What Hypocrite Obama Should Have Discussed in His Wesleyan Commencement Address
By Truthteller on May 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Nadhmi Auchi, Rezko, Tony Rezko
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) - Filling in for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and tying himself to the family’s legacy, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama urged college graduates Sunday to “make us believe again” by dedicating themselves to public service….
Only briefly did Obama veer into campaign territory, rattling off a list of education changes he promised to make as president. The rest of the 25-minute speech urged students to focus on more than “the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy.”
The rest of the 25-minute speech should have been dedicated to urging students to focus on “the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy,” for this is the life Barack Obama actually pursued. Indeed, Obama should have offered Wesleyan students instructions on how to find and secure political and financial godfathers in the mold of Antoin “Tony” Rezko. After all, this is how Obama climbed the political, social and financial ladders of Chicago, Illinois.
Very brief chronology of the Obamas’ questionable purchase of the Kenwood mansion with indicted slumlord and notorious political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko:
- At the same time, Rita Rezko buys the garden plot, 5046 South Greenwood Avenue,for the asking price of $625,000
- June 15, 2005: Barack Obama and his wife Michelle buy 5050 South Greenwood Avenue in Kenwood, Chicago, for $1.65 million – $300,000 less than asking price
- January 2006: Mrs. Rezko sells a 10ft strip of garden to the Obamas for $104,500
- December 28, 2006: Mrs Rezko sells remainder of garden plot to a lawyer who works for her husband’s business for $575,000
- Metal fence and trees prevent access to garden plot
- Only way into garden plot is through the Obamas’ front gate
No Quarter dossier on Barack Obama and Antoin “Tony” Rezko:
- Barack Obama’s Candidacy as a Take on The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A Majority of One: On Losing the Democratic Base
- Ok, So Tell Us What IS Allowed
- Two Lone Voices Speak for Millions of Us
- What’ll Be Left of the Democratic Party
- It Ain’t Over: Obama MAY Have to Pay the Piper After All
- Obama to Donate Contribution from Rezko’s Iraqi Friend
- Be My Friend, Godfather
- Jaws V, Starring Barack Obama
- The Chicago Three: Obama, Ayers & Rezko
- Charlie Gibson, Will You Ask Barack about Nadhmi Auchi?
- Saddam Hussein, Barack Hussein Obama’s Hidden Real Estate Partner?
- Barack “I-Didn’t-Know” Obama
- Those Who Haunt Him
- Hillary’s Campaign Comes out Swinging
- “Nobie and Obama”
- Authorization to Use Misleading Falsehoods
- What We’ve Noticed about the Speech
- This Is for Main Street (And for the Forgotten People Barack Obama Doesn’t Know)
- Michelle Obama: “Give Us Something Here”
- Rezko Muckrakers Alert!
- The Forgotten People
- Irrefutable Proof That Obama’s Own District Was Home to 11 Rezko Foreclosed Properties
- Speak the Truth, Fallout Be Damned
- The Rezko Saga: Two Videos
- Get Your Daily Rezko Dose Here
- The Media’s Panderbears, Part I
- Sunday Scoops: Rezko-gate and Adviser-gate
- Obama’s Prime-Slime Advisors
- Good Morning, Barack! (Rezko Got Jobs for Your Staffers? Do Tell.)
- Today’s Rezko Trial Scoops (And Prosecutors on $20K Kickback to Obama)
- ABC News: Rezko $50 Million in Debt
- 312.321.2417
- (Pants on Fire!) Lynn Sweet: Obama and His Taking Questions on Rezko
- Rezko Trial: Obama May Be Witness
- Obama’s Judgment on the Eve of Judgment Day
- Truthtelling from Lanny Davis (What about “Iron My Shirt?”)
- Experience, and Experiences (of the Rezko Sort)
- No He Can’t Because Yes They Will
- More Questions on Rezko
- “Obama Bagman” in Jail
- Democratic Death Wish
- How to Buy A Mansion You Can’t Afford
- Will Rezko Blow Up Obama?
- It is “Possible” Obama Was Aware of Rezko’s Financial and Legal Woes
- 20-Year Associate of Obama Arrested
- Look before You Leap: Obama’s Mobbed-Up Allies
- Politics Is A Blood Sport
- BREAKING: ABC News Reports $100,000 from Rezko That Obama Hasn’t Returned
- CNN on Rezko and Obama: This Is Obama’s “Slumwater”
- FACT CHECK: Obama, His Contributor Rezko, The Slum Landlord Business
- A Dope with Hope?
- Obama/Rezko: It Comes down to Judgment
- Didn’t Obama Watch The Firm
- Steve Clemons on Tonight’s Debate
- Patrick Fitzgerald Ties Obama to Rezko Indictments
- All in for Hillary
- Obama, His Lobbyists and His Cronies
Also visit RezkoWatch for more information on Obama’s deep and problematic ties with indicted slumlord and notorious political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
“make us believe again” by dedicating themselves to public service….
The rest of the 25-minute speech urged students to focus on more than “the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy.”
~Aren’t those communist arguments?
Do as I say, not as I do.
Oh Oblahblah.
Yep, pretty much.
yep, pretty much.
All of the Illinois influence peddlers machinations make the rigging of the nomination by the DNC look like child’s play.
Illinois Gov. Blag was supposed to be the Democratic nominee who as president would replace Patrick Fitzgerald and clear Rezko and the whole bedrock of Illinois influence peddlers that Fitzgerald has in his crosshairs.
Blag became radioactive so Obama, Rezko’s #2 man, is being sold by Axelrod (of the Daley machine). There’s even more than the DNC’s attempt to wrest the party from the centralist philosophy of the Clintons (a path that includes all Americans, but especially the middle and lower classes).
If the extent of Democratic corruption in Chicago and Illinois were known, the Democratic Party as we know it would implode. (Republicans are part of this, and Rezko was bi-political in his favors since his only purpose was to make more money–but the Democratic “image” has the most to lose–and the previous governor Ryan (R) is in jail).
“In politics, Ryan was known as a consummate deal maker. Republican or Democrat, it didn’t matter. Ryan knew the key to almost any legislator’s heart and vote were local projects big and small. He approved O’Hare expansion for Mayor Daley and the Lincoln Library for Springfield.” For more see,
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=5747619
While sitting in his cell the past four months, I wonder how often Rezko relives his walk-through in Obama’s new mansion. The one that Rezko managed to swing for him through Auchi’s loan? Rezko was broke and everyone with an ear to the ground knew that he was about to be arrested. Obama’s political instincts are not golden.
The question is how much Obama as Chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed legislation (specifically Senate Bill 1332) that helped Rezko’s influence peddling schemes.
From Evelyn Pringle’s latest article on Follow the Money: “On May 31, 2003, Senate Bill 1332 passed and specified that the “Board shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate.” The legislation reduced the number of members from 15 to 9, paving the way for the appointment of a five-bloc majority to rig the votes.
The corrupt members appointed included three doctors who contributed to Obama. Michel Malek gave Obama $10,000 on June 30, 2003 and donated $25,000 to Blagojevich on July 25, 2003. Malek also gave Obama another $500 in September 2003.”
Here’s a link to the Chicago Sun-Times article about Obama’s letters for Rezko:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/425305,CST-NWS-obama13.article
You can see copies of the letters here. I’m sure Karl Rove has followed this link:
http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/obamaletters2.pdf_20070612_17_11_03_906.imageContent
HA!
The understatement of the century, this one, and last.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Kinda klumsy, there, isn’t he?
In a pyramid scheme you dupe the chumps at the bottom to do the work for you so that the crook at the top can reap the benefits.
~Sounds like communism to me!
NPR played that clip at the top of the hour newscast a couple of times last night. They obviously noticed the communist tones of that passage too.
And didn’t he get the name of the college wrong? A past clip he called it “Wellsley” and the audience laughed.
I assumed the clip that I watched with people laughing at him for saying “Wellesley” was a clip from the Daily Show or something and the laughter was from Jon Stewart’s (or Letterman’s) audience. I don’t think college students would laugh at Obama for doing something so insignificant (to them) as messing up their alma mater’s name. No, they’d probably praise him for breaking with the “politics of old” wherein people actually know where they are.
I’m Cuban. I could recognize that communist rhetoric to a graduating class a mile away.
As much as I hate Marxism, I hate hypocrisy even more.
