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Does Obama Believe in Team Play Chicago Style?

Since we are on an Untouchables theme, I thought it useful to remind us of Al Capone’s concept of team and achievement.

I don’t think Barack is going to take a baseball bat to anyone (though he may harbor some private fantasies about tuning up Governor Rod Blagojevich).

Unfortunately, Barack’s mishandling of the Blagojevich scandal is tarnishing what appeared to be an impressive transition effort. When Clarence Page laughs in describing this as Barack Obama’s “My Pet Goat” moment, it is clear that the halo around the golden child is starting to fade and we have not even hit inauguration day. One thing is certain, the Blago blot on Obama ain’t going away anytime soon.

  • csuzeq

    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Poor Odrama. How did many not see this coming?

    Obama=Bush to the 10th power

  • I’m a Linda too

    A man’s gotta’ have enthusiams. :)

    And now my fav quote from my man Sean,

    And what are you prepared to do about it?

  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    The Blago blot on Fraudbama’s sham of a persona SHOULDN’T go away soon. It should be a constant boil on the azzes of the freaks who voted for him, and the reminder of how much more of this trash we have to look forward to. Unless of course someone does their job, like SCOTUS, the Electors or Congress. Hey, a gal can dream that the folks of this country will do the jobs WE pay them to do. Sigh.

  • csuzeq

    I was discussing why not Obama during the primary and a friend of mine said Obama is inexperienced, but with Mccain I’d be afraid that Bush/Cheney will never get investigated like they should. My response was, well, I’m more concerned with the democrat getting investigated. If Obama is elected, there will be so many scandals that he will never get anything accomplished. His administration will be too busy defending the fraud.

    Damn, I hate it when I’m right, although it is making me able to tolerate the MSM a little more these days.

    I did not think the scandals would begin before the swearing in LOL!

  • sowsear

    I stumbled upon a site at The Strata-Sphere which had some pertinent sounding articles on BO/Blago scandal but none would come up. Do any of you know of this site, have gone there or have screen shots of any of the articles?
    This is from Google:
    Search ResultsThe Strata-SphereThe Chicago-Way Corruption Scandal (now a new category here at the Strata-Sphere ) is actually a legal domino effect that is just beginning to fall. …
    strata-sphere.com/ – 151k – Cached – Similar pages
    Faux Bravado From Obama/Dem

    The Strata-Sphere » Obama Admits His Reps Talked To Team BlagojevichThe Strata-Sphere » The Obama Administration Is Now Damaged Goods, Obama Lied To America on 13 Dec 2008 at 10:28 am. [...] Here is the lie, which caught my …
    strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/7380 – 72k – Cached – Similar pages
    The Strata-Sphere » The Obama “Forged Birth Certificate” Myth Is …This birth certificate myth is just not that import Addendum: I failed to note LJStrata (the computer guru behind the curtain here at that Strata-Sphere) …
    strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5626 – 122k – Cached – Similar pages

    The Strata-Sphere » Was Blag Blackmailing Obama? Update: A Rahm …Dec 4, 2008 … The Strata-Sphere » Obama Really Is Clinton 2.0 on 10 Dec 2008 at 8:46 am. [...] As I noted early, it would seem Blag (say it like Vlad, …
    strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/7339 – 69k – Cached – Similar pages

    This was the first page from Google of interesting titles. If an article is cached, can anyone find it somehow?

  • I’m a Linda too

    ” Barack Obama’s “My Pet Goat” moment, it is clear that the halo around the golden child is starting to fade and we have not even hit inauguration day.”

    Larry…not to mention that he isn’t even officially the “President Elect” yet. The Electoral College has not nominated him yet.

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  • Chicago Joe

    Put the “way back machine” in a search engine and it pulls up a site that has cached material. http://www.archive.org/index.php

  • Chicago Joe
  • KathyNeocon

    And your point is…

  • PKJayne

    This is hopefully the catalyst for implosion.

  • csuzeq

    We should be concerned about this scrubbing, but I’m trying to think positively. Maybe Fitzgerald is scrubbing for the investigation.

  • I’m a Linda too

    I think [the one who is nameless]‘s point is that Larry Johnson is the real messiah, not O-shit!

