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Facts About Obama (Letter to the Editor)

One of our readers sent us her hard-hitting, fact-driven letter to the editor published in the Queens Gazette:

Well known facts exist regarding Barack Obama which may be legal but not beyond question. As chairman of Chicago’s Health & Human Services Committee, he pushed through the Health Facilities Planning Act, reducing board members from 15 to 9, making votes easier to pass, and subsequently received money from board nominees. In December 2004, board members (friends of Tony Rezko, real estate developer and Chicago fundraiser, and nominated at Rezko’s request) attempted to extort money from the CEO of Edward Hospital but the FBI wiretapped a board member’s phone and caught evidence on tape.

Despite the fact that the Chicago Sun-Times reported continuous stories about Rezko’s indictments, he remained one of Obama’s main fundraisers and Obama, in the midst of his run for the U.S. Senate, kept Rezko on his finance committee and continued to take Rezko’s money. Obama became a member of the U.S. Senate in 2005. Three weeks later, Michelle Obama was appointed a position at the University Of Chicago Hospitals, which nearly tripled her salary.

Indictment headlines regarding Rezko were almost non-stop during Obama’s forthcoming Rezko real estate deal. A company related to Nadhmi Auchi, convicted British-Iraqi billionaire, registered a $3.5 million loan to Rezko. Three weeks later Obama and Rita Rezko (Tony’s wife) bought Chicago properties. Obama bought a $1.65 million mansion. Mrs. Rezko bought a $625,000 adjoining lot.

But once Rezko was found guilty of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and abetting bribery; Obama, saying he was troubled, declared that Rezko was not the man he’d known for 20 years.

Throughout everything, Obama prayed with his pastor, the very inflammatory Jeremiah Wright, and continually sought Wright’s guidance but when Wright’s excessive inflammatory, racist behavior was exposed, Obama said he was once again troubled and declared Wright was not the pastor he’d prayed with for 20 years.

Any president of the United States does not have the luxury of 20 years to come to a conclusion! Will Obama’s behavior elude adult investigation or will it continue to be brushed aside into a dangerous world of silence?
Magie Dominic
Manhattan

  • HARP

    Apparently he never learned history either. This might not sit well with the French :

    Obama to Speak at Berlin Victory Column, Berliner Zeitung Says

    - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will give a speech at the Victory Column in central Berlin, avoiding the Brandenburg Gate after a political spat broke out over plans to speak there, Berliner Zeitung said.

    A stage will be set up at the column, a 19th-century fluted structure that lies at the opposite end of a tree-lined boulevard from the Brandenburg Gate, the newspaper said. The campaign will announce the plans for July 24 today, it said.

    An appearance at the Victory Column, capped by its trademark gilded angel, will still give the Illinois senator the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop in the distance. A political squabble erupted after Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed apprehension about the gate being used for electioneering.

    While the Brandenburg Gate has come to symbolize Germany’s division and reunification, the Victory Column celebrates Prussia’s victories over Denmark, Austria and France in the late 19th century. More recently, the column and its angel were featured in Wim Wenders’s 1987 film “Wings of Desire.”

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=acBhUENDprU4&refer=germany

  • http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/puma/ kat in your hat

    Good, I am glad it was published. I encourage ALL people to write their newspapers!

    Use these links. The mainstream media won’t report, you have to.

    http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/

    http://www.democrats.org/page/content/partybuilderLTE/

  • don tufts

    .if he does this he really has no clue about history and neither do his socalled advisors.the french people still remember the occupation so this will endear him to the french.

  • http://thevote.abc13.com tomabrahams

    read mopre about pumas with an interview with darragh murphy:

    http://thevote.abc13.com/2008/07/puma-passion.html

  • AF catfish

    Did you see this from Ben Smith – because former Democratic Senator Max Cleland is a registered lobbyist, Cleland’s been uninvited from a Georgia Obama Campaign event.

