Breaking: “FBI asked questions on Rezko land deal”
By SusanUnPC on November 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago Mansion, Chicago politics, Tony Rezko
From today’s Washington Times — you know, that major newspaper whose reporter was kicked off of Obama’s plane last week, along with reporters for the New York Post and Dallas Morning News (see American Girl in Italy’s “love me, or else!)”:
A former Illinois real estate specialist says FBI agents have questioned him about a Chicago property that had been bought by convicted felon Tony Rezko’s wife and later sold to the couple’s next-door neighbor, Sen. Barack Obama.
The real estate specialist, Kenneth J. Conner, said bank officials replaced an appraisal review he prepared on the property and FBI agents were investigating in late 2007 whether the Rezko-Obama deal was proper.
“Agents and I talked about payoff, bribe, kickback for a long time, though it took them only a short number of minutes of talking with me while looking at the appraisal to acknowledge what they already seemed to know: The Rezko lot was grossly overvalued,” Mr. Conner told The Washington Times Monday.
“Rezko paid the asking price on the same day Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price to the same seller for his adjacent mansion,” he said. “This begs the question of payoff, bribe, kickback.” ….
Read the full article today at the Washington Times.
NOW, because it deserves to be read in full — and Truthteller went to the time-consuming trouble to LINK ALL of NoQuarterUSA’s articles on Tony Rezko — here is his latest article on Tony Rezko because NO ONE ELSE knows the terrible story of Tony Rezko and Barack Obama like Truthteller (who’s hosting our great ELECTION NIGHT show tonight!):
“BREAKING: Obama Land Deal with Rezko and Mutual Bank Subject of New Court Complaint.”
No Quarter introduced readers to the Mutual Bank in Chicago after a Chicago Sun-Times columnist mentioned how a certain financial institution in Chicago would become the subject of a federal probe to be conducted by Fitzgerald’s prosecutors in relation to the conviction of Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Although I cautioned I did not have conclusive evidence when I argued Mutual Bank is most probably the financial institution in question, it now appears I may have been correct.
For according to a Washington Times exclusive printed today, a Real Estate and Commercial Credit Analyst of Mutual Bank has assumed whistleblower status and filed complaint against his former employer.
The subject of his complaint is the Mutual Bank and its potentially fraudulent reappraisal of the lot on which Obama’s home sits.
Obama, we recall, was only able to purchase the mansion he could not afford in June 2005 as a result of Rita Rezko’s ability to secure a mortgage for the lot on which the home sits from Mutual Bank.
And yes, Obama is involved in this complaint, for his decision to purchase a 10 foot strip of the lot on which his home sits from Rita Rezko in January 2006 was, according to the complaint, the reason why these potentially fraudulent reappraisals of the Rita Rezko lot were drafted.
I quote the Washington Times:
In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko’s property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document.
Mr. Connor, a real estate and commercial credit analyst at the Mutual Bank Corp. in Chicago, also noted in the complaint that the bank received a grand jury subpoena in October 2006 requiring it to produce information concerning Mrs. Rezko’s purchase, including the bank’s files on the property.
Mutual Bank, Rita Rezko’s account and the mortgage Rita Rezko received from Mutual for the lot on which Obama’s home sits were the subjects of a grand jury subpoena in 2006. I recommend you read my essay on Rita Rezko, the Obama land deal and Mutual Bank for an explication of why the mortgage she received from Chicago machine banker “Uncle” Amrish Mahajan of Mutual would have raised the eyebrows of federal prosecutors.
The Washington Post continues:
The complaint also said that the grand jury wanted information on Mrs. Rezko’s checking account and loan file and that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) had audited the Rezko file - although Mr. Connor’s lower reappraisal had been replaced with a higher amount.
“Connor’s internal whistle-blowing activity at Mutual Bank implicates Mutual Bank and the potentially guilty officers thereof to prosecution under federal and Illinois statutes,” said the complaint, filed by attorney Glenn R. Gaffney.
The complaint said Mutual Bank officials could be guilty of making false statements, willfully overvaluing property, bank fraud, witness retaliation, willful violation of a lawful subpoena, FDIC violations, and state banking regulations…
According to the complaint, Mr. Connor reviewed the appraisal of the Rezko property by another firm, Adams Appraisal, which had set the value at $625,000. Mr. Connor’s complaint said that he told his bosses in a report that the property had been overvalued by at least $125,000 and that a “reasonable and fair evaluation” should have been no greater than $500,000.
Why would Mutual Bank desire to inflate the value of the Rezko property on which the Obama home sits? Why would Mutual Bank risk obstructing justice? A paragraph in the Washington Times exclusive answers these questions. I quote them again:
The complaint said the Rezko loan was approved by Mutual Bank President and CEO Amrish Mahajan and others so that Mrs. Rezko could buy a 9,090-square-foot vacant parcel of real estate. It said that in January 2006, Mrs. Rezko and Mr. Obama, along with his wife Michelle, signed an agreement to sell a 10-foot strip of the property to the Obamas. At that point, according to the complaint, Mr. Connor’s firm asked him to conduct the reappraisal.
Connor, in other words, was fired for noting that the value of the property had been inflated.
For if Mutual adhered to Connor’s appraisal, Rita Rezko would have received less money from Obama for the ten foot strip of land next to his home he purchased from the convicted slum landlord’s wife.
And Mahajan, the CEO of Mutual, had an interest in ensuring Rezko would receive more money from Obama, for Mahajan is deeply imbricated in the Chicago machine that used Obama to funnel government revenue into the privatization of public housing scheme from which Obama’s friends profited.
Now wonder why Mutual removed Connor’s appraisal from the Rita Rezko file.
Mahajan, the Mutual Bank, Rita Rezko and the Obama land deal are now the subjects of a complaint filed with the Circuit Court of Cook County, and Obama’s financial dealings with the Mutual Bank and with Rita and Antoin “Tony” Rezko are the subjects of news articles that explore Chicago corruption and questionable real estate transactions.
I guess the deal really was “boneheaded.”
No Quarter asked readers to focus on the land deal and on Mutual when the Chicago Sun-Times mentioned that a financial institution is the subject of federal prosecutors’ interest, for Obama’s decision to purchase land from Rita Rezko catalyzed all the press on his questionable land deal with convicted slumlord Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
Now we know that transaction was the subject of a federal subpoena in 2006, and now we know a complaint has been filed against Mutual for intimidating employees and attempting to increase the value of the Obama lot most probably in order to ensure Rita Rezko would receive enough money to repay the $500,000 loan she received from Mahajan and the Mutual Bank even though she only earns $35,000 per annum at her government job.
Much more is to be learned about this land deal. But now that it is the subject of a complaint and a federal subpoena filed in 2006, I imagine we will learn that Obama chose Rezko to tour the mansion and purchase the lot on which it sits in order to ensure that he could later repay Rezko for the land he could not afford.
Why else did Mahajan, one of Rezko’s bankers who also sat on the Chicago Plan Commission of Daley with Valerie Jarrett and Allison Davis, manipulate the value on the lot when Obama was ready to repay the Rezkos for the favor?
Must money always be kept within a small network of corrupt Chicago machine cogs?
I imagine we will read more about Obama and his financial dealings with Rita Rezko and Amrish Mahajan’s Mutual Bank before votes are cast in November. It was a “boneheaded” deal indeed, Senator Obama.
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No Quarter dossier on Obama and Rezko:
- About the Financial Institution Mentioned in the Chicago Sun-Times: Obama, Tony Rezko, Amrish Mahajan, the Kenwood Mansion & Rita Rezko
- Rezko, Giannoulias, Obama - Dominoes?
- CORROBORATED: Rezko Speaks, Prosecutors Interested in Obama Listen
- More Than Just a Boneheaded Mistake
- The Epistolary Rezko
- The Illinois Combine II: The DNC Moves Into Chicago
- Obama’s Gangster Mentality
- Prescience: “Will Rezko Blow Up Obama?”
- “CHICAGO MACHINE”
- The Tipping Point?
- Barack, The Truth Ain’t A Smear
- Recently Unsealed Documents Confirm Obama Heavily Embroiled in Rezko Case
- Boston Globe Exposé, Part II: Barack Obama (D-Slumlord) Is Aloof, Oblivious, Dangerous
- Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slum Landlord Patron
- Patrick Fitzgerald Issues Obama A Warning
- What Hypocrite Obama Should Have Discussion during His Wesleyan Commencement Address
- Barack Obama’s Candidacy as a Take on The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A Majority of One: On Losing the Democratic Base
- Ok, So Tell Us What IS Allowed
- Two Lone Voices Speak for Millions of Us
- What’ll Be Left of the Democratic Party
- It Ain’t Over: Obama MAY Have to Pay the Piper After All
- Obama to Donate Contribution from Rezko’s Iraqi Friend
- Be My Friend, Godfather
- Jaws V, Starring Barack Obama
- The Chicago Three: Obama, Ayers & Rezko
- Charlie Gibson, Will You Ask Barack about Nadhmi Auchi?
- Saddam Hussein, Barack Hussein Obama’s Hidden Real Estate Partner?
- Barack “I-Didn’t-Know” Obama
- Those Who Haunt Him
- Hillary’s Campaign Comes out Swinging
- “Nobie and Obama”
- Authorization to Use Misleading Falsehoods
- What We’ve Noticed about the Speech
- This Is for Main Street (And for the Forgotten People Barack Obama Doesn’t Know)
- Michelle Obama: “Give Us Something Here”
- Rezko Muckrakers Alert!
- The Forgotten People
- Irrefutable Proof That Obama’s Own District Was Home to 11 Rezko Foreclosed Properties
- Speak the Truth, Fallout Be Damned
- The Rezko Saga: Two Videos
- Get Your Daily Rezko Dose Here
- The Media’s Panderbears, Part I
- Sunday Scoops: Rezko-gate and Adviser-gate
- Obama’s Prime-Slime Advisors
- Good Morning, Barack! (Rezko Got Jobs for Your Staffers? Do Tell.)
- Today’s Rezko Trial Scoops (And Prosecutors on $20K Kickback to Obama)
- ABC News: Rezko $50 Million in Debt
- 312.321.2417
- (Pants on Fire!) Lynn Sweet: Obama and His Taking Questions on Rezko
- Rezko Trial: Obama May Be Witness
- Obama’s Judgment on the Eve of Judgment Day
- Truthtelling from Lanny Davis (What about “Iron My Shirt?”)
- Experience, and Experiences (of the Rezko Sort)
- No He Can’t Because Yes They Will
- More Questions on Rezko
- “Obama Bagman” in Jail
- Democratic Death Wish
- How to Buy A Mansion You Can’t Afford
- Will Rezko Blow Up Obama?
