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Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan Take On Whitey

I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about “whitey” describe it as “STUNNING.” I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks. Whoops!! When that image comes out it will enter the politcal ads hall of fame. It will be right up there with the little girl plucking daisy petals in the famous 1964 ad LBJ used against Barry Goldwater.

Barack may have quit his church but his religious problems are not over. Barack Obama has a Nation of Islam problem that will receive more attention in the coming days. Before Barack came on the scene, THE MAN in his political district was Louis Farrakhan. No one could take Alice Palmer’s seat without Farrakhan’s blessing. No one. I do not fault Barack Obama for seeking out the blessing of Farrakhan, but the story of what was done behind the scenes to get rid of Barack’s predecessor—Alice Palmer—has not been told. A knowledgeable source tells me that Tony Rezko played a direct role in this feat. And Rezko has been tight with Farrakhan.

It also should come as no surprise that Barack hired two members of the Nation of Islam to work on his staff—Jennifer Mason and Cynthia K. Miller. (And no, I am not merely recycling info initially reported by Debbie Schlussel. I have two independent Chicago sources for this info.) If Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger had kept their yaps buttoned none of this would mean much. But the fact that both men have been—until scrubbed from the website in recent weeks—listed as spiritual advisors to Barack Obama and also are very close to Louis Farrakhan, forces the question about Barack’s faith and beliefs.

In probing those matters we begin to understand that the Nation of Islam has been a critical component of Barack Obama’s base of support. And, I am told, Louis Farrakhan has been careful to use Tony Rezko as the intermediary in his relationship with Barack. This is not guilt by association, this is guilt because of actual relationship. Farrakhan, Wright, and Pfleger are each on tape in various settings spewing the most vile racists garbage in the guise of preaching. Barack Obama, up to this point, has tried to pretend he had no idea that these men had these thoughts or said these things.

NONSENSE!! He knew and he knows. And the gig will be up when the Michelle tape hits the airwaves. One source described how this tape was acquired. Let’s just say that one of the republican candidates who is no longer in the race, but had a dandy oppo research capability, uncovered this gem. If Republican poohbahs have their way the tape will remain on ice until October. But when it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam. That’s not a winning platform in November. And Barack’s bundlers understand this threat. I also have learned some major financial backers are asking the Barack team about the tape and are being stonewalled. It is a wild card in the political campaign that has not yet played out.

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Comment by Anna | 2008-06-02 03:05:10

Obama is toast - a liar, a cheat and a loser. Good riddance

Comment by Jim | 2008-06-02 12:29:35

I have a video showing McCain repeatedly raping a baby. I haven’t seen it yet but five of my friends have spoken to five friends who have spoken to five friends who have seen the tape. That’s 125 credible witnesses right there!

Comment by johnathon marks | 2008-06-02 08:42:37

The Michelle Tape
by BooMan
Sun Jun 1st, 2008 at 11:57:57 PM EST

My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency. He doesn’t want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he’s in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates. He claims to have a shocking tape of Michelle Obama ranting in some anti-white diatribe. He promises to produce this tape tomorrow at 9am.
From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.

How you’d write it:

Why did Bush cut folks off medicaid?
Why did Bush let New Orleans drown?
Why did Bush do nothing about Jena?
Why did Bush put us in Iraq for no reason?
How you’d say it:

Why’d he cut folks off medicaid?
Why’d he let New Orleans drown?
Why’d he do nothing about Jena?
Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?

How Larry Johnson wants you to hear it:

Whitie cut folks off medicaid?
Whitie let New Orleans drown?
Whitie do nothing about Jena?
Whitie put us in Iraq for no reason?

I’m going to be honest with you. Both SusanHu and Larry Johnson have been friends of mine. They have both done a lot for me and I am grateful and indebted to them. Any issues I’ve had with their activities in this election I have kept private. I haven’t visited their site in four months because I found it too personally painful to read what they were writing and I did not want to be tempted to respond. I thought I owed them that. But loyalty can only go so far. If they publish this allegation tomorrow, I will no longer speak with them. And I say that with great sorrow.

This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That’s all I say. This is too painful to

 

Comment by Unbelievable | 2008-06-02 12:54:44

Jim,
You and all of your Obama robots are the true meaning of hateful people.

