"Obama to take on McCain 'the Chicago way'"

[Pirate Smile]

Obama to take on McCain 'the Chicago way'


Barack Obama greets supporters in Chicago, Illinois. (AFP: Scott Olson/Getty Images, file photo)

A commuter train rattles along one of Chicago's signature overhead tracks. Barack Obama has been on his own journey through this city.

He spent nearly 20 years navigating his way through Chicago's rugged political landscape, beginning as a baby-faced community organiser in the predominantly black south side.

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Veteran Democratic strategist Don Rose describes Senator Obama as "one of the very best networkers that I've ever seen in politics or social life or business life or whatever".
Mr Rose says Senator Obama forged politically useful ties with Chicago's academic, legal and Jewish communities.
"We saw Barack Obama build, two, three, four, five, six, seven different networks in Chicago in a very, very fast time," he said.
These networks helped propel the young lawyer into the Illinois Senate in 1996.

Abner Mikva, a former US congressman and Senator Obama's political mentor, says the candidate showed his steel by ruthlessly unseating a Democratic incumbent.
He says beneath the inspirational speeches and the idealism lies a "very good hard-nosed politician, and that's what makes him so special".

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All those years in the rough and tumble of Chicago politics have helped prepare the Democratic nominee for his biggest political test yet.
Mr Rose says Republican John McCain underestimates his younger opponent at his own peril.
"There was a line from a movie, The Untouchables, which Obama started quoting once and he had to back off because it sounded a little too violent. But it went, you know, 'When we're in this fight, if they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun' and so on. They called it the Chicago way," he said.
If the presidential campaign descends into a political street fight at least Senator Obama will be well prepared.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/07/2296223.htm

[tekisui]

1. Hell Fucking Yeah! Let's do it the Chicago Way.

McM$M is gonna get hurt.

We are gonna kick the old man's ass.
:evilgrin:

[Cha]

5. I want his base, the m$$$fm, to go

down with him.

[bleever]

2. Hell yeah!

K5R.

[EVDebs]

3. The MySpace top blogs "News and Politics" ... it's already started

The No. 1 and No. 2 blogs are "Barack Obama....f@#$ you" and a "Veterans Against Obama"

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.mostPopularByCategory&BlogCategoryID=17

And no response from Obama's people. But remember who owns MySpace too

[Cha]

6. Who owns myspace?

Did someone just buy it?

[EVDebs]

7. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (parent of Fox) nt

[Cha]

9. Oh shit... We've got to break up this monopoly.

And viacom has youtube so does that mean we won't be able to see what we want to see on youtube in the future?

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Why should we care?

The blogs are listed with "Why fecal matters" and other crap like that.

[EVDebs]

15. Sadly, those people vote. I'm not willing to write those idiots off nt

[Triana]

4. I hope Obama opens up a can 'O Chicago whoop-ass on ol McSame. n/t

[brooklynite]

10. Refernce - Here's the real "Chciago Way"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7g0RLyxP13o

[NattPang]

11. Ooh Boy!

[Pirate Smile]

12. kick

[Connie_Corleone]

13. HELL YEAH!

[uponit7771]

14. Sounds like he had some good training in organization, we need competent right now.