    “Sen. Cleland is definitely not doing lobbying work. He gives speeches and campaigns for a few friends, but mostly he’s spending his time taking care of his father,” Marshall said. He declined to comment on the incident in Atlanta.

    In a brief telephone interview, Cleland also declined to comment on his treatment by the campaign.

    But Cleland told others he was unpleasantly surprised when, after an invitation to the event for Obama — whom he supports — he was told at the last minute by an Obama aide that he wouldn’t be welcome.

  • http://www.nativeamericansagainstobama.com/ timepassages

    Obama’s S2731 Passes! Now he must share the Wealth…

    Senate Bill 2 2731, introduced by Sentor Obama recently passed the Senate. Obama & John McCain did not vote on this bill. This bill passed by a majority of 80- 16 margin. Obama drafted the bill, in hopes of sending billions overseas. But it seems he must now share the wealth!

    read the rest and see video..

    http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/

  • txchelle
  • scott

    Please do write all the editors of lib papers, they will still support obammie, because they have to…Look at how many of your lib friend media elite are going with him to Iraq…They do not want to be accused of keeping a black man down, they dont want to be labeled a racist, they WILL support obammie, no matter what happens…

    Condoleeza Rice would NOT get your vote, if she was running against Hillary, because Hillary is a LIB, admit it, you would vote against Rice and for Hillary, because you are beholden to the LIB cause…Rice would NEVER get your vote…Stockholms is what you suffer from, LIBERList, Socialist ideals come FIRST, and you will vote that way everytime…

  • Susan

    What is the big love affair with Germany anyway??? Since people compare him to Hitler sometimes, wouldn’t you think it might be wise to stay away???

  • sowsear

    I can’t wait for him to do his Kennedy act, “Ich bin ein Berliner”.

  • katmandu

    According to the Washington Post, our embassy in Iraq has its hands full with visitors. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071703007.html Interesting to me is the list of the most frequent visitors — legislators who tried to keep on top of things by visiting on a continual basis. The leaders — Chris Shays of CT (16), Jack Reed of RI (11), Jim Marshall of GA (11), Carl Levin of MI (9), Joe Wilson of SC (9), and John McCain (8). Obama is at (1).

  • Joe

    The Messiah probably wants to channel Hitler’s ability to bamboozle crowds by giving his speech in Berlin.

  • Ani

    Amazing letter.

    Will the press finally do their job and excoriate this man?

    Or will they remain cowed, afraid to be called racists and let Axelrod do to them what Bush/Rove has done to Americans these past six years — calling anyone who does not support their war agenda a traitor.

    Different men — same dirty tactics.

  • Hussein-NOT!

    I guess none of the 280,000 Arabs or 2 million Turks living in Germany need to come to the rally, he needs mo’ white people for the camera sweeps.
    Anyhow, as Great Leader says ‘merci beaucoup, mais Non!’… oh shit, that’s French, right?

  • katmandu

    Regarding Obama’s political world tour, remember that Obama just now is getting interested in Afghanistan, whereas he never was before. Even Biden criticized him for it.

    Biden is now defending Obama:

    In a letter to Obama earlier this week, McCain-backing Sen. Jim DeMint R- SC, wrote, “With oversight of NATO relations and its role in Afghanistan, I believe it is time for us to focus closely on these issues,” DeMint wrote, suggesting a meeting of the subcommittee upon Obama’s return from a much anticipated trip abroad.

    Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., had previously told Meet the Press that “the reason Obama didn’t hold a hearing on NATO, I chair the committee. Every one of those committee hearings are held at full committee.”

    But today Biden decided to take his defense of Obama one step further, writing to DeMint that there have been plenty of hearings on European Affairs, they’ve just been held at the “full committee level.”

    “On the particular issue of NATO’s mission in Afghanistan,” Biden wrote, “We have held three Full Committee hearings in the last 22 months . . .

