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Did you here about obamas first election? If this lawsuit goes it will be the same thing he did to Alice Palmer! This was also on CNN, yes I watched sorry.

How Barack Obama got his first elective office
Barack Obama this year has shown that he is a master of gaming the rules to his advantage. It turns out he has been this from the beginning of his political career.

Alice Palmer had been an Illinois State Senator for years. Obama was one of her staff members. It seems that in 1996, the local congressman, Mel Reynolds, got into legal trouble over a charge of having sex with a minor. When he left the Congress, Palmer decided to run for the congressional seat, and Obama was her hand-picked successor.

The only trouble was, after Palmer chose to run for the congressional seat, a certain Jesse Jackson, Jr. chose to run for that same seat. With such a famous name running against her, she finished very poorly, actually coming in third after Jackson and another State Senator. So she decided to go back to her old State Senate seat — the only problem was, Obama wanted it now!

In the ensuing primary, each candidate needed to get a certain number of petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. She needed something over 700 signatures, she filed over 1700; but Obama, as machine politicians often do, managed to get around 1000 of Palmer's signatures voided, enough to rule her off. In addition, he got two other competing candidates disqualified the same way, so Obama ran unopposed. Naturally, he won the seat! (It was a solid Democratic district, so the primary was all he needed to win.)

A machine politician par excellence, Barack Obama used all the nasty tricks that the Daley machine is known for. Naturally, since Daley had thought of Alice Palmer as a rival for power, he was not too unhappy at what Obama did.

In the ensuing primary, each candidate needed to get a certain number of petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. She needed something over 700 signatures, she filed over 1700; but Obama, as machine politicians often do, managed to get around 1000 of Palmer's signatures voided, enough to rule her off. In addition, he got two other competing candidates disqualified the same way, so Obama ran unopposed. Naturally, he won the seat! (It was a solid Democratic district, so the primary was all he needed to win.)

I've read those accounts and I got the impression that signatures where never challenged in the black areas of Chicago

So here comes this Hawaiian "black guy" with no slave ancestors......
He swoops in with a Harvard Law School buddy and challenged all signatures and go his opponents disqualified

Which he also repeated during his Senate run where he got two opponents obliterated by getting their sealed divorce records opened. One opponents divorce records were opened up by him only after months of pressure by the Chicago Tribune instigated by Obama's operatives

Barack Obama records sealed at Illinois: The Swamp
Aug 20, 2008 ... The Tribune went to court to open the sealed private divorce records of the man who ran against Obama for the Senate, Will the paper be as ...
www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/ blog/2008/08/barack_obama_records_sealed_at.html - 129k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

This little smart ass POS gets his opponents records opened and keeps all his records sealed and locked away such as at Annenberg Challenge and his Illinois Legislature records and others

Thanks for the info.