 
 
 

Comment by blackmannot4obama | 2008-06-02 03:05:54

Wow good details. I can’t wait! The democrats will have nobody to blame but themselves for their ignoring all the red flags about Obama!

Comment by Amy | 2008-06-02 08:26:36

There are no details here. It’s all the same hocus as before, rephrased to keep the story on simmer. If the tape did exist, someone would have shown it to a, er, respected journalist: the good Larry himself still has no further corroboration and, frankly, I doubt he had any to start with. I suspect republican mischief makers were just feeding the most violently anti-Obama sites with some kerosene for the fire. This happens every time a losing candidate comes to the end of their presidential ambitions. Let me guess? Saddam Hussein and Ahmadinejad are feeding grapes to Michelle whilst she’s talking about Whitey? Grow some brains people. You must have all been on the inernets long enough now to demand people either show up or shut up. It don’t exist.

 
 

Comment by katiebird | 2008-06-02 03:07:28

Please — someone — please ask Senator and Mrs. Obama about this. And don’t let them parse the answer.

 

Comment by bart | 2008-06-02 03:07:28

According to news reports coming out of Chicago, Jabir Muhammad, a son of Elijah Muhammad, was the “front man” for a “minority-owned” business called Crucial. This business was actually owned and run by Rezko.

 

Comment by OneQuarter | 2008-06-02 03:08:13

If you haven’t read these articles yet, check them out. They show that Barack in 1990 and 1995 agreed 100% with Wright and Pfleger

http://www.edwoj.com/Alinsky/AlinskyObamaChapter1990.htm

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/archive/barackobama/

Comment by PJ | 2008-06-02 12:34:23

Obamamania!

Troll!

 
 

Comment by Gorto | 2008-06-02 03:14:04

Wow, Michelle was bad enough, but together with Farrakhan??!!!! WOW!!

Let’s all say a prayer (and I’m not religious) that this thing hits the airwaves before Hillary drops out! This would give her the reason to stay in!!!!

Come on larry, push people out of the woodworks, smoke’em out, we need this now!!

I will happily fight to see McCain whoop O’s ass in the GE, and then see Hillary whoop McCain’s ass in 2012. But if we can get this out now, we won’t have to wait for 4 years, we need Hilalry now!

Comment by GMS | 2008-06-02 08:25:50

Totally agree. In fact, it is Obama’s responsibility to drop out IF this is true. Why? If it is true, the Dems will lose the battle in November. A lot of dems like myself will not vote for a man that has a racist wife. Especially since millions and millions and millions of white people have voted for him.

 
 

Comment by oy | 2008-06-02 03:14:04

Wow. Those sure are “new and dramatic developments”, Larry. Are you sure it’s just Michelle and Farrakhan on stage at Trinity? I heard from MY unnamed republican sources that the guest list also included Bill Ayes, O.J. and Ahmadinejad too. Oh, and a cryogenically frozen Huey Newton burning an effigy of Geraldine Ferraro while stomping on the 19th amendment. That’s the rumor, at least. Pass it on!

 

Comment by debrazza | 2008-06-02 03:21:44

This was serious put up or shut up time for you credibility and the best you can come up with is that you talked to people who talked to people who have seen the tape?

And now you throw in the Farrakhan angle. Would that not have been an important point to add in all the other posts you have made about this tape?

This is sad.

 

Comment by SS | 2008-06-02 03:29:43

LMAO!! You’re kidding me. You haven’t seen it. You don’t even have a freaking have a transcript! You don’t tell us what exactly about “whitey” was said or how the word was used. THIS is your big bombshell?? Pathetic!

 

Comment by Why'd he NOT whitey | 2008-06-02 03:29:44

She say “Why’d he” NOT “whitey” and was referring to president bush. As in, “why did he do nothing when New Orleans was flooding?”.

I’m certainly tired of spin and no quarter usa is as guilty of spin as fox news.

 

Comment by John Nail | 2008-06-02 03:36:29

Larry, this is utter nonsense. Show us the tape or STFU!

 

Comment by Gorto | 2008-06-02 03:40:45

MoveOn.org??? As in the group that endorsed Obama is out with a petition to get the SD to elect Hillary???

Or is this something people who sign up can do via their website??

 

Comment by Canadian | 2008-06-02 03:40:45

You are a bunch of intolerant red necks using fanaticism as much as the extremist islamist in Afghanistan.