    Jake Tapper, who compiled this info, noted:

    But Biden’s letter brought attention to the fact that Obama did not attend two of those three hearings — and for the third, on March 8, 2007, Obama only asked one question, one unrelated to Afghanistan.

    How do I know the latter fact? From an August 2007 press release from Biden himself, when he was running for president.

    “BIDEN CAMPAIGN CONGRATULATES SEN. OBAMA FOR JOHNNY-COME-LATELY POSITION,” it read. Noting that at the March 2007 hearing, “Sen. Obama asked one question that was unrelated to Taliban or Afghanistan.”

    Thanks, Joe!

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/thanks-for-noth.html

    Politico had more of the story on Biden’s “Before he was nominated” criticism: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0807/Biden_Obama_stole_my_ideas.html

    Sen. Biden has been talking about this for over 6 months. Dating back to January 5th, Sen. Biden said America Should Surge Troops in Afghanistan. He told the Washington Post, “If we’re surging troops anywhere, it should be in Afghanistan,” Biden said. Adding troops there would give the United States “the moral high ground” in its quest for more forces from NATO allies. [Washington Post, 1/5/07]

    “We find it a little disingenuous that Sen. Obama is hailing this as a new bold initiative when he has neglected to join his colleagues in the Senate when the opportunities have been there to redirect our forces into Afghanistan” said Biden for President Campaign Manager Luis Navarro. “It’s good to see Sen. Obama has finally arrived at the right position, but this can hardly be considered bold leadership.”

  • Annie

    I understand Hillary is visiting Israel next week to talk with their PM – anybody know about this? I see nothing but Obama in the press and nothing about anybody else. What gives?

  • http://confloyd connie floyd

    I think they uninvited him because of his vietnam tour, he represents the death of many vietnam civilians during the war which the group that is behind Obama hate. One of the weatherman underground has come out and is helping the resurrection of the Students for a Democratic society. His name is Rudd and he is touring the country resurrecting the SDS. They hated Vietnam and all its participidents.

  • Perry Logan

    What lib papers? In most Presidential elections, around 85% of U.S. newspapers endorse the Republican candidate.

  • B from Bloomington

    What we hear is so controlled, I’m feeling like we might as well be living under a dictatorship in some third world country.

  • standard

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  • candymarl

    How ironic. Republican Senators made sure Native Americans got a piece of the pie.

    Is this what will happen with Obama in the WH? Send billions overseas? What happens to Americans that can’t afford gas or food? What happens to Americans that lost or are about to lose their homes?

    Guess we don’t count.

  • DeaninMI

    LMFAO.

    Thank you so much. That picture is p.r.i.c.e.l.e.s.s.!

  • http://BuckFarack Buck Farack

    Obama Donor Base Shrivels, Campaign Blows $35 Million, Obama Bloggers Reporting False Numbers

    There is an increasing consensus that Obama will have too dramatically outspend John McCain in order to win the general election; but the question remains, how much will they have to spend? It is unimaginable that the Obama campaign burned through $35 million dollars in the month of June and the best they could do was to ‘barely hold on’.

  • Lute

    I don’t think ABC’s Charlie Gibson is an elite.
    He’s been relatively fair.

  • Judy

    The article goes on to state:

    Cleland is registered to lobby for a company whose products are aimed at helping soldiers recover more quickly from battlefield industries, Tissue Regeneration Technologies.

    It’s not like Cleland is lobbying for Exelon or anything. If that were the case, I’m sure he would be warmly welcomed.

  • DeaninMI

    It’s an opportunity for Obama to have Neo-Nazis protest him.

    It’s as simple as that. What do you think the three major networks will be showing? The wide-eyed crowds of adoring throngs, or the growing, vocal anti-immigration (hate group)factions in Germany?

  • http://confloyd connie floyd

    The whole campaign is a lie, the candidate is not what or who he says he is. This whole thing is a fraud and the American people are sitting ducks waiting for the messiah to take over.
    I have never seen the media fall in line for a candidate like this. I don’t remember any candidate doing a world tour before even getting the nomination. This whole thing is just a crock of crap.

