276 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyOBAMA FRONTS FOR RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS
A few other components of Obama’s Chicago Mafia are also worth mentioning; these include
notorious low-wage employers and union busters like the Pritzker family, who have made their
fortune exploiting the underpaid Hispanic cleaning ladies in their hotel chains, and also gambling
interests inevitably redolent of organized crime:
The Chicago finance elite has been a major hub of Obama’s fundraising, led by Pritzker.
Another major figure is billionaire Neil G. Bluhm, a hotel and office building developer. But
Bluhm has posed a symbolic problem for Obama in Pennsylvania, site of an April 22 primary,
because his latest endeavor is a push to open a controversial casino along the Philadelphia
waterfront. “Bluhm’s path crossed Obama’s in 2003, when Bluhm pursued a gaming license for
a Chicago riverboat. That June, he gave the first $1,000 of what would become more than
$78,000 in contributions from him and his family. In 2006, Pennsylvania awarded Bluhm one
of two coveted Philadelphia gambling licenses. Last year, his partners in the project, called
Sugar House, made $2,300 donations to Obama, including nearly $50,000 from the Philadelphia
law firm Cozen O’Connor, which represents him in the deal. Bluhm said that the gaming
project “has got nothing to do with” his support for Obama and that the two have never
discussed it. “My interest in him is, I think he’s inspirational, I think he will enormously
improve our economy and our relations with other countries,” he said.^124
The impudence of a riverboat gambler who says that he is paying for inspiration, not for political
influence and favors, is one of the many grim ironies of the Obama cash cartel.
THE JOSHUA SPEECH AND OBAMA’S MEGALOMANIA
During the course of 2007, Obama began to experience his delusions of grandeur in public. As
he basked in the adulation of his adoring and fawning coterie, his tendency towards megalomania
became exacerbated. From this point on, Obama’s megalomania was destined to emerge in the
wake of every significant uptick in his march towards power. A foundational document for the
analysis of Obama as a case study in megalomania is provided by the speech he delivered to the
commemoration of the Selma, Alabama voting rights protest on March 4, 2007. Here Obama is
prepared to concede that Martin Luther King and others of his generation can be compared to the
prophetic figure of Moses in the Old Testament, but at the same time he demands that he, the young
whelp and upstart, be recognized as the new Joshua, the lieutenant of Moses and the civic organizer
destined to lead black America into the promised land. In reality, as we have attempted to show,
Obama must be considered a continuation of the anti-Martin Luther King tradition inaugurated
when the Ford Foundation massively funded black power demagogues hostile to Martin Luther
King during the last years of King’s life. Note Obama’s ritual nods to his teachers of the Reverend
Jeremiah Wright cabal:
But I got a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland,
and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr.
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was
that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be
fearful. And he said, if there’s some folks out there who are questioning whether or not you
should run, just tell them to look at the story of Joshua because you’re part of the Joshua
generation. So I just want to talk a little about Moses and Aaron and Joshua, because we are in
the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We’re in the presence today of giants whose shoulders