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Now I will not say that I know who is behind the Sarah Palin smearings.

But, a look into Obama s past political victories may give some clues. Since I an out of the country, I am limited in time to post. But you might like to read some old and new stories below to wet your appetite and start the wheels turning.  What was that old saying, if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it might be an Obama and an Axelrod ? So far the only way Obama has been able to get where he is has been through his opponents droping like flies due to scandal. Due your own web searches and it is not hard to find out how Obama uses scandals and innuendos to defeat his oponents.

From The Corner,

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Lamborn vs. Crank and Sekula-Gibbs vs. Olson   [David Freddoso]

A reader inquires about yesterday’s note on the conservative-versus-conservative battle in Colorado’s fifth district:

Should the party intervene in such situations? …[I]f you have many conservative candidates, have some of them actually relocate to other districts… or it would be too high handed for a party to even get some candidates to drop out?

The simple fact is that “the party” is incapable of making anyone do anything. Powerful figures can try, but in the end it all comes down to the individual.

Sometimes the establishment gets it right. According to legend, Dennis Hastert tried to persuade Jack Ryan (no relation to Illinois Republicans George Ryan or Jim Ryan) to drop out of the Illinois Republican Senate primary in 2004 before Ryan’s embarrassing divorce files were released. Hastert failed, which is probably the reason we have Barack Obama running for president today. Sometimes the individual beats the establishment. Bob Dole certainly didn’t want Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) to run for his Senate seat against his hand-picked replacement, Sheila Frahm (R) in 1996. Brownback ran anyway and won.

From Michelle Malkin,

Bloggers sniff out anti-Palin astroturf campaign– and the cover-up begins Updated with Ethan Winner response

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 22, 2008 04:44 AM

Follow the disappearing YouTube account…The blogosphere is doing the job the MSM thinks no one else can do.

A collaborative investigative effort by our friends at The Jawa Report to expose an apparently astroturfed, anti-Sarah Palin smear campaign seems to have caused late-night panic in Barack Obama-linked p.r. circles. The bloggers digging into the provenance of anti-Sarah Palin smears on the web got results last night/early this morning while most elite journalists were still in their pajamas sleeping.

First, read this. Read the whole thing. Rusty Shackleford — with help from Jane of Armies of Liberation, Stable Hand, the Jawa team, Dan Riehl, Ace of Spades, and Patterico – traced a Palin-bashing YouTube video to a Democrat public relations firm, Winner and Associates, and one of its employees, Ethan S. Winner. They believe the voiceover for the ad — which spreads the lie that Sarah Palin belonged to a fringe third party, the Alaska Independence Party — was done by a professional whose voice they believe was also featured in several Obama ads and other spots produced by Obama top strategist and astroturfer extraordinaire David Axelrod’s firm.

The Jawa Report’s bottom line: more Malkin

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From Political.com

Barack Obama

Political Timeline

By Kathy Gill, About.com

Apr 28 2008

When Barack Obama decided he wanted to run for the Illinois Senate in 1996, he ensured his candidacy by successfully challenging the nomination petitions of his four competitors.Obama’s entry into federal politics was also marked by competitors falling by the wayside. He won both the 2004 primary and general election for the US Senate “after tough challengers imploded when their messy divorce files were unsealed,” the Chicago Tribune writes.

The NYT reports that “the Tribune reporter … acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that [David] Axelrod had an even more significant role – that he leaked the initial story.”