By Larry Johnson on Sep 18, 2008 in Current Affairs | 232 Comments
At some point the truth police must show up and arrest Barack Obama for reckless endangerment of the truth for his role in the Wall Street meltdown. Barack wants to portray the chaos in the financial markets as the fruits of letting irresponsible capitalists run amuck when the reality is that he has been [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago Mansion, Chicago politics, Crown family, Emil Jones, Illinois senate, Labor, Larry Johnson, Media Bias, Nadhmi Auchi, Obamedia, Real Estate, Tony Rezko, Workers | 179 Comments
Amid the chorus of “nothing to see here, move along” flock of bloggers writing ho-hum responses to today’s Washington Post story, there are a few who are thinking deeper:
Our TexasDarlin pointed out the favorable treatment the Obamas received compared to the “neglected slums” of their impoverished neighbors in unimaginably horrific “public” housing that Obama [...]
By Truthteller on Jun 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Emil Jones, Larry Johnson, Nadhmi Auchi, Obama's Thugs, Patrick Fitzgerald, Real Estate, Tony Rezko | 116 Comments
Larry Johnson writes the following on 28 JAN 2008:
We may not find out until Rezko’s trial starts on 25 February. Imagine this nightmare scenario. Obama nails down the Democratic nomination for President on Super Tuesday. But then comes the Rezko trial and we learn Obama was doing favors to get an Iraqi felon a visa [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 16, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 181 Comments
UPDATE: Fleaflicker will be “live blogging” tonight’s debate at 8:00 p.m. EST, along with all of you. (Pitch in with what you notice, since nobody can type that fast! Ha!) And, watch for Fleaflicker’s post @ 7:30-7:45 p.m. EST.
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Let’s hope ABC anchor Charlie Gibson — who’s boning up for tonight’s debate on ABC News at [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 25, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Lobbyists, Martin Luther King, Nadhmi Auchi, Rashid Khalidi, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Tony Rezko, William Ayers | 59 Comments
Obama Sexy Lies (No Music) Part 1 — by quervodrinker, another fine video artist:
By SusanUnPC on Mar 9, 2008 in Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, David Axelrod, NAFTA, Nadhmi Auchi, Samantha Power, Tony Rezko | 76 Comments
Larry Johnson writes that “Obama and His Advisors [Are] Not Ready for Prime Time.” Truer words, truer words — but the thing is that they ARE his primary advisers, minus the now-guillotined Samantha Power.
And there’s that he needs more than the usual number of advisers because he has a tendency to push the [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Iraq, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 91 Comments
UPDATE, A RANT: Some people are suggesting that, if Obama does not come up in the Rezko trial, that that is reason to drop the subject. To which I have this to say:
Even IF there is no wrongdoing in a legal sense — or, more precisely, any legal problem that is relevant to U.S. Attorney [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 26 Comments
“Sen. Obama, time to call us about Rezko: (312) 321-2417,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 6, 2008:
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of political influence peddler Tony Rezko. This would be the time — before a single witness takes the stand — for Barack Obama to finally share every detail of his relationship with Rezko. [...]
For [...]
By SusanUnPC on Feb 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko | 34 Comments
From the UK’s TimesOnline: “Obama bagman is sent to jail over $3.5m payment by British tycoon“:
An undeclared $3.5 million (£1.8 million) payment from a corrupt Iraqi-British businessman has landed Barack Obama’s former fundraiser behind bars.
The payment, disclosed in court papers, is the first time that Mr Obama’s long-serving bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a Syrian [...]