  • Mr. X

    I wonder if the media realized that Obama is their creation. They own it and they have to protect it full time for the next 4 or 8 years. I think they thought that after he got elected, it would be sunshine and rainbows. You never know. They may grow tired of protecting Obama. Not yet, mind you. But there’s only so much that humans will do until they realize it’s not worth it anymore.

  • csuzeq

    I hope so.

    I would love nothing better than to see he is not sworn in, but with how the whole year went, I don’t think we can get that lucky.

  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    I have never actually seen him as POTUS. I just don’t see it happening. Maybe there’s some hope somewhere for divine intervention. Or someone doing their job.

  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    I think the MSM will turn on each other, rats that they are, when the whole Fraudbama thing starts to unravel.

  • TeakWoodKite

    LJ, Is that an aluminum bat or a Louieville Slugger?

    Or are we to hear for the next 48 months…

    “I did not have verbal relations with that Governor” ?

  • oowawa

    Maybe there’s some hope somewhere for divine intervention

    If we look at this as a stage play, such a hope would be a for a deus ex machina intervention in the plot:

    A deus ex machina (literally “god from the machine”) is a god brought on the stage by a mechanical device or, by extension, “an improbable contrivance in a story characterized by a sudden unexpected solution to a seemingly intractable problem.” (Wikipedia)

    But this device has been universally scorned by theater critics for hundreds of years, and we won’t see a deus ex machina in this drama either. (For example, the SCOTUS will not appear just before the inauguration and say “Wait a minute. This guy was born in Kenya and can’t be president.”)

    What we will likely see is a common resolution of a modern tragedy: the main protagonist is brought down by his own hubris, his own overweening pride, as he is blinded and defeated by his own arrogance.

    Actually, the entranced Obots have greeted O himself as a deus ex machina–a God lowered to the stage when things are going bad to make everything swell. Sorry folks–ain’t gonna happen that way.

  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    Oowawa…Since I read probably 30 screenplays a week, I’m well aware of what Deus Ex Machina means. I usually use the term to tell writers that they have an artificial ending that isn’t organic to their story. Nevertheless, I do have faith in America and I do believe in God, Karma, whatever you want to call it. Until January 20th comes and goes, I will believe that there really is some sort of twist of fate that will save us from the Fraud destroying us.

  • oowawa

    Yes oowawa, but this is not a theater, and in real life unexpected events that change everything do occur. It may make for bad theater, but in reality poopoo happens when you least expect it.

  • oowawa

    Sorry O’Fraud–wrote the comment below before I read yours. I’ve always got this inner dialectic going . . .

  • oowawa

    “I did not have verbal relations with that Governor”

    Now that’s funny!

  • maggieb

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    Title: Something of Historic Proportions is Happening
    Source: Unfiltered News
    URL Source: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/realityzone/UFNsomethinghistoriccomment.html
    Published: Dec 10, 2008
    Author: Tim Wood
    Post Date: 2008-12-10 18:24:49 by Paulette
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    SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING by Tim Wood 2008 December 1

    I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

    Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten – fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two years. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

    We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money, yours and mine. And that is three times the 700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not, they now control us.

    We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumb down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents of why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

    We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over proposition 8 that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing un-elected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

    Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about) the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten.

    And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, religion and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course the media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)

    Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning to a world social government.

    I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the messiah was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department-by-department, person-by-person, bureaucracy-by-bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the indigent, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

    He did it with a compliant media; did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and ‘CHANGE’. And the people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think that I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years, a shorter time span than just two terms of a U. S. presidency, it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors, all with the best of intentions of course. The road to Hell is always paved with them.

    As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another drink, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.

    Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. Pray with me for the truth, because the truth will set us free.

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  • http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com OBAMA IS A FRAUD

    Oowawa…let’s hope for bad theater and a totally out of the blue surprise for America that puts us on the right track, and rids us of the Fraud.

  • Dawnelle

    LOL @ harbor some fantasies

    (I think Bambi’s fantasies would scare even the most die-hard horror movie fans) jmo

    My other question is why MUST HE BE SWORN IN???

    Aren’t their some loopholes somewhere saying we can put this inaugural event off until the evidence clears all of these pals of Bambi and ultimately HIM??

    there MUST be something

    argh

    the vote is tomorrow? Electoral? or when? soon I heard

    STILL TIME

  • I’m a Linda too

    lol

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