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....
Labels: cheating, Nadhmi Auchi, Obama, Rezko, taxes
From the Book of Marx
Chapter 6
Verse 66
The birth of Obama, son of Obama.
From House of Marx the Lord did arriseth.
Marx beget Lenin
Lenin beget Stalin
Stalin beget Mao
Mao beget Che
Che beget Castro
Castro beget many in the land of America:
Dorhn, Ayres, and many of the Weather Undergroundeth
that did worship bombs.
And many others of the Imbecile Tribe who believed
the wearing of the Che tee-shirts did maketh them matter.
But the wearing of the tee shirts did maketh them sillier
than they already were-eth
And into the land of Daley many went for to worship in the Temple of the Combine.
The Combine did beget Axelrod, who knew Rezko.
And Rezko beget Blagojevich.
But Blagojevich was stillborn
So Rezko beget another.
And he was Lord Obama.
And down the road-eth did live Wright. For he liveth in the house his temple did buy for him.
And Wright beget Wrath.
And Wrath did overcome Wright.
And it was music to the Lord's ears.
For the Victims did jump up and give money.
And the Lord did see an opening.
For the Lord is wise.
Until the day the temple of Wright was of no use.
And it was stashed neatly under the bus.
These three things the Lord doth give us:
*Black Liberation Theology
*The discrete socialism of the Bourgeoisie
*Bald faced opportunism.
But the greatest of these is Opportunism.
And the Good News was proclaimed through out the land by the village idiot: Keith Olbermann.
The Word of the Lord.Labels: aryres, changey hopey, Che Guevarra, Dorhn, Lenin Stalin Obama, marx, Reverend Wright, Rezko
Riddle me this. What's the difference between Bush supporters and most Obama supporters today (at least the ones who comment on blogs)?
Me: I don't support going into Iraq
Neocon: You aren't patriotic
Me: I don't support Senator Obama
Obama Supporter (OS) You aren't a democrat
Me: I support Al Gore because he is smart, capable and experienced
Neo: I want to have a beer with George Bush
Me: I support Hillary Clinton because she is smart, capable and experienced
OS: Obama gives me hope!
Me: I want to know about Bush and his national guard service
Neo: Liberal Media Liberal Media Liberal Media Dan Rather is a jerk
Me: I want to know more about Obama's connections with Ayers, Rezko and Wright
OS: No more debates. He's answered the question! Charlie Gibson is a jerk
Me: The press is in the tank for Bush and won't vet him
Neo: Al Gore created the interets
Me: The press is in the tank for Obama and won't vet him
OS: White Water, Monica, Travelgate
Me: I think it's disgusting that Bush called a reporter an asshole
Neo: He is!
Me: I think it's disgusting that Randi Rhodes called Senator Clinton a "fucking whore"
OS: She is!
Me: I want all the votes in Florida counted
Neo: Bush won!
Me: I want all the votes in Florida counted
OS: They broke the rules!
Add any answers that you wish.Labels: Ayers, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Randi Rhodes, Rev. Wright, Rezko
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.
Labels: Ayers, Hussein, Killerspin, Nadhmi Auchi, Obama, Rezko, Saddam
I have problems with Senator Obama. Rezko, Present votes, lack of experience, unwillingness to answer questions, Reverend Wright, equating his grandmother to Reverend Wright, Ayers, how he won his State Senate seat, his wife. His race is one of the few things I like about him.
But I have more issues with his supporters. If you go over to ObamaPost the commenters call anyone who doesn't support Senator Obama racists. It doesn't matter what you're argument is - you are a racist.
I don't like Obama's health care plan. You're a racist.
I have questions about how Obama bought his condo and his home. You're a racist.
I do not understand how he could sit in that pew for twenty years. You're a racist.
Run an ad featuring Reverend Wright. You're playing the race card.
Obama lost in Pennsylvania because all of Senator Clinton's voters are racist. (And stupid, drunk and gun toting as a bonus!) That's really going to get Clinton supporters to vote for Obama in the General if he wins the nomination.
It's an effective way to end the conversation. Not so fab at uniting which is what he claims to have the ability to do. Just because you shout louder doesn't make you right. A mob is still a mob. To tell your opposition that they're racist and that's the only reason they're not supporting your candidate is to alienate them forever. It's not going to pull them into the fold when you need them back.
What should have been a race showing how far we've come has pushed us WAY back.
Women and blacks are both considered minorities. Blacks because they are and women because of the way we've been treated. Both groups have had to fight to get where we are.
Senator Obama has benefited from the advances; Senator Clinton helped create the advances. I would love to know if he checked the box stating he was black on his application to college. Same with Michelle. Is that racist? No, it's not, thank you very much. But I would be curious if they benefited from their race to get accepted.
