Some Questions Obama Refuses to Answer
By Larry Johnson on May 11, 2008 at 8:56 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Woods Fund
The puff piece (some might call it an act of journalistic fellatio) on Barack Obama in the Sunday New York Times is but another reminder that most of the mainstream media have gone AWOL when it comes to getting Barack Obama to tell the truth about his past. Like a flat stone thrown along the surface of a still lake, this piece skips lightly over a host of issues–Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, and Jeremiah Wright–without a probing question or the hint of doubt.
What does Barack really believe? What are his core principles? No one knows. Nope, he’s a “big tent” guy. According to the Times:
“There are some people who say he’s not strong enough on this or that, that he’s wishy-washy, that he’s trying to have it both ways,” said Abner J. Mikva, a former congressman and mentor to Mr. Obama. “But he’s not looking for how to exclude the people who don’t agree with him. He’s looking for ways to make the tent as large as possible.”
Mr. Obama’s ability to replicate the eclectic coalition he built in Chicago and expand it to the national stage has allowed the one-term senator to match the Clintons at their signature game: collecting influential friends and supporters.
But the authors of this treacle, Jo Becker and Christopher Drew, remain blissfully ignorant of the key gaps in the Obama saga or unconcerned with reporting what is actually known. One thing we know for sure–Barack is lying about significant portions of his life.
We know, for example, that Barack has not been truthful about his first job after graduating from college. He exaggerated his work and his position at Business International Corporation. One of his co-workers published a fascinating blog on this last year.
The idea of a politician lying is probably as novel as a sunrise. But Obama has traded on the mythology that he is somehow above all of this dissembling. Not so.
What we do not know, and no journalist to my knowledge has pressed him on this, is why he chose to go Chicago in the summer of 1985? He had no family or personal ties to the city. The only possible tie is Franklin Marshall Davis–a black Communist, who had lived in Chicago until 1948. Obama describes Frank as a mentor while going to middle school and high school in Hawaii. But Barack has been tight lipped about this relationship. Why?
Then there is his tie to William Ayers. Bill Ayers, unrepentant American terrorist, moved to Chicago sometime in the summer of 1987. He took up a position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois–Chicago. Barack Obama first met Bill Ayers between July 1987 and July 1988. This explains in part why Barack was tabbed by Bill Ayers in the summer of 1995 to become the Chairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (The Annenberg Challenge), which Ayers cofounded. Barack continued in that position until 2003.
When Barack was asked by George Stephanopolous about his relationship he said:
that he lives in the same neighborhood as Ayers on Chicago’s South Side, did not exchange ideas with him on a regular basis and was only 8 when the Weather Underground was violently protesting the war.
He does more than “live in the same neighborhood.” He served as Chairman of a foundation set up by Ayers and he served as a board member with Ayers on the Woods Fund. Oh yeah, Ayers helped Barack organize and execute the campaign to depose Illinois state Senator, Alice Palmer.
There is no denying Barack has a knack for forging ties with folks who can help him along. On the one hand, he has maintained close ties with Rashid Khalidi (a Middle East scholar at the University of Chicago and an adviser to the Palestinian delegation to the 1990s peace talks) and Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian-American author and co-founder of the online publication Electronic Intifada). But he also made the leap to pander for the Jewish vote. According to the Times:
During the Senate campaign, Mr. Obama joined in a “Walk for Israel” rally along Lake Michigan on Israel Solidarity Day. The Crowns and other Jewish leaders raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for him. Several days before the primary in 2004, some of his Jewish supporters took offense that Mr. Obama had not taken the opportunity on a campaign questionnaire to denounce Yasir Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, or to strongly support Israel’s building of a security fence.
But in a sign of how far Mr. Obama had come in his coalition-building, friends from the American Israel Political Action Committee, the national pro-Israel lobbying group, helped him rush out a response to smooth over the flap.
In an e-mail message, Mr. Obama blamed a staff member for the oversight, and expressed the hope that “none of this has raised any questions on your part regarding my fundamental commitment to Israel’s security.” Mr. Abunimah has written of running into the candidate around that time and has said that Mr. Obama told him: “I’m sorry I haven’t said more about Palestine right now, but we are in a tough primary race. I’m hoping that when things calm down I can be more upfront.”
Please let us know when you are calm, Barack. We would like you to be upfront. Did you cultivate ties with the radical left, the Nation of Islam, and Jeremiah Wright because you share their values or are you just using them to advance your career? That is a question I would like answered. Too bad the media will not ask.
Obama should be more forthright about the $1 million he and Ayers allocated to Rezko and Allison Davis in 2000 when both were members of the Woods Fund.
http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/taking-stock-of-barack%2C1041/
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/672314,CST-NWS-watchdog29.article
So, what happens is a guy like Obama awards Davis 1 million dollars of tax payers money from Woods, and of that, Davis kicks back, say 250, 000, bundled, to Obama?
Not saying that is what happened, but that’s how they do it?
Oh cripes, now you are upsetting me.
I think that’s how they do it, also, I would suspect, given his ties to Khalidi, et al, some of it probably goes to the Middle East, too, for whatever reason…
You know the reason. To buy the bullets that kill American soldiers.
That is exactly how it is done. And remember Rezko was Davis’s business partner. Dirty money is recycled in Chicago, and I imagine it ultimately landed in Axelrod’s bank account. Davis, by the way, was Obama’s former boss.
Ok, thank you.
I think, I HOPE, this is going to get very uncomfortable for a lot of people.
hammeringspammers; any mob movie is is a ruff equivalent. Think RICCO.
Skimming is the mothers milk of Chicago politics.
To answer your last question:
Obama uses the force of his personality and the myth of his message to avoid answering such questions truthfully. His sycophants and WORMs take care of anything that he happens to bonehead. And the mainstream media follows in lockstep.
Maureen Dowd says Hillary makes Obama lose his Magical Powers. No kidding. She said that.
I would think any woman strong enough to take Obama down makes him lose his ” magical powers.”
Is that what they’re calling it these days “magical powers?”
Remember the “magical powers” of the Wizard of Oz? Seems our media either can’t or doesn’t want to see through the smoke and mirrors.
Obama ability to “build coalitions in Illinois” was a result of his removal of Democrats from the ballot. And if one cites the 2004 Senatorial race, remember that Allan Keyes unified the state of Illinois on Obama’s behalf. Obama is not a coalition builder; he is the beneficiary of legal gymnastics, chance and historical accident.
I think he does build coalitions - just very strange ones. Eggheads and African Americans with non black women and people over 50 thrown off the train. Really good for the party since this is such a big portion of America.
Cripes! The guys always get the good luck!
Not when you see the guys giving the blow jobs, no no…
…covering my eyes..
lol!
The more I know about Obama, the less I like him. He is not to be trusted.
that’s the understatement of the year. I AGREE!
I have a question for Obama. Which FOUR governors or senators are you going to pick for your VP candidate. You are going to need four to carry the states you will need. I say try one from PA, one from Fla, one from Ohio and one from Michigan. He might come close then. Can a Pres candidate have four VPs? There must be a loophole there somewhere.
I wonder how well the race card will work out for him when McCain picks Rice?
ohhh no McCain may take my governor..Charlie Crist…its all the talk here in Fla..so scratch this one off the list!!
Fla is lost to the dems without Hillary!!
fly
If Obama’s the nominee, then I don’t want him carrying Florida, or any other state. Because if god forbid he wins, then it’s a race war, with all of us on the front lines.
Watch him pick his mentor Joe Lieberman to reach out to the other side - since that is where Lieberman really is. Imagine that ticket - Mr. Hope and Eeyore. The mind boggles.
The Democratic Party Will Crash and Burn
There really were NO surprises. The destiny of the Democratic Party is in
the hands of African-Americans and anti-Zionist “liberal” Democrats. It is
no longer the party of white, blue-collar workers. It is no longer the
party of women. It is no longer the party of older Americans. It is the
party of African-Americans and elitist “liberal-progressive” Democrats.
