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Jon Stewart told Bill O’Reilly of President Obama: “I can’t tell if he’s a Jedi Master, playing chess on a 3-level board or if this is kicking his ass.”
To answer that question, I might submit what is happening right now in the president’s home state and in the battle for the very Senate seat that Obama once occupied.
Very low Democratic turnout in bitter primaries produced a candidate for Lt. Governor who is a pawnbroker who was once charged with holding his girlfriend (later charged with prostitution) at knifepoint. The narrow gubernatorial primary contest featured bitter accusations over incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn’s ties to his corrupt predecessor, Rod Blagojevich, which ended in a tear-streaked concession speech. The winner of the primary for the president’s old seat is the 33-year-old heir to a crumbling bank that is notable for its unsavory clientele.