Obama-Rezko Redux

The msm won’t report on any of this until obama the fraud has secured the nomination. Pretty outrageous on what the DNC has done to our party. So be it, they will reep what they sow. If not Hillary then McCain.

Hopefully someone reports it..better late than never.

This guy is a clear anhd present danger for the USA.

This post makes me homesick for Chitown. I grew up there and left the two years after Daley I died. Chitown makes local politics in every other city I have lived in look amateurish.

Why is this being ignored? This is crazy.

Are there “veiled” threats or what?

I don’t get it.

When it does blow, who is going to be held responsible?

I’m feeling depressed. The polls keep moving in Obama’s favor. It doesn’t make any sense. Maybe this is how it was meant to be, America collapses from the inside. The radicals have finally gotten the reins and we are headed for a fall just like that of Rome. I hope it isn’t so, but I am beginning to feel it is.

i had heard some of this,as i lived there 2 yrs.will someone please wake up the media…why did fitzgerald not go farther,before b.hussein obama is potus…this is disturbing on so many levels….

All of this is very well know to many. Evelyn Pringle expose was extensive and covered every connection. No one cares, the Precious has money, and the DNC is seeing green, so they don’t care. This is above the intellect of the MSM so they won’t bite. It is up to us to keep this information circulating, eventually when BO is vulnerable someone will pounce, hopefully Fitzgerald. A PAC needs to put it in a full page ad accross the country and then it can’t be ignored, and it sure as hell won’t be MoveOn the Obamabot, I have my money on PUMA.

I wouldn’t put too much stock in those “POLLS”! The very same people that take these “POLLS” are the same people trying to shove this Douche-bag down our throats.
What really gets me is what Obama did today. He VOTED FOR the FISA bill! Where is the outrage from his Disciples on this? That Kool-Aid is awfully powerful!

I was over at some of those “SITES WE DON”T MENTION” and all I read were excuses as to why this Flip Flopping Gas Bag voted the way he did. They are even attacking Hillary for Voting against it! can you F****ing believe that? They are actually attacking her for standing up for the Constitution!

I meant…Yesterday! Thats when Obama screwed us all by voting for FISA!

and in the indictment just what was the political candidate accused of doing?

That’s good that they’re talking about Hillary. Means she a force with which they know they’ll have to contend with in August.

Great peice of work! I have maintained for quite sometime now, that the motivation of the Chicago crew was to get Fitzgerald yanked out of Atty’s office for northern Illinois. If Obama wins the White House Fitzgerald will gone so fast it’ll make your head spin.

These people have been plundering the coffers of Illinois & Chicago for decades. Now the want the keys to the Oval & our Treasury.

THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!

Good News Again

Senator Clinton’s delegates have been coordinating on their own, however, which they have every right to do. They are supporting one another and attempting to prepare a nominating petition to be used at the convention if the usual rules apply. Of course none of Senator Clinton’s delegates want to put her in an awkward position, either during the current negotiations or at the party convention itself.

Throughout the day, the Clinton delegates have been preparing a petition, which requires the collection of a certain number of delegate signatures from different state delegations. Then, they need a safe place to send their signatures. It is with real honor that I tell readers of this space that the delegates have asked me to consider to accepting their signatures and to keep the paperwork safe until the time when it can be used to aid Senator Clinton. The delegates know I will guard that paperwork with my life. They also know that I will not release it without being sure that any such release will not harm Senator Clinton, who I continue to hold in the highest esteem.

http://heidilipotpourri.blogspot.com/

Slumlords for Obama:

The developers gave Obama their financial support. Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko all served on Obama’s campaign finance committee when he won a seat in the US Senate in 2004.

The problems with all the developments involved where known long before 2004.

Obama says he “didn’t know”. Nothing pisses me of more about Obama than this public housing story.

I love reading all your intellectual posts BUT

WILL YOU PLEASE, PLEASE NOT RESPOND TO THE TROLLS. Leave them alone. Just scroll past their posts. DO NOT engage them. Let them talk to themselves. They get very desperate when no one, and I MEAN NO ONE responds to them. They are only here because you engage them and it just pisses me off to have them here and spouting their stupid nonsense.

A must read:

Obama not keeping promise to fully disclose fundraising ‘bundlers’

Barack Obama has long been among the most outspoken critics of the influence of money in politics.

Yet records show that in his presidential campaign, he has not lived up to his promise to fully disclose the identities of his top money-collectors who bundle millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Since November, Obama had added just two new names to a list of more than 326 fundraisers who have bundled contributions of $50,000 or more for him, despite the campaign’s taking in more than $180 million during that time.

