Obama’s home-state headache

5/7/2010 By Ben Smith and Manu Raju – Politico President Barack Obama’s enemies like to call him a creature of the “Chicago machine,” but when it comes to the politics of his home state of Illinois, the White House doesn’t seem to know where the gears are. Indeed, Chicago has delivered an unending stream of [...]

Alexi’s Blagojevich problem

5/7/2010 By David Freddoso – Washington Examiner Believe it or not, there is a downside to drawing your campaign cash from Chicago’s seedy political underworld. The minute someone gets indicted, the court papers start reading like a list of your donors. This is just one more problem for Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic nominee [...]