“Yes” For Illinois

It looks like Obama’s rhetoric is getting more empty by the day, as his high-powered strategists take $2-3 million from entrenched interests to fight against Illinois citizens’ chance to fix their state.

Con-con foes hire high-powered help

ASK Public Strategies, a firm headed by Obama campaign senior consultant David Axelrod, and the Chicago office of Hill & Knowlton will head a projected $2-million to $3-million media and advertising campaign planned by the Alliance to Protect the Illinois Constitution.

“We haven’t signed the contract, but they’re going to be the choice,” said Greg Baise, a principal in the alliance and the head of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Assn.

“They bring the ability to reach out to communities throughout the state,” Mr. Baise said. “We want to make sure people understand the potential problems with tinkering with a pretty good document.”

Mr. Axelrod is working full time on Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Another ASK partner, Eric Sedler, is expected to head the project. Mr. Sedler declined to comment.

This development effectively exposes Barack Obama as a fraud. Uttering "Hope" and "Change" is now shown (at least in Obama’s case) to be brain candy for the easily misled.

Obama has raised more money from Wall Street AND the Mortgage industry than McCain. Some "change". He has been forced to "repudiate" numerous supporters for their radical statements.

All this while attempting to appear to be all things to any audience he happens to speak to. Now, after leaving Illinois for the big show in Washington, his high-powered strategists are talking "hope and change" in one campaign while taking huge sums from connected and protected interests to prevent "hope" of improvement or "change" in Illinois’ corrupt government.

Axelrod, while quite formidable, is nothing more than a clever hired gun for rich interests, and Obama is effectively exposed as a fraud - telling the disenfranchised he stands for change while doing the bidding of the boardroom money interests who so richly finance his campaign. In a case of possibly delicious irony, perhaps Obama will come out FOR a convention, allowing him to "repudiate" (once again) one of his strategist’s clients, while still paying that strategist handsomely.