  • Karma

    Where was he?

    He was too busy copying off of both Clinton’s work to actually do his job. This bill looks like he was trying to cheat sheet Pres Clinton’s AIDS initiative.

    Thankfully, those two Senators did their jobs and made sure that Native Americans were included.

    Sadly, it doesn’t seem that Obama likes any version of Americans. Only rich Americans are on his radar.

    Great video…and great rendition of the song.

  • educatedwhitewoman

    Tears came to my eyes, I’m laughing so hard. Send that out across the net far and wide. Hope the people at PUMA and JustSayNoDeal see it. And, hope someone emails it to all three networks.

  • Zee

    Oh, snap, Judy.

    Under the bus with the crippled veteran!

  • candymarl

    There is nobody else in this country.

    This is now the United States of Obama.

    The corporate media chose Bush over Gore. Then they chose Bush over Kerry. That worked out well didn’t it?

    Now they’ve chosen Obama over everyone else.

    No one in the MSM will answer the letter writer. They don’t care.

    I think the DNC will ride this donkey all the way to the WH. They finally found a candidate that the corporate press adores.

  • http://BuckFarack Buck Farack

    I have never seen the media fall in line for a candidate like this.

    You have seen them fall in line before: the Iraq war.

  • ritamary

    This decision is another stunning example of BO’s arrogance and inexperience. He will speak in front of a war monument celebrating a Prussian victory. Perhaps if he had done some previous traveling in Europe he might have noticed there are still a few hard feelings among those countries attacked/conquered by the Germans at one time or another. That adds up to quite a few countries.

    Of course maybe BO figures those Europeans won’t be voting in the US presidential election, so screw ‘em.

  • JM

    I can!

  • Judy

    He wants to do the “Ich bin ein berliner” thing so the media can compare him to JFK.

  • wodiej

    Scott, shut the hell up! This is the second day we’ve been subjected to your ranting and raving. Go get some crisis intervention….most of the people on here are more to the center than far left.

    I AM NOT VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA-GOT IT??

  • Rob in Chicago

    Backtrack will paraphrase JFK: “Ich Bein Ein Beginner.”

  • Bye bye Obambi

    Fabulous! Let the peasants eat arugula!

  • kevin

    touche

  • Karma

    Amazing…

    He would rather toss a disabled man who has more spine then Obama does.

    He is so cowardly that he can’t even think of several different ways this is a positive. Of course it seem Obama has some issues actually dealing with vets in chairs. Didn’t he ignore a few on the campaign trail already?

    Anyway, Max stands taller in his chair and with more honor….because Obama has never stood for anything.

  • kevin

    skinheads, soccer thugs?

  • imustprotest

    I wish he was a Berliner, but in actually he is more like a doughnut.

  • usedtobedem

    Obama became a member of the U.S. Senate in 2005. Three weeks later, Michelle Obama was appointed a position at the University Of Chicago Hospitals, which nearly tripled her salary.

    I’ve worked in a similar position for a health care system and about fell over when I read about her salary ($300K). Will someone please investigate this? I’d like to know if the position Michelle was appointed to right after her husband became a state senator was a newly created position. If the position wasn’t new, why was it vacant and what did the previous person earn? Why did the University of Chicago appoint a high-priced Ivy League lawyer to do community relations/communications work?

  • Joe

    Tell me again why your Messiah’s vote for the FISA bill weakening its original provisions is such a great thing for the country?

  • imustprotest

    Yes, the “Waves of Steel” and the embedded journalists.

  • HARP

    Yes and the Obots can`t see the similarity.

  • http://puma caligirl

    Obama will not win in the fall. McCain will beat him. That’s why he was chosen because they know Hillary would beat McCain and the powers that be didn’t want that. You Obambabots need to wake up to reality.http://thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html

  • Joe

    The Messiah probably wishes Leni Riefenstahl was still alive to do an update to her famous propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” and whip cretins up to a frenzy of adoration for his faux holiness.

