Late breaking news: Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States on November 4th, 2008.
Okay, that’s a tad late for late breaking news but I’ve been in political recovery in a conservative rehab facility since that sorry day and night.
Okay, again, that’s not exactly true either but I haven’t focused on what has to be the single most significant factor in his election since then.
No, it wasn’t Oprah, nor Michael Moore, nor Hollywood stars and starlets, nor the LGBT coalition, nor any other mind-numbed robots of the Left. They were all considered for the numero uno spot but disqualified mainly because they all had been factored in already.
And, no, it’s not ACORN, that grass roots organization that probably registered more illegal alien voters, more phony Dallas Cowboys linemen voters, and more people who never entered a polling place before being enticed by a pack of Marlboros and a quart of Ripple on November 4th, than Mayor Daley I of Chicago ever dreamed of.
There were a large number of contenders for winner of the Single Most Significant Factor In the Obama Victory but none even approaches the role of the Windy City, America’s Second City, the City of the Big Shoulders situated on the shore of Lake Michigan.
The reason for that dubious award can be boiled down to one simple fact of Obama’s political life: Without Chicago he would not have had a political life.
I previously explored this topic in “Obama and His Tainted, Adoptive Town, Chicago, Part One” (September 23, 2008) and in “Obama: Moving on Up in Chicago Politics, Part Two” (October 2nd, 2008), both of which articles can be found at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=chicago&paged=2.
Without the fanfare...
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