- It is “Possible” Obama Was Aware of Rezko’s Financial and Legal Woes
- 20-Year Associate of Obama Arrested
- Look before You Leap: Obama’s Mobbed-Up Allies
- Politics Is A Blood Sport
- BREAKING: ABC News Reports $100,000 from Rezko That Obama Hasn’t Returned
- CNN on Rezko and Obama: This Is Obama’s “Slumwater”
- FACT CHECK: Obama, His Contributor Rezko, The Slum Landlord Business
- A Dope with Hope?
- Obama/Rezko: It Comes down to Judgment
- Didn’t Obama Watch The Firm
- Steve Clemons on Tonight’s Debate
- Patrick Fitzgerald Ties Obama to Rezko Indictments
- All in for Hillary
- Obama, His Lobbyists and His Cronies
RezkoWatch contains even more information on Obama’s deep and problematic ties to convicted slumlord and notorious political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
Also listen to our NQR Radio Show entitled “READING REZKO with Truthteller and SusanUnPC”
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By Sarah Palin (Release date: November 17. 2009)
Jeez, I wish this had hit EARLIER!!!!!
Just got this note from a contact in Chicago… re; last night….
“I told you I’d keep my ears open for whatever re:tomorrow election day, the (ego-fest in the park w/Barack) and the possibility of civil unrest.
This is what I’ve heard on news radio tonight: The Police Dept is cancelling all vacations, time off, etc for tomorrow. (I believe the Fire Department is as well)The Hospitals in the area are increasing their emergency room staff by 10%. One of the hospitals (Mt Sinai, I believe) is getting their equipment ready to decontaminate people, clothing, etc in case there is any biological or chemical substance unleashed.”
GREAT UNITY, hug???
Because, if Obama looses you will see all hell break loose.
yes, this is all part of my strategy that i gave to him…
get 1 million angry freeloaders in a park so the media and electoral dudes are basically blackmailed into declaring Dear Leader the winner…
regardless of the voter fraud that would have been sorted out over the coming weeks…
Love,
Bill
and yes, he makes me call him Dear Leader too…
I see you *finally* got smart, Bill. Back in the day these things were so tame–Owsley would parachute in with 5000 hits of acid and everyone would just lie down and giggle. Now we have kool-aid!
Hey Billy the bomber,
How was it ending up at the polls at the same time as your pals the Obama’s this morning?
For ‘just some guy’ in the neighborhood, it seems you ‘cross paths’ with them quite a bit.
I meant, HUH??
My stomach is churning and I’m so nervous today….
I need to look at my “safe-haven” post again…it’s up at http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com
If you want to feel good about SOMETHING, it’s the true story of my rescue of Slicker on Nov. 4, 2002…with pics…you will feel good at least for awhile….
Thank you for that!
I loved reading about Slicker! How lucky you are to have found each other. It made me cry.
My husband and I were rescued by our boxer boy 3 years ago. I saw his picture and just knew he was looking for us. Our lives have forever changed.
It pains my heart that Obama has made getting a dog part of his political rhetoric. I was almost sick when I read the Humane Society endorsed Obama.
What a great story! Slicker is so cute!
If BO loses, Chicago will burn. Hell, I was in Chicago when the Chicago Bulls won their 4th championship and people were flipping cars, breaking windows and rioting in VICTORY! We had the police on horseback keeping us from going anywhere. I can only imagine the riots if this thug loses tonight. They’re expecting 1 MILLION people in Grant Park. The city will burn. The country will burn….because BO will encourage it, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton will egg it on. Farrakhan, Wright and Ayers will lead the pack.
If I lived in the city, I’d stay home…..far away from Grant Park.
B I N G O ! ! ! !
Dear Leader is using the citizens of Chicago…
Dear Leader will have blood on his hands…
Love,
Bill
Don’t get overconfident, Bill. The fuzz could still bring out the Crap Cannon. (Not Dear Leader’s crap cannon, the other one.)
Those genius Israelis really invented one! They call it The Skunk.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9949
The push to find alternative, less dangerous weaponry began in 2000 after 13 Arab Israelis were killed by police fire. In a conscious effort to reduce potential injury when force is required (and to avoid future flak), Israeli security forces are now employing a new invention: “The Skunk.”
The concoction, sprayed in a cannon-like stream into the air, showering down upon crowds, is said to be highly effective.
Here’s how one BBC reporter describes it:
Imagine the worst, most foul thing you have ever smelled. An overpowering mix of rotting meat, old socks that haven’t been washed for weeks — topped off with the pungent waft of an open sewer.
Imagine being covered in the stuff as it is liberally sprayed from a water cannon.
Then imagine not being able to get rid of the stench for at least three days, no matter how often you try to scrub yourself clean.”
The stench — which apparently lingers on the skin and in hair for days and can be smelled from quite a distance — is a serious problem. Apparently, neither soap nor tomato sauce is doing the job. It’s so potent that even police stations can’t store Skunk, as the smell permeates containers.
i guess this means Rezko isn’t gonna get me my mansion then?
anyone wanna buy a t-shirt?
i’ll throw in free shipping if you order today?
anyone?
go Mccain! woo hoo!!!
Poma RAWKS!!!!
Love,
Bill
I always KNEW this would be an issue with Obama. Obama was in the court procedures, the judge said that she didn’t want to bring Obama up by name because of the election (I suspect she likes him). NOW they bring it up on election day. I think the judges should be tried for Obstruction of justice.
Obama did have some kind of “nickname” in the court documents…
was it ‘deepthroat’?
