Obama will need his ruthless streak

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Obama will need his ruthless streak

Brendon O'Connor | November 11, 2008
Article from:  The Australian

BARACK Obama is an incredibly talented politician. However, the degree to which his political career has been helped by good fortune and a certain ruthlessness has been underreported.

Obama's 2004 Senate victory evokes Steven Bradbury's speed skating gold medal; he was in the right place at the right time and all those around him fell. First the one term incumbent Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald decided to retire. Then with Obama trailing in the polls before the Democratic primary, his main rival Blair Hull suddenly faced allegations reported in the Chicago Tribune that that he had abused his ex-wife. Hull's popularity tumbled and Obama won the primary. In the general election Obama's Republican opponent Jack Ryan resigned when it was revealed he had not only taken his ex-wife to sex clubs but had also wanted her to have sex on stage with him.

Another case of luck? Not entirely. Once again the Chicago Tribune (the newspaper Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod had once worked for) broke the Ryan story open by very aggressively pursuing his divorce court records.

He also scored a lucky break in his battle against McCain with the timing of the financial crisis; if that crisis had occurred post-election, victory may have been more elusive.

read the rest here -
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24633121-7583,00.html

The Obama birth records...hmmm...

School records? 

The financial crisis may have been lessened or prevented by the Democratic Congress of 2006.  What it wasn't is a mission for honest folks in the future.  jmho