CNN "breaks" news about how Obama knocked off opponents to run unopposed...

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Really....

Three months after The Houston Press article (excerpt and link below) was published and everyone else was knew about it. Great job, media!

CNN: "Obama said he'd hire the expertise he lacks, so he hires Harvard election officials to clear the playing field so he can run unopposed. His current lawyers made sure that Michigan and Florida voters couldn't revote (and donations were made so that the cost to the states would be zilch). Why was the self-declared nominee so afraid of a revote? He wouldn't lose nearly as bad as he did in Kentucky.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/?iref=mpstoryview

In his first race for office, seeking a state Senate seat on Chicago's gritty South Side in 1996, Obama effectively used election rules to eliminate his Democratic competition.
As a community organizer, he had helped register thousands of voters. But when it came time to run for office, he employed Chicago rules to invalidate the voting petition signatures of three of his challengers.
The move denied each of them, including incumbent Alice Palmer, a longtime Chicago activist, a place on the ballot. It cleared the way for Obama to run unopposed on the Democratic ticket in a heavily Democrat district."



But this fearless young reporter who worked on a newspapers in Hyde Park told the world the facts at the end of February.



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

"Obama has spent his entire political career trying to win the next step up. Every three years, he has aspired to a more powerful political position.
He was just 35 when in 1996 he won his first bid for political office. Even many of his staunchest supporters, such as Black, still resent the strong-arm tactics Obama employed to win his seat in the Illinois Legislature.
Obama hired fellow Harvard Law alum and election law expert Thomas Johnson to challenge the nominating petitions of four other candidates, including the popular incumbent, Alice Palmer, a liberal activist who had held the seat for several years, according to an April 2007 Chicago Tribune report.
Obama found enough flaws in the petition sheets — to appear on the ballot, candidates needed 757 signatures from registered voters living within the district — to knock off all the other Democratic contenders. He won the seat unopposed.
"A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career," wrote Tribune political reporters David Jackson and Ray Long. "The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.""