Reporter Todd Spivak relates how Barack Obama screamed at him over the phone in 2004, in an article in the Houston Press. He had been assigned to write about Obama for the Springfield based Illinois Times.  When upon second thought Spivak found his article to be too much of a fluff piece, he called several black Democrats in the Illinois legislature and asked their opinion. The resulting article had Obama ranting that his legislative colleagues couldn't have done anything without him. And why did so many Democrat legislators in 2004 express a hearty dislike for Obama?  It seems that in 2003, Emil Jones,  the new majority leader of the Illinois State Senate,  made Barack Obama the sponsor of virtually every high profile piece of legislation on his agenda.  Because the Republicans had been in control of state government for over...(Read Full Post)