Archive for the 'Illinois' Category

Palin More Reform-Minded than Obama?

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, Alaska, Barack, Change, Ethics, Illinois, Palin

In an otherwise by-the-numbers pro-Sarah Palin editorial, The Wall Street Journal makes one very interesting point:
Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on.
Palin became Alaska’s governor [...]

September 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Obama’s Questionable Ethanol Ties

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Energy, Illinois, Iowa, McCain

Keeping the Washington interests out of his campaign? Perhaps not, and this is something I’m keeping an eye on…especially since ethanol is widely seen as a boondoggle.
From NY Times…
Mr. Obama is running as a reformer who is seeking to reduce the influence of special interests. But like any other politician, he has powerful constituencies that [...]

June 23rd, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

Obama’s Weather Underground Association Not Such a Big Deal

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Barack, Illinois, Liberalism

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about Barack Obama and his qualifications to be president. But one manufactured scandal I think just isn’t that big of a deal is Obama’s past associations with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the former members/leaders of the Vietnam-era terrorist group, the Weather Underground. Mind you, I have [...]

May 30th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Obama’s “Politically Ruthless Past” Actually Pretty Tame

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, History, Illinois

Okay, so you heard the story from Alan, but let’s be clear about what Obama did here.
He challenged that printed names were not legally valid for petitions and that the petition collectors needed to be properly registered. The laws in Chicago state pretty plainly that people have to get actual signatures on petitions and that [...]

May 29th, 2008 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Obama Adds 3 Illinois Superdelegates

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Illinois, Super Delegates!!!

No sooner do I write about Hillary picking up a superdelegate and pulling closer to Obama, and now he just added 3 more (in addition to the Joe Andrew, the former DNC Chair).
So the post-PA pickup tally is now 14-7.
From Sun Times:
WASHINGTON–When the Democratic Party of Illinois meet next week to finish filling out [...]

May 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Tony Rezko Arrested

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Illinois, Law

Will there be any backlash for Barack? Probably not since these charges are unrelated to anything that Barack ever had anything to do with, but do know that people will try to bring this up in the coming week.
From Chicago Tribune:
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a key fundraiser for Gov. Blagojevich and other Illinois politicians, was arrested [...]

January 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »