Witness: Obama Attended Rezko Party

AP via SFGate ^ | 4/14/8 | MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

CHICAGO, (AP) -- The government's star witness at the fraud trial of Antoin "Tony" Rezko testified Monday that Sen. Barack Obama and his wife attended a party four years ago at the home of the indicted political fundraiser.

Stuart Levine said the party took place in April 2004 and was held to honor Iraqi-born Nadhmi Auchi, a London-based billionaire who was visiting the United States at the time.

Rezko, 52, was a major fundraiser for Obama and Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and the trial has been closely watched because of Obama's presidential campaign. But very little has been said about the senator thus far.

Neither Blagojevich nor Obama has been accused of wrongdoing. The Obama campaign has now given to charity nearly $150,000 in contributions received by Obama's House and Senate campaigns that came from Rezko, his employees, his associates and his family

Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said Monday that the senator "does not recall meeting Nadhmi Auchi at any time or on any occasion," and that Obama and his wife do not remember attending the party.

Auchi's attorney, Alasdair Pepper, has said his client doesn't remember meeting Obama.

Neither Blagojevich nor Obama has been accused of wrongdoing.

[savedbygrace]

“Ohhhhhh, THAT party.”

[Jeff Head]

All of Obama's antics during this campaign and in his public life running for office can be explained (his associations, his comments, his left wing record, his anti-American actions and those of his wife, and his preacher and spiritual advisor's antics) if you understand his basic core values and underlying ideology/theology and ...

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY

[Califelephant]

Obama does NOT want to get tied to Auchi:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/who_is_nadhmi_auchi_and_whats.html

[Typical_Whitey]

Exactly what does Obama need with Lobbyists and special interests in D.C. when his hand is in the pocket of Billionaire terrorists...

[Carl LaFong]

This is not important anymore—an obscure Republican congressman called BHO ‘boy’—that merits 20 minute network coverage and ‘second coming’ headlines.

[jonrick46]

This statement from your link should be shouted from the rooftops. It states the central danger of Marxism, which is a battle against the individual and the freedom that America has secured for generations:

"This theology, Black Liberation Theology, is a blatant attempt to mix and wrest and perevert Christianity into a construct for the age old battle against individual rights. It is a Marxist ideological, collective, class-struggle, and ultimately tyranical construct committed to destroying individual freedom."

[buffyt]

He just gets scarier and scarier and scarier!!!!!

[buffyt]

I have been called a GIRL! I am 57. And sometimes a waiter calls me MISS instead of MAM! oh the inhumanity! Obama was called a BOY! OH MY! LOL

[Jeff Head]

Yes. This is the key point for all Americans to somehow understand. It is the same struggle, just housed in a different wrapper to try and fool people who do not look too deep.

It is left to us, to do our best to educate those around us. Spread the word.

[Enchante]

"Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said Monday that the senator "does not recall meeting Nadhmi Auchi at any time or on any occasion," and that Obama and his wife do not remember attending the party."

Oh, right, neither of the Obamas can remember attending the party because they go to parties to honor visiting billionaires every weekend of the year..... anyone want to buy some swampland? This is as good as all of Shrillary's "I do not recall" lies. Some things one can plausibly deny having any recollection of..... but I am certain that the Obamas would recall their interactions with Auchi and Rezko.

[geo40xyz]

"I do not recall"

a sure sign you are talking a lying politician...

[geo40xyz]

[Dan(9698)]

I have been called a GIRL! I am 57.

My wife is 65, and I am really glad she is a girl.

That is why I married her in 1962 when she was 19.

That was the main attraction I had for her.

[ricks_place]

The Obama campaign has now given to charity nearly $150,000 in contributions from Rezko, his employees, his associates and his family...

Obama failed to give to the The Clinton Family Foundation; Hillary's Own tax deductable creation! Maybe Obama gave his ill gotten booty to the reverend racist Wright company, the Chicago Hospital to finance another wifey raise, or his abort-at-birth crowd; all lovely g(r)ifters.

[cookcounty]

Gee, he meets the 7th richest man in the world and doesn’t remember it........LOL!

[not2worry]

Geez, my husband hangs around with a group of black and white men and I always ask “What do you boys want for lunch”.

Don’t think I ever offended anyone, but then we’re from a small town in Florida where boys will be boys, no matter what color or how old they are!