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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Obama knows the Rezkos personally. He has a long-standing relationship with them.
The land transaction was a personal favor to Obama so he could buy the house. These are the plain facts, and it doesn't matter which newspaper reported them. Whether or not you think Obama actually would be influenced, this transaction certainly creates that appearance. And the Republicans will seize on this.
Honest reporting is a beautiful thing, isn't it, Tim?
Do you feel better about yourself today for abandoning your anti-Hillary bias?
I don't know what medications you took this morning; nor do I know if you even wrote that piece yourself.
But it is a very nice change to see you cut Hillary an honest break.
Normally you pile on rather than illuminate. Today you did the opposite and I hope you enjoyed the experience enough to try it again tomorrow.
Caesar said, "Caesar's wife must be above suspicion." And then he divorced her, even though she had done noting wrong. It was a trumped-up scandal involving a gangster cross-dresser, much discussed on Salon at the time.
You can look it up: http://letters.salon.com.romandictator/war_room/c.50bce
Anyway, my friends, anybody who moves in interesting circles meets questionable people. I myself sent a letter to a murderer last week, but I am not a murderer. In 1964, this murderer let me ride his motorbike. He was my friend, and I still like him better than silly Salon posters who never have been anywhere or met anybody.
Barack seems to have come pretty clean about this. That guy was his friend, way back when, but Barck is clean.
my gut reaction is "no one is that naive" ... and I wonder about the advice of his lawyer and accountant, not to mention the "ethics committee"
A very small piece of land, what might easily be seen as a step up from an "easement," in the right location can add significant value to a property...
that he got a discounted price on the house as well ...
again, "boneheadedness" really isn't enough when someone is offering you money-equivalents for "nothing" ...
The fallback excuse is something like "greed" or "self-delusion" -- wanting something you can't afford SO MUCH that you do something dumb like this, throwing caution to the wind ... a bit troubling...
Obama's far to smart to plead "dumb".
Did an honest, progressive, wonderful and kind Obama supporter just tell Mr. Brown to STFU? Good guys don't do that, do they? And of course, since he's supporting Obama, he must be saying this at the instigation of the Secret Mr. and Mrs. Obama cartel that controls everything. Hey, does that mean that Obama = Bush?
No. I think it's time we ask for a better press corps. This morning's interview with Hillary was shameful. They focused, as is their wont, only on Hillary's rejoinder, not the initial remark. (See, it's only the Clintons who have gone negative, see?)
And this week, Obama has discovered the answer to Bill on the campaign trail: Michele Obama does a very good job of representing her husband. Will the press keep a keen eye out for the slightest negative remark that she makes about the Clintons and scream "reverse racism"? I don't think so.
By the way, I don't think the press is so much pro-Obama than anti-Clinton.
"How come its okay for Billary to attack the Rezko connection, but if Barack were to bring up similar Billary dealings (Whitewater, Monica, et al) it would be horrible?!"
Well, it would be nice if you didn't call the former president and the senator from New York Billary, you know?
And anytime I want to hear what Obama supporters think about Whitewater (the Clintons lost $40,00, and the investigation came up with bupkus) and Monica (Bill didn't resist the flirtation, and he should have known the Republicans would spy on him), then I'll go over the the Obama-- er, the Huffington Post. All they ever found was the girl, you know? And she was alive, happy, and they dragged her in front of a grand jury for no good reason. I'm not sure who the scandal is about, Bill or the GOP's lust for power and tapping phones. But Obama supporters accept everything nasty any Republican has ever said about Bill. Hey, I hear he killed Foster, right? And ran drugs out of Mena, Arkansas. Track that down, will you?
I think this is their response to the Obama team's accusations, including the "voter suppression" claim in Las Vegas -- which is another one of those "coded" accusations.
If either campaign believes that the logistics unfairly favor one candidate over another that should be addressed. I both hope and believe that TeamObama would challenge arrangments they felt were unfair ... The use of the term "voter suppression" was racially charged and an exaggeration of a reasonable challenge. The challenge was denied, but I expect in 4 years, the substance of that challenge will be addressed in planning for the next caucuses.
Living in Chicago, do you know how often we hear about this or that politician under Federal investigation? Heck, they had to bring in an FBI head to run the police department they're so corrupt.
If you're looking to discredit Obama, then Rezko is not the way to go. Try his opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (as well as the Illinois equivalent).
Your taking a bullet for someone deeply involved with the Democratic fundraising scandals back in Chicago -who says doesn't know one of those big fundraisers??
You don't get a solo photo op like that unless you're connected.
That photo was taken about 1996, right around the same time Terry McCaulife, head of the DNC and a few others -all who now still and currentlty work for the Clintons -were caught up in the Chicago Teachers Union and a New York Investment firm scandals -of which Rezko was a part.
At that time Obama was in the Chicago Senate..
While it's one thing to be connected through your party to others who are corrupt within the party just by knowing them or taking legal donations from them as in Obama's case -before any scandal broke, and to which Obama was never a part of - compared to the Clintons who were not only deeply entwined with Illinois scams and money, but then to keep them on your payroll and enlist their aid in another political campaign??
And most people thought what happened in Chicago -stayed in Chicago. Notice a pattern now in the trails left by the Clinton's where ever they go?
As Democrats, we didn't see it before because Republican's said it -but now we're seeing it with our own eyes.
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2007/01/19/obamarama-levine-rezko-cari/
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