Obama's kitchen cabinet.

Flip that house!

From Make Them Accountable:
Rezko's bleak financial picture raises the question of how the Rezkos were able to buy a vacant lot adjoining the home of Sen. Barack Obama in 2005, at a time Rezko says he was already in deep debt. How were the Rezkos able to make the down payment, and qualify for the loan, on the lot? The same story may give us a clue: (Rezko) said he had an ongoing relationship with Nadhmi Auchi, a London-based Iraqi billionaire convicted on French fraud charges, who Rezko described as a close friend and business associate. Read the rest...

Is there ANY aspect of Obama's life that is not pockmarked with corruption and lies?

A sick little part of me wants an Obama victory. The destruction of the Democratic Party will be complete by - oh - lets say - November of 2010. The fallout will be more compelling than the Beijing Olympic's opening ceremony. By the time the mid terms in 2010 rolls around, Dean will have snuck across the border to Canada. Brazille will be selling lemonade at Hot Dog on a Stick in a mall in Gary, Indiana. (But, in that outfit, she'll scare little children, depress sales at the entire mall and be fired.) Oprah will publicly apologize for endorsing Senator Fraud and will eat herself to death in Santa Barbara. Keith Olbermann will finally snap completely and begin broadcasting dressed as Napoleon and demand his regulars wear the garb of French peasants.

And Pelosi, ah Pelosi, A funny Californian will run Toonces the Driving Cat against her as a joke. but with polls showing Toonces up by 30 points with a week to go - she will throw herself off the Golden Gate Bridge. To her surprise, all the plastic surgery will make her buoyant. Pelosi will simply float out into the Pacific, eventually joining a colony of seals in the Aleutians. There she will spend her final days happily barking and fighting with other seals for small fish....

The Company He Keeps.

I am loath to link to my hometown paper at this point - the LA times being, in essence, an embeded Chicago owned/Pro Obama paper - but they uncovered yet another apparent ethical lapse by Baby Jesus Obama. It seems Obama was working for a company named Killerspin (You really can't make this stuff up.) while a part time state senator in 2000. In fact, Killerspin provided Obama with 90% of his income the same year Killerspin was lucky enough to get a $50,000 grant from the state for a "table tennis event." The grant came at the prompting of Obama, who wrote a lovely letter on state senate stationary on Killerspin's behalf. There is nothing illegal about any of this. But, like the magic money from Rezko to expand his property, it begs all sorts of questions about who BHO really is. Mr. Barry has spent huge amounts of time and money promoting the idea that he is above all the nitty gritty of common politics. He is the Transformer. Or so he says. Yet, at every turn there is another pile of bones in another barely closed closet.

As for BHO running away from more debates - the reason is now clear. Obama not only lied about his relationship with William Ayres - he did it on a massive, almost Soviet, scale. From MyDD: Obama has been breathtakingly misleading about his relationship with William Ayers. In the past Obama described Ayers as an "acquaintance." This is bullshit. It turns out Obama worked for Ayres for 8 years. Not with. For. Any follow up on Ayres during a debate would surely corner Barry with the lies he's told about his relationship to the Weather Underground bomber.
Uppity, who writes regularly at No Quarter once commented on this blog that "time was Obama's enemy."
Indeed with every passing news cycle Obama is revealed as a man of bad judgement propelled by his talent as a speaker, a media hungry to attack a strong female candidate, and a large battalion of overgrown infants and neo-sexists at places like the Huffington Post and that blog the color of Cheetos. The GOP and Fox, after spending months kicking back enjoying the attacks on Clinton, have finally awakened to the inherent danger of allowing Obama to go unvetted. Afterall, one McCain health scare, and the devil you don't know can win.

And we've only just begun to hear about Nadhmi Auchi. Mr. Auchi wired $3.5 million to Tony Rezko about one month before Mrs. Rezko purchased land adjacent to the Obama home from the same seller. That land was later sold to Obama for a song. How do we know this? The Rezko trial. By the by: Nadhmi Auchi was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Iraqi President Abdul-Karim Qasim in 1959.

Ouch.

Imagine what the GOP will do with that nugget in the fall? We are down to 2 degrees of separation between Barack Hussein Obama and Saddam Hussein. It may not be fair to make the leap. But they will. And contrary to the League of Infant Voter's whining (oops I mean the DailyKos's whining) - national elections are not the 3rd grade spelling bee. Fair matters less than perception.

We already know what they will do with Obama's 20 year relationship with Rev. Wright.

How is it that this man has accumulated so many connections to so many unpleasant types in such a short career?
Makes your head spin. Like a fast paced game of table tennis.