Letters to the Editor
cythera45
Published Letters: 729 Editor's Choice: 5
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@Jabari
[Read the article: Clinton's primary night gambit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So Obama wouldn't be "destroying the party" if he tried to muscle his way to the nomination in a brokered convention when he had only won maybe 8 or so state primaries and trailed Clinton big-time in both vote and delegate totals? That would be totally okay? I love the selective outrage of the Obamabots.
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That tie was NOT lavender? Don't you know ANYthing?
[Read the article: And then there were two]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why do political commentators talk about such trivia?
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Nothing Illegal. Just Unsavory.
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The new Obama campaign slogan?
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Wow, listen to the screeching denial from the Obamabots
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who cares? Doesn't matter! Clinton is worse! Pathetic. My favorite one is "I'm tired of all the scandal-mongering, I don't have the patience to read this now." Priceless! Please hand me my blinders and a handful of xanax. Nothing may sully the spotless robes of the boy-king!
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It's called influence-peddling
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I guess "networking" is a reasonable enough euphemism for a Chicago machine pol. Hey, Rezco would never call in the chit, would he? No, of course not. The header refers to Obama's actions as "bad judgment," and that is undoubtedly correct. Obama himself has admitted it. But what does that mean? Why was it bad? Because it gives the appearance of a potential quid-pro-quo down the road. Now, of course, there never will be one because Rezco's shady career as an operator has imploded and Obama can't run away from him fast enough, tossing wads of campaign cash out of each pocket as he goes.
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Guilt by Association?
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And you don't think he ought to be (and FEEL) guilty for associating, as a political patron and campaign supporter, with a guy who did this:
"Rezko also used his connections with the Ali camp to expand his fast-food holdings. After Washington was elected mayor, Jabir Herbert Muhammad's company, Crucial Concessions, won a contract to sell food and drinks at the Lake Michigan beaches. Rezko took over the company's operations. In 1997, Crucial opened two Panda Express Restaurants at O'Hare, under the city's minority set-aside program. It was stripped of those franchises in 2005, when investigators determined the company was a front for Rezko.
In 1989, Rezko and a business partner founded Rezmar Inc., a real estate company that aimed to rehabilitate South Side apartment buildings. Partnering with community groups that could help them win government loans, Rezmar purchased 30 properties. At first, Rezmar had a golden reputation. But many of its tenants would have been better off in housing projects. During the winter of 1997, a Rezmar building was without heat for five weeks, until the city took the company to court. It was one of a dozen cases in which the city had to force Rezmar to turn on heat for its tenants. More than half of Rezmar's buildings went into foreclosure, and several have been boarded up. According to a Chicago Sun-Times investigation, Rezmar properties were 'riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.'"
I guess Barack had his sights set too high to have to worry about such trivial matters. I'm sure the heat never goes off in that 1.65 million mansion he has now! (It really IS a stunning property, I do have to say. I'd sell a little bit of my influence to live there, if I had any!)
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How to get a pass on corruption
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Convince a bunch of cultists desperate for a messiah that you are the living god. They will ignore or excuse anything you do.
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The Press hasn't come CLOSE to Obama's dirty laundry
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only reason the Rezco story made national news (as opposed to the Chicago papers) is because Clinton brought it up in a debate. The national press has made NO serious effort to vet Obama. Who knows what else they will find when they do--or when the Repug opposition research teams send them spinning after stories? After all, the MSM has loved John McCain much longer than they've loved Obama, and when the old maverick starts opening fire on little Bambi, the press is sure to serve as a docile echo-chamber. Right now the Repugs are making vague noises about how much Obama scares them and how much they'd rather run against Hillary Clinton, and this cynical line is snowing the Obamabots. My guess is they are salivating at the chance to define him quickly and take him down at the knees, like they did John Kerry.
I'm disgusted (but not surprised) that none of the Obamabots seem to find the Rezco story disturbing. Isn't politics as usual what you folks are supposed to want to change? I think Obama could probably gut and eat a 5-year-old on national television and his fans would dote fondly on the act. They have sold their critical scruples to a neophyte cipher out of desperation and projective longing. The only good news is how brief Obama's political career has been, meaning he barely got started acquiring the influence necessary to peddle--though this story is full of red flags that indicate the likely call-back of chits in the future (that is, if Rezco hadn't imploded). Now, of course, Obama just mutters "boneheaded move" while quietly shedding campaign cash and praying, praying that no one pushes him any harder. If hewins the nomination and summons the courage to go on Meet the Press, and gets grilled over Rezco by Russert, he'd better come up with better prevarications than these:
"I don't recall exactly what our conversations were or where I first learned, and I am not clear what the circumstances were where he made a decision that he was interested in the property," Obama said.
"I may have mentioned to him the name of [a developer and] he may at that point have contacted that person. I'm not clear about that," Obama said.
Pathetic!
See http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0611010273nov01,1,2716725.story?page=2
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To cowardly anonymous
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At least I am not afraid to post my name, child. Dote away!
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Well put, Stellaa
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There is something disturbingly mob-like and tyrannical about the Obamabots. They are the leftwing mirror image of those who excuse everything Bush does and believe he is virtually flawless, a demigod. Scary, I agree--and not the sort of "unity" I'm looking for. ("One of us, one of us, one of us....")