Obama To Donate Contribution From Rezko’s Iraqi Friend
By Uppity Woman on April 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM in Alsammarae, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Iraq, Tony Rezko
Aiham Alsammarae is a dual U.S.-Iraqi citizen, and Iraq’s former “Electricity Minister”. He posted more than $2.7 million in property to help spring Tony Rezko from jail. How’s that for friendship??
He also donated $2300 to Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. Barack Obama will be donating Mr. Alsammarae’s contribution to charity now. Seems fair, right?
Alsammarae — a friend of Rezko’s since their days as classmates at the Illinois Institute of Technology — once was accused of corruption in Iraq, but he broke out of a Baghdad jail, returned to the U.S. and has since said the charges against him have been vacated.
Being the Obama-Skeptic that I am, you just know I had to find out more about who Aiham Alsammarae is besides Iraq’s former Electricity Minister who was charged with corruption in Iraq, escaped from jail, bailedout his smarmy friend Rezko and contributed to Barack Obama’s campaign.
It didn’t take long to find out that, among other slimey activities, Rezko is accused of giving Alsammarae a $1.5 million bribe for the electrical contract to train Iraqi power plant security guards. Friends are wonderful things, aren’t they?
My search also took me to a December 21, 2006 New York Times piece and the story of the incarcerated Alsammarae and his subsequent escape to that wonderful bunker for domestic terrorists, foreign millionaires of dubious activities, Black Separatist ministers and other assorted scum balls: Chicago.
OAK BROOK, Ill., December 20 - It was an
unremarkable scene on Wednesday outside a gated community here where the former Iraqi electricity minister, Aiham Alsammarae, now a fugitive from justice, keeps a palatial house.
Having escaped from a Baghdad jail over the weekend in what he boasted was the “Chicago way,” Mr. Alsammarae, whose whereabouts are unknown, could have been on the way back here.
Mr. Alsammarae, who holds dual American and Iraqi citizenship, moved to the Chicago area in the late 1970s but returned to Iraq just after the American-led invasion.
He was jailed four months ago on corruption charges related to deals made when he was the electricity manager, from August 2003 to May 2005.
Not a bad deal hey? 4 months in jail for $1.5 million? Where do I sign up?
Apparently, Mr. Alsammarae wasn’t too thrilled with America at the time of his escape to Illinois either: BAGHDAD, Dec. 19 — In a lengthy phone conversation on Tuesday, the former Iraqi electricity minister who escaped from a Baghdad jail on Sunday ridiculed American and Iraqi officials and said he fled because he did not trust the police and had received a tip that he would be assassinated within days.
I guess all of Mr. Alsammarae’s deals when he was Iraq’s Electricity Minister were pretty lucrative, considering the “palatial” description of his home in Illinois. It sure looks like Tony Rezko gave that home a little Jump Start doesn’t it?
Safe and sound in Good Old Chicago, Mr. Alsammarae had this to say:
Despite the charges against him, Mr. Alsammarae said he did not believe that the American authorities would arrest him in Chicago. “I hope they are smarter than that,” he said.
So, basically, Mr. Alsammarae is just one more of those fine upstanding Duel-Citizenship people of dubious activity who seem to gravitate toward Barack Obama. Alsammarae is just another one of those “regular guys” in the Obama Camp.
In any event, I guess we can assume that, like Tony Rezko, Mr. Alsammarae likes Barack Obama a lot. It must have something to do with that Hopey Changey thing.
The Obama campaign says Alsammarae made an “online” contribution, which of course frees them of any responsibility for the receipt of money from this upstanding citizen. And of course, Barack Obama doesn’t recall ever meeting Auchi Alsammarae.
This is just ridiculous. Obama has the longest list of friends that would have buried any one else a long time ago. How in the world can any SD be endorsing this guy? Are they all in the same cesspool as Obama?
No, but they would like for him to share his money making machine if it isn’t broken now.
I am the only one who is suspicious about all the money Obama is raising online from supposedly small donors? I could buy it for the first few months but the fact that it keeps coming - and a lot of his supporters are anything but affluent, I think I small a rat. Or several rats. I have the feeling that some of Obama’s less than honorable fat cat buddies are funneling money to people to donate in their own names.
I agree, rezko was involved with creating many straw donors, and bundling, I would suppose the same applies, here, too.
And Obama has a call center in Gaza, that’s also a red flag.
Rezko laundered money for politicians, point blank, it’s not unrealistic to suspect he did, does the same for Obama.
I mean, I would look at Axelrod, here, too, and the numerous billionaires that support Obama, like Geffen, and soros, and GE, too.
I wonder if Obama’s “bundlers” are taking names off of the mailing lists he got from big name endorsers — like Kerry and Dodd etc.
Obama’s campaign got my name from 3 or 4 sources — the State Democratic Party was one source.
So what if after each contact — each of our names has been listed as “donors” — WE never gave but our name is on a list. So the huge donations could be broken down into smaller donations and attached to a name from a list.
I’ve read where a dead actor’s name turned up as an Obama donor — which made me think that Obama’s campaign might be using mailing lists to mine for donor names??
ALSO — what “charity” is Obama donating this dirty money to?
Call center in Gaza? What’s this about?
Obama is going to have to take Imodium AD after the new polls
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Gallup - Hillary vs obama hillary + 1
Rasmussen - hillary vs obama Obama +4, but down -4 in 1 day
Survey Usa - North Carolina Obama +5, down -4
PPD - Indiana Hillary + 9
Survey Usa - Indiana Hillary +8
Rasmussen - mccain vs obama +1 mccain
Gallup - Mccain vs obama +2 mccain
RCP Avg Mccain vs Obama obama +1
Rasmussen - Hillary vs mccain tied
Gallup - Hillary vs mcain hillary +2
RCP Avg Hillary vs mccain +3.3 hillary
AP Ipsos Hillary has a 9 point national lead over mccain, obama only has a 2 pointlead.
This guys numbers have fallen dramatically since pennsylvania
Sheesh! Add one more shady character to the already long list of shady characters.
What is it about this guy that the DC elites and MSM embrace? If Hillary was connected to ANY one of these characters, she would have been run out of dodge a long time ago. Why do people accept his questionable background? I want an answer to that question. Something is going on. Surely the FBI knows all about these people? Why was he ever allowed to run for President?
Look up the definition of “s**t magnet” and you’ll find a picture of Obama.
It’s going to get even worse.
There’s a Chicago area Catholic Priest just around the corner who donates $1500 to Obama who is going to blow up soon.
could you elaborate?
Fr Michael Pfleger anti-gun crusader extraordaire!BBF NOI & Wright.
Wright’s book will come out and at that moment Pfleger will burst onto the scene.
He’s a southside Catholic Priest, close confidant of Obama close friend of Farrakan, and Wright.
It’s a sickening feeling I have in my guts about the priests and pastors up there.
Hmmm…….Know the Bishop of the diocese….
“You’re doin’ a heck of a job, Brownie!”
God.
Barack actually makes Bush look competent.
Dean must be so proud.
And now you know why Obama is A-okay with contractors in Iraq! Unfrickenbelieveable! He may not have voted for the war but his friends will be making no bid money off the war!
This explains, then, what I’ve been wondering about for months…..
Rezko, as a real estate magnate in Chicago, was given a contract for 3 energy plants to be built in Iraq…. through our government. The plants were never built because Rezko got indicted, but I have NO DOUBT whatsoever that Senator Obama helped Rezko GET that contract for Rezko.
Not to mention that Axelrod was a lobbyist for Exelon (and the later nuclear legislation with no teeth), or that much of the $$$ loans came through General Electric Financial.
Do I have to mention that GE owns MSNBC, Tweety, Keith, and Andrea Mitchell?
Good Lord….this is appalling.
Wasn’t Blackwater used to help spring this guy from jail in Iraq ?
Re Blackwater helping spring him from jail: I had heard that, too, but have no actual evidence, which is why I didn’t mention.
But NOTHING would surprise me.
Michelle Obama will be addressing the Rev. Wright controversy by giving interviews on the subject today.
Know what? It is always ugly when candidates spouses start addressing stuff that should be allowed to die on the vine. Go Michelle, see if I care, knock yourself out.
Yeah. Little Miss Bitter talking about Uncle Jerry …. that’s too ironic to register on the scale.
OOOH GOODY! Hope she is asked about her comment about America being downright mean. In a profile of her in the New Yorker it states that when giving her stump speech Michelle “….begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins?currentPage=3
Fox News constantly brings this up. It will hurt big time in the GE, but our dear Dem leaders don’t seem to care about that.
She’s the REAL gift that keeps on giving. She’s such a loose cannon that they sent Teresa Heinz to keep an eye on her!
LOL….Bee….Well and Kerry is helping with Obama get in touch with the Common Folks….A WINNING STRATEGY….
I don’t even know what to say…
Anybody see the cover of the National Enquirer this week?
Yeah but the Star has Hillary involved in a TORID lesbian affair. And someones back in rehab.
Oh hell, any woman who is in even the slightest competitive position of power is always called a lesbian. Like whatever.
LOL….I’d say real or imagined lesbians rule….No ?
Shapin up to be a fine string of primary victories for Clinton…No?
Have you seen or heard anything about a Michelle speech that she gave last Friday? I heard someone on Fox last night say, “wait until Michelle’s mean and hateful Friday speech is seen by the public.” Have you seen the speech anywhere? I haven’t. The MSM must be covering it up. I can’t find it anywhere.
She’s a really condescending person isn’t she?
That’s really rich, Michelle…
Barack Obama and wife, Michelle: Mutual TV appearance upcoming
Now that Barack Obama has distanced himself publicly, if painfully, from the pastor who married him and his wife and baptized their children, he is getting close to the wife in a national television appearance.
NBC’s Meredith Vieira will sit down with Barack and Michelle Obama today in Indianapolis for an interview that will air on the “Today” show Thursday. A segment of the talk will air on NBC’s “Nightly News” and on MSNBC this evening.
Michelle Obama has been a tireless campaigner for her husband on the road. And now, as the Democratic candidate for president attempts to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the campaign’s rear view mirror, he is presenting a new image for public consumption: A professional and happily married couple willing to face a rough political time together.
– Mark Silva
I wonder if she has an ear piece and Axelrod is offstage feeding her her lines!
If you’re explaining
You’re LOSING!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahha!
Uppity, why did he donate the money? because of Rezko connection or what?
Ehemmm……Obama has a representative sitting in on the REZKO trial.
Perhaps it’s because of the evidence being revealed at trial. It would be the only way he would have acess to it…..
Uppity, you read about Alsammarae buying a bunch of generators, totaling 1/4 billion dollars in 2004 that run off a diesel fuel not even produced in Iraq, and each generator requires 1 tanker truck of fuel every 45 minutes to run, which Iraq must import from Turkey?
The maker of the bad sale of generators to Alsammarae, General Electric.
Rezko, facing corruption charges and fraud, key plaintiff, General Electric!
Who owns one of the largest loan insurance and credit card companies in America, General Electric. Who voted for unlimited credit limits and voted against a 30% cap on credit cards? Obama
Who owns the #1 Hillary hating news channel, General Electric.
Worst Nuclear Power Generation plant designs in the world, General Electric, worst Nuclear Power Plant records in USA, Exelon and General Electric, who wants to build new Nuclear plants in Texas and Mississippi, General Electric and Exelon. Who shelved legislation on Nuclear Plant requirements in Dec 2006, Obama!
Who have been large contributors to Obama’s campaigns, General Electric and Exelon!
Who at GE is Obama’s patron, specifically?
Gosh, what’s that song ” the leg bone is connected to the knee bone, the knee bone connected to the ankle bone” et al…
Oh, just like a rezko smurf…
More like John Rowe (chair of Exelon) is the patron and GE the heavy hitter, the plant leaks in Illinois were GE equipment, trying to find the article, lost it when comp wiped out!
Some say well Rezko was GE money and Alsammarae was GE power, but GE is one company with many divisions, just like Exelon is multiple companies but John Rowe is Chairman of them all!