Love,
Bill
It was StickyFingers McSwindle.
they called him “political figure B” or something like that. I may have gotten the letter of the alphabet wrong.
He was called the candidate.
‘That One’
-=chortle=-
“presumptive nominee”
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Main Stream Media Farce - Keeping you in the Dark as Long as possible.
Vetting is so 70s.
Lets Elect him first, ask questions later.
Walter Cronkite? Screw that! Perez Hilton is the new standard for Journalistic integrity!
And to think that the NY Times and Washington Post went berserk over accusations from con man David Hale that Clinton had been invovled in illegal doings in Whitewater - a totally bogus charge that Hale cooked up after he got caught by the Feds for embezzling $2 million from the Small Business Administration, i.e., you and me. They couldn’t let that go even after two Republicans - Jay Stevens of the Resolution Trust Corp, and Robert Fiske, the first Whitewater independent counsel - both found that the Clintons had done nothing wrong and had actually lost all their money. Yet they could not be bothered to investigate a deal that bore a lot of similarity to the deals that just got Ted Stevens convicted! I get why Republicans wanted to sell this story, but not why these two papers were so willing to push them. (Although I suspect it was similar to the Judith Miller debacle where a star reporter was not supervised. Then other papers follow suit because it was in the revered Times.)Bet they bury this one, though, if they possibly can.
How bizarre that this comes out only on election day along with the investigator saying Palin did nothing wrong in so-called Troopergate!Very disturbing.
Both bizarre and disturbing.
Jeremiah
Love your comment…so 70s to vet the creep…elect him first, and later find out he’s a fraudulent skinny piggie with blood on his hands…yup! This camouflaged misogynist won’t take the heat in the White House for too long….jump out now, Barry Soetoro!
Please forgive if this is OT…But I thought today maybe I would be excused :)…
This is an email from a friend of mine who I emailed in Ohio to pray at Noon for McCain. Interesting perspective…
Hi Honey:
Thank you so much for the email. I did pray at noon EST and also said a prayer before noon. During my first prayer something occured to me…kind of a revelation, if you will.
It occured to me that God brought John McCain through five years of harsh treatment and captivity in the Hanoi Hilton. The Good Lord could have let him die, but He didn’t. He had something else in mind for McCain. And the Presidency is what He had in mind.
Have faith, Sweet B. And thanks again….if you didn’t send me that email I may not have prayed, and I would not have had my “revelation.” Love you…we will talk soon.
Barbara
thats sweet. Inspired me, even though i’m not really religous.
Please PEEPS, even if you hear that the MSM’s have called the election for OBOMBA, DO NOT BELIEVE it…the MSM’s want Californians to go HOME…
You peeps in Cali and Washington state and Oregon need to stay in line and make your votes for McCain and Palin heard….
Vote against OBOMBA….
I have the MSM off and will not venture out of the safety of NQ very much today. Let the assholes spin their wheels with their evil attempt to install a wannabe treasonous dictator.
I’m with you Galt. Popcorn, TV, NO MSM, and I am not leaving my house. No way. My mom keeps calling me trying to tell me numbers from Fox and I told her to stop. I don’t want to know.
What are the numbers from Fox is you would be so kind?
Andrew, you’re supposed to be at school taking abuse from your obot teachers & classmates.
No, he is supposed to be learning from us how to fend in a hostile world, and sometimes that means making a strategic withdrawal.
It’s ok to take a mental health day sometimes.
“Tweet tweet! Tweet tweet!”
Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
I am in Los Angeles…Voted McCain at 7 am today. Took a lot of crap from Obot thugs. Cried my way back to the car. But I did it. No way did I stay home today.
High five to Ofraud!
I’ll be voting in a few hours.
MacPalin!
!!
What did the Obot thugs say to you??
Good for you! I found it upsetting, too, being surrounded by Obots… But we have made our voices heard!
I know how you feel.
I cried too.
As soon as I got behind the curtain and looked at the ballot, I cried.
I thought that I had gotten over it, but as soon as I looked at the ballot and I didn’t see Hillary’s name on it, all of the emotions that I had during the primaries came flooding back.
It was easy to vote for McCain, but I still felt unbelievably sad.
I look forward to seeing John and Sarah govern in a post-partisan way and to unite the country.
Stay strong, every one, and VOTE McCain!
Interesting. I teared up, lump in my throat when I voted for Hillary. I felt victorious, righteous and inspired when I cast my vote for McCain. It was the right thing to do for our country.
Those are the emotions I felt during the primary for Hillary, and when I cast my presidential ballot for McCain last week.
Ted Kennedy’s Swim Coach
You’re a kindred spirit…Thanks for sharing. Hillary’s name
Hillary’s name
Hillary’s name
Hillary’s name
Let’s hope at least Sen. McCain (who respected HIllary throughout and said to Tim Russer “she’ll make a great president”) wins with Gov. PALIN reminding Obummer of his camouflaged misogyny that will not pay off….
or
Periodically, Obummer THE ARUGULA-THIN RESUME feels down and starts launching attacks to boost his appeal….and his baritone voice is heard yelling…
“Back to the End of the Bus, Ladies”….
Well frikken Done!
You just did that thing that people admire so much… what’s it called?
Oh yeah,
courage
God Bless You
Thanks
THANK YOU FOR VOTING TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY SAFE!!!
THANK YOU!!
Why what happened???? Why did they make you cry??
“I’m not a crook.”
Where have we heard that one before?
