Now, this is going to come as quite a shock to many of you, particularly those of you on the Democrat side, and particularly many of you independents who have an impression of Barack Obama that is false. That impression is largely that he is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. He’s new. He’s an outsider. He’s lofty, messianic, untainted by scandal; not into any of this for himself. He cares nothing about power. He wants only what’s good for America — and, of course, he intends to end the tyranny of oil.

But how did Obama come on scene?

No. It wasn’t “hope,” and it wasn’t “change.” It wasn’t anything as ethereal as that.

It was good old-fashioned, brass knuckle politics. “Obama had returned to Chicago…” by Kyle-Anne Shiver- AmericanThinker.com, “Obama had returned to Chicago and practiced civil rights law for 3 years, when he spied an opportunity to run for the state senate. A longtime, widely revered matron of the civil rights movement named Alice Palmer had held the seat for a number of years, but she announced that she wanted to run for Congress. So, Obama seized the opportunity and proclaimed his intention to run for Alice’s open seat.”

So far, so fine. “Well, Alice lost the congressional race and decided that she wanted to hang onto that hard-won state senate seat. Most of the community leaders tried to persuade Obama to withdraw and wait his turn; he was a newcomer after all,” and she was a matron and an icon of the civil rights movement; widely revered.

“Instead Obama performed his first real act of political jujitsu. He sent his aides to the courthouse to carefully examine all of Alice Palmer’s signatures to see if enough could be disallowed to knock her off the ballot altogether. And indeed, some of Alice’s signatures were fake. The aides also found enough other fake signatures on opponents’ ballot initiatives to knock them off the ballot as well. By the time Barack Obama walked handily into his state senate seat, everyone there knew him as ‘the man who knocked off Alice Palmer.‘ Quite a feat indeed for the newcomer, the young whippersnapper with the odd name,” who practices hope.

Here’s the point of the matter.

You might be out there saying, “The woman had a bunch of fake signatures! She shouldn’t have been qualified.” Ah, yes, but this is the Democrat Party. Fake this, and fake that, is common.

You had here a young upstart who wanted to get rid of an icon, wanted to get rid of a civil rights icon. He dispatched a bunch of goons to dig up whatever they could find to disqualify her.

My only point here is, this is a guy well steeped in politics as usual. He is not some angelic figure that has come floating from the heavens on two wings, with “hope” and revival and renewal and … bla bla bla.

Now, another thing that you might want to consider about this, we’re talking Chicago, Illinois. As we all know, the dead can vote there a number of times, and have been known to do so.

…this is Chicago. Who are we outsiders to question signatures? Somebody alive had to sign those documents. One thing: The dead people can vote, but they can’t sign. This we know. So the bottom line is, here goes Obama, and he got where he is through good old-fashioned dirty politics, as usual, and this is probably going to stun a number of people.

This story is widely known. A lot of people have written about this. That’s the point. The story is widely known.

It’s just not talked about because it doesn’t fit the image that Obama is putting forth. Remember, who started these puff pieces of Obama and the image that he’s got? Your memories aren’t this short. Let’s go back to last spring. Remember all these Washington Post, New York Times puff pieces on Obama? We’re all scratching our heads, “What is this? What, are they trying to sabotage Mrs. Clinton? What is this? Obama?”

This has been a well-crafted image. The story of Alice Palmer has been out there all over this place. It doesn’t fit the narrative of the Media. I mean, how could they report this after the image they created of the guy?

Remember, the Media is as important for what they don’t report, as they are for what they do.