GE owns NBC … and who do we know that works for NBC …. or MSNBC ….
thank you.
I wouldn’t want to be those guys, don’t know why, but if they’ve been dirty, I think they’ll be in for some big legal trouble.
Just a feeling, it’s not like I’ve seen any warrants, or such…
There’s just no end to the guy is there?
Ehemm….Stultus est sicut stultus facit…( stupid is as stupid does )
I agree with you Uppity.
Right you are. GE owns NBC and MSNBC. All is now clear.
Obama said he voted against the 30% cap because it was too high. Apparently NO cap is better than a cap that’s too high.
Have you ever seen his top ten contributor list? We are talking JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs…all bundled of course.
And wasn’t (alleged) domestic terrorist William Ayer’s daddy the CEO of Commonwealth Edison, the electrical utility provider for much of Illinois ?
Yes he was, and on most community organizations in and around Chicago till 2004!
Mr Alsammarae is accused by the Iraqi government of stealing 650 million dollars from the American taxpayer, via CPA. This is in part why he was jailed, in Iraq.
Apparently, his arrest warrant was removed by Interpol recently, from it’s website, I don’t know if it’s been re posted.
Rezkowatch has some wonderful information on Alsammarae, also.
Such a boatload of dirty friends……drip…drip if that boat springs a leak…watch out.
Typo in line one, sorry. I am too scared to go mess with NQ’s editor. So pretend it’s not there.
oh goody I see another one. Uppity needs a rest.
Not a problem, uppity.
We LOVE your posts, typos and all.
Thanks for all the hard work you do.
Damn Mel……I think you’ve got it.
Hmmm, I smell preemption. Sean Hannity (the same crazy guy who talked about Wright ages ago) is going to do a piece on Obama, Rezko & Co (Co meaning, according to Hannity, all the way to the PLO ties.)
Do you know when this piece will be aired?
I may have to watch, that, too.
I’m glad someone is covering it, I hope they expose all of those Americans dealing with terrorists.
Is there anything more revolting?
They bombed New York and the Pentagon (terrorists) and here we have Americans taking money from them, or sending them money, it’s like one of us, taking a bribe, or selling bombs to Hamas, and then watching them kill our next door neighbor.
This is our country, how could an American who considers himself repsectable do that to another?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0408/OReilly_says_Clinton_interview_is_toughest_shes_ever_done.html#comments
pls comment on hillary,s interview on bill o rielly,s show
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302008/news/nationalnews/rev_enge_is_sweet_for_betrayed_pastor_108791.htm?page=0
The source added, “After 20 years of loving Barack like he is one of their own, after he was embraced by this congregation as a brother in Christ, after his pastor was a father figure to him and gave him credibility in a city he had not grown up in and in a black community that was suspect of someone from Hawaii and Harvard, he thanks him by not allowing him to speak publicly at his announcement last year?
I’ll bet, and the bitterness will run deep.
Hm.
I wonder if the Rev does the psycho ex girlfriend thing, too?
Crank calling Obama…
Simon….That is rich….
This cluster fuck (Obama’s candidacy) gets uglier and uglier every day that passes.
I feel like I need a shower now.
Obama denounces Rev. Wright (by Ben Smith at Politico)
Obama sharply attacks Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the substance of his remarks [Monday], a far sharper disavowal than he gave in Philadelphia… “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday,” he said.
Hmmm… From crazy old uncle to I am outraged. What he’s outraged about is Wright’s attacks on HIM, not the attacks on America.
Oh stop with the sanctimony. Uniter-not-a-divider Dubya had Kenny Boy Lay AND Jack Abramoff. Uniters reach out to EVERYONE.
Gonifs vote, tooo!
Yes there does seem to be a common “uniter” theme..lol.
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I’m listening to NPR right now and they are interviewing a member of Obama’s church and that poor woman sounds so sad and tired.( Joyce )
She has stated that she felt that Wright’s appearances were bad for Obama.
She stated that she understood that Wrights’ sermons and appearances would make whites fearful about any AA candidate….It was an interesting interview.
