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raise from about $121,000 to close to $317,000, after Obama became a US Senator, as a vice
president at the University of Chicago.’ (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
At the University of Chicago, the careers of Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett moved in
tandem, like Plutarch’s parallel lives:


On June 13, 2006, Michelle’s employer, the University of Chicago, announced that, “Valerie
Jarrett has been appointed as the new Chair of the University of Chicago Medical Center Board
and also Chair of a newly created Executive Committee of that board. She has also been named
Vice-Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees.” Jarrett served on Obama’s US Senate
campaign finance committee and serves on Obama’s presidential campaign finance committee
along with Alex Giannoulias and Mayor Daley’s brother Bill.’ (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
Valerie Jarrett has also been important for the fundraising of the Obama campaign, the source of
Obama’s much-vaunted claims of superiority over all his rivals:


‘When it came time for Obama’s US Senate campaign, Valerie Jarrett became the campaign
finance chairman and worked hand and hand with fellow finance committee members, Rita and
Tony Rezko, and his [Obama’s] former boss at the law firm, Allison Davis, in fundraising
endeavors. The committee raised more than $14 million, according to Federal Election
Commission records, Tim Novak reported in the Sun-Times on April 23, 2007. Jarrett is now
the CEO of Habitat Co, a real estate development and management firm which manages the
housing program for the Chicago Housing Authority, the entity mandated to administer public
housing, and she serves as an unpaid advisor to Obama’s Presidential campaign.’ (Evelyn
Pringle, opednews.com)

DAVID AXELROD: A FLACK FOR THE COMBINE


The mastermind of Obama’s campaign, David Axelrod, whom we have already encountered as a
graduate of the infamous University of Chicago 1313 school of mind bending, can only be properly
understood in his role as a flack and public-relations man for the corrupt bipartisan Illinois
Combine.


On April 1, 2007, Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman who is now chairman of the
political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told Ben Wallace-Wells in
the New York Times: “David Axelrod’s mostly been visible in Chicago in the last decade as
Daley’s public relations strategist and the guy who goes on television to defend Daley from
charges of corruption.” (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
The need for such services has been increasingly evident:
‘On January 6, 2006, the New York Times ran the headline, “Corruption Scandal Loosening
Mayor Daley’s Grip on Chicago,” and reported that a “wide-ranging federal investigation into
what prosecutors describe as “pervasive fraud” in hiring and contracts at City Hall has led to 30
indictments, including two senior administrators close to the mayor, and a dozen cabinet-level
resignations.” (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
Axelrod’s network in the Daley machine and the Chicago Tribune has been a priceless asset for
the Redeemer. Various websites have advanced the allegation that Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton’s
campaign manager in 2007-2008, had come under the influence of Axelrod as a result of Solis
Doyle’s Chicago connections to The Combine. In a posting on Taylor Marsh’s site, we find that
‘Daniel “Danny” Solis is a Chicago politician who serves as the alderman for the 25th ward which

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