208 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographySTATE SENATOR FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The Hyde Park suburb which Obama represented in the Illinois State Senate was notorious as a
plantation for the University of Chicago, and thus for the Rockefeller (and Trilateral) interests more
broadly speaking. Hyde Park is located on the South Side of Chicago, about seven miles south of
the Loop. The University of Chicago is a citadel of reaction and oligarchism, having been founded
in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. One
of the university’s key leaders between the world wars was Robert Maynard Hutchins, a high-level
operative of the US ruling elite. The term “Chicago boys” is the object of worldwide execration
because of the unspeakable crimes against humanity of the Chicago school of economics, most
prominently associated with the name of the right-wing anarchist and extremist Milton Friedman,
the top advisor of the brutal and murderous Pinochet regime in Chile.
THE NEW YORK TIMES WHITEWASHES OBAMA
Having now acquired some notion of the cesspool of corruption in which Obama has been
natating for decades, we can now proceed to briefly contemplate the absurdity of the cover-up of
some of these matters dished up by Obama’s backers at the New York Times. In a classic fallacy of
composition, the newspaper of record makes Obama’s alliance with State Senate boss Emil Jones
look like an elective affinity at the personal level, when it in fact represents an internal transaction
of The Combine:
Obama ‘positioned himself early on as a protégé of the powerful Democratic leader, Senator
Emil Jones, a beneficiary of the Chicago political machine. He courted collaboration with
Republicans. He endured hazing from a few black colleagues, played poker with lobbyists,
studiously took up golf. (“An awful lot happens on the golf course,” a friend, Jean Rudd, says
he told her.) With the assistance of Senator Jones, Mr. Obama helped deliver what is said to
have been the first significant campaign finance reform law in Illinois in 25 years. He brought
law enforcement groups around to back legislation requiring that homicide interrogations be
taped and helped bring about passage of the state’s first racial-profiling law. He was a chief
sponsor of a law enhancing tax credits for the working poor, played a central role in
negotiations over welfare reform and successfully pushed for increasing child care
subsidies.’(Janny Scott, “In Illinois, Obama Proved Pragmatic and Shrewd,” New York Times,
July 30, 2007)
The measures sponsored by Obama, we sense, were simply acts of window dressing designed to
festoon his brag sheet later on as he moved up the ladder.
Naturally, even in an environment where most legislators were devoted supporters of the
Combine, Obama’s irrepressible arrogance and megalomania, his self-righteous posturing and
holier-than-thou gift for talking down to those around them, were sure to generate frictions, and so
it came to pass:
We could barely have meetings in caucus because Donne and Rickey [black legislators] would
give him hell,” said State Senator Kimberly A. Lightford, a Democrat and former chairwoman
of the Senate’s black caucus. “Donne would be, ‘Just because you’re from Harvard, you think
you know everything.’ Barack was like the new kid on the block. He was handsome and he was
mild mannered and he was well liked. Sometimes there was a little ‘Who’s this? He coming
here, he don’t know anything.” (Janny Scott, “In Illinois, Obama Proved Pragmatic and
Shrewd,” New York Times, July 30, 2007)