 

Comment by Jen | 2008-06-02 03:57:28

This update was a long stupid innuendo with smear written all over it. It sort reminds me of a tacky gossip mag tryn to sale papers and only post half truths.

Then again if there is a tape of Michelle Obama saying something racist. “Who really cares?” most Americans say racist things behind closed doors. If I remember right a couple presidents have been caught making racist and sexist comments in the past.
So, big freaking deal if his wife has a problem with certain races. She is not running for president her husband is and Barrack Obama is the one you should be going after.

By the way I can’t stand his wife either for personal reasons. But I think you guys are pushing with going after her like she is some crazed Nazi.
Get a grip on reality folks!

Comment by Kaley belanger | 2008-06-02 12:51:02

No, Mrs. Obama is not running for president ,but she will be in the White House representing America and i don’t think we need her kind of Representation

 
 

Comment by Hal Hildebrand | 2008-06-02 04:04:51

Geebus. That’s it?

ROFLMAO. Good one, Johnson. Got me to come back, I’ll say that.

Wake me up when you have something real.

 

Comment by Judly | 2008-06-02 04:14:35

You people are insane. Dear. God.

 

Comment by Nathan Barley | 2008-06-02 04:20:41

Why’d he cut folks off medicaid?
Why’d he let New Orleans drown?
Why’d he do nothing about Jena?
Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?

 

Comment by Liz | 2008-06-02 04:25:35

I woke up at the crack of dawn to try to see if you had the tape, and I can’t say I’m not disappointed.

I wish they’d let the tape out sooner, since Hillary needs it out ASAP. It’s sickening that the media and so many others have basically laid the candidacy on a silver platter for Obama.

OB is going to be in a world of hurt when the Republicans get through with him. Good riddance!

 

Comment by Gerald | 2008-06-02 04:25:57

If you Obamabots were not totally frightened by the possibility of this tapes existence you wouldn’t be here. The fact that you are here and trying to use snark to defuse the situation shows you believe Michell of sitting with Farrakhan and slamming whitey. Here’s a question for all of the Obamabots, Barry was raised by WHITE WOMEN yet he sat and listened to 20 years of “whitey bashing” and never once said this isn’t the truth about my Mother and Grandmother why? His Grandmother paid his way to private schools and Harvard. What do his daughters think of their Grandmother and Great Grandmother? Do they hate them as see them as great oppressors as Rev. Wright does?

 

Comment by I will Remember in November | 2008-06-02 04:28:09

Although I believe the video exist because it fits Michelle’s MO, Larry’s post on Saturday was unnecessary. Larry most likely either did it for the increased traffic maybe he was selling advertising and wanted to get a big day to boost the avg or Larry wanted to say or show more but was stopped by someone for various reasons. Either way the tape exist. Larry’s post is consistent we everything I know about the Obama’s.
Tick tock tick tock…

 

Comment by corey | 2008-06-02 04:29:23

FoxNews is a cable channel, they don’t have an FCC license.

 

Comment by David Taylor | 2008-06-02 04:32:04

I believe that the tape does exist, and that it is what you say it is. I also agree with those who have said that you’re all hat and no cattle. With your recent allegations you attracted to the blog many people from outside the Amen Corner. Now, not only will those people not again take you seriously, but some of your deacons will leave this church as well.

 

Comment by Joe | 2008-06-02 04:33:10

You don’t have to be a ‘troll’ to think this whole thing is seriously shady. Especially considering somehow so many blogs around the net are posting almost the same wording about this story, and linking to a youtube that shows Michelle, but is not the video in question. All of these are remarkably similar.

It’s a whisper campaign, and it almost got me at first. But the proof is in the pudding, and there’s nothing here that legitimizes the story; just a bunch of people that really hate Obama and don’t need proof to fulfill their hatred of him.

I just don’t understand how you can hate any one of the three candidates with such blood hatred. It’s ridiculous. Seriously, ridiculous.

 

Comment by PamFL | 2008-06-02 04:35:51

The republicans will not leak any damaging info about BO now, doing so would defeat their purpose. They want to win in Nov.-it won’t work unless BO is the nominee.

 

Comment by Judly | 2008-06-02 04:35:51

Do you people have any idea how insane you all sound?

