>In that case, I think he was just playing the game legally and it worked to his advantage. Basically, she decided to jump back in at the last minute. She waited too long and then didn't have time to go out and get enough signatures so she cheated (probably not her personally, it was probably her supporters who cheated). Not sure about the other candidates.
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>That may be so - but that had to be one of the few times in the history of Democrat Party machine politics in Chicago that anyone got concerned about legality and signature or voter fraud or simply screwing up with nominating petitions.
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>Yes, Alice Palmer should have gotten more valid signatures than she did. Anyone outside of Chicago in Illinois would have known that Obama's hands are never clean, not the way he's pumping billions of dollars into ACORN right now. Even Bill Clinton has said that Obama has the political instincts of a Chicago thug.

Regardless, he was operating within the law and cannot be criticized for doing so (especially) when Chicago history demonstrates the opposite. In this case, I'm afraid he deserved praise, not criticism. Luckily for him, working with the law and enforcing that law, was to his advantage.