OBAMA moves up in dirty Chicago politics

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OBAMA moves up in dirty Chicago politics
Thu, 10-02-2008 - 5:16pm

He was moving on up.


Barry moved on up—to booze, pot and coke, according to his book—before entering Occidental College, then Columbia, and then up to the corporate world for a while. 


He moved, laterally, to Chicago in 1985 and became a “community organizer” and joined Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ before entering Harvard Law in 1988.  Not too shabby a vita for the son of a former shepherd.


In any event, all this name stuff is irrelevant—except that it does cast some doubt on Barry/Barack’s professed Christianity and it does link him to Islam, unfairly or not.


Obama professes to be a Christian and I’m certain he wouldn’t fib.  As a good Catholic friend said of him, “Well, he says he’s a Christian, no?”


Actually, that depends on the meaning of “no.”


A Muslim planning a run for any office in predominantly Christian America would have to take great pains to establish his Christian credentials, such as marrying in a church rather than in a mosque and having his kids baptized in that church.  Such actions would either prove that candidate had made a sea change in his religious belief– or that the candidate would resort to virtually anything to be elected. 


Whether the Trinity United Church of Christ could accurately be described as a Christian church is debatable, however.  TUCC does not exclude White people but its commitment to a “Black value system” as opposed to an American value system, its pastors’ racist, anti-American screeds, its adulation of Louis Farrakhan, and its reference to W.E.B. Dubois in its Mission Statement, lead one to think that Obama’s Chicago church may talk the Black values talk but falls far short of walking the Christian value walk.     


Barack returned to the “City of the Big Shoulders,��� as the socialist poet, Carl Sandburg called Chicago, after graduating Yale Law School.  He became a civil rights attorney and social activist, always keeping up his attendance at TUCC, and then plunged headlong into Illinois politics as a State Senator from Chicago’s south side district of Hyde Park. 


That area’s residents have included such illustrious figures as:


·        Louis Farrakhan, nee’ Louis Eugene Walcott, aka Calypso Louie, aka Louis X, racist, homophobic anti-semite, Nation of Islam Minister, visitor to the Mother Wheel;


·        Elijah Muhammed, nee’ Elijah Poole, Black Muslim separatist Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, anti-integrationist and ex-convict;


 .    William Ayers, proud, admitted domestic terrorist who was a member of the extremist Weather Underground, an FBI fugitive for 10 years who escaped imprisonment on a technicality;


·        Bernardine Dohrn, nee’ Bernardine Ohrnstein, former head of that radical Weather Underground, ex-convict and wife of confessed terrorist, Bill Ayers.


(Ayers is now an education professor at the University of Chicago and Dohrn-Ayers a law prof at Northwestern.  Calypso Louie is still Calypso Louie.)


This is not to suggest that Obama was in the same league as those four fellow Chicagoans and new- found friends anymore than he was in the same league as Al Capone, but this was the town he chose to establish his career, a metropolis that defined all that was evil in municipal government. 


True, it was the childhood home of his wife, Michelle, but he could as easily have set up shop in his native Oahu, or in California, or Massachusetts.


Obama staged a dirty campaign in 1996 to beat Alice Palmer and win a seat in the Illinois legislature, was reelected in ‘98, was trounced in 2000 in his primary bid for a congressional seat, winning a mere 30 % of the vote, then was reelected again to the State Senate in 2002.  He hadn’t yet established sufficient “street cred” and so he doggedly plodded on until he won the seat of junior senator from the state of Illinois in the United States Congress in 2004.


The rest, as they say, is history:  The Speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, declaring for the presidency after a scant two years in the Senate, beating Hillary for the nomination, and now the front runner for the office of President of the United States.


That lofty office is customarily the culmination of many years of proving oneself qualified and experienced but that was not the route chosen by Barack Hussein Obama.


He wants it now, in 2008, and qualifications and experience be damned.  And he may get his wish.


NEXT:  How Chicago greased Obama’s skids and what America will look like after four years of his presidency. 


It’s not a pretty picture.


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