Winning the Obama Way

They say that the Clintons invented and patented the politics of personal destruction.

But then there’s Senator Barack Obama.  According to Kyle-Anne Shiver in the American Thinker Obama won his first elected office with a bit of fancy footwork.  He was running for the Illinois State Senate against the incumbent Alice Palmer.  Palmer had failed in a run for Congress and filed to run for her old job.  According to Shiver:

[Obama] 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.

Well whaddya know?  That’s what you call the Al Davis way: Just Win Baby.

Then in 2004 Obama ran for the United States Senate and Obama was up against a multimillionare businessman Blair Hull in the Democratic primary.  Then came the bombshell, as David Mendell reported in the Chicago Tribune, and

multimillionaire Blair Hull plummeted from front-runner status amid revelations that an ex-wife had alleged in divorce papers that he had physically and verbally abused her.

Just Win Baby.

In the general election, Obama was up against wealthy, goodlooking Jack Ryan, According to CBS News reported Dean Reynolds:

Unfortunately for Ryan, he also spent time frequenting some shady bars in Paris where live sex acts were apparently part of the draw. Nor did it help that Ryan’s ex-wife alleged that he urged her to participate in said acts when they were married.

So Obama ended up running against perennial candidate Alan Keyes, who wasn’t even a resident of Illinois, and the rest is history.

Al Davis would be proud, don’t you think?

But we need another term for the “politics of personal destruction,” forever associated with the Clintons and their War Room. 

Because Obama is a nice guy, not like those evil Clintons.

Some people might say that Obama and the Clintons deserve each other.