Global Labor and the Global Economy: Who "sent" Obama? - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Nov 08
  

  Manny C

  obama dohm ayers_bill

• 10 Oct 08
  

  azgaribd

  In Chicago political circles, they have a question of anyone coming for a role: 'Who Sent You?' If no one sent you, you can't get in. So the question to be asked, in explaining Obama's meteoric rise to the top, is who sent Obama to get his first job in Ch

  Election 2008 Obama Terrorism

• 

  Matthew Galgani

  In Chicago political circles, they have a question of anyone coming for a role: 'Who Sent You?' If no one sent you, you can't get in. So the question to be asked, in explaining Obama's meteoric rise to the top, is who sent Obama to get his first job in Ch

  Election 2008 Obama Terrorism

• 29 Aug 08
  

  Zee ----------

  In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is "We don't want nobody that nobody sent" - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.) As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out the his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: "Who sent you?" Mikva replied, "nobody sent me." And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: "Well, we don't want nobody that nobody sent."

  obama ayers chicago chicago-annenberg

• 28 Aug 08
  

  obama

• 23 Aug 08
  

  My Bookmarks
  • See June 19, 2008 post: That "guy who lives in my neighborhood" for more detail on Ayers-Obama relationship.
• 20 Jun 08
  

  Jim McClintock

  obama radical corruption chicago

Would you like to comment?

Join Diigo for a free account, or sign in if you are already a member.