Another wave of Democratic defectors
will join the ranks of the neo-cons in November.
“a neocon is a liberal who has been mugged by reality”
“….The bottom line is if you subtract the black vote, Obama decisively
lost in North Carolina. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what is
going to happen when you go to the general election in which the black
vote is a much smaller proportion of the general electorate.”
Almost FIFTY percent of Clinton voters told exit pollsters they would vote
for McCain over Obama.
As for the Jewish vote, “The rise of anti-Semitism around the world will
be on their minds in November and events in the Middle East will play a
role in how they vote. When they step into the voting booth, most will
hesitate to vote for Barack Hussein Obama no matter what their party
affiliation may be.”
Continue Reading AT http://inyourface.info/ArT/Delta/AnY.shtml
I keep asking people what percentage of our population is African American. They always overestimate - 30% is common. The true number is 12 - 13%. People who live in most urban areas - as the national media does - forget that black people are concentrated in urban areas in many areas of the country but that there are many areas, especially in the west where there are few or no African Americans. There are more Hispanics (18%) than there are black people. True the AA population votes mostly democratic, so they are a larger percentage of the Democratic party, but not nearly large enough to justify nominating someone just to please them, while simultaneously turning your back on women, older people, blue collar workers, etc. Obviously these groups overlap but together they are a huge section of the American population, much larger when taken together than the African American segment.
I would like to see the breakdown of the demographics of the Dem party by sex, race, age etc. Anyone know where to find this?
There is nothing racist in taking these numbers into account. If the Democratic party loses, African Americans will suffer disproportionately from continuing Republican policies because so many of them are poor. That is much more important than making a symbolic gesture by nominating a black man if he is likely to be defeated - or be a weak president.
I found this information from USA Today about Hispanic voters … apparently to know Bill Richardson is not to love him …
Candidate Favorable Unfavorable Heard of, no opinion Never heard of
Hillary Rodham Clinton 63% 20% 7% 9%
John Edwards 35% 16% 12% 37%
Barack Obama 33% 13% 8% 45%
Bill Richardson 20% 10% 11% 59%
finding demographics is awfully tough ….
This is the kind of crap that makes me want to slam my head into the nearest stationary object. See, if you or I (typical white people) pulled this crap we’d get fired and or thrown in jail. What I want to know is, how can someone with this kind of background get this close to the White House? Didn’t the founding fathers have some sort of provision to prevent this kind of person from taking over the Oval Office? Jesus Christ in a Side Car. Don’t you have to pass some sort of background check to be president? I remember falling behind on a bloody credit card years ago and my husband damn near lost his security clearance, but consorting with international criminals and known terrorists is OK?
I don’t think they have finished his security check yet. It usually takes up to 6 months to check all the sources. FBI does a polygraph and a background search. That should present some interesting challenges. I’m certain that agents are going to have to visit Indonesia and talk to his relatives there. I can imagine what they might be like with his cousin and his other Muslim relatives. What if they then discover something which would prevent him from having a clearance. Larry, I went that check for the White House and I remember how people who I had not seen since I was in high school were being visited by the FBI. It is rigorous. So what happens now Larry. Can we start over and have another primary election (grin)?
Hank Roth
http://inyourface.info/
Whoa!
I have family who are now retired from upper level positions in Fed Gov’t. 40 years ago, when I was 11, I was part of the vetting process for a diplomat who went onto great things.
Are members of the senate checked too? Idon’t remember anyone being denied office for terrorist etc. connections.
The GOP and Fox are promising new details. The red flags are numerous and lead me to think a “time bomb” of his past will go BOOM before this is all over.
The NYC cop in the wheelchair who was a victim of one of Ayers bombs made a great point. NYC cops have been investigated and fired from the department for associating with way less criminals than Ayers, so why are they letting this guy, with all his KNOWN associations get away with even running for office.
