192 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographyincludes the Lower West Side. He was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1996. He is the
brother of Patti Solis Doyle, Senator Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager. Solis was a
member of Clinton’s Illinois Steering Committee. Throughout his career as alderman, Solis has
been an ally of Mayor Daley and in 2001 was appointed President Pro Tempore of the City Council,
allowing him to oversee council proceedings in the mayor’s absence.’^75 Some concluded from this
that Patti Solis Doyle had turned into a submarine in the Clinton camp. This would explain why
Clinton had little or no organization in the February 2008 post-Super Tuesday caucus and primary
states, a failing which allowed Barky to build up his lead in delegates thanks to caucuses in
Republican states where the Democratic Party was a restricted club dominated by rich elitists and
global warming neo-Luddite fanatics.^76 The charges were plausible, but there was also the matter of
Mark Penn as another nefarious influence who shared responsibility for defeat.
AN OBAMA BODY COUNT?
During the Clinton era, right-wingers delighted in circulating a list of deceased persons which
they referred to with much stretching of the imagination as a Clinton body count. It may now be
time to revive this venerable institution for Obama and the bipartisan Illinois combine: John
Stroger was the Cook County Board President and thus the top-ranking African-American elected
official in the county in which Chicago is located. On January 31, 2006, Obama pointedly declined
to endorse Stroger for re-election. The Chicago Democratic machine turned against Stroger, forcing
him off the ticket and out of office. Stroger was elderly and not in good health, but he succumbed at
a time that was convenient for the Daley machine:
John Stroger will not be answering any questions about corruption, or any other matter, because
he died on January 18, 2008. His former chief of staff and godson, Orlando Jones, will not be
talking either because he was found dead of self-inflicted gun wounds in September 2007, “just
as a corruption inquiry targeting him was heating up,” according to a September 7, 2007 report
by CBS News channel 2 Chicago.’ (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)Was Jones suicided?
‘“Jones left his position in county government to create a lobbying firm in association with
Tony Rezko, who has been indicted on fraud charges,” CBS reported. Cook County
Commissioner Tony Peraica [a Republican who had tried to get Stroger’s post] told CBS that
Orlando Jones’ death raised many questions about the Cook County president’s office. “Some
of these matters Jones was involved in that are currently being investigated by the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney’s Office are reaching to the highest level of county government,” Peraica said.
(Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
Other names that might figure on an Obama body count include Donald Young, the gay
choirmaster of Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, Larry Bland, and Nate Spencer,
the latter also black gay men from the south side of Chicago who have died recently under
mysterious circumstances. Nate Spencer was also a member of Wright’s Trinity United church.
Despite all the media attention for this highly politicized church, two murders in the cathedral have
not been reported by the controlled corporate outlets.