Posted February 2nd, 2008 by oldmole
The day after he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois in November 2004, Barack Obama, “pressed by the Chicago media the day after his election, flatly denied that he would run for the Oval office in 2008,” according to the 2007 book “OBAMA: From Promise to Power” by former Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell.
Yet in 2008, the same campaign media consultant who handled Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval “Nothing Accomplished” Patrick’s campaign in 2006 and the Richard Daley Dynasty Machine’s past mayoralty campaigns in Chicago, David Axelrod, is now attempting to market Obama as the next occupant of the White House’s Oval office.
According to the `OBAMA: From Promise to Power” book:
“Without Axelrod as his marketing specialist, it’s unclear if Obama would have won the Democratic Party primary [in Illinois in 2004]…Axelrod…was the publicity agent who sold Obama to Illinois voters. Obama would lean on Axelrod increasingly throughout the 2003-2004 campaign season–and thereafter. If Obama was on his cell phone, which seemed to be at every spare moment, there was a high probability that he was consulting with `Ax’, the apt nickname for this cutthroat political operativee. Obama would call Axelrod three or four times a day, at all hours of the day and night, seeking his counsel…Axelrod is a former reporter for the `Chicago Tribune.’…
“One of Axelrod’s most enduring clients is Mayor Daley, who lords over Chicago with a powerful political machine unmatched anywhere in the country. When Daley’s political apparatus became the focus of a federal corruption investigation into widespread illegal patronage hiring at city hall, Axelrod rushed in to defend the mayor with TV appearances and op-ed pieces…”
Besides being backed by media consultant Axelrod, Obama has also apparently been financially backed by Chicago’s billionaire Pritzker Dynasty since 2002. As “OBAMA: From Promise to Power” also observed:
“…He [Obama] invited a group of African-American professionals to the house of Marty Nesbit, who had served as finance chairman of his congressional campaign. Nesbitt is the president of a Chicago parking management company and vice president of the Pritzker Realty Group, part of the Pritzker family empire…He had been friends with Obama for years. Their wives were also close…
“…Nesbitt arranged a weekend getaway to help Obama reach inside the deepest pockets he knew–those of the Pritzker family.
“The Pritzkers rule a family that embodies…extreme wealth in Chicago. One of the richest families in the country, with a fortune estimated at $20 billion, the Pritzkers amassed [their]…fortune through Hyatt hotels, financial services and numerous other enterprises. The clan is intensely private…Nesbitt knew that if Obama could sell himself to Penny Pritzker, her support would not only reap huge immediate financial dividends, but also be a crucial step in the foundation of a fund-raising network.
“So in late summer 2002, Obama, Michelle [Robinson-Obama] and their two daughters drove to Penny Pritzker’s weekend cottage along the lakefront in Michigan about forty-five minutes from Chicago…”
Although Barack Obama claims to be against the Bush Adminsitration’s decision to attack Iraq in 2003, as a U.S. Senator in early 2006 Obama voted to confirm as U.S. Secretary of State the National Security Affairs Adviser to George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, who was one of the architects of the Bush Administration’s decision to attack Afghanistan in 2001 and to attack Iraq in 2003.
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