Who vetted Obama for his senate runs? If there is vetting, then they must have overlooked some of the facts.
i had a neighbor in La that i didn’t even know and one day some FBI types came to my door and they had a clip board of questions about my neighbor..all they told me was he was up for some high security job with the Fed Gov..although i didn’t know my neighbor ( i had just moved in) they continued to ask me all sorts of questions…like did i see anyone i had gut feelings about visiting them..and di i ever see anything questionable..i kept telling them i didn’t know the neighbors..and had only seen the man once..but they kept asking me questions..
they didn’t ask a dang question about the neighbor across the street who was in prison for being Micheal Milkens attorney!!..and was on 60 minutes and all..lol..
fly
Have seen you ask this more than legit ? before. Why don’t you put together a LIST OF THE SENATE CHAIRMEN (there are 20/8 have committed their SD vote to bo, only 2 have committed to HILL/ as of last week 10 remain uncommitted.
It won’t be hard to google these Chairmen to get their addresses & email addresses. Would be great if you’d write to them and ask them:
How does a man who
1) has a financial campaign mentor, Rezko, about to be convicted in IL biggest political corruption trial in state’s history remain without scrutiny? Why are the people of IL demanding voter recall of their Gov for the same connection, but the US Senate does nothing about Obama’s Rezko connection?
2. Why does the Senate do nothing about Obama’s repeated national TV lies about his negligent Senate record?
3. Why is a US Pres candidate allowed to flaunt divisive ‘watch list’ Black Panther party on his official campaign website and the US Senate does nothing?
4. Why does this Pres Candidate’s 20 yr. minister have Nation of Islam bodyguards at his Press Club presentation and the US Senate looks the other way?
5. Why was this candidate campaign stumping and funding the infamous Muslim platform mass murderer, Odinga, to such an extent that the Kenya government issued a formal complaint about Obama’s misuse of an Official State Visit to Kenya (paid for by US taxpayer dollars) where US Senator Obama gave inflammatory public speech against Kenya’s democracy… and the US Senate does nothing.
6. Why has this Senator been given the Chair of critical Afghanistand committee, then not bothered to hold one meeting . . . and the US Senate ignores this irresponsible inaction.
7. Why does this Senator, as a Presidential candidate allow a staff advisor to meet with HAMAS, with no authority, and in reckless overstepping of his candidacy… and the US Senate does nothing?
8. Why, when it is known that this Senator/Presidential candidate was employed for several years by a notorious domestic terrorist, who stomps on the American Flag (literally in 2003 book promotion photos) and with whom, Obama financially funds Arab causes in America, WHY does the US Congress allow Barack Obama ANY security clearance for the Senate???
Rezko, Ayres, Odinga, Anti-American Farrakan endorsement, HAMAS endorsement, supporter of Odinga destruction of Kenya democracy and still this man is allowed in the Senate? If any of us normal citizens had a rap sheet with these contacts, we probably wouldn’t even be allowed on a White House tour!
Chairmen of the Senate: Tell us how you can justify allowing Barack Hussein Obama National Security clearance? Have you just been too busy to notice?
I know for a fact that DIS would never give this man the right to see anything classified. All of these items are considered items of interst when awarding security clearances. So…What kind of classified materials does Congress have access to?
I went through the security clearance process. In my very humble opinion I would never let this man look at anything that was classified!
Depends on who’s pulling the strings. This is bigger than Obama - he’s just the vehicle for the takeover.
It’s the European bankers who control him - the same ones that fund both sides of the war in the middle east. Follow the money.
What is it with the media? Why do they refuse to vet this man? I’ve never seen anything like it. They were all over Bill Clinton when he ran for President. The only theory I can come up with is they want to remove Hillary Clinton period. Once that is done, they go after Obama. Then the true conspiracy theory will be prevalent. The media is owned by Republicans, and their only agenda is to remove Democrats from any chance of winning the White House even when is was a year that looked like a slam dunk. The DNC are idiots to allow this to happen. Obama is going to be destroyed.