Young women don't remember a time when abortion wasn't legal. They don't know about coat hangers. Older women who went out and protested for the right to choose no longer have the need. Who's going to continue the battle? The right to control our bodies has been chipped away. Parental notification, having to have a sonogram, lack of clinics have eroded the options for women.
The Civil Rights Act passed. The Equal Rights Amendment didn't.
I do not believe that Obama supporters are all sexist. It's too bad they don't offer us the same courtesy.Labels: Ayers, Clinton, Obama, Racist, Reverend Wright, Rezko
An ongoing fascination I have with the Snob-gate story is the ongoing cluelessness of the Obamites. None of them seem to understand why Obama's remarks in San Francisco are so offensive to so many people. They truly don't get it: including the man himself. Obama did not say he was wrong, merely that he did not say it very well.
What he said was, in essence, Marxist. The masses are stupid but needed. If they were not stupid they would not use guns and religion as an opiate. Obama has yet to refute this sentiment. His supporters are befuddled that everyone can't see the inherent wisdom of Saint Obama's remarks. Tom Dashle, a man who as minority leader lost his seat in South Dakota, defended Obama's remarks forcefully. Instead of responding to the basic class-ism Obama put in play the Obamites react with an indefensible defense.
Sensing that Ohio and Pennsylvania may now be lost in November to Mccain, Obamites insist they can make it up with Virginia and Colorado. All I can say is - they think we're the stupid ones. Even on the off - very off - chance Obama could win Colorado and Virginia the electoral college votes would still leave a 19 vote gap. They can't even do simple math. (Hey Arugulas - there is a calulator on your Iphones). Floridians are rightfully livid. There is no reasonable argument against seating all those delegates and counting all those votes. It is a heist by high end criminals to steal millions of votes.
The 1952 election looks like it may be the go to template here. War hero vs. egghead. The egghead loses. In 1952 young people were over the moon for Stevenson and his edicts issued from on high. 2004 is instructive as well. I doubt, to this day, Kerry understands why the windsurfing photo op was such a debacle. Gee, doesn't every one in Scranton windsurf? BTW: Morianna Huffington approved the piece from David Geffen's yacht in the South Pacific. Nice work if you can get it.
It is increasingly impossible to imagine "President Obama". I have no idea what is going to happen anymore. I have assumed it was over for Clinton about 45322 times since January. And onward she marches. The misogynist (read: almost all) media, the Wrong Rev. Dean and the spoiled elites have been after her with the long knives since last Fall. She still has a brutal fight ahead if she is going to pull this off. I have some hope now - but not much. She has conducted herself with stunning tact. Despite the Obamite horsecrap about her "throwing the kitchen sink" she has hardly laid a glove on him - to mix the metaphors. I respect her restraint but I do not like it. Obama is a very strong candidate, until you get to know him. If she really would "do anything to win" she would have dropped the Wright bomb in January. She did not drop it at all. If she really would "do anything" Obama's state senate no shows, his pals, the terrorist William Ayres, and the slumlord Rezko would have been on everyone lips in February. I promise you, Boone Pickens, is salivating at the prospect of dumping millions this Fall into the project of ensuring we know who Obama really is.
As Lynne in Lakeland said to me on the phone today: You can't win a general election with a coalition of African- Americans and people who buy brie.
One last note: I am fed up with being called a racist every time I post something critical of Obama. I know plenty of other who have had it with this Obamite meme as well. Frankly, the only thing left remotely intersting about BHO is his bi-racial background. The rest is errant, dishonest nonsense: a life populated by bombers, slumlords, and lies. I am sick to death of being threatened by the "you're a racist!" verbal rifle butt. I am not a racist. Anyone who thinks a white voter who opposes Obama is by default a racist is, in fact, a racist.
Besides all you Obamites: stop being such wimps - come to the actual fight. Stop cowering behind rhetorical straw men. Let's slam it for our candidates on merit, in the real world.
Oh yeah, you can't do that since you don't live in reality.Labels: Ayres, dean, Obama, Rev. Wright, Rezko, San Francisco
John's post below ends with a warning.
Say anything bad about Senator Obama and you will be called a racist thus effectively ending any opportunity for an actual conversation.
Here are a few more conversation stoppers:
Jacksonian Democrats might as well be Republicans. I have utter contempt for the uneducated masses - they might as well go raise tobacco and cotton on their plantations and wallow in self-pity for losing a job and being too stupid and unmotivated to find other work.
As for the correlation btw. Hillary and the Jacksonian Democrats - she's a Republican anyway, so it's a natural fit.
Bob of NJ
Apr 03, 2008 10:55:06 AM
Is it not funny that Mr. Barone reaches so far into our past to find a respectable-sounding label for these voters - who could much more easily and accurately be called hillbillies, rednecks, yahoos, flat-earthers, or bigots?