After receiving an inquiry from The New York Times, the campaign scrambled Thursday evening to update its list of bundlers, adding 185 names to it — a more than 50 percent jump — and increasing the amounts some were credited with raising.

With individual contributions limited to $2,300, bundlers fuel the fundraising of presidential campaigns by collecting piles of checks from wealthy acquaintances in a practice that critics say gives them excessive influence. While Obama has collected unprecedented amounts in small donations over the Internet, he also has a formidable high-dollar fundraising apparatus.

At least 60 members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, who have each committed to raising at least $250,000 for him, were not on the publicly available bundler list on the campaign’s Web site as of Thursday afternoon. Several of the missing members said in interviews that they began raising money for Obama in early to mid-2007 and already exceeded their $250,000 goal.

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/12928

I’ve lived in and around Chicago all of my life. My father was a fireman and my greatuncle was very high in politics–one of Daley, Sr.–I can’t say because it will give my last name–but, my uncle was a judge.

I would like to paint a happy picture, but can’t. The Chicago Combine is very powerful, however, I see Fitzgerald making a big crack in that coalition.

I wish you all could see the part of Chicago that Rezko and Obama turned to deplorable slums. To hear what past tenants say would shock you.

All I can say is we have to do our vetting of Obama, MSN, CNN, and MSNBC, as local TV stations only report a glimpse of what has taken place, not a full account of what you will find out. Money, that’s all it takes, can buy you all the good news you want.

If you have doubts, which I would coming from a comment section, go into the history of the Chicago 7 trial. See what happened to judge, jury, prosecuters, and media. They have an interesting story and is published for your review. Go to your library, you’ll be amazed… or look it up on the net.

I wonder if Senator Obama was for FISA to keep from being on the recieving end? But even more, just think about all the online activities people are constantly stating about the internet thugs. The people calling leaving death threats and harrasing people. I dont think people looked at it from that angle. The information the President can find out….think of all of BOs associations here in the U.S.

How much you wanna bet that they will all of a sudden take “very seriously” all the information that people have constantly talked about but no one spoke up. Maybe thats why the MSM has been giving BO the jesus in a manger treatment. I get the feeling the Democratic Party have just f&%ked themselves over.

Plus it answered my question of “When will the media do its job”: Answer: FISA. If the Dems feels like Obama has nothing to hide…and are willing to put there political careers on the line…. They can access phone records and now have immunity. Oh I really think shit will hit the fan.

chicago got the name “windy city” not due to it’s climate but due to the airbag politicians that reside there

Related article from the NY Times, published in the Kansas City Star — Valerie Jarrett is mentioned at the end. Too bad the “context” of the Jarrett connection outlined in Kirk’s posting is not mentioned in this article:

Obama not keeping promise to fully disclose fundraising ‘bundlers’
“Obama was saying he was the most transparent, but it wasn’t even on par with Bush and Cheney.” — Alexander Cohen, senior researcher at Public Citizen.

By MICHAEL LUO and CHRISTOPHER DREW
The New York Times

Barack Obama has long been among the most outspoken critics of the influence of money in politics.

Yet records show that in his presidential campaign, he has not lived up to his promise to fully disclose the identities of his top money-collectors who bundle millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Since November, Obama had added just two new names to a list of more than 326 fundraisers who have bundled contributions of $50,000 or more for him, despite the campaign’s taking in more than $180 million during that time.

After receiving an inquiry from The New York Times, the campaign scrambled Thursday evening to update its list of bundlers, adding 185 names to it — a more than 50 percent jump — and increasing the amounts some were credited with raising.

With individual contributions limited to $2,300, bundlers fuel the fundraising of presidential campaigns by collecting piles of checks from wealthy acquaintances in a practice that critics say gives them excessive influence. While Obama has collected unprecedented amounts in small donations over the Internet, he also has a formidable high-dollar fundraising apparatus.

At least 60 members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, who have each committed to raising at least $250,000 for him, were not on the publicly available bundler list on the campaign’s Web site as of Thursday afternoon. Several of the missing members said in interviews that they began raising money for Obama in early to mid-2007 and already exceeded their $250,000 goal.

Obama has made transparency a cornerstone of his campaign, even introducing a bill in the Senate last year that would mandate that presidential candidates identify their bundlers.

But Obama’s spotty record in disclosing new bundlers in recent months, despite repeated entreaties from watchdog groups, compares unfavorably to that of George W. Bush during his two runs for president.

