers College Record, Vol. 99, #1, Fall 1997, pp. 73-116 or her later excellent book on the subject: School Reform, Corporate Style: Chicago, 1880-2000 (Kansas 2006.))
http://www.amazon.com/School-Reform-Corporate-Style-Government/dp/0700614508/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209814066&sr=8-2
Another excerpt:
Certainly Ayers’ politics remain unapologetically authoritarian. He recently traveled to Venezuela - only the most recent of several such trips - and delivered a speech in front of Hugo Chavez in which he spoke of education as the “motor force of revolution” and his interest in “overcom[ing] the failings of capitalist education” and said he thought Chavez was creating “something truly new and deeply humane.” He closed his speech by mouthing typical slogans of the authoritarian left: “Viva Mission Sucre! Viva Presidente Chavez! Viva La Revolucion Bolivariana! Hasta La Victoria Siempre!”
The comments are also very interesting below the article.
This is a good post.
THANKS!!
No denial here ... .
Anytime I read about obama's cadre, something deep inside me tells me to exercise my 2nd ammendment rights.
These people are looking to cause big trouble.
Welcome to Free Republic...I guess we could ask you the same queation: Who sent you?
Is that Kos’s new nickname?
Oh, but be very careful not to react too aggressively, because we must be very cordial and accomodating to these people who are trying to cut our throats. Oh, and we also don’t want to get our posts pulled off this site by milque-toast moderators who encourage all of us to remain milque-toast like they are. Gotta be non-confrontational and accomodating, like the jews were heading for the chambers.
Just what is his “message”?
Yep
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