Just noticed some newspeak by the GOP regarding the Obama campaign, they call it Chicago.

[rinsd]

Chicago is now shorthand for the Obama campaign....gee I wonder why.

"Here's the math. Since the start of the general-election season, Obama has dropped $6.51 million--a full 18 percent of his overall ad spending, and by the largest chunk of change allotted to any one state--to broadcast 10,000 commercials on Florida television. McCain's total disbursement? $0, zero ads. Meanwhile, Chicago has sent more than 200 full-time staffers and signed up at least 150,000 online volunteers to man the state's 35 field offices--the most of any battleground."

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/12/inside-obama-s-sunshine-state-onslaught.aspx

[Blue_Tires]

1. one sports-talk jerkoff derisively called him 'the chicago kid'

like he was john dillinger or some shit...oh yeah; he also advocated people leaving the country, or at least putting their money secret accounts, because the chicago kid will take it all...

[rinsd]

3. This to me is worse. It recasts Obama as not just from Chicago but a figment of the Chicago Machine

[eshfemme]

2. WTF is so bad about Chicago? Is this some sorta sports thing? I'm so confused.

[rinsd]

4. The Cook County Democratic Political Machine (known by most as the Chicago Dem Machine)

Here's a primer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County_Democratic_Organization

[yellowdogintexas]

6. from the OLD Daley Days...the motto: "Vote early and vote often' did not mean

voting in every election. it meant voting more than once in each election.

Of all the wild and wooly political entities in American History I think Chicago in the 20th century is the most notorious.

I could be wrong, and I know everyone thinks their area has the craziest politics, and I know Texas has a reputation but Chicago/Cook County trumps them all.

[eshfemme]

12. Oh okay, I see. I just kinda think the Republican machine is the most corrupt

for all their Diebold and hanging chads crap.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. now? Most definitely. Then..nothing could hold a candle to Cook County,

unless you went back to the 19th century and Boss Tweed in NYC

[blondeatlast]

5. Can we retaliate by calling McCain "DC"? Or better yet, "K Street"?

I kinda like that... McK Street...

[blm]

7. I believe Bushies are setting up a reverse steal where a Dem will be framed for rigged machines

or some other forms of election fraud and the RNC and GOP and all their corporate mediwhores will go ballistic accusing Obama campaign of stealing the vote - just as GOP has always claimed for decades about Chicago pols stealing 1960 election for Kennedy.


That way the history books will always note the Dems as election stealers with the thefts by BushInc barely noted.

[WinkyDink]

8. They have done so: Claiming "voter fraud" by "fake" voters.

[blm]

9. I think this one will involve the machines to make 'Dem' synonymous with machine fraud, too.

.

[WeDidIt]

10. Obama's headquarters is in Chicago

so yeah, they can get away with that as shorthand.

[MaineDem]

11. Everyone I know calls it Chicago, too

We have the local Campaign for Change and then there's Chicago.