PLEASE stop with the “I have never seen anything like this” garbage. YES YOU HAVE!!!!!!!!! That is, unless you were asleep in 2000. This is exactly how Bush was treated. How often did you hear about his bankruptcies, insider trading or outright lies about his record as governor? Meanwhile you were treated to a never ending repetition of dishonest Republican propaganda against Gore. If you keep saying this Bob Somerby of dailyhowler.com just might find you and smack you silly. He gets nearly apoplectic about Dems who still do not realize how the media plays favorites - and how Dems do not stand up and defend their people from this behavior.
The media’s behavior is not just about money or Republican power. It is about a bunch of people who are emotionally still in high school trying to align themselves with the cool kids. That is why they love the macho(or fake macho)tough guys like McCain, Bush, Guiliani, and Fred Thompson (really - how childish do you have to be to think Thompson as pres was a good idea?). Obama is different in that he is not macho, but I have heard guys like Tweety say he is ironic, cool, etc. Howard Fineman said he was like the exotic exchange student in high school who was running against Miss Perfect for class president. Really he wrote that for Newsweek. But people who use “more fun to have a beer with” as a qualification for the presidency are really that immature. And it gets people killed. Lots of people.
So, let me see if I have this right. Some guy Obama knew lived in Chicago until 1948 so Obama decided to move to Chicago in 1985–which is 37 years later. Are you really that desperate, Larry?
I recommend you reread the entry until its full import and significance is comprehended, Jerry. But then again, you are a low information voter who supports Obama.
Jerry Bowles,
Enlighten us please. Why did he go from sunny privileged Hawaii to LA to freezing in Chicago?!
I’m sure you know all the details. Who was he dating at the time? Where did he first live? Where did he work? Do tell Jerry!
For anyone who was here on Friday PM, recall the attack on a former Hawaii resident & current Hillary supporter? The verbal assault was in, what was claimed to be,’island talk’.
Sorry, obamaton, your tirade was in Caribbean patois, which is not the native language or accent of Hawaii. Wrong island/wrong ocean. Add to the list of obama viral syndrome: total physical disorientation - fits nicely with a leader who has traveling 57 states. And that, he said, was just ’so far’…kind a goes with the guy above rambling about 1948….
“What is it with the media? Why do they refuse to vet this man?”
Didn’t we just spend the last seven years asking that? Lamenting, why won’t the media hold Bush accountable?
I suppose it’s because the media doesn’t work for the people and they don’t serve the truth. They used to, but that was a long, long, time ago.
There must be a lot of money and future political and financial interests behind Obama. Some (or many) players must stand for significant gains if BO gets elected.
Well, considering that Obama’s top 20 contributors include lobbying firms, lobbying law firms and the financial companies that were responsible for the mortgage meltdown, you can most assuredly say that they expect SOMETHING for all that (bundeled) money. He’s a corporate shill.
http://tinyurl.com/674c38
They are expecing NO INVESTIGATIONS … no PUNISHMENT an NO JAIL TIME …. best money they ever spent.
Hey Flineo, great videos!
Give you one is Penny Pritzky, Obama’s national campaign chairperson! She (her family) owns Hyatt Hotels and she was the Chair of the failed Superior Bank (her family bank and sub-prime lender extrodinaire) and accepted a deal to be personally (her family) $460 million of which she has yet to pay much back, with Barry as President, what do you think will happen to her fines, automatic $0 owing!
I think that if more was done in terms of examination of Obama’s real ties and history, the answer to my biggest question might be found. To me the 300 pound gorilla in the room is the amount of money Obama’s campaign has amassed. It has determined how many ads he can buy, how many organizers he can have on the payroll, how many mailings he can make, and how many favors he can do, how much he will be courted by the networks who want his advertising dollars. And the DNC is salivating. His supposed campaign’s agreement to support the DNC with some of his contributions must look very appealing to Howard Dean and managers of his cash-strapped coffers. Hillary, not so much.
