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How Edwards Cost Hillary The Nomination

Mike

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Or:

How Edwards Cost The Dems The White House Should Obama Lose

You Dems don't think the Edwards deal was big? :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5553013&page=1
 

Texan

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Interesting. It makes you wonder...

Surely the Obama camp had to know about this affair. Did Obama and Edwards conspire on this? Maybe Attorney General Edwards was offered something to drag it out past the primaries?
 

Mike

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Texan said:
Interesting. It makes you wonder...

Surely the Obama camp had to know about this affair. Did Obama and Edwards conspire on this? Maybe Attorney General Edwards was offered something to drag it out past the primaries?

You never know. The "Chicago Election Machine", of which Obama is a dedicated member, has always been known to be the most corrupt system for putting people in office.

Look at his past elections to see how he got where he is to confirm it.
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Why Is Chicago So Corrupt?
And how do you measure corruption, anyway?
By Daniel Engber
Posted Friday, Sept. 8, 2006, at 7:24 PM ET

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan received a sentence of six and a half years in prison on Wednesday, after being convicted on charges of racketeering, mail fraud, filing false tax returns, and lying to investigators. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that in the last three decades, at least 79 local elected officials have been convicted of a crime, including three governors, one mayor, and a whopping 27 aldermen from the Windy City. What makes Chicago so corrupt?

City government experts point to a political culture that's been in place for more than 100 years. This culture dates back to the late 19th century, when a gambling-house owner named Michael Cassius McDonald created the city's first political machine. Under machine-style rule, those in power would hand out contracts, jobs, and social services in exchange for political support.

Chicago's large immigrant population made it easier for political machines to grow in power. Poor ethnic communities could be played off against one another and manipulated with petty gifts. In exchange for political support, ethnicities would be given virtual fiefdoms within city government; the Irish, for example, were given police work, and the Italians jobs at the transit authority.
 

Texan

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Mike said:
The "Chicago Election Machine", of which Obama is a dedicated member, has always been known to be the most corrupt system for putting people in office.

Look at his past elections to see how he got where he is to confirm it.
You make him sound like a regular dirty politician. I thought Obama was a different kind of candidate? Not a regular politician. Someone fresh and clean. Someone who offers us hope. Someone who offers us a chance to believe. Someone who offers us real change... :lol:
 
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