 

Comment by paranoid.pj | 2008-06-02 04:39:01

So how much ad revenue did you make with the tantalizing promise of a video that never appeared?

 

Comment by desert dawg | 2008-06-02 04:39:10

No tape. No story.

Either produce it or be quiet.

 

Comment by l. lambert | 2008-06-02 04:40:55

This is a bullshit lie, i am Canadian, i talk
to a lot of ppl about the us elections, while you are right, that most Canadian’s favour Democrat’s,
i can count on one hand,those that like Obama

 

Comment by Mandelay | 2008-06-02 04:44:28

Too bad the Republicans are afraid to run against Hillary. Otherwise, the tape would be released and broadcast all day today. This delay until October all but guarantees that a) Republicans dearly want Obama as their opponent b) They will delay as long as possible in releasing the tape to ensure Obama doesn’t have time to use his amazing teflon coating once again. A coordinated blitz of t.v. ads, talk radio, print, and direct mail all released at the same time would be difficult for Obama to overcome. It would eliminate Obama as a candidate “forever,” but would also sideline Hillary until 2012 when she would be back fighting off more “sanitized” women candidates, e.g. Kathleen Sebelius (the stepford Hillary who can “follow party orders” and keep smiling).

 

Comment by candymarl | 2008-06-02 04:44:43

I’m telling you Larry that Obama supporters are having a field day with this. They say you’re lying and the tape does not exist. Innuendo and rumor do not help Hillary.

On the other hand, if the tape doesn’t exist why doesn’t Obama just say so? If his wife never said those things why doesn’t he just say so?

Why he (Bush) didn’t come to New Orleans makes no sense. Bush did go to New Orleans. Many days too late and many dollars short but he did (finally) show up.

But his lateness and lack of caring is inexcusable.

 

Comment by Tom | 2008-06-02 04:45:42

Prior to the last few hours, I don’t know you from Adam, Larry Johnson, but I think it’s rather shitty of you to be engaging in this level of racist innuendo. Put up - where’s the video??? - or STFU.

To any Hillary supporters reading this, please try and imagine how it would appear to you if an Obama supporter tried to do this to Hillary: no facts, no benefit of doubt, no class - just pure gratuitous smear. This is damned shameful.

 

Comment by IronMan | 2008-06-02 04:45:42

We all know that BM (Barry and Michelle) are like two peas in a pod with the likes of LF.

Appreciate the update, Larry.

What a visual!!

No wonder the Obama trolls are out in full force this morning.

Barry wants to shut the process down.

Hey Barry, the votes for the Nomination aren’t cast until August. Those are the rules. Don’t you trolls know the rules?

:D

 

Comment by thatgirl | 2008-06-02 04:48:40

Please stop this. Either show the tape or don’t talk about it until it does come out if it ever does.

 

Comment by thatgirl | 2008-06-02 04:48:40

Please stop this. Either show the tape or don’t talk about it until it does come out if it ever does.

 

Comment by Chaldean | 2008-06-02 04:48:40

Don: You know what the Republican party did with the delegates from Florida, right?

 

Comment by Alex Bies | 2008-06-02 04:51:04

Why’d he let New Orleans drown
Why’d he let new Orleans happen

This not whitey

These are questions pertaining to george Bush’s handling of events in African communities.

You guys are so desparate. you will do anything because you know McCain is acting like a senile old man. Much more so than reagan falling asleep during meetings.

This will not hurt Obama at all. Fox news is disgusting and so are you people who will do anything to denigRATE THIS FINE YOUNG MAN

 

Comment by chad | 2008-06-02 04:51:28

FoxNews is a cable channel. They don’t require a FCC broadcast license.

 

Comment by cleek | 2008-06-02 04:51:51

wow, what a bunch of big talk. and nothing at all to back it up.

show the tape, or STFU.

 

Comment by cdo | 2008-06-02 04:53:11

Kudos to Larry for forcing Teh TApe story out into the open.
It can not be kept under wraps until October now.
I think the mainstream press rumblings we are hearing are the thunder before the lightening strike.

and i wish the trolls would make up their minds…
1-there is no tape
2-the tape is an edited fraud
3-MO’s remarks aren’t that bad
4-MO’s remarks are misquoted

jeez, pick ONE amongst yourselves, and get back to us. when the spin goes in different directions it makes me dizzy.