LOL Nixon looks like a cub scout compared to Nobo’s antics…
Vote McCain
NOT GREEN PARTY!
if there is voter fraud your 3rd party vote will aid Obama.
Can you live with that?
Save America
McCain/Palin
How will a Green Party vote aid BO? I voted for Cynthia McKinney/Green Party and I live in BO’s state of Illinois. How did my vote aid that SOB?
Sorry to be OT here, but - NQ could we possibly have an OPEN THREAD where everybody can report their voting experiences today?
All experiences: Crowds, lines, waits, discussions, impressions, etc. etc. etc.
Thank you!
great idea firefly! I agree
Yes agreed.
I voted by mail…then I heard there might be postal problems (aka postal bots)… too late for me and my family…
I noticed that the first envelope had see-through paper so I made sure to fold my ballot opposite so the bubbles could not be seen through.
My trust in the “Systeme Amerique” is nil.
I wondered about that too. Voted by mail. I noticed every worker at the post office was black. Couldn’t help wondering if they take those ballots in the back room, open them, and if it’s a vote for McCain, toss it in the trash.
Just wondering.
I was blogging on craigslist
an Obot told me they’d track my ISP and we’d be turned into soylent green…I had to look it up
holy crap these people are absolutely mental!
They are in essense the Nazis for Obama. The nazis weren’t a political party in Germany. They were Hitler’s army of supporters.
I keep thinking that’s what Bob Schieffer was alluding to when he said the Nazis started their movement with an election and he would certainly want to vote against that. Then he said it’s okay to vote against a candidate if you just don’t like that person, it doesn’t have to be about issues. You own your vote, exercise it as you wish. Hmmm, interesting. Bob Schieffer’s old enough not to care if the Obots come after him.
Soylent Green…great movie! They actually said that to you? I know they’re out for revenge, but Soylent Green is a little over the top I’d say.
Ahhhh, but Edward G Robinson got to watch a pleasant idyllic travel movie as they put him to sleep . . . I hope the Oborg are so kind . . . But we’ll probably have to watch The Messiah’s infomercial . . .
Now we are seeing how important a functioning press corps is. If we had one obama would have been run out of the senate a year ago.
I am in washington state and voted for John and Sarah. Sad about Hillary but John and Sarah will do well.
Puma!!
I’m in WA too…all blue here–it’s to make a statement– but not seeing any Obo signs except on beater cars, I guess they think their ship will come in with BHO/Biden
The kids at school weren’t as botish today. Many took the day off though.
hopefully they will get really stoned and brush off voting…
Andrew,
You have chosen the path less taken. It will never change for you, son, so you need to become a little more ready each day to know that your difference will cause you to receive flack from your peers.
How you choose to deal with that is your decision. No Columbine responses are permitted, but until they rewrite the Constitution and Bill of Rights, stay true to your beliefs and speak your mind.
You are doing something people your age don’t do so much… you are thinking. That will make you seem different from them for at least until you get into college. Then it’ll get worse!
Kidding on the last part. I think for you that college will be where you blossom and start struttin yo stuff.
Hang in there, kid. You do have friends. You will have more…
Go Mac, Go Sarah, Go PUMAs
God Bless America
I hope this elections goes to show you guys the importance of voting for youre representatives in congress. Had Obama been taken out before he had a chance to run, we wouldn’t be going through this crap.
To many people have become lazy in voting. Not wanting to care. Its going to be the death of America.
Obama was the only candidate when he ran for the Senate. He swift-boated Jack Ryan. Opened divorce records that were supposed to be sealed by the court. Didn’t suffer any consequences for it, the old story with him. The only other candidate was brought in from Maryland. So don’t blame people from Illinois for that. This is about the press and about the integrity of public servants, among whom there is now only one with any ingtegrity–John McCain.
P. S. The “youth” don’t care about integrity, the Dem youth don’t have any.
No one wants to embarrass the first AA candidate, so they don’t publicize investigations. If Obama becomes president, what happens to all these investigations? Chicago officially takes over Washington?
New Yorker political consultant Don Rose: “Money replaced bodies as the currency of Chicago politics. This new system became known as ‘pinstripe patronage’ because the key to winning was not rewarding voters with jobs but rewarding donors with government contracts.”
AKA the Illinois Combine.
Thank you truthteller and all the other great researchers here. Thank you NQ and the NQ community! It’s meant a lot to me having this haven.
I have to laugh at all of these democratic middle income voters for O. Who the hell do they think pays taxes now….here’s a heads up.
The rich don’t pay taxes…neither do the poor.
The people that carry the tax burden for the country are those that make between 50-500 thousand dollars. THATS A TON OF PEOPLE. The AMT has been shafting that class secretly for years under Bush’s tax cut plan.
Now the AMT is MORE valuable than the income tax.
O’s plan to roll back the tax cut, even if he does, will cost the govt. HUGE amounts of money…who will make up that tax burden to fund all these welfare programs????????????????????????????
I know I know…the same middle class voters who are crying about change. It’s not a war on the wealthy like O seems to convey…all this bs they were fine in the 90’s….they DONT PAY THESE TAXES…It’s a WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS! HE IS WELL AWARE OF THIS!
Oh yeah, and after we bankrupt the coal industry I guess we can build giant light domes in the inner city and power them with hope!
Come on warriors for change…get a f-ing clue!
