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"The Chicago Way"

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Blogger master_of_americans said...

Nah, Obama's just participating in groupthink, i.e. it's easier to hold irrational ideas if your peers hold them, too. Malcolm-X-admiring black activist types are never going to hold NOI and Farrakhan responsible for their complicity (or just plain guilt) in Malcolm X's death. Malcolm's blood relatives are a special category, of course.

By the way, I admire Malcolm X, too. He was ballsy. Farrakhan is just pathetic.

8/28/08, 10:24 PM

Blogger Danindc said...

"Gina Driskell" was the best part of that post.

8/28/08, 10:43 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

I guess Gina Driskell just isn't all that into all the Muhammad stuff.

8/28/08, 10:55 PM

Blogger Zimri said...

Obama probably read X's autobiography and thought "right on". But I expect he then set X on his mental shelf next to Che and other fashionable radicals. I doubt that X was a real hero to Obama to such an extent that Obama would, when meeting X's murderers, oppose them.

George Lucas has fans and emulators, who would avenge any slight to his name; Joss Whedon perhaps more so. Obama himself has a large set of cultists, and of course so did Malcolm X. But I doubt that Obama invested himself in any one kind of anti-Western extremism. He kinda liked 'em all.

8/28/08, 11:03 PM

Anonymous The Monster from Polaris said...

"His survivors include his wife, Amenah Antonia Muhammad; 14 children, [...] 45 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren."

It seems that being business manager for Nation of Islam or whatever does wonders for one's Darwinian fitness ;-)

8/29/08, 1:20 AM

Anonymous wren said...

I still haven't figured out how Rezko and all his very strange deals (like the power plant in Iraq) can stay out of the national limelight.

8/29/08, 3:42 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

There are weird but plausible connections between Rezko and the Iraqi money pit. For example the Springfield newspaper reported recently:

"DOWNERS GROVE — At his desk in the small consulting office nestled on a quiet back street in this middle-American suburb, Aiham Alsammarae looks like any other conservative businessman.

It’s easy to tell from his accent that he was born in the Middle East, but otherwise nothing seems extraordinary about the friendly 51-year-old engineering consultant whose firm provides services to electric utilities.

Over the last two years, though, Alsammarae has been on a wild odyssey that led from post-invasion Iraq to an American courtroom and reads like pages torn from a Frederick Forsyth novel.

Called on to serve as Iraq’s electric power minister in 2003, he was later jailed on corruption charges, escaped, possibly with help from American mercenaries, and went on Interpol’s wanted fugitive list.

He resurfaced early this year in a homegrown scandal, posting $2.7 million to bail friend and political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko out of jail pending the Chicago trial that eventually ended in Rezko’s corruption conviction.

Alsammarae, who has been a contributor to George W. Bush, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, even briefly made the news in the U.S. presidential race. Obama — who replaced Romney in Alsammarae’s political affections — sent his $2,300 in campaign contributions to charity, concerned they might have been solicited by Rezko, a former Obama fundraiser. Alsammarae says they weren’t.

8/29/08, 3:49 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

And then there are the connections between Rezko and shady Iraqi billionaire Auchi, whom Obama shook hands with in 2004 when Auchi wasn't supposed to be in the country in order to impress the convict that Rezko was well-connected in t he U.S. Auchi lent Rezko $3.5 million not long before Rezko helped Obama buy his mansion.

8/29/08, 3:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hate to say it, but Mr. Van Carter missed the best line of the entire speech. Obama solemnly told us all last night that we should be our brothers' keepers. What about HIS damn brother out in Kenya? Did no one who vetted that speech follow the news the last couple of weeks?

I didn't hear the whole oration, but this was still the most that I've ever heard Obama talk. He confirmed my impression that he cares more about the emotions he projects than about the words he says.

8/29/08, 4:43 AM

Blogger Born Again Democrat said...

C'on, Stever, what we really want is your take on Obama's convention speech.

8/29/08, 6:06 AM

Blogger Dennis Mangan said...