 

Comment by HARP | 2008-06-02 04:55:15

All you crazed followers of the lying one should go back to your own sites and continue to blow each other. We will let you know when the tape is out. Until then leave us alone so we can continue to sign up more people who truly believers in democracy and are not mindless followers of some empty suit.

 

Comment by LDW | 2008-06-02 04:55:45

The problem for Barak Obama is that everything he claims to be is evaporating and blowing away in the wind. All his past associates are crooks, racists or shady political fixers. He has no legislative accomplishments, and his name was affixed by Emil Jones Jr.to all those bills credited to him as State Senator, but Obama did no work on them. The real Obama is a shallow, self-absorbed flim flam man, whose only real talent is the ability to give a good speech. Michelle Obama does not poll well, and if there is a tape of her talking derogatorily about ‘Whiteys’, while participating in a panel with Farrakhan, this won’t be Obama’s ‘daisy’ moment; it will be his ‘Willie Horton’ moment.
Whining that Michelle Obama isn’t the one running for office won’t help the case. Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past century, you know that the president’s wife is part and parcel of what Americans vote for, especially when the wife has been out campaigning for her husband, as Michelle has been, and giving speeches and offering her opinions publicly. And Michelle Obama, whose father had a good job because he was part of the Chicago dirty political machine, and who herself benefitted from an affirmative action Princeton degree and who lives in a multimillion dollar mansion and who earns a corporate salary which is also mostly dirty Chicago payola, isn’t going to garner one iota of sympathy by crying how evil Whitey has been mean to her.
The more Americans get to know the Obamas, the less they like them. There is still a sizeable contingent of delusional Kool-aid drinkers clinging to their straws and trying to suck up the final sweetness of Hope and Change and the New Way of Doing Politics, but maybe the sour reality of what the Obamas really are will finally hit them too.

 

Comment by Seymour Glass | 2008-06-02 05:01:46

The obamacrats aredoing all they can to make sure that this issue is not allowed into the conversation.

Months ago I was banned by that punk censor at myDD, Jonathon Singer, for writing a very detailed and sourced account of just how Rezko and Wright are the direct links between Obama and Farakhan.

(By the way, has everyone seen that that fat punk Singer bragging online that he has been rewarded for his keen work as a net-censor by being given a job with Obama’s maddog lawyer Bob Bauer in Washington DC? Bauer - if you dont know - is the one who wrote the legal memo that shut down the Michigan revote over the argument that because the revote would not allow those who had ALREADY voted in the Republican primary to vote AGAIN in the Democratic Primary - that this was UNFAIR to Obama!)

Rezko went from being just another poor immigrant with a graduate degree to a filthy rich and corrupt Chicago political insider and the man Obama called his “Political Godfather” directly because of his relationship with the Nation of Islam.

Rezko’s first real wealth came from partnering up on City of Chicago minority set aside programs (the kind that Obama’s law firm existed expressly to take advantage of) with Jabir Muhammad who is the son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. Their first partnership was in the food service business at locations owned by the City of Chicago. With the blessing of Chicago Mayor Daley, Rezko’s restaurant ventures included several exclusive franchises along the city’s beachfronts, on Chicago Park District property. In 2005, a fast-food company that listed Muhammad as its president lost its minority business certification and closed its restaurants after city officials alleged that Rezko was using it as a front. Muhammad and the company’s other principals were disqualified from participating in the city’s affirmative action contracting program. Minority set asides are thge coin of the realm in Obama’s Chicago orbit. Just one of the Rezko/ Muhhamed patnerships , Crucial Inc., went from receipts of $200,000 in each year before opening at concessions at O’Hare Airport, to nearly $6 million. In 1997, Crucial’s Panda Express won the right to open a lucrative concession at O’Hare International Airport under the city’s Minority Set-Aside program which directs large contracts to companies owned by Women, African Americans or Hispanics. The city awarded a 10-year contract for O’Hare Airport to Crucial Inc. in 1999, which the city believed was owned by an African American, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the late Elijah Mohammad. Crucial Inc. was also hired as a subcontractor to telephone giant SBC Communications, which received an exclusive deal to provide 1,000 pay phones for Cook County Government.