I think that the MSM might be in for a big surprise today:
Saturday, I attended Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s Campaign Rally in Raleigh. Even though I arrived around 4:45, the lines — more than four corresponding lines — were snaking around the grounds in an effort to arrive at the entrance to the NC State Fair Ground Exposition Hall. Several in the lines around me were questioning why the event was being held in the Exposition Hall.
The Hall filled quickly and thousands were outside listening to the speeches over speakers. What we learned outside from the Campaign Staff was shocking and appalling. Governor Easley denied a request by the campaign for a larger venue in the Raleigh area, and North Carolina State University denied a request to use Carter-Finley Stadium (even though there wasn’t a home football game). We learned that the campaign had fought for the Exposition Hall. We also learned the campaign was being fined because they did not have a outdoor venue permit for the speaker. Later, I learned that the State Highway Patrol had blocked the exit to Wade Avenue, preventing potential rally attendees from using that exit to the fair ground.
The Governor’s action was an attempt to suppress political speech on Saturday in a battle-ground state where Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah drew a larger crowd than Presidential Candidate Obama drew early in the Raleigh, where Governor Easley didn’t have a problem permitting the Senator to speak. Or the crowds Vice-Presidential Candidate Biden drew across North Carolina.
This is an outrageous abuse of the Governor’s power and the citizens should know about his actions.
Evelyn Poole-Kober
Hillsborough, NC
Evelyn! This is the first I’ve heard this appalling news. It certainly wasn’t in the New & Disturber. Mike might be in for a nasty little surprise today. Mrs. McCrory has been measuring the place for drapes.
Thanks for opening my eyes.
(I’m south of Raleigh.)
Please report all of these kinds of things to Greta Van Susteren, especially any stories from the polls.
gretaelectionday@foxnews.com
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/11/04/power-problems-in-los-angeles/
as you can see from the above thread, she is taking it seriously and blogging about it
not sure what she can do but at least she’s getting it out there
she gets over a million hits a week on her blog
and I apologize for being OT in my previous post, but this stuff SUCKS
On topic, Bill Cellini, Sr. from Springfield, Illinois, another of the players in all this Chicago stuff, was indicted a couple days ago.
He’s 72, he’s rich and had an entitled life, he’s not going to prison if he can worm his way out of it. He’s another step to get our Governor, then hopefully Obama, who are all wrapped up together. He’ll sing like nobody’s business. That’s why he was next.
A Republican former alderman from Chicago took a Guilty Plea yesterday for Corruption. He was a DEM but turned republican 10 years ago. The Corruption in Chicago is all-inclusive, black and white, Dem and republican
THIS WILL NEVER BE OFF TOPIC!
Please join me now in singing the greatest song about our country.
No one else has to hear you, but if you want, stand up right now and sing:
God Bless America
God bless America, land that I love;
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America, my home sweet home,
God bless America, my home sweet home.
Every time my gut starts to churn today and I start to worry, I stop and sing this verse…
Then I wipe my eyes and carry on…
From the mountains!
To the prairies!
To the oceans!
White with foam!
God Bless America!
My home sweet home!…
God Bless The USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssIN3ustUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNqep77vBw&feature=related
Thanks Justme,
She sings lots better than I do. I seem to have a little catch in my voice today.
God Bless America
Funny, but I woke up singing God Bless the USA this morning. I always cry when I hear it or watch the video.
As a life-long Dem, I have never felt so proud of my right to vote and my vote for McCain/Palin this morning.
Actually, I voted a straight Republican ticket this morning. I definitely wanted to vote against Congressman Jerry McNerney who was an early Obama endorser, even though Contra Costa County (CA) voters had selected Hillary in the primary. How dare he go against our wishes?
Let’s pray that our fellow Americans aren’t hookwinked and bamboozled by “that one.” We need the marvericks and straight talkers more than ever!
Don’t watch the MSM today. For another bright spot in your day, look at the numbers at Marston Chronicles (http://www.marstonchronicles.info.)
He says he’s never been wrong in 45 years and he’s predicting a landslide for McCain/Palin.
God Bless America.
Wow - I will take that and run all the way to DC in January to watch President McCain being sworn on the steps of the capital!
God I hope he’s right I am praying all day the best true team gets the keys to the Whitehouse!!
GO JOHN McCAIN/SARAH PALIN~~
Thank you Zeke. I’m chiming in, loving my country. I already told this story but…I went to a GOP lunch a few weeks back. 50 people telling what it’s like to be a Republican in Hollywood with all the freaky lunatic liberals. One woman, a singer, started singing the Star Spangled Banner and I kid you not…50 people, HOLLYWOOD people, stood up and did what Obama will never do…put our hands over our hearts. That took me through a few good days right there.
Thank you Zeke–Kate Smith is looking down on you with a big smile on her face.
I think the deal between Obama and Rita Rezko is a red herring. I think that what obviously went down is that the seller of both properties (remember it was the same owner) made a deal with the Rezkos to deliberately accept a lowball figure for the lot Obama bought in return for the Rezkos paying an overinflated price for the second lot. The overvaluation of the second lot served the purpose of allowing the Rezkos to justify paying a hugely inflated price (paying the full asking price) for the second lot. It basically amounted to a created a roundabout means of passing a bribe to Obama using the owner of the properties as the middleman.
In simple terms it goes like this: I’m Tony Rezko. I want to give you, Barack Obama, a large bribe. So I say, “hey buy this property from this owner and I’ll arrange to get him to give you a $300K break on the price in return for me paying HIM $125K extra on the asking price of a second lot.” Simple, elegant, highly corrupt. Get it?
