Global Labor and Politics: Who "sent" Obama?
Noteworthy:
In Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent' you? The classic phrase is 'We don't want nobody that nobody sent' - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.)
As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out the his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: 'Who sent you?' Mikva replied, 'nobody sent me.' And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: 'Well, we don't want nobody that nobody sent.'"
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