Rezko also was a central financial leader in the nation of Islam orbit as he was made the Executive Director of the Muhammad Ali Foundation. Jabir Herbert Muhammad was sued in 1999 by boxer Muhammad Ali for unauthorized use of his name in connection with the so-called Muhammad Ali Foundation. Jabir Muhammad has since sued rezko for Fraud and financial theft himself. These people are the circle of the man who now the Pelosi wing of the Democratic Party is trying to force us to have as our Party’s nominee…

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CHICAGO, Dec. 30 (UPI) — A federal judge ruled Chicago’s 14-year-old set-aside law to remedy discrimination against minority- and women-owned businesses in the construction industry is flawed and gave the city six months to make changes.

Minorities and women received $619 million in city contracts last year — about 41 percent of all city business — far exceeding minimum requirements of a 1989 set-aside ordinance which reserved 25 percent of city contracts worth more than $10,000 for minority-owned businesses and 5 percent for women-owned businesses.

The minority set aside ordinance was initiated by the late Mayor Washington 20 years ago. Mayor Richard M. Daley is a staunch supporter of such programs .

In a 31-page ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge James B. Moran said the city’s set-aside program as presently constituted was illegal. The judge said it was unfair that healthy, well-established minority- and woman-owned firms were eligible for set-aside contracts under the current program. Moran said the city should take into account a business owner’s net worth and lower the annual amount a minority- or female-owned firm can make to qualify for the set-aside program.

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Of course part of Obama’s resume that makes the latte libs and the college kids swoon is how they describe how after law school Barack turned down the big corporate law firms to work in a “civil rights law firm”. Well folks if you but that I have 17 and 1/2 bridges Id like to sell you. The firm he went to, Davis - Miner, was started by the very corporate counsel (Miner)for Mayor Washington that started the minority set aside program and ever since has been working to spread that special kind of gov’t wealth amongst that city’s best politically connected citizens and partners like Rezlo and Jabir Muhammad. We already know that mush of Obama’s work at the firm was his “representing” non profits ind deals done with real estate deals done with Rezko and his development company Rezmar. Hell, Allison S. Davis actually left the firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland to become a partner in Rezmar!

What will it take for Dems to wake up? Does ANYONE think that the David Boses and the othere GOP swiftboaters wont be pushing this story with the American people. Im a lefty Dem and its enough to keep me from voting for Obama in November - think it wont win over the mush middle of most of our citizens politics? My insider GOP contacts have told me that they expect to lose big in the House and lose a few more Senate seats - but they are giddy over the idea that the idiotic Democratic Party seems hell bent on letting them keep the White House. It amazes them and pleases them mightily…. It amazes me too but pisses me off to the Nth degree. What a bunch of “hear no evil, seen no evil…but Hillary IS Evil - dopes!

(If anybody here still is allowed to post at myDD - please put this up there - again - that fad idiot Singer “banned” me there)

 

Comment by wondertrev | 2008-06-02 05:04:04

Hmmm. I’ll keep in mind how ‘cultured’ Canadians are the next time I’m drinking beer and watching hockey in northern Quebec or Alberta.

 

Comment by kubla000 | 2008-06-02 05:07:22

WEAK: You wrote

the story of what was done behind the scenes to get rid of Barack’s predecessor—Alice Palmer—has not been told. A knowledgeable source tells me that Tony Rezko played a direct role in this feat. And Rezko has been tight with Farrakhan.

The story was on CNN last week dude… Seriously, everyone knows that story. Let’s rehast, with facts.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,1,57567.story

There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.

But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.

But the unsparing legal tactics were justified, he said, by obvious flaws in his opponents’ signature sheets. “To my mind, we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up,” Obama recalled.

“I gave some thought to … should people be on the ballot even if they didn’t meet the requirements,” he said. “My conclusion was that if you couldn’t run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be.”

Be Real Larry, this isn’t Obama’s first dance. This would have come out during his Senate Race, and surely, no Oppo-Research department was better than the Clinton one, especially if you claim it comes from a defunct Republican…

Romney was busy losing
Huckabee can’t tie his own shoe
and the rest, heaven forbid, they couldn’t even pay their airfare…

This is bogus bunk bullcorn, but i’ll congratulate you on one front, a GOP friend of mine knows about this rumor through the Freep sites, and asked me about it laughing. Sometimes, there won’t need to be a tape, if there is enough detail. Everyone will wait for it and describe it in detail while waiting, and when it never shows up, they’ll still be waiting, thinking its real…

So sometimes, Bullcorn walks, but you stink for starting it. I hope you decide ultimately to support Bob Barr.