Yes, it is corrupt and there is supporting documentation.
NQ posted it just before this article.
Rita might as well be Tony under another name. Your interpretation is plausible and constitutes (a) undeclared income, an IRS problem; (b)taking a gift, for which a complaint was made to the Senate ethics committee; (c) probably a little loan fraud, with the fake appraisal; (d) payback for something else, the graft part.
Jeremiah! What ever happened to that hilarious “Bitterella” story? Which I copied of course, but not the pictures. Seems like it’s time to drag it out again.
Firefly - I agree…we should have an open thread to discuss experiences today…what we are witnessing, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeD1RcJjAg
Black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia
What learned comments from you all. Definitely an intellectual group:
“Did you hear that Obama has cooties?” “Did you know that Obama is going to make us all servants of liberalism?” “Did you know that Obama is the devil?”
What about asking whether you know that Hillary is supporting Obama. So maybe try at least to make a substantive argument rather than just pushing every bogus story and rumor out there.
funny the only time the word “cooties” comes up is in your inane post
Cooties is an example of the foolish things being said here. Not surprised that I have to explain that to you.
Great name, by the way. Really quite clever. No, really. You stuck a “N” on Obama’s name. Hilarious. You really showed him.
Jimmy,
Its election day you, fuck. Go sit in a corner and play with your little “happy knob” and let the grownups talk.
Go vote seven or eight more times like the rest of your worthless pissant pieces of shit.
Zeke, perhaps you should spend less time on your little clever expletives and take a class in grammar. Or, maybe you should just stay ignorant — it fits with your political philosophy.
Jimmy,
Didn’t you remember to play with yourself?
Oh, done already?
Did you get your crying towel out? Don’t worry… mommy will get you some nice cookies and Kool-aid and you can go back to playing video games instead of trying to think of something funny..
You are a pathetic, uninformed fool. Just because there are a lot of you doesn’t negate the fact that you lack the cognitive skill required to wipe your own ass and, as a group, have the intellectual capacity of a small slime mold.
Jimmy, with such an AUTHORITARIAN TONE of voice shouldn’t your name be James or Mr. James or Prof. James. You know, something a little bit more…substantial than Jimmeh.
Man, Johnson, you are one sad, pathetic fuck. It’s over, Obama’s going to win, and no one will ever care what you have to say again, you half-wit.
get lost
if you were so confident you already would not care what’s blogged here
remember there’s also 24 electors and the libertarian vp (with standing) suing obama for proof of citizenship, lots more fun to come
Oh yeah, that suing on the citizenship thing really worked out well for you people. Maybe you should just go outside and look for the black helicopters.
well
Souter just demanded Nobama respond with his fucking birth certificate by 12-1-08
or he can tell the supreme court that the dog ate his birth certificate in hawaii, or sumthin
Wrong. Souter did not demand that Obama produce his birth certificate. Just that he respond to Berg’s ridiculous petition for cert. I am surprised that a legal scholar like you “NObama 2″ would get that wrong. With all your legal training and everything.
What are you doin’ here then?
Shouldn’t you be home, greasin’ up the ol’ poop chute for the victory party?
GOP minority poll watchers tossed out of polling stations in Philadelphia
http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc
now we know why the washington times was kicked off obama’s plane.
Okay, You first, Jimmy Doo-fuss.
Justice Souter denies injunction for stay of predidential election
Justice Souter’s Clerk has informed Mr. Berg that Mr. Berg’s application for an injunction to stay the November 4th election has been denied. (The U. S. Supreme Court Docket is below.)
The defendants are required to respond to the Writ of Certiorari by December first, after which Mr. Berg will have an opportunity to respond.
THIS MEANS THE SCOTUS HAS DEMANDED RESPONSE FROM DEFENDANT (OBAMA) BY 12-1-08
He can’t just link SCOTUS to factforge or his own snopes or smears sites…well, he can TRY
It always works that way, foolio. The respondent to a petition for cert. always is allowed to respond. He’s not required to produce a birth certificate. He’s just required to respond as to why cert. should be denied. And cert. will be denied and Mr. Berg continue in his crackpot ways.
Rarely are cases cert-worthy…
Federal courts
In the United States, certiorari is the writ that an appellate court issues to a lower court in order to review its judgment for legal error and review, where no appeal is available as a matter of right. Since the Judiciary Act of 1925, most cases cannot be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court as a matter of right; therefore, a party who wants that court to review a decision of a federal or state court files a “petition for writ of certiorari” in the Supreme Court. If the Court grants the petition the case is scheduled for the filing of briefs and for oral argument.
Four of the nine Justices are required to grant a writ of certiorari, referred to as the “rule of four.” The great majority of cases brought to the Supreme Court are denied certiorari (approximately 7,500 petitions are presented each year, but just 80 to 150 are typically granted), because the Supreme Court is generally careful to choose only cases in which it has jurisdiction and which it considers sufficiently important (especially cases involving deep constitutional questions) to merit the use of its limited resources.
Exactly, NOBAMA2. Which is why the Supreme Court will not grant cert. on this case. Which is why Berg is a crackpot. And which is why the Court is not requiring Obama to produce a birth certificate by December 1. Which is why you are wrong and wronger.
Obama cannot respond with a simple denial.
HE MUST SHOW PROOF.
AND WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIM SHOWING SOME DEFERENCE AND RESPECT TO THE SCOTUS AND SHOWING THEM A FEW DOCUMENTS?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????
