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I came across an interesting article that sheds some insight into some of the reasons that Reverend Wright would accurately assess Obama to be a typical (Chicago) politician, as opposed to the new pure Change agent he has pawned himself off to be.

http://poligazette.com/2008/03/09/was-th...

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Waiting for the late, and seemingly snagged, Lake County, Ind. (just outside of Chicago) vote count the other night brought back eerie memories of another very late and long awaited vote from neighboring Cook County, Ill. in the 1960 extremely close Kennedy/Nixon presidential contest, where what had been a decent statewide Nixon lead went poof into the night.  I will not argue the merits of that case.   One thing that was true then that remains true to this day is the strong perception that Chicago is possibly the dirtiest political city in the country, though it no doubt has close competitors.   Even many of the names of usual suspects never seem to change.

Supporters of Obama, and Obama himself, are so quick to make comparisons to JFK along the lines of youthfulness, good appearance, speaking ability, and uplifting power, but totally negligent of many of the negative aspects of the iconic myth of the man, his presidency, and his many substantial problems with the Chicago machine during his brief presidency.   JFK had him beat on the positive aspects I mentioned ... and the rest, well time will tell.

In digging around, out of my peaked curiosity, I found that JFK was there in Chicago for a big todo with a very rare local station funded NATIONAL NBC broadcast included the weekend preceding the primary..  If nothing else, it is historically fascinating to say the least - complete with 60 minute broadcast.  The whole thing kind of spooks me out.

http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/kennedy...