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| Wretchard asks the Chicago Machine Question - Who sent you? |
| 2008-06-09 |
| In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is ... from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) ... As a young student ... he walked into the local committeman's office ... 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? |
| Posted by:wtf? |
| #6 "The Lemurian Candidate." I like that... So did Edgar Cayce do a life reading on him 100 years before his birth and William Jennings Bryan leave him a cross of oil speech? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-06-09 23:27 |
| #5 I heard speculation that the Daley machine sent Obama specifically to take on Hillary. On the plus side, I gather they don't hold grudges past the 7th generation. So Chelsea's great-great-great-grandchildren should be okay. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-09 21:28 |
| #4 The Illinois political combine sent him. They've been grooming him and hit the jackpot early. If he's elected, will Daley get his 2016 Olympics? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-06-09 21:27 |
| #3 After the whole "Lightworker" bit I've started to think of Opophis as being "The Lemurian Candidate." |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-06-09 21:09 |
| #2 Barak Hussein Obama is the bravest, kindest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-06-09 20:00 |
| #1 I don't think he was "sent," exactly, though I expect George Soros I think Obama is a modern Manchurian Candidate - except he didn't need to be brainwashed, he's running for President instead of Vice President, and the target of assassination is the United States of America. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-09 19:51 |