The old adage “follow the money” is an appropriate suggestion in this regard — specifically, what is the source of this money. Who are the bundlers ? The fuel that feeds Obama’s campaign is beyond grass roots supporters like you and me. He is getting high powered assistance and not just small donations from many individual people. The Clinton and Obama supporters are nearly equal in number. So why are the candidates’ coffers so discrepant? Is it because Hillary appeals to blue collar workers who have less discretionary money to spend on political donations? Surely, the college age supporters aren’t contributing Obama’s millions.
Yes, yes, yes! I predict that the tsunami of money Obama has been getting will disappear IF Obama gets the nomination. Where else could these massive sums be coming from other than Republicans?
Why have McCains funds been so lean? Because they’re all giving to Obama right now. Once the GOP knocks Clinton out of the race, Obama’s donors will disappear and McCain will have more money than he knows what to do with!
Wish that were so. Thought so earlier. Now seems that his muslim/terrorist ties are much more relevant to his massive funding as well as underlying intentions… those people have tons of laundered cash and it’s getting clear, he is their guy.
Those idiots think cash is everything, as long as they have money they get their way.
They are unable to see past that, leaving them vulnerable.
I mean, my goodness it took what, 2 months for Enron to come crashing down?
Thats the Fact…Jack…
The guy was a Communist from chicago who went to Hawaii…and Started mentoring Obama from the age ten onward…when HE was the most Impressionable..
you can see after high school…every move Obama made led him to New York and the Networks there he started connecting with..Then on to Chicago whern He really got hooked up with the Bigger Network of Radicals, and Revolutionarys..all Known and CONFIRMED….
Do Yur Homework…
Larry, something I haven’t seen yet is someone tying the incestuous relationship between some of Obama’s pals.
William Ayers father was chairman of Commonwealth Edison. CE is owned by Exelon. Axelrod worked for Exelon. Exelon has given money to Obama.
Current COMed successor raised 200k for Barry. Frank Clark. Ayer’s daddy sat on the COMed trustee board, so you know he had a hand in picking Clark. I still think Ayers is the leading character here in terms of barry’s …um…growth in Chicago. Michelle and him worked with Dohrn. Dohrn introduces to Ayers. Next thing you know Barry is an “organizer”. Somebody steers him to the “right church”. Rezko is the fixer thread throughout things. Also he is key to the meeting of kahlidi, Assamarae,Auchi. Daley family and Ayers family goes way back to Daley The First. It’s all incestuous.
My belief is Obama met Ayers and Dohrn in New York and the likely of places either at Columbia U, knowing how Ayers loves to gloate over this WU days while Obama was taking Political Science at Columbia or at Cooper Union where many political society lectures and events took place including Afro-American and Marxist ones and Obama said he spent a lot of time there at those events and lectures and My gut says he actually met Michelle there as it was a gathering place for Afro-American studies and lectures!
WAY TOO MUCH TO BE COINCIDENCE! I’ve had exactly the same sense/intuition? of when these 4 first connected. These are not relationships of mere chance. .. like obama was stumping for odinga back in 2006. . . setting the stage for infiltration of Kenya.
What I wish some would investigate is WHOSE CLOUT IS IT behind the MSM brainwashing. At 1st attributed it to his big spending with them, but sure know there is more.
CNN/Time Warner/Time mag heard long ago of Arab money there. Anyone know the specifics?
BUT WHO THE HELL IS so carefully controlling the main line of obama viral spread: MSNBC???
Well MSNBC is owned by General Electric! The division of GE that controls NBC is the head of GE Finacial!
Who is the ones behind Rezko’s being in jail?
GE Finacial!
Who days before Obama announced his run for President signed a major deal together for Nuclear Power generation in Texas, General Electric and Excelon!
Opps hit send too quick again!
Who shelved Nuclear reform legislation days before the deal was signed?
Obama!
He still stumps he had it passed, it was only passed onto a shelf, it never even went to the congress!
