Posted on 01/18/2009 10:40:12 AM PST by Graybeard58
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been impeached twice for trying to sell President-elect Obama's former Senate seat. In other news, Michelle Obama has resigned as vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC).
Coincidentally, Mrs. Obama got that $317,000-a-year job created especially for her, two months after her husband was sworn in as senator in 2005.
Coincidentally, the president-elect has hired Susan Sher, the UCMC's top lawyer and Mrs. Obama's former boss, as an associate White House counsel to provide legal advice to Mrs. Obama.
Coincidentally, the women became close while working in Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's legal office. Ms. Sher later joined the hospital and hired Mrs. Obama. Together, they developed its Urban Health Initiative.
Coincidentally, that initiative benefited from a $1 million congressional earmark sponsored by then-Sen. Obama.
Coincidentally, Ms. Sher was instrumental in hiring a company headed by David Axelrod to work with Mrs. Obama to drum up community support for the initiative.
Coincidentally, Mr. Axelrod later became the Obama presidential campaign's chief strategist.
Coincidentally, a Senate investigation into claims the initiative's furtive goal, to sweep creepy crawlies out of the UCMC's emergency room, died when the new Senate was sworn in Jan. 6.
Ms. Sher and Mrs. Obama worked for Valerie Jarrett, chairwoman of the UCMC board. Coincidentally, the Obama camp pressured Gov. Blagojevich appoint Ms. Jarrett to the Senate. Instead, she will be a senior White House adviser.
Coincidentally, Kelly Welsh, executive vice president at Northern Trust Co., also is on the hospital board. Northern Trust gave the Obamas a $1.32 million mortgage shortly after he was elected to the Senate. The bank, which has no formal loan-discount program, shaved three-eighths of a point off their rate, saving them $108,000 over the life of the loan, and waived thousands in fees and points.
Coincidentally, Mrs. Obama quit her job the same day the UCMC announced a restructuring designed to reduce costs by $100 million.
Coincidentally, among the 15 executive positions eliminated was the one created especially for Mrs. Obama.
On Wednesday, the Illinois House voted 117-1 to impeach Gov. Blagojevich. The lone dissenting vote was cast by his sister-in-law. Don't you just hate Gov. Blagojevich's incestuous politics?
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
If you want on or off this list, let me know.
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"The media has been very gentle on Michelle Obama, but one blogger asks a very interesting question about Bernardine Dohrn's possible mentoring of Michelle at Sidley Austin in Chicago, where Dohrn worked as a paralegal [her felony conviction meant she couldn't pass the Illinois bar exam] while Michelle was an intern during summers while in law school. Michelle was later taken into the prestigious firm when she graduated from Harvard Law. Michelle in turn mentored Obama in '89 & they eventually married.
The MSM will never ask any questions about Dohrn & Michelle [Robinson] Obama intersecting at Sidley Austin. It would be nice if Republicans had more investigative reporters because my inquiring mind would like to know.
It might be that the Ayers-Dohrn relationship with the Obamas goes back earlier and the relationship could be much more extensive than previously reported."
http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/daveinboca/2008/apr/25/did_bernardine_dohrn_mentor_michelle_robinson_obama_at_chicago_law_firm
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson Murders
Source: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
Coincidentally, 70% of the voting population NEVER heard of any of this, but 95% heard about the cost of Palin’s wardrobe, the number of houses McCain owns, and that Palin can see Russia from her house (even though it was part of an SNL satire, and wasn’t her that said that).
Our challenge is to get through to a majority of Americans. Right now, the media and popular culture have a 24/7 campaign against the GOP, conservatism, our candidates, future candidates, and our ideas. Turn on any movie, tv show, read a magazine, turn on the news, go to major internet portals, and it is an around the clock propaganda war.
We must begin now to break through this, or we are going to be stuck with a Democratic super majority for years to come. There has always been bias, but in the past six years it has generated into a completely different level of a propaganda machine.
That is a lot of coincidences!
This is more that just mere coincidences my friends.
I think we will come to realize that these so called coincidences are absolute proof of the great miraculous power of Barrack Obama.
He must truly be the ONE. He is a mighty man of miracles.
Friends! Can there be any doubt now!
Coincidentally unbelievable !!!
Eliminating her job on the way out is perfect . Four long years of hypocrisy .
His magic is in getting the media to kiss his butt.
I thought Bubba was Teflon, but this guy is a new non-stick substance like we have never seen before.
Obviously being half black means non-stick.
If conservative leaders rise and stand on righteousness and actively pursue and expose wrongdoing, they will garner strength.
But they must not be enticed by smooth murmurings that tickle the ears and what they do must NOT be for themselves and their personal gain; it must be for the good of right-thinking people and really for the good of the country or it won’t succeed.
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” (Prov. 29:2 KJV)
I couldn't finish reading that book, but I got as far as this quote.
-PJ
You are absolutely right but how? The democratic machine has been operating and fine tuning for 40 years. The republicans think using the internet is just a fast and cheaper way to ask for money. We need leadership NOW before it is too late.
Let the scandals begin!
Influence peddling, corruption plain and simple
Guess what we are stuck
Prestitute bias, that's why every other comercial and scroll is reminding sheeple to make sure there ready for digital tv 2-17-09 because they wouldn't want the wonks to miss a second of mind programming.
Barack Obama, Frank Marshall Davis, Vernon Jarrett [Valerie's father in law] - One Degree of Seperation
New Zeal blog ^ | Oct 17, 2008 | Trevor Loudon
"Why did Barack Obama move to Chicago? Why did he choose a city famous for its corruption and distrust of outsiders as a launching pad for his political career? Did Obama's boyhood mentor, life long communist Frank Marshall Davis influence that choice?"
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-file-38-barack-obama-frank.html
I don’t know if an opportunity remains, but if it does it must be a very narrow one. We all know that the press would not have allowed any of this to go untouched in a republican candidate. So the press put obama in office and they will ensure he stays there. The only way past this is a) to show that obama is not what he claims to be and b) show that the press knew it and did nothing about it. IMO, this is why obama won’t produce the bc. There’s something in it that will put everything else in question, I believe. But be that as it may be, it will be increasing difficult to spread any kind of message. Control of the media is a powerful tool.
“Coincidence” ping!
Remember the little song Glenn Beck used on his radio show? It goes “it’s just another isolated, another isolated incident,yeah yeah, another isolated,another isolated incident,yeah yeah...” rinse, lather, repeat.
Do First Ladies always have their own in-house legal counsel? I can't imagine why . . .
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