"Michelle Obama must have been peeved when she learned how they'd been gypped ..."

That's a good one.

8/29/08, 6:22 AM

Anonymous halfbreed said...

Steve -- Kudos for unraveling the extremely tangled web of Obama's past dealings and as well as his equally tangled psychology. There is no other journalist who would have the energy OR the intellectual honesty to do what you've done.

8/29/08, 6:56 AM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

45 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren

And people wonder why this nation is going to Hell in a handbasket.

8/29/08, 7:07 AM

Anonymous astorian said...

Here in Austin, everybody except my wife is from somewhere else. Seriously, I know far more transplanted Chicagoans than actual native Austinites.

I saw several of the transplanted Chicagoans at a party a few weeks ago, and the most telling comment I've yet heard about Obama was this: "I've never seen any politician who excites and energizes people the way Obama does. And you know, those people are going to be heartbroken next year when they wake up and figure out they've just elected an ordinary, average, corrupt Chicago politician."

8/29/08, 7:32 AM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

"Saniyyah Sepanik"?

This name invites further scrutiny. Did she marry out, or did a Mr Sepanik marry in? It sure looks Slavic-- one letter away from "Stepanik"-- which in Chicago would mean Catholic or Jewish, with an outside chance of Orthodox.

Of course, maybe it's coïncidence. "Rezko" is also a name that looks Slavic, but is Syrian.

There are only three hits on Google. Two are her father's obituaries, and the third is Steve's post.

8/29/08, 8:51 AM

Anonymous headache said...

Steve,
The post is so good and self-explanatory I don't have a comment. What's amazing is that nobody in the MSM notices the obvious corruption and sleaze and intellectual incoherence. And assuming the MSM purposely sing in one choir, that none of the wider public notices it.

8/29/08, 9:42 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The "Chicago Way" - from the 1987 movie "The Untouchables," in which streetwise but honest Chicago cop Jim Malone enlightens naive but ambitious federal agent Eliot Ness about the rules of engagement in Prohibition-era Chicago:

"You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way!"

8/29/08, 9:48 AM

Anonymous Josh said...

We had a local tempest in a teapot the other night when a guy called Stanley Kurtz appeared on a local radio show to talk about the Ayers-Obama connection and a huge mass of papers donated to the U of I by a group called the Annenberg Project,a collabaration that included O'B and Ayers as well as many other lefties with the idea of "fixin'" education. I guess it didnt pan out...Obamas people bombed the station---er,with phone calls and e-mails,demanding Kurtz be shut up. Very weird and bizarre! A U of C prof of some note appeared on the (grotesque)Mark Levins radio show last nite to report that Obama's "teaching" career at U of C was a complete put-up job to allow him to run for some political office. He said when he first met Obama,O'B remarked on their differing views on the 2nd amenment,calling him "that gun guy." (Which I believe was a short-lived detective show on ABC in the 60's)When gun-guy suggested a possible lunch date to discuss their differing views,he says O'B coldly,just turned and walked away. HA! His fathers son!! Or..is that more the Stanley Dunham in him--"those are NOT my people!" As far as AffirmAction goes,isnt stealing from set-asides basically stealing from the theives? Its a completely stupid idea that invites corruption,as well as breeding waste and incompetence. Given that Rezko is/was the buddy of the current governor,its amazing how much corruption is going on in the city and state!Why set up garbage like set-asides which are only going to invite lying and cheating.

8/29/08, 10:25 AM

Anonymous Martin said...

Am I the only one who finds the name "Jabir Herbert Muhammad" to be uproariously funny and ridiculous?

8/29/08, 11:49 AM

Anonymous Lucius Vorenus said...

astorian Here in Austin, everybody except my wife is from somewhere else. Seriously, I know far more transplanted Chicagoans than actual native Austinites.

Have they done a "Stuff White People Like" episode about "White People Who Don't Know Their Next-Door Neighbors"?

8/29/08, 4:11 PM

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