Posted on 10/05/2008 5:22:48 PM PDT by ameagle
Sunday, October 5: **ONE HOUR SPECIAL** Obama & Friends: A History of Radicalism: 'Hannity's America' investigates Obama's college years, time as a community organizer and numerous controversial relationships
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I had thought “they don’t listen” or “they don’t understand” about some in my family but I think you hit it on the head-—”they don’t want to know”. It might require something other than the easy, “someone think for me” way. It is painful to see.
Yes, it is painful, especially when it’s your own children. I’ve lost two of mine to the liberal evil. Jesus was so right when He said that parents and children would be against one another in the end times.
“Rezko paid $650,000. When Obama wanted to by 1/6th of it back, they got the 1/6th valued and it was $40,000. So that means Rezko paid $650,000 - 240,000 = $410,000 even more than he should have for the adjacent plot. So in total Obama saved $710,000 in the house purchase. “
So - Obama bought more house than he could afford.
Many americans did this too and wound up in foreclosure.
They didn’t have access to a crooked slumlord Chicago thug to help bail them out.
And now Obama wants to “help” the rest of us with the economy because he’s so damn smart.
“Very good point. I know it’s not going to happen, but what if Hillary would come to her senses and realize she has nothing to gain by standing behind Obama?”
I wonder if Billy-boy’s “chicago thug” comment is going to re-emerge this week?
Thanks for the ping!
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_harvard_/2008/09/22/133199.html
This Newsmax article touches on the Al Mansour connection described in Hannity’s show tonight...and it is bizarre. Here is a short preview:
Sutton knew Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and served on several corporate boards together.
As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School.
“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas.”
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told Newsmax that Sutton’s account was “bogus” and a “fabrication that has been retracted” by a spokesman for the Sutton family.
He referred Newsmax to a pro-Obama blog published on Politico.com by reporter Ben Smith.
In a September 3 blog entry, Smith wrote that “a spokesman for Sutton’s family, Kevin Wardally” said that Sutton had been mistaken when he made those comments about Obama and Khalid Al-Mansour.
Smith suggested the retraction “put the [Obama/Al-Mansour] story to rest for good.”
Wardally told Smith that the “information Mr. Percy Sutton imported [sic] on March 25 in a NY1 News interview regarding his connection to Barack Obama is inaccurate. As best as our family and the Chairman’s closest friends can tell, Mr. Sutton, now 86 years of age, misspoke in describing certain details and events in that television interview.”
Asked which parts of Percy Sutton’s statements were a “fabrication,” LaBolt said “all of it. Al Mansour doesn’t know Obama. And Sutton’s spokesman retracted the story. The letter [to Harvard, which Percy Sutton says he wrote on behalf of Obama], the ‘payments for loans’ — all of it, not true,” he added.
Newsmax contacted the Sutton family and they categorically denied Wardally’s claims to Smith and the Politico.com. So there was no retraction of Sutton’s original interview, during which he revealed that Khalid Al-Mansour was “raising money” for Obama and had asked Sutton to write a letter of recommendation for Obama to help him get accepted at Harvard Law School.
Sutton’s personal assistant told Newsmax that neither Mr. Sutton or his family had ever heard of Kevin Wardally.
”Who is this person?” asked Sutton’s assistant, Karen Malone.
When told that he portrayed himself as a “spokesman” for the family, Malone told Newsmax, “Well, he’s not.”
According to a 2006 New York magazine profile, Wardally is part of a “New New Guard” in Harlem politics that has been challenging the “lions” of the old guard, Charles Rangel and Percy Sutton. That makes him an unlikely candidate to speak on behalf of Sutton.
I saw nothing new on it, however it IS good He put it out there for more folks to see as a synopsis of the evil that is Obama...
Welcome to the FR.
Experienced FReepers don’t expect many folks to be better than our collective knowledge. The purpose of watching Hannity last night was to seek the gratification of confirmation, to see our efforts advanced to another media outlet.
In fact, after watching, some FReepers are purchasing DVDs of this program to pass around to neighbors, friends, and relatives — possibly to strangers. Others are trying to find youtubes of this so they can blast in emails/etc.
Lastly, these guys in the new media have feelings too. They don’t appreciate being heckled by people ‘on the same side’. Guys like Hannity work their tails off. They sometimes run into snarky retorts. It’s one thing to be ridiculed by DUmmies, but from FReepers, it can sting. I used to be one of the worst in the forum about that until I gained some experience.
Seen most of it. The first 10-15 minutes were missed because I had satilite problems but the picture came back in.
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