 

Comment by Adam B. | 2008-06-02 05:38:57

Um, sure. You mean like Ed Rendell’s video praising Farrakhan in his presence?

 

Comment by Sugar | 2008-06-02 05:45:11

My goodness! The plot thickens!!!! The really sad this is, Dean and The Guttersnipe(Brazile) have probably seen the tape, but they are so drunken with kool-aid, they either a) don’t care and think it won’t matter come Nov. or b) don’t care and only want to ensure that Hillary doesn’t get the nomination because they’ve cut some deal with BHO for some undisclosed thing. Either way, they are fools because we can all take comfort in knowing that BHO will never be president of the U.S.A.

 

Comment by thegreatbeast | 2008-06-02 05:47:42

Where’s the tape? You said you’d produce the tape by nine. Where is it?

 

Comment by vee | 2008-06-02 05:48:00

I am extremely disappointed in the hype surrounding this announcement. While I trust Mr. Johnson, this is still on the level of hearsay. This doesn’t change anything at the present

 

Comment by i will remember in november | 2008-06-02 05:48:00

I am not in the habit of advice giving to the repubs but for my country I would give thew devil his do. So my advice release the tape and release now. That tape will be so devasting to so many democrat leaders who have supported obama (pelosi, dean, kennedy (God bless him today),kerry, edwards, dodd, ,NOT Bill, etc) that the obama cabal/fraction needs an equally devasting video to counter Mccain whether real or not. Wait, if the tape can wipeout obama and the entire dnc and the democratic leadership then why…wait a minute…I forget those republicans know how to win elections…nevermind.

 

Comment by Mirlo | 2008-06-02 05:57:40

Larry, I read that Giuliani found the tape and handed it to McCain. Can you comment on that? Is there a legal way (national interest or such) to have it aired or viewed?

 

Comment by susan | 2008-06-02 05:57:40

Larry, this is beneath you. Innuendo and hearsay are not gonna cut it. I want Hillary to be our next President, I don’t like or trust Obama, but I don’t want to win dirty. we have to be able to look ourselves in the face for the next 4 years.

If there is a tape, well then, somebody needs to produce it. Otherwise this is like the 1000-mile-a-gallon carburetor locked up in Detroit by the auto companies.

Until/unless you have the tape I think it’s really crummy to put out a “heads up” and hints of something awful when you can’t back it up with substance. It hurts us more than it damages them.

 

Comment by Jessica | 2008-06-02 05:58:04

Wow, you people on this sight really are pathetic.

I was told that this “Larry ” guy was a real schmoo and that the bloggers here were delusional.

And I guess it’s true.
I really like the “I know 5 guys that know 5 guys and thats how I know it must be true” logic that Larry has.

Even funnier that some of you are believing it.

I guess that’s what they say about HRC supporters- “uneducated”

Nice try Larry.

 

Comment by JeanE | 2008-06-02 05:58:44

I would be amazed if Michele Obama, who has been a politician’s wife for over a decade, publicly made such foolish remarks, but the Obamas have been living in an alternate universe at Trinity Church, so I suppose it’s possible. I’ll believe it when I see it.
In the meantime, quit trying to tie this to Republicans who, according to your story, are the ones who got the tape, spread the story, etc. - all the “news updates” about this tape are coming from Democrats, so at least accept the credit, or blame, for your actions.

 

Comment by Jay | 2008-06-02 05:59:32

how can you refute what was said when you have not seen the video of what was said?

I mean sources on both sides are citing w/o seeing the video. I find it equally amusing that sources who are pro obama have suddenly this excuse to give on language when ‘ hey nobody seems so far to have seen it’.

 

Comment by LBJ's Love Child | 2008-06-02 06:00:00

The real tragedy here is that even though Obama legitimately won the nomination process,

A) Obama hasn’t won anything yet,

B) If he does, the word “legitimate” won’t be applicable. The DNC’s RBC made sure of that.

Power to the PUMA!

 

Comment by SlouchingtowardBoulder | 2008-06-02 06:01:59

This is nonsense. The whole “Jena 6″ thing hit the media less than a year ago. Do you really think Michelle Obama is stupid enough to make those remarks on tape? (though I personally believe that she believes these types of remarks).

