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• jeffery mcnary said:

  well,lol, all this is well and good, but it was broadcast live on the kennedy school site, and it can still be viewed via their archives. if you really wanna see axelrod and plouffe, perhaps ' cadillac records' might provide an option. there's a striking similarity between the chess brothers and black musicians and axe and pluff and deval and the oba. only the names are changed.

  December 16, 2008 10:17 AM

• jeffery mcnary said:

  i didn't want anyone to think 'the one' is flawed in anyway. but here's xmas past:

  “We’ve got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois.” -barack obama, illinois state fair, august 2006.

  xmas present:

  “Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”

  -boston globe, june 27, 2008

  and xmas future:

  the only minority on obama's 'acceptable'to blago was valerie jarrett....lol.

  "Although U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. campaigned aggressively for the job, he apparently did not make the cut.

  U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who is backed by a coalition of West Side ministers, also was not on the list.

  Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, once Obama's political mentor, announced his interest in the job the weekend before the Blagojevich scandal broke.

  He wasn't on the list either.

  In the case of Jackson and Jones, a lot of people will likely argue that given their relationships with Obama, the absence of their names is a good thing.

  For a black politician to overcome the perception that he or she is a black candidate is still a challenge.

  Despite Obama's success, a black person's elevation to the U.S. Senate is still a very long shot.

  Yet, without the presence of an African American, the Senate does not reflect America's diversity."

  -chicago sun times, december 15, 2008

  oba, 'the one', the only....yes? yes he can...lol

  December 16, 2008 2:00 PM

• Carly Carioli said:

  Yep, Jeffrey, it _was_ broadcast via Harvard -- but only if you have a Netscape-era RealPlayer plugin, and for some reason they didn't make the audio available for download. (We were actually there, by the way -- our audio is straight from the Harvard sound feed, not ripped from their site.) As for Comment #2, I think you may be on the wrong blog -- "Take Back Barack" posts go over here: www.thephoenix.com/takebackbarack/. In any case, I'm totally buying the Cadillac Records comparison -- please elaborate on your blog so we can actually credit someone with it instead of waving vaguely in the direction of our comments . . .

  December 22, 2008 9:24 PM

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