Voters need to take a very long, and hard look at the candidate who actually will take on the corruption within their party, instead of embracing it to further his political career. Close associations do not equal reform.
Interesting comment by Paul-Cincy on September 22, 2008 at Hot Air Blog:
MLK went to Chicago to negotiate with Daley on the garbage workers contract? Daley stiff-armed him, and MLK left Chicago with nothing. Obama allies himself with the Daley machine. Would not that be a “race traitor?” Yes, it’s a low blow, but if race baiting is good enough for Obama, then why not for McCain?
How could anyone making a claim as a reformer endorse Richard Daley? That in and of itself should disabuse people of the myth of Barack Obama, Reformer. Daley, Jones, the Strogers, and more Obama allies and associates run the powerful “Chicago Machine” of patronage and corruption, and Obama never lifted a finger to reform it. In fact, at almost every opportunity, Obama has endorsed and protected it. David Axelrod, his chief politicial strategist, helped keep it in power.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/22/mccain-ad-chicago-machine/