“Obama was saying he was the most transparent, but it wasn’t even on par with Bush and Cheney,” said Alexander Cohen, senior researcher at Public Citizen, a nonpartisan watchdog group that recently sent letters to Obama and Sen. John McCain with seven other organizations calling for them to disclose more information about their donors.

Obama campaign officials acknowledged Thursday that they had fallen behind on their plan to update their list quarterly and that they had not added any names since January. “Keeping track of how much our bundlers have raised is not an exact science, and we will be vigilant in updating those names and figures,” Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, said in a statement.

McCain, who has also railed against the influence of money on politics, has also been lax. Despite promising early on to disclose bundlers, it was only in April that the campaign released a list of just over 100 top fundraisers, who had brought in $100,000 or more. Since then, McCain has added only one name to his list, who earn the title of “Trailblazer” if they raise more than $100,000, and “Innovator” if they exceed $250,000.

It is unclear how many bundlers might be missing from McCain’s list. He has enjoyed a surge in fundraising in recent months, after struggling much of last year, and absorbed many former fundraisers for Mitt Romney, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other Republican rivals who were not on his initial list.

Brian Rogers, a spokesman for McCain, said Thursday that staffers were in the process of updating their bundler list, saying he believed it was “reasonable” to except the campaign would add to it “every couple months.”

“It’ll be updated in the next week or so,” Rogers said. “This is something Sen. McCain believes in. He’s committed to being open and transparent.”

Highlighting his commitment to beating back special interests in politics, Obama makes a point of declining contributions from lobbyists and political action committees. And he often cites as his signal accomplishment in the Senate his role in the passage of another bill last year that required lobbyists to disclose their bundled donations — a law that has not yet gone into effect. He also became the first candidate to post a list of his top fundraisers early last year.

At a debate in South Carolina last year, Obama boasted of his campaign’s level of disclosure and his efforts on the issue in the Senate.

“That’s the kind of leadership that I’ve shown in the Senate,” Obama said. “That’s the kind of leadership that I showed when I was state legislator. And that’s the kind of leadership that I’ll show as president of the United States.”

Although there is no legal requirement for candidates to disclose their bundlers, in 2000 and 2004, President Bush identified people who had raised at least $100,000 for his campaign, whom he called “Pioneers.” In 2004, he also listed the names of those who had raised $200,000 or more, calling them “Rangers.”

Reporters and watchdog groups pored over Bush’s lists, eventually discovering that 49 Pioneers or Rangers later became ambassadors.

In March, after months of requests from the Chicago Sun-Times, the Obama campaign released to the newspaper a roster of nearly 300 people on its National Finance Committee. But the campaign declined this week to release a more recent roster to The New York Times.

A dozen Obama fundraisers confirmed in interviews that they had either surpassed the $50,000 mark for Obama and were not on the campaign’s bundler list, or were no longer in the correct category on the campaign’s Web site, which divides bundlers by those who have raised more than $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000.

“The conspiracy theory is they don’t want you to know everybody,” said Mitchell Berger, a lawyer in Florida who signed on with the Obama campaign early this year but declined to say exactly how much he has raised, except to confirm it was more than $250,000. “The Mitchell-Berger-I’ve-been-in-campaigns’ theory is, this is not the first I’d do in the morning if I’m running a campaign, update a finance list.”

In late April, one name was actually removed from the Web site, that of Robert Blackwell Jr., a Chicago businessman. Blackwell’s name was taken off the list in late April after Los Angeles Times revealed that he had paid Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer for legal advice for a technology firm he owned and that Obama had written a letter on Blackwell’s behalf so another company he owned could receive a state grant.

The Obama campaign said they removed Blackwell’s name because they learned that he had not met the $50,000 threshold.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton early last year released a list of her “Hillraisers,” people who had raised $100,000 or more for her. But she also stopped updating her list, of more than 320 names, in November, according to watchdog groups, soon after one of her top bundlers, Norman Hsu, who had raised more than $800,000, was disgraced amid accusations of fraud and questionable fundraising tactics.

While the Hsu case cast a harsh spotlight on the often-hidden nature of bundlers in campaigns, it is not at all clear that the Obama campaign was seeking to hide anything in its sporadic updating of its bundling list.

As of Thursday afternoon, the finance committee members missing from Obama’s list included some of the campaign’s earliest and most high-profile supporters, including Valerie Jarrett, a top Obama aide.

Alfredo J. Balsera, a committee member and a communications consultant in Miami, said he began raising money for Obama in the first half of 2007 and had collected much more than $250,000.

Jonathan Perdue, a business consultant in Mill Valley, Calif., said he had collected checks for Obama’s campaign from several hundred donors since last fall and had also passed the $250,000 mark.