  • http://www.share-international.org a nancy in name only

    The DNC phone lines are now staffed by Obots.

    A young woman explained to me that Obama has won the nomination with a majority of delegates and I need to accept that my candidate lost. Hillary’s name will be placed on the roll call ballot with all the others who ran for president this primary season – not placed in nomination. I guess their plan is to keep saying it and it will becom accepted as truth.

    This situation is surreal.

  • Boxer Mum 06

    I caught Lou Dobbs yesterday and he was actually laughing about the fact that all 3 news anchors are following Obama on his tour through Europe while McCain has been traveling and hardly gets coverage at all.

    He also laughed at all the media coverage he is getting from Access Hollywood, US Weekly, etc.. He asked where the coverage was for McCain.

    He asked the guy he was interviewing if he has ever seen anything like this in his life and how obvious the media is in their support of Obama.

    We can only hope that by the fall people will be so sick of this American Idol candidate that they will vote for change McCain.

  • Chicago Joe

    Ouch!!! Conservative Charles Krauthammer rips the audacity of Barack! Mocking his ego and accomplishment gap, he cuts Barky down to size.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/obamas_egoaccomplishment_gap.html
    Here is an excerpt:

    July 18, 2008
    The Audacity of Vanity
    By Charles Krauthammer

    WASHINGTON — Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.

    He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast — a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins — would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.

    What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. President Reagan earned the right to speak there because his relentless pressure had brought the Soviet empire to its knees and he was demanding its final “tear down this wall” liquidation. When President Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate on the day of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, he was representing a country that was prepared to go to the brink of nuclear war to defend West Berlin.

    Who is Obama representing? And what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop? What was his role in the fight against communism, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the creation of what George Bush 41 — who presided over the fall of the Berlin Wall but modestly declined to go there for a victory lap — called “a Europe whole and free”?

    Does Obama not see the incongruity? It’s as if a German pol took a campaign trip to America and demanded the Statue of Liberty as a venue for a campaign speech. (The Germans have now gently nudged Obama into looking at other venues

  • glennmcgahhee

    The demonization of lobbyists is a problem for Obama and Co. Does he realize that the American AIDS Foundation and practically all healthcare groups for cancer and other diseases all have lobbyists to push for funding of research and healthcare? Lobbying is a way for ordinary Americans who don’t have “connections” or a lot of money. Its a necessary thing. Every lobbyist is not an Abramoff.

  • steveeboy

    “Fabulous! Let the peasants eat arugula!”

    nice one dumb ass…

    arugula is a weed, peasants eat it all the time, that’s who grew and ate it in europe.

    you can grow it easily and if you do you don’t have to buy lettuce anymore.

    But, I guess your just ignorant.

  • steveeboy

    “you’re”

  • WildChild

    you have a wee bit of arUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUgula stuck in your craw

  • http://firefox AnnieCarmel

    Oui! Parole Juste Aucane Affaire!

    or in German: Gerechtes Sagen Kein Ahtommen!

  • Athy

    Fellow bloggers,

    Let’s stay focused and not get distracted by internet trolls.

    Let’s exchange information and opinions with each other however, let’s avoid getting ‘sucked in’ to useless dialogue with Sen Obama hires who seek to detract us from our mission of getting the truth out. Focus our energy on collection of facts and exchange of information. Ignore the trolls.There is too much at stake for our country for us to be wasting our time with the trolls…

    For now, I would like to pass this link on to fellow bloggers who might be interested.

    http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/rezko/index.html

    Check out this excellent Chicago Sun-Times source for updates on the Rezko situation. Read some of the articles. AMAZING. Now I understand how Sen Obama was protected

  • Athy

    fellow bloggers-did you hear the latest?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1843863720080718

    Clinton vows to fight “insulting” abortion plan

    Fri Jul 18, 2008

    By Michelle Nichols

    Excerpt:

    NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Bush administration plan to define several widely used contraception methods as abortion is a “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to women and faces tough opposition, Sen. Hillary Clinton said on Friday.