The chronology just doesn’t add up for me.

 

Comment by Garmonbozia | 2008-06-02 06:03:45

This whole thing has been a ruse? A ploy?

I suppose that’s what I should have expected of a grown man with a Moe Howard haircut.

Piss off, Larry.

 

Comment by Maddie | 2008-06-02 06:12:40

Hey Lorelynn, how are you?

FYI on Farrakhan, the closest anyone has put him to the pews at Trinity was on November 2, 2007, when he received the “Trumpeter” award from the Church. And that was at a hotel, not the church itself.

This is a smokescreen to scare the remainer Supers. Most won’t fall for this load.

 

Comment by BubbaG | 2008-06-02 06:21:35

Most of you are missing the point. The apparent plan was to not release the video until after the dem convention in August, with Obama as the official dem choice.

Obama is an easy victory for the pubs. Hillary would not be. Hillary will have more ammo to be the dem pick if this gets out before then. I will be surprised now if it is stays out of the public that long.

 

Comment by Pandora | 2008-06-02 06:24:30

So many comments from Obamabots shows you that they are afraid. They are really afraid. If you Boratdingdongs don’t care about the tape then why are you here? Go back to your Orange cheetos website and enjoy win of your stealing, lying leader.

 

Comment by sas | 2008-06-02 07:06:57

If what you write is true then this is an unmitigated disaster. Obama must be stopped from getting the nomination, but how?

 

Comment by Angel | 2008-06-02 07:46:10

How is any of this helping MEchelle’s children?

 

Comment by DixieChkn | 2008-06-02 07:49:00

Maybe we can get Lou Dobbs to start asking questions since we know Fox wants to hold off until October.

 

Comment by Chris | 2008-06-02 07:50:14

So you become a drama queen, telling us about some “breaking news”, and then you tell us to wait until Monday, and this is all you’ve got?

Unreal.

 

Comment by Mark | 2008-06-02 07:51:01

That’s it?

ROFLMAO

 

Comment by kat | 2008-06-02 07:53:29

Unfortunately, children don’t get to chose their parents.

 

Comment by Kelly | 2008-06-02 07:53:30

This was worth staying up all night for!! I hope this forces play of the video because until I see it. . .

 

Comment by Tia | 2008-06-02 07:53:30

Thanks for the news, I just hope the tape leaks soon…

 

Comment by FLVoter | 2008-06-02 07:55:51

I mean really, Chris maybe you should go some place else for your information.

 

Comment by NY still loves Hillary | 2008-06-02 07:55:51

Sounds like a plan - Lou doesn’t care about the Republican agenda. Should we start an e-mail campaign to him?

 

Comment by spamccensor | 2008-06-02 07:55:53

The implications, in terms of money, and where it goes, are staggering.

And this isn’t about a “GOTCHA!” (except for the fantasy politics crowd), as much as it is about undermining the safety, and security of our country, I would venture even those Americans in the middle east, given Farrakhan’s dealings.

How far removed from reality must guys like Dean be to push Obama as a candidate?

 

Comment by I have no name | 2008-06-02 07:58:26

And the FUD continues. You’re an impotent hack.

 

Comment by J.R. | 2008-06-02 07:58:26

And there you have it folks. 2 Lines about the tape that will never ever come out or materialize, 4 more paragraphs filled with nothing but innuendo, one sentence that mentions manages to mention and connect Farrakhan, Pflger, and Wright, and the continuation of a whisper campaign against Barack Obama.

How was this nut job ever allowed to write for the Huffington Post?

LOL MAJOR UPDATE INDEED.

 

Comment by Surelock Homes | 2008-06-02 07:58:54

Where’s the beef?

I’d love to hear/see the tape but I will doubt its existance until it becomes real!

 

Comment by MJ | 2008-06-02 07:59:39

“I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend who says that his aunt knows a guy whose car repairman’s father-in-law saw the tape, and he said it’s really a bombshell.”

HOLY PENIS, WHAT A SCOOP. A++ BLOGGING RIGHT HERE.

 

Comment by Francis | 2008-06-02 08:04:20

What a waste of time. All this talk about unnamed sources who know other unnamed sources who have seen the tape makes me believe it is just fear mongering. If we’re going to defeat Barack, it’s going to have to be by other means.