*UPDATE* The Emerging Obama Pattern: 'They Aren't The People I Knew'

While 'past performance is no guarantee of future results,' it is a pretty good indicator of how people and organizations deal with and handle challenges.

This past weekend, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs exposed a series of disturbing and troubling posts found on the Obama website (a few examples can be found here, here, here and here).

The Obama campaign responded appropriately and removed the offensive material. The problem is, they only removed the material after LGF and others 'busted' them. To be clear, no one is suggesting that Obama and his campaign be blamed for the offensive material posted by others. Still, how is it possible that some of the most vile and disgusting posts were allowed to remain on that website for months?

There does seem to be an emerging pattern.

Obama supporter, confidante and business associate Tony Rezko is convicted of multiple felonies (including Middle East money laundering ties) and the Senator is 'saddened' because 'that's not the Tony Rezko I knew.'

Obama pastor and spiritual advisor Jeremiah Wright spouted racist and bigoted leaning from his church pulpit for over two decades. After first defending Wright, Obama decides he must quit the church when more video tapes of Wright's vitriol surface. Obama is once more a wounded victim- 'The Reverand Wright in those videos is not the man I knew.'

It is likely that the Obama campaign webmaster who allowed the racist and bigoted postings will be fired, because 'He wasn't the webmaster I knew.'

Obama has a pattern of throwing supporters under the bus after their misdeeds or failures have been found out.

Obama is a product of the Chicago Democrat machine. He is a Chicago Democrat machine creation and his career has been guided and approved by the Chicago Democrat machine (they even made sure he ran unopposed is some early elections- and they made sure there was enough Chicagoland patronage to be handed out to ensure his electoral victories) . For some, he may really be a Messiah-like figure. Like most Democrats in Chicago, he can count on resurrecting the dead on voting day and padding the ballot boxes with their votes (recall that Al Gore wanted Richard Daley of Chicago to oversee the Florida 2000 vote count. Seriously).

No word yet in whether or not Obama can turn water into wine.

*UPDATE* Apparently, the great Messiah is fronting for a Chicago power broker. Richard Fernandez author of Belmont Club blog offers some real insight into that reality. Here's one of many observations:

"Barack Obama has a long history of working with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and governors of Illinois, including the current Governor Rod Blagojevich, in doling government funding for housing development in Chicago. His history is hardly a model of success, except for the hundred of millions in profits made by the chosen few slumlords."

Obama casting himself as a 'new kind of politician' is like redefining a whore as a 'marital counsellor.'

Leave it to Ace to come up with the meat of the dead voter resurrection. Given the experience Democrats have with dead voters it is probably safe to say those dead voters voted for Ned Lamont (another Zombie).