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books on Obama, the most telling and first negative biography "The Case Against Barack Obama" by David Freddoso argues, based on his senate voting record, against Obama as either an agent of change or as a political reformer. Freddoso's investigation as a reporter for the National Review reveals that Obama was an integral part, indeed another political cog, in the "Chicago Machine" only now receiving increased scrutiny in light of the recent conspiracy accusations of the Illinois governor Rod Blogoavich. Freddoso claims Obama essentially has no record of going up against his own party while an Illinois senator nor did he introduce or support any legislation to abolish the "pay to play" dealing of Chicago patronage politics. In fact Obama used the machine to advance his political career by obtaining the blessing of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and aligning himself with the powerful leader and President of the Illinois General Assembly Emil Jones who became his political mentor routinely steering high profile pieces of career-building legislation toward Obama to artificially boost his Senate accomplishments. If his public record as an Illinois Senator was largely ignored by the national press what else in Obama's political life did the elite media overlook and fail to disclose to the American people. Appropriately, Freddoso subtitled his best selling book "The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate".

Media's Favorite Candidate Oversight #1: Barack Obama's first real election challenge was his primary race against Sen. Hilary Clinton. In 1996, Obama with the blessing of Alice Palmer ran for the State Senate and used Illinois' arcane and unconstitutional election laws to disqualify every other candidate on the ballot including the incumbent Alice Palmer an African American woman who after her unsuccessful Senate bid decided to withdraw her support for Obama to run again for her old job. Obama knew he would have a very difficult time defeating the popular Palmer and resorted to typical "Chicago Machine" politics challenging her petition signatures. With Palmer disqualified Obama won office without opposition. Throughout his tenure in the Illinois General Assembly, Obama generously bestowed favors and steered lucrative state contracts to campaign contributors and friends. In particular, he had close ties to real estate developers such as public housing mogul and convicted felon Tony Rezko who benefited handsomely from Obama's state

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