1997 — A building Rezko’s company owns goes without heat for five weeks during the winter of 1997 until the city takes the company to court.

Obama was in the state senate at that time and I’ll be that building was in, or very near to, Obama’s district. And it surely was covered in all of the Chicago newspapers. Why wasn’t Obama appalled? Why didnt he take action to protect those tenants freezing in those awful buildings?

I saw it somewhat differently. Hillary returned hers to the person who gave it to her. Obama made a public statement that he gave the money to charity. Talk about Obama making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear-first he made an error in taking the money,then tried to make himself look good by giving the money to charity. He’s cleaner because he took someone else’s money and gave it to charity? Obama is a victim of muddled thinking.

I understand, in some part, the corruption of Bush/Cheney re: the Saudi connections.
I don’t understand why you thought I was “blowing smoke.”

Barack Obama’s office would have received complaints, so he can’t honestly claim that he didn’t know.

We know Obama didn’t get any legislation done until he stole other legislators bills with Jones’s help his very last year, so what the hell was he doing?

It sure wasn’t constituent services.

But while it isn’t happening people are suffering, children go without a decent education or medical care and the elite media “does” lunch with the corrupt officials that they should be nailing to the barn door.

Yes, you’re right.

And Larry wrote a piece about Fallon resigning, apparently the last vestige between Cheney, and sanity.

And Cheney would bomb Iran, though I don’t know if he will.

He bombed an innocent Iraq, and our congress let him, still let’s him.

Why?

Like Bruce Springsteen said the level of criminal ineptitude is infuriating, and we are all working to change it, me, you, Susan, Larry, every person with his or her eyes open.

And it is making a difference, really.

Revealing the truth is half the battle, but it’s a whole new system, don’t look for the press to help, you’re setting yourself up for a losing battle, psychologically, and that’s the point.

The good thing is, all those Cheney type people, whether the press, or the politicians, or the military, are morons, flaming morons.

Don’t stop doing what’s right, though.

Also, I believe there are people within our government who do care, who do respect the law. Despite Cheney’s “wins” (firing Fallon, say) he also seems to lose the greater war, the neocons have less power today, than they did 8 years ago.

I think it would be a different story if we had the national press hammering him like they keep after Hillary and the red herring of tax returns.

At the very least we should be hearing stories about how incompetent he is proving to be, he can’t even manage his records… another similarity to George W. who’s administration can’t find critical emails they were required by law to preserve!

It goes along with not being able to press the right buttons when voting on critical issues in the Illinois State Legislature, even though they were color coded buttons! Does he need someone check his work before voting? Someone to guide his hand when voting?

All these boneheaded and dumb mistakes have to come home to roost sooner or later. I just hope it isn’t after he gets the Nomination and we’re stuck with deciding between voting for an incompetent, empty suit with no moral compass (sound familiar? He really is starting to remind me of George W.) or staying home.

The Chicago media have pressed him over and over to produce those records. But he says he didn’t have enough staff to keep those records.