Why treat these goobers with more respect than they deserve? (Oh, right, because they help your candidate win...)
Mike of WA
Apr 03, 2008 11:10:24 AM Both of these comments were on an article dissecting the campaign in US News and World.
Can't you just feel the love? Senator Obama spreading his magic of bringing people together.
I read an article and one of the comments called Senator Clinton a liar then went on to say how honest Senator Obama had been about the Wright Stuff. I suppose you hear what you want to hear. He said he had never heard any of the sermons in question then said he did. That's candor!
If you support Senator Clinton don't bother going on Kos or any other Obama blogs - you will be vilified and forced away. I hope we at Liberal Rapture will let everyone say their piece, question and still maintain civility. Ironic that Senator Obama represents a new way for politics, a civil way and his supporters think Randi Rhodes was not only right but should be sainted for "speaking the truth." Her freedom of speech is being infringed upon. She can say anything she likes while lambasting Geraldine Ferraro for saying what she believed. Agree with us or shut up. Keith Olbermann had a special comment for Ms. Ferraro, did he do the same with Ms. Rhodes? I don't know because I no longer watch.
When the Wright story came out Norah O'Donnell lamented, "How can we move on from this?" Anderson Cooper thought we should be talking about the issues instead of "politics as usual." (By the way, Mr. Cooper, Reverend Wright in in NO way politics as usual.) When the Bosnia story came out it got more attention than Natalie Holloway and the Duke La cross story combined. No need to talk about issues when you can magnify Senator Clinton's faults for hours and hours!
It's so Bushian. Until his poll numbers dove under 50% nothing he said or did mattered to his supporters because he was "strong." Hooker in the White House press corps there to lob soft ball questions - who cares? Obama lies about his parents? So what, he gives us hope. He's not just likable enough, he's lovable. His dealings with Rezko, what dealings with Rezko -Hillary lied about Bosnia.
Well at least she went. More than 300,000 people have been displaced in Kenya and are living in tents or with relatives. What has their favorite son done for them? Has he gone over to bring the parties together? No, that might involve actual work and what if he couldn't make a difference? How would it look?
Because it's all about perception. There's a scam email going around stating that Senator Obama has done more in his four years in the senate than Senator Clinton has done in eight. It's wrong but you'll see it quoted everywhere. Go to FactCheck.org and it's completely disproven but who wants to bother with facts?
They get in the way of the Messiah.Labels: Kenya, lies, Obama, Racist, Reverend Wright, Rezko
Frank Rich does a knife job on Senator Clinton today. It's horrible that she "lied" about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. Why would he mention that the pilot took evasive action to avoid sniper fire? Why would he mention that everyone on the plane was instructed to sit on their flak jackets to avoid sniper fire? There's really no point in Mr. Rich doing anything whatsoever to aid Senator Clinton.
Let's look at a couple of things.
Senator Obama's Buys His Dream House.
The real-estate deal began when a Chicago couple (two doctors) took jobs elsewhere and put their property - a lovely, spacious home in Kenwood with a vacant yard -- on the market. The Obamas liked the house but lacked the money to buy both the house and vacant yard.
What happened next is where the questions arise. Obama recently acknowledged that he toured the property with Rezko. After that, Obama made a discounted offer for the house, and, at about the same time, Rezko made a full-price offer for the side yard. Both offers were accepted. So, the obvious question is: Was there any hidden link between Rezko's full price deal and the discounted price Obama paid?
First off, this happened in June of 2005. I sold my house in a day at full price in June of 2005. This was the tail end of the hottest housing market I can remember and he got the house at a discounted price? Something is up here and hopefully, when Rezko is found guilty he will sing like a canary and we'll find out more. Gosh, maybe even the press might look into it and do some investigating, wait, I must be day dreaming.
The Wright Stuff
Senator Obama is not a Muslim. And there would be nothing wrong if he were. My issue is him sitting a church for twenty years listening and allow his children to listen to bitter, hate filled speech. Then LIE about it. If, as the meme goes, Senator Clinton were willing to do ANYTHING to win this story would have come out sometime last January. It would have been goodbye, Barry. If Senator Clinton's "Lie" about Bosnia is deserving of a column by Mr. Rich why isn't this? First he said he never heard any of the controversial things Reverend Wright said, then he did, then he said that Rev Wright apologized though he didn't, then when you read his book, The Audacity of Hope, which gets it title from one of Reverend Wright's sermons, you learn that the first sermon he heard was rather controversial. And it made him cry.
How I Met Your Father
Senator Obama has credited then Senator Jack Kennedy for bringing his father to America as part of the airlift to get Kenyans here to study. Barack Obama, Sr. came the year before Senator Kennedy got involved. Senator Obama also used the civil rights movement, saying that his parents met because something was stirring in the air when people walked across the bridge in Selma. Something that occurred four years after Obama, Jr. was born. It's a lovely story, but it's just that, a story. Why is he not called on the carpet for at least, mis-remembering?