I have been of the same opinion as Mel has for months.
jm
WAY TOO MUCH TO BE COINCIDENCE! I’ve had exactly the same sense/intuition? of when these 4 first connected.
Based on Frank Marshall Davis’s recommendation to Obama to look up Ayers if he was ever in Chicago… I think Obama looked into this while in California.
1980 - 1985…
Here is video of Barack “MIA on Afghanistan” Obama insulting our troops serving in Afghanistan:
http://www.breitbart.tv/html/4339.html
“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.”
Spread the word about Obama insulting the troops.
UNconscionable!! And Obama NEVER apologized!!
Our troops deserve respect, not insults!!
Spread the word!!
Everyone in America should see the video of Obama insulting our troops!
And Obama wants to be President and Commander-In-Chief??
NO WAY!!
I beleive Rezko approached Barry Obama while he was still at Harvard Law School. That would be the connection. I read that in numerous places.I am not sure how “true” it is or something that just keeps getting repeated.
Ted Kennedy and McGovern have endorsed him. I hear the coffin lid slowly closing.
The media is for profit now. It used to be considered a service by the network. We will never get any news again.
That has been verified from Obama himself. Rezko approached Barry Obama
Yes but he could easily have known him BEFORE he went to Harvard.
Ok to fill in gaps of Larry’s article:
In 1985 the foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project, which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago’s economically depressed South Side.
Obama became friendly with Woods director Jean Rudd, and after he graduated from Harvard Law School and moved back to Chicago, Rudd asked him to join the board, which met four times a year to review grant proposals.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/berman
Some say that it isn’t a story, but Oh contrare:
Head of The Woods Foundation at the time was a Gerry Kelm, Chairman of Sahara Coal, supplier to Con Ed, connection, Thomas Ayers!
There is more, Larry check your emails my friend, there is stuff packed in there! Including Obama’s godfather of politics, Emil Jones, they didn’t meet in the State Senate, they met in 1987 and what district is Jones’s, well Michelle Obama’s parents district, the same district Michelle’s dad was a Precinct Captain in!
Opps, the Foundation that gave the 25 grand was The Woods Foundation, of which Jean Rudd was a director!
Alsammarae escapes Iraq prison and moves into palatial home in Chicago. Where they do nothing to him. He and Kahlidi, et al had to be introduced to Obama some how. Probably Rezko. Kahlidi came from Ayer’s direction, possibly,as the Woods people (including Obama and Ayers) gave him a grant.
Alsammarae had a business in Chicago and a successful business in Chicago was guess what?
Electrical Engineering firm
Connct the dots, why does Electricity keep coming up?
One answer, Thomas Ayers and his protigee (sp?) present day bundler for Obama John Rowe, Chairman of Exelon!
He was the “electricity minister” in Iraq. Got thrown in the slammer for making money deals. Gave a 100 Million dollar contract to ……guess who?
And guess who he bought electric generators from that require a special fuel to run. The generators use 1 tanker every 45 minutes, and have to bring them in from turkey though dangerous sections of Iraq.
The generators cost 1/3 a billion dollars from guess who?
General Electric!
Who paid? USA!
MSNBC’s handler…GE.
SweetBecca raises a valid point. What do you make of this?
Barack Obama Is A Closet Homosexual: Listen To The Rev. James David Manning!
“The reason why Senator Barack Hussein Obama stayed within the Trinity of Hell for so long, for 20 years, is because of a homosexual relationship with its minister.”
Listen to this video released Saturday, May 10, 2008
SweetBecca Says:
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 8:36 pm
“i picked up a copy of the Globe and shared Larry’s story with family and friends when i was away over the weekend. we all made comments about seemingly outrageous articles we read in older issues which we discovered later were very TRUE.
drip drip drip”
Is Obama Caught up in Gay Murder Scandal?
“Globe Magazine has asked the question that no one in the MSM have shown the least bit of testicular fortitude to ask. This is not as many claim being ignored by the MSM because it is untrue or because the MSM do not want to be sued for libel or slander. This is ignored by the MSM because they have made it clear for some time they want Barack Obama in the White House, and their consistent biased coverage proves this to be the case beyond any reasonable doubt.”