The show is NPR : DAY TO DAY….You can hear it on the net….
I think this is an honest acknowledgment of the damage Wright has done to Obama….
Obama damaged himself.
It was Obama’s choice to stay by the Rev, and not leave his church years ago, if he felt he were going to run for President, he should have anticipated this would be an issue.
Did Wright help him with tuition, and living costs, at Harvard?
Not sure how this will play out:
Hillary Clinton: Wright Remarks ‘Offensive and Outrageous’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/hillary-clint-2.html
Same description Barky used, more or less. They keep asking her, so she might as well mirror what Obama already said.
1-877-55 dobbs
He’s still taking calls about BO
and Wright.
i think ,,he is got his own radio show
Dobbs is my hero, he tried to bring up the unholy MSM/Obama alliance. Dobbs has great courage. The trolls here are too stoned on Obama weed to realize how dangerous that alliance is for everyone’s (including the trolls) liberties and freedoms. And what will they say if the MSM flips to McCain in the general? I think we will “hear” a profound silence from them then.
i know
if bo is the nominee
i be joining lou in his independent agenda
Obama will donate the contribution from Rezko’s Iraqi Friend to which charity? The Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tea and Crumpets with Obama Society?
LOL! Trinity Church?
Hello Uppity!
OK. Who agrees that this entire Wright fiasco was completely scripted:
[From April 30, 2007] “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
I believe it was a maneuver. What its goal was is not clear.
Who knows with this bunch? But I would think that if they planned to do this for some sort of benefit to Obama, they sure did a terrible job of it. I would think planning, for example, a desensitization of Americans to Wright’s Garbage Mouth, or planning for Obama’s “denouncement” would have been more beneficial AFTER he had a nomination. So close to Indiana or even NC, it’s not so bright.
Depends on the goal.
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7% favorability drop for Obama since February.
Even 43% of the AA say that Wright has damaged Obama.
I read that the Rezko trial judge & other officials are trying to limit the info available to the public concerning testimony and witnesses.
BO has had associations, business & professional relationships with almost all of the unsavory characters involved. I’m concerned about the BO campaign’s deliberate suppression of potentionally explosive information about Obama’s past. What happens if he wins the nomination, or worse, the presidency, and the s##t hits the fan?
I haven’t read that yet, as far as I know they’re not censoring, but I’ll be on the look out for it.
Two witnesses have now mentioned Rezko knew of a plan to have Fitzgerald fired, one that led ot the White House.
I thought those “bombs” hit with precision, and the press in Chicago is playing them as they should.
Perhaps new insight into Fitz, and maybe, damn…
he’s probably lost the general election.
He’s a gift for McCain.
We all expected the creepy Giulliani.
Just found this on Human Events@HumanEventsOnline.com
The United States Senate may vote any day on the stealth imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens?
It’s called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.
According to some conservative sources, this disastrous legislation could eventually force U.S. taxpayers to fork over as much as 0.7 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product — or $845,000,000,000.00 — on welfare to third-world countries.
Here’s what Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and founder of Eagle Forum, recently wrote:
“Obama’s costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts”.
This guy has an amazing albatross collection.
Everybody needs a hobby.
Another oil for food?
It won’t pass, at least not as you stated, (not out Congress, not our President, no) but it would be interesting to see which “friends of Obama” benefit.
It certainly won’t be the world’s hungry, those truly in need, let’s get that straight…
OMG, an Iraqi person donated money to Obama! Horrors! What a terrible taint. Further proof that Obama is a terrorist, I suppose.
If it was Auchi, or even, Saddam, I would say yes.
Who is your favorite Baathist, and how many Americans did he murder, today?
Oh, that’s right, American rank and file soldiers are from a lesser God, the “white trash god.”
Big secret, no, they’re not, actually.
heh.
Sen Obama seems to have a pattern of associating himself with those who are not pleased with America. Are there still more of controversies about Sen Obama that we don’t know?? Hope the media, instead of cuddling him, do their job and expose everything that is out there so the voters will know. My gosh the country is in a very precarious situation and to elect an unknown for a president is very scary.