“The defendants are required to respond to the Writ of Certiorari by December first, after which Mr. Berg will have an opportunity to respond.”
Why is this so hard for you to understand. He has to respond to the “petition”. You even quote the sentence and you still can’t get it through your thick skull. He doesn’t have to produce a birth certificate, just respond to the petition. Obama’s lawyers will respond to the petition for cert. And Berg’s petition for cert will be denied (you even pointed out that most petitions are denied). Maybe go back and google some more because you don’t seem to be getting it.
Why is it so hard for you to understand this it the opportunity for the defendant to explain WHY it should be denied?
And how might a defendant do that? By whining? Directing the justices to factfuck.org?
No deary, he’ll have to man up and present a REASON they should deny. THAT would be his documents, not internet links.
Nope. Wrong again. He does not have to show that the facts are as he says. He only has to assert that the district court was right on the law, which it was. Berg did not have standing to bring this claim. Facts — like whether Obama was born in the US (which he was of course) — never even figure into the response. You really need to get your learn on.
Jimmy Douchemuch,
I know that you have issues with using that Big Knob on top of your shoulders. When you rub it, nothing fun happens and your shorts don’t get sticky.
The issue here, you ignorant fuck, is that you know that Obama has committed crimes. You know that he is ineligible under the law. You know that he cheated to get the nomination. You know that he is butthole buddies with Ayers. You know he lied to buy his house. You know he flipped off both Hillary and McCain like the punk boy he is.
You know he has never told the truth in this campaign.
And yet you support him.
That makes you culpable. It makes you complicit and it makes you a fucking lying piece of useless shit just like that Bastard you suck up to.
Well it just shows what a douchebag loser you are to vote for a FREAKY azzhole who won’t show a REAL birth certificate. Why don’t you brain dead crack zombies go play some video games. My bet is you aren’t old enough to vote.
Denying a motion for a restraining order (or injunction) only means that, after weighing the potential harm of issuing such an order now vs. waiting until later when the case is heard on its merits, the court decided in favor of later.
I want to know how this investigation will move forward IF The One, The Messiah, is elected. Will he get to control the FBI an the DOJ? Will we just not hear a thing about this because of the MSM? Will we lose our right to the Internet?
That’s all “conspiracy” theory, I’m sure. But, really, if the law will still be around, what will happen to a sitting President under investigation for something like this?
Is there a chance we’d end up with a Biden presidency? My stomach turns.
the top even in vegas already has
obama impeached in 22 months
and
Biden ‘09
or so I hear
Let’s not vote for Obama in the first place and then he’ll have to pay for his own defense instead of American Taxpayers.
Karma has opened the door. The suit against Obama was not thrown out.
Tick, tick, tick,…where’s the COLB Barky?
Too late, Buzz. Obama will win today and you can retreat into your hole and spout off conspiracy theories all day long. It’s quite ironic that some Clinton supporters who had to live through all these crackpot conspiracy theories from the nutty right wing are now embracing the same crackpot conspiracy theories.
If you’re so confident, then why are you here? Oops, didn’t mean to feed the troll.
Hey everyone. We’re voting like crazy out here in CA. It felt good to cast my vote for McCain Palin. I voted against Capps (she endorsed Obama) and for a local state senate dem. Also voted NO on prop 8 - to ban gay marriage. Geez, don’t we have important stuff to worry about??? I hope you post an open thread on voting experiences. It was a long line at 7:45 AM,took about half an hour. No interference, but no politicking either. One crazy looking lady had her McCain Palin shirt on and pajama bottoms. I had my NOBAMA magnetic sticker on my car bumper. I hope, I pray, McCain takes it.
I realized Bill and HRC will likely be voting McCain today too.
Smile.
OT But Important
I am volunteering as poll worker in California.
I am on a break right now.
Ourpolls opened 7 am pacific time.
In California-voters do not have to show identification UNLESS they are first time voters (newly registered).
So far, five new voters came in to vote and we would not have known that they were new voters if we had not chatted with them. you see, on our voting logs, they were referenced with the letter “A” indicating they are active voters.
We are not required to ask for id from Active voters.
In California, all new voters are supposed to have the letter “N” next to their name in our voter log, That is the only way we (poll workers) will know to ask them for ID. Otherwise-by law- unless they have the letter “N” next to their names, we are not allowed to ask them for id.
So…hypothetically, ANYONE can come in to vote using someone else’s name-I would not know them from Adam, and if their name was on my registered voters log, they could cast a vote-even if they NEVER voted before in my district or my state. I would not know to ask them for id to verify their identity because they do not have the letter “N” (for ‘New’) next to their name.
Our precinct will report this to the California Secretary of State as well as all appropriate agencies out here but I want to know if anything similiar is going on nationwide.
Like I said, we have caught 5 such cases completely by accident so far .
Anything similar going on anywhere else?
Does anyone have anything else to report?
Susan, Larry, can we have an open thread here on NQ where voters or pollworkers can report observations including any voting anomalies?
THIS time the individual incidents can be tracked…it was all AFTER THE FACT with the primaries…
fool me once…shame on you
fool me twice…
Thank you for this excellent post. This really made me smile: “From today’s Washington Times — you know, that major newspaper whose reporter was kicked off of Obama’s plane last week, along with reporters for the New York Post and Dallas Morning News.”
You just know there are several scores that need to be settled and the one from these journalists, well as Sarah might say - right there too, it will be delicous to watch!
Typewriterstreaming —— You betcha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!