Letters to the Editor
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Follow the money trail
Hillary Clinton's ties to shadowy sources of money are too numerous to count, but lets use one example. One of them is Zheng Hongye, a top executive of the Chinese navy-owned shipping company COSCO.
Clinton friend and convicted felon "Johnny" Chung later noted that the money he provided for the Clintons came directly from the hands of Gen. Ji, then head of the PLA military intelligence department. It's no wonder she is refusing to release financial records. As long as she attacks Obama's ties to Rezco, she believes that she would be able to resist the pressure to make her own tax returns public. How in the world could she have loaned her campaign 5 million dollars and where did that money come from? She certainly has no intention of answering that.
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Some Free Advice for Obama
I'm wouldn't advise Obama to take any advise from an old Clinton Shill like Joe Conason. Even if one ignored his nauseating self regard, the man who wrote the magnificent "The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton" could hardly be expected to give advice worth taking. There's no doubt in my mind the little man is trying out for the position of Hillary's press secretary. (Just the crown for his brilliant career.)
I agree let's just ignore scandals of the past, and ask the press, including the inquisitive and always helpful Conason to examine why major contributors to Hillary's campaign, say Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, have also paid her husband a fortune in speaking fees. And, I think we need to know what services her husband provides to men like Frank Giustra and Nursultan Nazarbayev, in return to "gifts" to his library. (As well as gifts from others "investors" the TIMES did not seem fit to report.)
Until Conason digs in here, I suggest he simply shut up, climb into bed with Mr. Wolfson, where they could, together, experiment with new scandals they can later attach to Senator Obama.
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Joe Conason: Passing Along The Smear
Hey Joe - aren't you a serial bank robber? Better answer all the questions about that, several times in several different places, over and over and over, or we will have to ask why you are ducking the questions.
What do you have to hide?
I might be able to hold my nose and vote for Obama, but I will never vote for Evita Clinton. She is a warmonger. She insults our intelligence when she says that her vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq was a vote for diplomacy. And who would have thought that Bush was not trustworthy?
She voted to invade Iraq - and was in fact a cheerleader - because she was afraid to be branded as a liberal softie. When the time came to lead or cower, she cowered.
Too bad all the victims in Iraq have so little choice when the bombs come raining down on their homes.
Please. Margaret Thatcher was also a woman; is that what you want in the White House? Haven't we had enough lies and enough warmongering?
Consider also that Clinton's current position is that McCain is more experienced than Obama. Does that mean she will endorse McCain if Obama is the nominee?
No more pretending that Democrats are "progressive." You are going for the centrist, lying warmonger. You guys must feel we have been in a nice little comfort zone with Bush and Cheney and John Bolton.
And their new friend, Joe Conason.
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@bernbart
You say: "BEecauseu of the way the property was spit, Obama later bought a small piece of land form the Renzo land to expend his yard. Waht is wrong with that?"
What's wrong with that is this: at the time Obama purchased the house, Rezko was seriously in hock and in no position to be buying anything much other than groceries. Also, to imply that the real estate agent 'found' Rezko is deeply wishful thinking. Obama had been associated with Rezko for many years by the time the transaction took place.
Sorry, but I simply cannot believe the number of Obama supporters who refuse to face the fact that Obama's long and intimate association with Rezko completely undermines his claim to be a 'new kind of politician'. THAT'S the issue here.
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"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions," - Barack Obama
Once again, great article Joe! I appreciate your articles and I find it problematic that journalists are called all sorts of names and their integrity impugned when they do their job. As always, please keep up the good work here at Salon.
Sorry folks, but Joe is right. Obama has questions to answer, a lot more of the 8 he ran from last week. If he wants to be POTUS, he needs to get used to it. We've had a President for 7 years now who won't answer questions. If Obama is going to change things, the first one I would suggest working on would be to be forthcoming.
Off topic, but did you happen to notice in the article about his adviser that called Clinton a monster, what the REAL story was? Troops are staying in Iraq regardless of what he says now. Kind of like NAFTA, huh?
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Jabari
"I'm offended. And as trained, if not practicing, journalist, you should be too."
Jabari, journalism in this day and age is more about the business of protecting special interests and less about exposing the corruption of big business in politics.
People who fancy themselves as journalists, but who become lap dogs of any politician, should hang up their degrees and get into PR work for the politicians or corporations of their choice. There is big money to be made. And PR people who pass themselves off as journalists are those who are wined and dined and taken on travel junkets and make big money writing flattering books about their keepers.
Of the few journalists who have not sold out, I can think of Jimmy Breslin and Seymour Hersh and Naomi Wolf and Amy Goodman. Feel free to add names of who true journalists are, and who are PR people disguised as journalists.
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KateTX,
Why don't you go buy some real estate in the land of the lame? Because it surely is where you shine as its smarmy sovereign.