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To: DanDerr who wrote (57274)	10/17/2012 3:31:25 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 71588

LOL... Sheridan and Wellington and Broadway & Belmont. Well, then you know... it's all about the local aldermen, city council (fast Eddie Verdoliak?), and all that... Obama is a PIKER compared to these guys. You still look to see where your alderman lives and rent near there cause you know your streets will get plowed and garbage picked up!! I doubt Obama even met Daly (Jr of course) till he "became someone". Naw... in REAL Chicago politics (la machine) you "become someone" cause you KNOW someone. LOL, you shold know all that! Here's from an article critisizing FOX news for trying to paint Obama the way the RwingNutz do: <<The attack also missed because it was hard to square with Obama himself. The description "old Chicago pol" conjures a stout machine boss wearing a porkpie hat and chomping on a stogie — not a whip-thin black guy trying to quit smoking. Nor was the Chicago machine an ingredient in Obama's political rise. "He didn't rely on the machine for his success," says David Moberg, who has covered Chicago politics closely as a longtime writer for alternative magazine In These Times. "When he ran for the state senate, Congress and the U.S. Senate, he was opposed by the party organization.">> DAK