Zillow doesn’t include the sales tranaction in their estimate. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen that. Also, the assessed value in 2006 was around $150K but the taxes paid were around $22,000. Here’s what Zillow had to say about why they didn’t include the sales transaction in their estimate:
“This transaction was not used in computing the Zestimate for this house due to anomalies we detected with this transaction. These anomalies can include unusual document or transaction types, sales between possibly related parties, unusually high or low transaction prices, or other data irregularities that might indicate the transaction is not a full-value, arms-length transaction.”
Zillow also shows another home on the same property, likely a home that has been torn down at some point.
God that speech was so preachy - don’t be capitalists kids, give to others. Do as I say not as I do.
JFK would have never said it that way. He would have never said “don’t do” jobs that make money.
Obama has NO CLUE that Democrats who have gone too marxist in their message have gotten trounced. Does this guy know history at all?
Oh, he knows his history. He’s just hoping WE don’t.
Funny, I thought Obama was at “Wellsleyan!” What a joke. The nerve on this guy living in the swanky ill-gotten mansion while he cites his impoverished African relatives on his foreign policy resume. I’m not sure how much longer I can continue living in Bizarro World.
I think the graduating class at Wesleyan need look no further than Obama 1.0 aka Deval Patrick, to see what they will be in for with a Barack Pampers Obama White House.
http://tiny.cc/4icqQ
Is it any wonder why the good people of MA kicked Obama to the curb in their primary? They know what Pampers is. Hopefully the Democratic Party will see it before they sign their pact with Pampers.
In regard to the passing of the Kennedy mantle to Obama, I’m sure they all feel really good about that considering his campaign used Bobby’s assassination as means of attacking Hillary Clinton. Jack and Bobby are no doubt looking down on him with great pride.
I think I may vomit.
I am sure all the Catholics who admire the Kennedys are disgusted with their choice to endorse someone who attends an illegitimate church with an illegitimate pastor who upholds an illegitimate religion.
Illegitimate?
Why is one religion more legitimate than another?
Yeah. Trinity church is not any more illegitimate than any other church. It’s just more wacko.
Michelle told a group of working class women in Ohio:
“We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”
Ah yes, $300,000+ worth of response.
(This was the same crowd she whined to about her debts for her Ivy League education and the $10,000 she HAS to spend on her kids music, dance, etc.)
Read the whole article for a preview of the Republicans’ approach to her:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmEyN2RkNzcwYzgyZDY2MDBiY2U5MjJlZGMwNDM2ODg
It appears that FoxNews has jumped into the tank with the rest of the MSM.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/25/obama-pronunciation-at-wesleyan-commencement-was-a-joke-not-caught/
All of his gaffes are really jokes that were not smart enough to get.
Wonderful posting, TruthTeller.
And I love your NoQuarter links all in one place.
I can’t wait for the Rezko guilty verdict, and I hope it comes before June 3.
Keep up the great work.
The “Illinois Combine” has to be brought down.
You know what the biggest insult to the school is? Hillary graduated from there and you can BET they would have far preferred to have seen her deliver this commencement speech. At least she can pronounce it. And you would think that in the sunset of his life, Ted Kennedy might have had a kinder thought about it.
Hillary graduated from Wellesley, not Wesleyan.
You are right. Bzzzzzzz. Smack me.
Only Obama thought he was at Wellsley … what a toad ….
I can’t believe how they laughed at him though.
Rezko’s boy is really out of touch.
But apparently one CNN reporter did catch the fact that one area of public service that Obama did not extol the fine young grads of the hyper-elite Wesleyan to consider was…military service. Probably because he would have gotten booed and we can’t have that, can we?
Now I haven’t heard or read the entire speech, but did he offer any acknowledgement or recognition of this country’s fallen, given that it was, uh, Memorial Day weekend?
Uppity, Didn’t you see Barry make a cameo apperance on that 70’s sat show Laugh IN?
Truth Teller, I damn sure hope the graduating class at that University got a good education…
They are going to need it. I would have enjoyed passing out fliers of this post as they sat there listening to that crap.
The echo chamber is alive with troll luminol today…
Stinky is what his kids call him and the voting public should take note that his own wife let it be known that he does.
That is one ugly house.
Is that 4 garbage cans I see out front as well?
Talk about being wasteful?
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