By NoQuarter on Sep 30, 2008 in Crown family, Cullen Davis, Obamatopia, Open Thread, Tom Buffenbarger, Tony Rezko | 303 Comments
“Sing for Change Obama”
If you made it through that video, I respect your capacity for the intolerable. Should someone call CPS? Geeezzz. Here is how the creator of that video, KathySawada, who has also created a Web site, “Sing For Change,” describes the experience:
Sing for Change chronicles a recent Sunday afternoon, when 22 children, [...]
By NoQuarter on Jul 7, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago Mansion, Chicago politics, Crown family, Home Loan, Housing Crisis, Maytag, Tom Buffenbarger, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 100 Comments
We wrote several articles — here, here, and here — on reports last week about the favorable home loan that the Obamas received for the $1.6 milion mansion they couldn’t afford, but which the now-convicted Tony Rezko made possible. We pointed to the connections between Chicago’s Crown family, billionaire industrialists and constant Obama campaign [...]
By NoQuarter on Jul 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago Mansion, Chicago politics, Crown family, Economy, Housing Crisis, Machinists Union, Maytag, Northern Trust, Tom Buffenbarger, Unemployment, Unions, Workers | 82 Comments
Memeorandum.com is linking to the numerous stories on today’s Washington Post article noted by TexasDarlin in “Obamas Got Discounted Home Loan.” Many — from Politico’s Ben Smith to Salon — are downplaying the report as “well short” of the Countrywide story.
However, shortly, we will reveal additional details about the membership of the Chicago-headquartered billionaire [...]
By NoQuarter on Mar 13, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Crown family, Maytag, Michelle Obama, Tom Buffenbarger | 46 Comments
Do you remember the Crown family? Do you remember the Crown patriarch who sits on the board of Maytag? Do you recall that Barack Obama, as a U.S. Senate candidate, met with Maytag workers, asked for their donations and promised them he’d help save their jobs, and that he then went to the [...]
By NoQuarter on Mar 4, 2008 in Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Maytag, NAFTA, Tom Buffenbarger, Workers | 15 Comments
There is the “the Famous Rule of the 2008 Election - W.O.R.M. (What Obama Really Meant),” used by the media and Obama’s supplicants to explain away every hitch. However, there’s evidence the “W.O.R.M.” is turning across the national media. Besides the Newsday and the Chicago Sun-Times stories cited below, there’s the NY Daily News [...]
By NoQuarter on Feb 20, 2008 in Barack Obama, Crown family, Hillary Clinton, Machinists Union, Maytag, Tom Buffenbarger, Workers | 129 Comments
Grrrrrrrrrrrroooooowwwwwwwwwl. Machinists Union President Tom Buffenbarger, introducing Clinton, talks about Maytag. He talks the betrayal by Barack Obama, who only gave those Maytag workers a speech. WORDS. Baloney. But then Obama collected huge sums from the Crown family of Chicago, owners of Maytag who shipped those workers’ jobs out of [...]
