FWIW. THIS article is the reason I disliked Candidate Obama.

[Horse with no Name]

Now, while I think that there was some editorial license carried out...there was A LOT of things in this that really bothered me about the candidate and led me to believe that his hope and change rhetoric meant nothing. The fears that I had about Obama are now being realized and I have to say...it really sucks to be in a position to say "I told you so"...because as progressives--our entire platform and agenda are being decimated by someone who made empty promises. There are A LOT of Rovian tactics that Obama has used during his ascension to the Presidency. The majority of them make me sick.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/print/

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Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.

"I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen," State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. "Barack didn't have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.

"I don't consider it bill jacking," Hendon told me. "But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book."

During his seventh and final year in the state Senate, Obama's stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law — including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.

[WCGreen]

1. I have seen this happen here in Ohio...

The golden boy gets the credit while the erstwhile legislators get nada...

[ProSense]

2. Hmmm?

"There are A LOT of Rovian tactics that Obama has used during his ascension to the Presidency. The majority of them make me sick."

Rehashing the primary?

This could be fun.

[frazzled]

3. Ricky Hendon --- LOL!!

That man is my state senator. I've voted twice for an alternate Democratic candidate in primaries (then had to vote for Hendon in the generals, because there is no way to unseat him). He's a joke. You have no idea.

[madrchsod]

4. i`ve always heard about him and i just looked him up...

my republican state senator has more class and it would seem more intelligence than ricky.

[mopinko]

15. hollywood hendon, the man with an ego too big

to fit through the door. delusional, petty, loudmouthed, i could go on. not someone i would give a lot of credence.

[Autumn]

5. I thought he was in The Senate 3 years? Wasn't Obama

elected in 2005? Is the author of the OP claiming 7 years counting his campaigning?

[paulk]

12. State Senate

Illinois

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. And which Rovian tactics would those be?

[walldude]

7. Well let me man-up here for a sec

and apologize to you. You were right. I bought all of Obama's bullshit. When the man said he "respected and admired" Reagan, I actually thought he was kidding, I thought it was a ploy to get votes. I didn't think the guy was fucking serious. I stood up for him, I gave him money, my wife and I phone banked, and all we got was this lousy tee-shirt.

I'm sure we didn't tangle in the primaries but if we did I apologize, you were right. I was suckered. Won't happen again.

[Horse with no Name]

9. Actually the reason for posting this has less to do with "I told you so"

than it does for an opportunity to share what I thought was a potential problem in the primaries with the candidate and allow for discussion.
I was shot down as being racist. Since I don't have you on ignore...I'm sure we didn't tangle in the primaries,lol.

[Catherina]

10. And let me woman up. I don't recall if we tangled but I apologize. You were right. n/t

[walldude]

11. Oh I know you weren't

rubbing it in. I just feel like a fool and thought I'd say so :toast:

[Arkana]

8. Well, we're all just going to have to learn to live with your disappointment.

[lamp_shade]

14. oh jeez

I had similar thoughts when I read the OP.

[Octafish]

19. Well, some of us are dying as a result of it...

... perhaps even some who believed in "Quality, Affordable and Portable Coverage for All."

[elehhhhna]

13. The Rezko stuff clued me in. Weird that it never got any traction

inthe msm.

[Horse with no Name]

16. That was strange.

I felt like a lot of stuff was "overlooked" by the MSM--when they ALWAYS love a good Democratic scandal.

[elehhhhna]

18. Rezko's pal who escaped an Iraqi prison was also a bizzarro story

that went away overnight

[GeorgeGist]

17. Ever read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" ?

The more I see Obama operated, the more I suspect he's a member of Naomi's University of 'Chicago Boys' Club.