Globe Magazine article
http://larrysinclair0926.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/image1.jpg
http://larrysinclair0926.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/image2.jpg
Don’t know about Manning but that Sinclair dog has been trying to hunt for a long time. I just think it’s not going anywhere.
Rev Manning really lays into Obama:
http://msunderestimated.com/2008/03/15/rev-manning-on-obama-video/
I seem to remember he had a few choice words to say about the Clinton’s too, LOL, so he’s not exactly partisan.
But anyway I posted Rev Manning because I think it’s important to dispell this myth that the media is creating, a myth that steriotypes black people and places them all in the Obama camp. Nonsense, 22% of black folks don’t even vote Democrat, 40% don’t vote at all, and many are wholeheartedly supporting Clinton. There’s a lot of diversity in the black community, in spite of the story the media is trying to fabricate.
Yeah, the story on that item is a bit too much like all those ‘Arkansas murders,’ boilerplate bull.
The actual over the top endorsements, donors, and political support network, that’s reason enough to be alarmed.
The media is not interested in destroying “the narrative” that has been built regarding his story. There is much about this man that fails the smell test. However, he has been built up primarily to knock her down. The sexism is rampant, yet as the article points out, he is allowed to dissemble and avoid direct answers. His hee’ing and haw’ing is very distracting since he is only at his best delivering a prepared speech. I have no idea what his core values consist of but I would watch very carefully what Michele espouses because although he may be just another Chicago political opportunist,I have come to see her as the one with issues. With a candidate possessing such a flimsy resume and experience, his qualifications are minimal. Why then all this hoopla about getting him elected? Beyond me.
One thing which is a big suprise is that no press has looked into the grants given by the Woods Foundation, during the years served, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have managed to do very well by it! Projects of Dohrn’s have obtained fundings of about $40 grand per year at NWU and Ayers about $15 to $20 grand per year, not bad deal huh?
The first Year Obama brought Ayers on board The Woods Foundation, Annenberg Chicago was given $50 grand!
Now you need to understand something, the Directors of The Woods Foundation only meet 4 times a year, March, June, September and December. Proposals are not presented at the March meeting. (You will not find this on the Woods site, but it was found!
I believe that Ayers is a very powerful figure in Chicago by way of his father. All roads always seem to lead to him.
It is a group of philanthropists in Chicago:
Newton Minows, head of Sidley Austin
Thomas Ayers
John Rowe Chair of Exelon
James and Lester Crown (General Dynamics, Morgan Chase Bank, Maytag)
Gerry Kelm Dead, former Chair of Sahara Coal and The Woods Foundation
Prinzky Family Defunct (bankrupt) Superior Bank, Hyatt Hotels
to name a few and all those still alive are working on Obama’s campaign
I think I may have an explanation for why the MSM is going whole hog for Obama. I’ve been kicking it around in my head for a while, and I think I’ve got it. Bear with me while I try to get this down in a logical manner.
1. We know that the media is not “liberal,” despite what the right wants us to think. They’re owned by conservatives and/or Republicans who’ve proven that they’ll show anything on their networks to get who they want into office or to encourage legislation to be passed, etc.
2. We know that Obama is the weaker candidate against McCain. He has a history, and when it comes out, as McCain will most certainly do, most Americans - especially in swing states- will not want to have someone with that kind of history and inexperience as the President. Hillary is the stronger candidate; she can hold her own against McCain, and probably win. Her husband’s terms in the office were not that long ago that people have forgotten how much better off they were then.
So, why support Obama? So McCain will win, of course. The owners and bosses at news stations don’t need to do much to convince those “journalists” who actually are left leaning to “report” on Obama in a positive light. We’ve had so much liberal bashing in the last 20+ years, that it must seem a relief. It also wouldn’t be too hard to convince the right leaning “journalists” to bash Hillary, because, you know, the Clinton years were “