June 8, 2011 - 11:54 am
Now that Weiner is damaged goods, the Democrats’ knives are coming out. Case in point, this Salon article by Steve Kornacki, which digs up an incident from the beginning of Weiner’s political career in which he won his first Democratic primary with an attack against his opponents that appealed to racism. The incident reminds me—not in its charges of racism, but in its implication that Weiner was probably a ruthless bastard from the start—of another story you don’t hear much about, involving Obama’s political beginnings: how he managed to knock previous mentor Alice Palmer and all his other Democratic rivals off the ballot in his very first primary.
the curious escapades of obama’s early election days demonstrate his complete commitment to chicago chicanery
the other candidates were not as committed (although most cheated a wee little bit;) thus, the resulting political bloodbath
if anything, this reveals the necessity for the political right to match the intensity of the other side lest we end up in another election where there is no one left to appear on a ballot to challenge obama