214 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographydealings connected to the Pendergast machine. Today’s Republicans and other opponents of
Obama would do well to realize that it is very unlikely that the Rezko case will spontaneously
emerge as his central campaign issue in 2008, if this matter is left up to the wishes of the Wall
Street elite. The Rezko-Auchi-Alsammarae Illinois Combine scandal can be made to explode, but it
will not explode on its own. The strategy of the Wall Street faction is to elect Obama now and to
use the Rezko affair as a means of guaranteeing his future obedience, even though he would be
president during a world economic and financial depression of unprecedented severity, and would
also be able to mobilize something closely resembling a fascist movement in the streets and on the
Internet in support of his power.