Letters to the Editor
Majorajam
Published Letters: 308 Editor's Choice: 12
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A question of judgment
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]While we fill our days with hour after hour of a small time, not even illegal scandal, relating to campaign donations that have been returned.
Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
this quid pro quo- Bill Clinton doing favors for third world dictators who are irritated at it being pointed out to them that they are brutally repressing their own people- is being swept under the table. Obama did favors by writing a letter? How did Hillary get on the board of Wal-Mart where she could start busting unions? What was Jim MacDougal given a job in the justice department? How did Hillary magically make $100K in cattle futures on a $1K investment? How come pharmaceutical, insurance and defense lobbies are giving more money to Hillary than any other candidate, Republican or Democrat- do they like her smile?
It is long past time that the cognitively challenged Hillary supporters at Salon and elsewhere stop questioning Obama's judgment when it comes to scandals. The chutzpa is mind blowing. Support your candidate by all means, but try it with the eyelids open for a change.
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@Joan Walsh
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That was a story? Bursting with loaded language and unsubstantiated assertions with not a smidgeon of original reporting? Let's face it, Jeff Gannon did better work, and not even as a journalist.
I was drawn first to the nebulous but yet full of sinister overtones title, but nothing says 'over-the-top-hit-job' like:
Rezko, after all, built part of his fortune by exploiting the black community that Obama had served in the state Senate... But Obama took Rezko's money even after the businessman was sued by the city of Chicago for failing to heat his low-income apartments, and even after Rezko was caught using a black business partner to obtain a minority set-aside for a fast-food franchise at O'Hare Airport...Now Rezko is wearing an orange jumpsuit. And Obama may spend the rest of the presidential campaign wearing the jacket for his friendship with the fixer.
You wouldn't know it that Rezko' swarthy Syrian ass has yet to be convicted of anything, and you certainly wouldn't know it that the author of the piece never substantiated that Obama was aware of these developments when he took his money. But hey, this is a great and fair story highly indicative of the standards of Salon.
...and news that President Clinton is selling his reputation to third-world dictators in exchange for donations to his self-directed slush fund, a.k.a. charitable organization. How noble. I wonder if anyone could imagine Jimmy Carter doing the same?
Yea, Rezko is newsworthy alright- the ministry of truth is all atwitter.
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@Joan Walsh
[Read the article: How close were Barack Obama and Tony Rezko?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's a fresh Clinton scandal for your to ignore: http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2008/02/guess-who-hilla.html
When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime supporters, Vinod Gupta, provided his company’s private jet to fly them there.
The company, infoUSA, one of the nation’s largest brokers of information on consumers, paid $146,866 to ferry the Clintons, Mr. Gupta and others to Acapulco and back, court records show. During the next four years, infoUSA paid Mr. Clinton more than $2 million for consulting services, and spent almost $900,000 to fly him around the world for his presidential foundation work and to fly Mrs. Clinton to campaign events.
Vinod Gupta is CEO and majority shareholder of infoUSA, a company from whom Hillary Clinton has just reported income for renting her donor list. Question is, when does he get to don the orange jumpsuit, and are we going to see the Clintons wear the jacket for the campaign?
In addition to the shareholder accusations, The New York Times reported [in May 2007] that an investigation by the authorities in Iowa found that infoUSA sold consumer data several years ago to telemarketing criminals who used it to steal money from elderly Americans. It advertised call lists with titles like “Elderly Opportunity Seekers” or “Suffering Seniors,” a compilation of people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease.
And, if you're wondering about the quid pro quo:
Before leaving office, Mr. Clinton appointed Mr. Gupta to the board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Earlier, Mr. Clinton had nominated him for two minor ambassadorships, which Mr. Gupta declined because of business commitments...
As recently as April of last year, Gupta remained an active Clinton financier, making the maximum allowable direct contributions to Hillary's Presidential campaign. Gupta also donated $1 million to Bill Clinton's Presidential Library. That's the same Clinton Presidential Library which - stop me if you've heard this one - recently sold their famously secretive contributor list to infoUSA's Walter Karl, Inc.
But let's talk about this Rezko person though- did you know he was Syrian?