Like several others interviewed, they said they did not know that Obama had posted a bundlers list on his Web site, or that their names were not on it.

“I’m sure it’s just an administrative thing,” Perdue said, adding that he trusted the campaign would fix it.

Submitted by Keith Chrostowski on July 10, 2008 – 8:07pm.
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Please make room under the bus…Incoming:

Denver to homeless: Why not visit the zoo while the press are here?

Denver wants to put its best foot forward during the Democratic convention, which means they want to get the homeless out of sight while the media focuses on the city. Instead of making panhandling illegal, which might solve at least some of the problem, Denver will pay for its homeless to ride buses and visit tourist sites

“If they don’t want to get caught up in the protests or demonstrations, we’ll find other activities that will keep them busy,” said John Parvensky, President of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.

A plan has been developed to provide interested homeless people with free access to cultural activities. They include the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and they won’t have to worry about paying for transportation.

“We’ll have bus tokens if they need them,” Parvensky said.

Also five, big screen TVs are being donated to a teen day shelter. One hope is to engage some of the homeless children in the political process by allowing them to see convention unfold on television. But another purpose is to draw them away from the streets while the Convention is underway.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/10/denver-to-homeless-why-not-visit-the-zoo-while-the-press-are-here/

Obama’s Lead over McCain Slips a Bit in New Jersey

The gap between the two major presidential contenders has narrowed to 5 percentage points in New Jersey,
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/new_jersey/election_2008_new_jersey_presidential_election

What Motivates Hate-filled Obamabots?

They love their candidate? The really believe in his message? They care about the country?

These hateful messages being written by Obama supporters, the threats and intimidation tactics, are they learned? Is there a training program for these Obamabots? We think the answer is a bit more simple – and it lies directly with the candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.

it’s “ACHIEVED” not Achieve!

Sorry…where are my manners….

HELLO EVERYONE!
How are we doing this rainy night?..( at least it is here in chicago)

Great to see we have the 2nd shift of Obots here with us tonight,,,Just like clock work! Hey if you Obots want to go play on your X0Box, I will punch your time cards for you. Don’t worry, I won’t tell “HIS HOLINESS” that you were mot doing your jobs. can’t have anymore unemployed kids out there can we?

Ahhh yes!

The true nature of an Obot! When all else fails, spew profanities!
Yes, take another sip of the Kool-Aid Obot! numb your mind to the realities of “Your Precious”!

Yes…Michigan City is about 1 1/2 hr drive from me. Depending on the traffic on 90. My Mother in law had a home there a few years ago

Hehehe….
There is a great story in today’s Chicago SunTimes titled…” Below The Belt”!
Guess the Chicago papers didn’t take to kindly to Jesse Sr. talking about cutting off Obambi’s Gonads!

Funny thing though, I thought OBambi was a Eunuch. He has no balls! So how can he lose what he does not have? I wonder if Michelle keeps those locked in a box like those Chinese balls that you buy in those tourist traps.

Off subject, but I just got an e-mail from Hawaian Airlines asking me to check out this sight(www.StopOilSpeculationNow.com). It’s worth checking out.

Gotta fly now….

Take care all, Even you “Believe”.
See you all tomorrow. G’nite!

This is all just too much! Is the world about to end maybe?! I mean, we’ve seen corrupt politicians before. We’ve dealt with them, polished them up and tried to see the good in them even when they were covered in slime, but we don’t even know who Obama is, but we DO know that he is about as corrupt and covered in slime as all the rest and yet he’s sold himself as something different…and people have fallen for it. I’m sick to my stomach.

I am not familiar with the name Kirk Tofte. I think I read some irritation by other commenters of yet another summary that did not credit those who did the real digging on this story. Nevertheless, this is a good one — some organizations could boil this down into a punchy story and advertise it in every major newspaper across the country as well as on cable and network news. Great project for a 527 or some other group.

The stench is overwhelming. PUMA POWER FOR CLEAN-UP. Buy your $50 tee shirts to pay off Hillary’s primary debt, or contribute $5 or more to the final push. We PUMA’s have already reduced the debt by half. We have less than $5 mill to go. We do not want this corrupt, narcissistic AH for Pres, do we?

The tape has finally dropped:

http://whiteytape.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/the-whitey-tape-is-here/

All I can say is, whooaa!! It even includes Rezko smoking meth in the background!!

Did I hear some chatter here earlier about a few busloads going to Denver? Aw, that’s sweet, I knew you’d come around to supporting Mr. Obama!

First, they ignore us.
Then, they insult us.
Then, they attack us.
Then, we win.
-M. Gandhi

Your fear is pungent.

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