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For all his talk about change, Obama remains a product of a Chicago and Illinois political culture renowned for corruption and filled with characters who range from felonious to just outrageous.
Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, Obama's mentor in Springfield, is about as old-school as they come. Just last month, the Chicago Democrat publicly ridiculed an attempt to block a pay raise for legislators by sarcastically declaring: "I've got to get me some food stamps."
Obama's stable of political friends is populated with others like Jones, and when he has dabbled in city and Cook County politics in recent years he has frequently failed to come down on the side of progressives.
Obama's friendships with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Tony Rezko, and Bill Ayers have caused significant problems for the Cult of Change leader.
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