    The former Democratic presidential candidate joined family planning groups to condemn the proposal that defines abortion to include contraception such as birth control pills and intrauterine devices.
    It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are obligated to offer legal abortion and contraception to women.

  • http://tinyurl.com/53yul8 doctorate

    BREAKING NEWS:

    OBAMA PASTOR JEREMIAH WRIGHT ANNOUNCES [DONALD] YOUNG DEATH BEFORE YOUNG IS PRONOUNCED DEAD!

    Posted by Larry Sinclair on July 18th, 2008

    Certified Copies of Death Certificates Raise even More Questions

    http://larrysinclair0926.com/

  • Hope Floats

    But, I guess your just ignorant. LMAO!

    Here is the wiki entry on that weed arugula. It is not indigenous to the US. It is not easily cultivated, either.

    It is used as a leaf vegetable, which looks like a longer leaved and open lettuce. It is rich in vitamin C and potassium[9]. It is frequently cultivated, although domestication cannot be considered complete. It has been grown in the Mediterranean area since Roman times, and was considered an aphrodisiac. Before the 1990s it was usually collected in the wild and was not cultivated on a large scale or researched scientifically.

    It is now cultivated in various places, especially in Veneto, Italy, but is available throughout the world. It is also locally naturalised away from its native range in temperate regions around the world, including northern Europe and North America.[2][6]

    It has a rich, peppery taste, and is exceptionally strongly flavoured for a leafy green. It is generally used in salads but also cooked as a vegetable with pastas or meats and in coastal Slovenia (especially Koper), it is added to the cheese burek. In Italy, it is often used in pizzas, added just before the baking period ends or immediately afterwards, so that it can wilt in the heat. It is sometimes used as an ingredient in pesto, either in addition to basil or as a (non-traditional) substitute.

    On the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, Rucolino is made from the plant, a digestive alcohol that is often enjoyed in small quantities following a meal. The liquor is a local specialty enjoyed in the same way as a Limoncello or Grappa and has a sweet peppery taste that washes down easily.

    In the U.S. the product is considered to satisfy a niche market with vast difference between the wholesale and retail price.[citation needed]

  • LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!

    LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!

    Speaking of Barack Obama:

    Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual and does not like racism:

    WORLDWIDE PROLIFERATION OF SCANDALS:

    (I) I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention. Many people know what Bush did. And many people will know what Bush did—even until the end of the world. Bush was absolute evil. Bush is now like a fugitive from justice. Bush is a psychological prisoner. Bush often worries. In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.

    (II) It is opined that Bill Clinton committed terrifying, racist, hate crimes during his presidency, and I am not free to say anything further about it. Numbers 32:23: “Be sure your sins will find you out.”

    (III) What if basically all racial-minority people would subscribe to the interpretations that George Herbert Walker Bush committed monstrous, racist, hate crimes while he was the President of the United States? It will eventually come out: it is only a matter of time.

    (IV) I know it may be hard to believe. However, it is absolutely true that Ronald Wilson Reagan committed horrible, racist, hate crimes during his presidency.

    - A.W.

    (I can type 90 words per minute, and there are thousands of copies on the Internet (by March 29, 2009) indicating the contents of (I), (II), (III), and (IV). And there are thousands of copies in very many countries around the world.)

    “BAD NEWS FROM THE UNITED STATES: ON THE HATE CRIMES AND ETERNAL INFAMIES OF GEORGE W. BUSH, BILL CLINTON, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, AND RONALD REAGAN” BLOG OF ANDREW WANG

    badnewsfromtheunitedstates.blogspot.com
    _______________
    ‘If only there could be a ban against invention that bottled up memory like scent & it never faded & it never got stale.’ Off the top of my head, it came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.

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