Michelle Oh so angry
I'm just going to paraphrase Ed Koch
A woman who went to Princeton and Harvard who's husband went to Harvard, who's husband was elected to state senate and the US Senate is just now proud of her country? What does she expect? Exactly how entitled is she? Believe me when I tell you she will one of his biggest liabilities in a general campaign if it comes to that.
Kind of Blue
Senator Obama has won more states! He's won more states! Has he won enough blue states? Has he won purple states that we need to win in a general? If he can't win California or New York or Florida in the primaries how is he going to carry them in the general? Senator Clinton has won more Democratic votes than him and with the Rev. Wright he can count out much Republican cross over. Or independents for that matter. As he continues to push for Michigan and Florida to be disenfranchised any opportunity he might have had to win those states in a general are GONE.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could actually watch tv or read a news paper and get some hard information on the young senator from Illinois? Wouldn't it be lovely if Senator Clinton were not being shoved out of the old boy's club and we could talk about her grasp of the issues?
Oh so loverly.Labels: Clinton, Frank Rich, Michelle Obama, Obama, President Kennedy, Reverend Wright, Rezko
Twenty years ago, while consulting her well read copy of Nostradumbass, Hillary Clinton realized that in 2008 she was going to be locked in a bitter campaign for President against a young man from Chicago.
She cleverly disguised herself as a typical white woman and flew to Chicago and managed to run into the young man at an Au Bon Pain (the Starbucks of the day.) She recommended a wonderful church and told him that no matter what the Reverend said he should stick with it. She threw a party and introduced him to all sorts of interesting people, Rezko, Ayers.
Later, disguised as a concerned citizen of his district she volunteered for his campaign for State Senate and advised him how to legally get everyone else off the ballot to ensure a win. She told him to vote present as often as possible to show that he was centrist and could bring people together.
Our woman of many faces came into Senator Obama's life when he was looking for a house, this time as a real estate agent. She brokered the deal, after many meetings with Rezko, to allow Senator Obama to buy a lovely home.
Now it won't come as a surprise to learn that she helped David Axelrod write Senator Obama's rehashed speeches and she's the one who decided that no one would recognize any of Duval Patrick's words as they were "just words." She also was the one who put the reference to his grandmother in his wonderful speech on race. Obama didn't want to do it but in her disguise of a Democratic Karl Rove, she convinced him it would be great.
In her role as a campaign advisor for Obama she set up hordes of young women to faint at his concerts. She told him that this would give him an aura of excitement. She told him to focus on the red states that Democrats will never win in the general to show that he could bridge the gap between red and blue and make America purple.
Senator Obama wanted to be specific on issues. She said, NO! Talk only about change and vague generalities. She also befriended Michelle Obama and I think you know where the quote about being proud of America for the first time came from. Who do you think convinced MSNBC that going all the way for Obama would draw the right kind of viewers?
Oh, poor Senator Obama. Set up by the evil Hillary Clinton.
Damn you Nostradumbass!Labels: Ayers, Clinton, MSNBC, Obama, Reverend Wright, Rezko
We've been saying all along that Senator Obama's record has not been examined. We've been pooh-poohed.
We've been saying that Senator Clinton has not run a vicious campaign. We've run up against the "conventional wisdom" and the talking points of everyone from Maureen Dowd to Keith Olbmermann.
Who was right?
If Senator Obama's record had been even slightly looked at by a not completely in love with him press this story of the Church of our Lady of Perpetual Resentment (come for the pancake breakfast, stay for the rage) would have come out months ago.
If Clinton had been running a vicious campaign this story would have come out months ago.
When I talk to regular people, either pro Hillary, undecided or right they all say the same thing - the press is in the tank for Obama. They haven't bothered to get past his soaring renditions of Duval Patrick's greatest hits (he's our own Celene Dion) to look at what he's done.
They are too busy buying into his line that Senator Clinton needs to disclose her tax returns to ask him, hey if you said you made a bone headed decision to allow Resko to help you buy your house will you give it back and how can we trust you to make good decisions once elected? They believe him when he says her back hurt his knife and she should apologize.
John brought up a great point this evening that Senator Obama has not made a case for why he should be Commander in Chief. He campaigns on amorphous promises of change without offering us any concrete evidence that he can handle the job.
If he gets the nomination John McCain will be our next president. I think it was Molly who commented that you can't run a man who went to a church who's preacher said God Damn American from the pulpit against a man who fought in a war and was a POW for five years.
Super Delegates unite - we have nothing to lose but the Presidency.Labels: Clinton, McCain, Obama, olbermann, Rezko
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