The furor over the cover but...

When I posted about the New Yorker Cover over on Glass City Jungle I didn't expect it to take off the way it did. What has been interesting though is that most are ignoring the actual article that was inside of the New Yorker...Making it.

For those who do not know the political history of Barack Obama it might provide some interesting insight and frankly, had the cover bruhaha not happened the focus might be on some of the negative comments that were made about Obama in this article. It's really hard to argue Obama played a different kind of politics, at least in Illinois given information like this:

Obama’s establishment inclinations have alienated some old friends. During the 2004 Senate primary, Obama sometimes reminded voters of his anti-machine credentials, but at the same time he shrewdly wrote to Mayor Daley’s brother, William, who had backed one of Obama’s primary opponents, asking for his support if he won the primary. As he outgrew the provincial politics of Hyde Park, he became closer to the Mayor, and this accommodation, as well as his unwillingness to condemn the corruption scandals ensnaring Daley and Blagojevich, both of whom he supported for reëlection, have some of his original supporters feeling alienated and angry. “I am not thrilled with Barack, simply because we elected him as an Independent, and he switched over to Daley,” Alan Dobry said. Ivory Mitchell, speaking of Obama’s Senate race, said, “When he won the primary out here and he went downtown, it appears as though Daley took over the campaign for him. . . . We were excluded.” David Axelrod told me, in response, that some of the Independents on the South Side blame Daley for just about anything. “I think there’s kind of this Wizard of Oz mystique,” he said. “Daley had virtually no role in the Senate campaign.”