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2009-11-20 Fifth Column
Alice Palmer Re-examined-Was Obama's First Political Boss a Soviet "Agent of Influence"?
Alice Palmer is a Chicago based academic, activist and former friend, employer and political ally of Barack Obama. In the mid 1990s Alice Palmer, then an Illinois State Senator, employed Obama has her chief of staff, when she attempted an ill-fated run for the US Congress.

Obama was part of Friends of Alice Palmer, alongside controversial property developer Tony Rezko and Democratic Socialists of America members Danny Davis, Betty Wilhoitte and Timuel Black-also a member of Committees of Correspondence.

Later Palmer introduced Obama as designated successor to her Illinois State Senate seat, in the living room of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, while DSA member, former communist and long time Obama friend Quentin Young looked on.

The Palmer/Obama relationship soured after Obama refused to step down when Palmer decided she wanted her State Senate seat back, after her Congressional bid failed. Obama went on to win the seat unopposed, after he knocked Palmer and his other rivals off the ballot, by challenging the legitimacy of their nominating signatures.

Alice Palmer was the first rung of Obama's ladder to power.

It has long been known that Alice Palmer was a communist front activist, as were many in Obama's orbit.

More seriously however-new evidence shows that Alice Palmer had high level connections behind the "Iron Curtain" and may have been a Soviet "agent of influence"-that is, a conduit of Soviet progaganda and policy, to the US and the "third world".

What is the evidence?
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Posted by ed 2009-11-20 15:04|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 The Palmer/Obama relationship soured after Obama refused to step down when Palmer decided she wanted her State Senate seat back, after her Congressional bid failed. Obama went on to win the seat unopposed, after he knocked Palmer and his other rivals off the ballot, by challenging the legitimacy of their nominating signatures.

So, was she the first one under the Obama bus?
Posted by Frozen Al 2009-11-20 15:22||   2009-11-20 15:22|| Front Page Top

#2 O is a tough operator if nothing else
Posted by 746 2009-11-20 17:52||   2009-11-20 17:52|| Front Page Top

#3 No 746- he is a poorly-counseled man-child who has relied on others (Ronald Davis in this case) to destroy opponents without ever actually slugging it out in the 'marketplace of ideas.'
Posted by Free Radical 2009-11-20 20:07||   2009-11-20 20:07|| Front Page Top

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