the same reporter that wrote 'Obama and Me'.
He was writing for the Illinois Times during
2004 when Obama was running for Senate.
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http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3015 Some African-American colleagues who served with Obama during his seven-year tenure in the state legislature are now also grudgingly supporting him after they endorsed other candidates or remained neutral in the primary.
"Anybody but Obama," chimed one prominent black legislator, who asked not to be named, a week before the election.
Surprisingly, one such reluctant Obama supporter is state Rep. Monique Davis, D-Chicago. A 17-year veteran legislator, Davis sponsored a pair of significant bills -- one designed to track incidents of racial profiling, and another that mandates the taping of police interrogations in murder cases -- that were central to Obama's campaign platform.
Though she worked closely with Obama to pass the bills into law, and says she toiled to keep the bills alive before he became their Senate sponsor, Davis claims her efforts were largely ignored.
"I was snubbed," says Davis, who endorsed Hynes in the primary though she belongs to the same church as Obama on Chicago's South Side. "I felt he was shutting me out of history."
State Sen. Rickey Hendon, D-Chicago, the original Senate sponsor of both the racial profiling and videotaped confession bills, likewise felt overshadowed by Obama.
"I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen," says Hendon. "Barack didn't have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.
"I don't consider it bill jacking," Hendon clarifies. "But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the half-back who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book."
Senate President Emil Jones, who endorsed Obama from the start of his campaign, aided the candidate by yanking Hendon off the high-profile bills and appointing Obama their new sponsor.
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http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A2984During his morning church circuit, Obama makes no mention of the scandal that has engulfed Hull, who a week earlier was leading the Democrats by as much as 10 points in the polls. Rather, Obama touts his legislative achievements in the state Senate (last year he led the passage of a jaw-dropping 26 bills into law) and lays out his platform (he opposes the war in Iraq, NAFTA, tax cuts for the wealthy and ballooning budget deficits) in a scripted speech less than 10 minutes long.
A couple dozen handshakes later, Obama sweeps through the halls and out the door, where he flips open his cell phone -- "Don't take my picture," he warns, "or else I'll look like some self-important politician" -- and awaits the dark-blue Chevrolet Suburban with tinted windows that will whisk him off to another congregation less than a mile away.
Obama can thank his lucky stars for Senate President Emil Jones, for much of the progressive legislation he crafted would have surely been quashed under the Republican grip of Jones' long-serving predecessor, Pate Phillip.
Jones, along with political heavyweights U.S. Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Chicago, and Danny Davis, D-Chicago, threw his considerable clout behind Obama from the moment he announced his campaign several stories above the Loop in Chicago's posh Hotel Allegro.
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Here is the clincher! If he goes negative now, his
principles stated here are a blatant lie!!!!
http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3690"Progressives and Democrats," Obama says, "tend to get steamrolled by the other side, then whine about it afterwards, making them look both weak and petty.
"The best advice I can give is to be firm in your convictions without demonizing the other side. Stick with your core beliefs and describe them in commonsense terms.
"This approach makes people feel that you're not just an ideologue, but you're somebody who has the ability to listen to people."
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The links are worth the read. Obama ain't no
different than any other politician out there,
regardless of what he is telling everyone.
I do think before August, Obama will be a victim
of media fatigue, kinda like Brittney. Not that
he has been that stupid but, NO ONE wants to here
anymore about Brittney. I see that happening to
Obama, the media is already starting to nip at his
heels a little. He has run an 'American Idol' style
campaign, making it a popularity contest. I care
more about what is best for the country myself but,
then again, I have never been into fads either. ;)
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