Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
1. corruption
2. bribes to accomplish objectives
3. awarding political supporters with jobs
4. corrupt court system
Three of the last four Illinois govenors are in jail or on thier way to jail. Judges are routinely bribed in Illinois and it is just an issue of price. After the governor takes office, MANY of the state jobs (all the way to janitorial jobs) change hands. The DEA will not even prosecute many drug related crimes in Illinois, as the judges have been bought off. Class action suits have been the cottage industry of Marion Co., Illinois until the federal government kicked in.
Obama is just a Chicago politician. See above.
You forgot the strong arm tactics of coercion, blackmail and extortion, and destroying your opponents thru lies with a willing, liberal press.
1. corruption
2. bribes to accomplish objectives
3. awarding political supporters with jobs
4. corrupt court system
Three of the last four Illinois govenors are in jail or on thier way to jail. Judges are routinely bribed in Illinois and it is just an issue of price. After the governor takes office, MANY of the state jobs (all the way to janitorial jobs) change hands. The DEA will not even prosecute many drug related crimes in Illinois, as the judges have been bought off. Class action suits have been the cottage industry of Marion Co., Illinois until the federal government kicked in.
Obama is just a Chicago politician. See above.
All of the above, plus voter/election fraud. That is how they stole the presidential election from Nixon and gave it to JFK. Old man Daley promised it to Joe Kennedy, so they had a recount and thanks to all the dead people casting ballots after the polls had already closed (a day or more after), Chicago, and hence Illinois, and hence the U.S. went from Nixon to Kennedy.
If you think of the absolute worst that politics has to offer or involves itself in, it is part of the Chicago (and Obama) way.
I've been hearing people talking about Obama (and Rahm) in terms of this. But what does it mean? Machine politics?
Presumably they refer to the corruption of the city level politics, though they don't seem to understand the type of corruption that goes on. Most of the corrupt actions of the city machine aren't applicable to national level politics. Critics of Obama just like saying "Chicago style politics" even if the alleged corruption (or any action Obama makes that they don't like) going on has no relation to the type of corruption in Chicago.
Fun fact: The Chicago political machine opposed Obama when he ran for the Illinois State Senate.
Chicago and Illinois are a one party state. Democrat. When a candidate runs from a different party, he or she doesn't have the money, organization,quality or political intelligence to get elected. I have seen too many oppostion candidates that were just plain stupid or weak to mount any serious challenge to the Chicago political machine. This is very unforntunate because most Chicago politicians need to get thrown out of office.
Downstate Ill. is heavily Republican
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
