Posted on 04/04/2010 3:43:51 PM PDT by KJC1
Self ping.
“Soros”
That’s my best guess too.
I totally believe this story ... but who is this mysterious unnamed professor who is willing to diss Himself but not be named? Badly written as a news story, for that one reason. If there’s no names, it’s not news, just gossip. (Granted, probably *true* gossip. But gossip nonetheless.)
Good guesses. Seems to me with a little research the members of the Board of Trustee for the time period could be brought to light and “exposed”. Then their financial situation check to see if they received any compensation for such action.
Did you know the Hillary did the legal work to establish ACORN?
Rezko is a mule. He works for others. He is a branch of Louis F. M-Brotherhood. Started his work recruiting M. Ali, the boxer.
More somewhere on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2151323/posts
Mark Levin interviewed one of them several weeks ago. He didn't comment about his intellectual capacity directly. If I remember the interview correctly, the prof said he was an ideologue and didn't like to discuss issues.
He’s the least qualified and most inexperienced person in the room- any room he’s in.
Chicago Law? To what law school are they refering? U of C? I’ve never heard it called that.
He violates the Peter principle! He is far, far above his level of incompetence! He is a Post Turtle.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-mxa0322magazineobamapg6mar22,0,4776413.story
Law professor Geoffrey Stone’s best Barack Obama story has gotten better with age, acquiring an extra measure of ironic punch with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s antic tumble from power. Stone was dean of the University of Chicago Law School back in 1992 when its faculty was trying to recruit the sleek and all-around stellar Harvard Law student who had once worked as a community organizer on the city’s South Side. Sniffing out Obama’s plan to return to Chicago after graduation, Stone and Douglas Baird, who was chairman of the faculty appointments committee, cooked up a plan of their own: They created a faculty fellowship slot custom-tailored for Obama and then invited him to apply for it. When Obama visited the campus for his initial interview, he spent a few minutes outside Stone’s office chatting with Stone’s secretary, Charlotte Maffia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/us/politics/30obama.html?pagewanted=2
He positioned himself early on as a protégé of the powerful Democratic leader, Senator Emil Jones, a beneficiary of the Chicago political machine. He courted collaboration with Republicans. He endured hazing from a few black colleagues, played poker with lobbyists, studiously took up golf. (“An awful lot happens on the golf course,” a friend, Jean Rudd, says he told her.)
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One of the first was campaign finance reform. Illinois had one of the least regulated campaign finance systems in the country and a history of corruption. Paul Simon, the former United States senator, was running a public policy institute at Southern Illinois University and asked each of the four legislative leaders to name a trusted lawmaker to work on a bipartisan ethics bill.
Mr. Jones recalls receiving a call from Abner J. Mikva, a former Chicago congressman, federal judge and friend of Mr. Simon. Judge Mikva, who had once tried to hire Mr. Obama as a law clerk, suggested him for the job. Mr. Jones says he knew that the new senator was hard-working and bright and that few others would want the assignment.
“He caught pure hell,” Mr. Jones said of Mr. Obama. “I actually felt sorry for him at times.”
Early ties and connections:
Betty Lu Saltzmann (... Fenton)
Pritzkers (... Soros)
Jarrett
Ayers
Khalidi
Wright
Emil Jones (... Chicago Machine, ... Simon ... Axelrod, Chicago Trib)
Abner Mikva (... Jackson)
“I had lunch with him at the Quadrangle Club, and we were discussing the different bases he had to touch. I said, ‘You have to talk to the Jackson boys first,’ ” Mr. Mikva recalled, referring to Representative Jackson and his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “Because Jesse Jackson Jr. had his eye on that seat. He said, ‘I know. I’m working on that.’ ”
Mr. Obama soon sat down with the younger Mr. Jackson at the 312 Chicago restaurant. Michelle Obama had attended high school with Mr. Jackson’s sister and been close to the family for years, and the congressman had attended the Obamas’ wedding. “He said, ‘Jesse, if you’re running for the U.S. Senate I’m not going to run,’ ” Mr. Jackson recalled.
But Mr. Jackson had already decided against it, and he gave Mr. Obama his blessing.
A Pivotal Moment
Betty Lu Saltzman, a Democratic doyenne from Chicago’s lakefront liberal crowd, convened a small group of activists, including Ms. Katz, in her living room to organize a rally to protest the United States’ impending invasion of Iraq. It was late September 2002, and Mr. Obama was on the top of Ms. Saltzman’s list of desired speakers.
She first met him when he ran the black voter registration drive in the 1992 election, and was so impressed that she immediately took him under her wing, introducing him to wealthy donors and talking him up to friends like Mr. Axelrod. But with just a few days to go before the rally, Ms. Saltzman was having trouble reaching Mr. Obama. Finally, she said she left word with his wife.
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In courting families like the Crowns, Mr. Obama was gaining entree into the upper echelon of the city’s corporate boardrooms, a ripe source of campaign money. But he was also seeking to broaden his appeal to Jewish voters, and he was wading more deeply into one of the touchiest issues in American politics: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For years, the Obamas had been regular dinner guests at the Hyde Park home of Rashid Khalidi, a Middle East scholar at the University of Chicago and an adviser to the Palestinian delegation to the 1990s peace talks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/us/politics/11chicago.html?pagewanted=5
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http://www.barackbook.com/Profiles/JeanRudd.htm
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Payback???
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Obama pick may have Chicago link - Supreme Court nominee may share his school ties
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Sunday, May 3, 2009
Author: John McCormick and Jeff Coen, Tribune reporters ; Tribune reporter Ray Gibson also contributed to this report.
Ever since Barack Obama ‘s election as president, there has been anticipation among scholars at the University of Chicago’s Law School that one of their own could be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court bench in the next few years.
That anticipation was heightened late last week with news that Obama , who taught constitutional law at the school from 1992 to 2004, soon will be making his first Supreme Court pick.
Almost every short list of possible nominees to succeed Justice David Souter includes three individuals with strong ties to the Hyde Park law school: U.S. Appeals Court Judge Diane Wood, Obama regulatory czar Cass Sunstein and U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan.
Even if Obama does not pick one of the past or present faculty members this year, feelings run strong on campus that he will before he leaves the White House.
“It’s more likely than not that at least one of these three will be nominated within his tenure,” said U. of C. law professor Geoffrey Stone , who was the law school’s dean when Obama was hired.
“There’s definitely extra buzz on campus,” said Douglas Baird, a law professor who recruited Obama to the faculty. “They will be naturally on the short list, but not because he is sentimental about the law school, but because they fit the ticket.”
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http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/Obama-Kagan-Stevens-court/2010/04/05/id/354741
Obama Mulls Kagan, 2 Others for Stevens Seat
Monday, 05 Apr 2010 08:51 AM
President Barack Obama is short-listing three candidates to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens, according to a Bloomberg report.
Heading the list is U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan Kagan, the first woman to serve in that post — the federal government’s top Supreme Court advocate. She formerly served as the first female dean of Harvard Law School, where she graduated.
Also reportedly on the list: federal appellate judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland.
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Found that last week when I discovered Soros money was used for Rathke, former Weather Underground, to form ACORN and SEIU. For some time I have wondered if Bill’s run for AR Governor after being defeated was won by ACORN voter fraud and after seeing it that I would bet it is a sure thing. I have not been able to figure out AR electing Dem Senators while Huckabee was Governor — made no sense.
This is all beginning to make more sense today. We have been scammed for a long time IMHO.
“Even though the law school job was part-time, Obama taught close to a full course load. But teaching is not what the Chicago School is about. What matters here is hatching the Next Big Idea, and often these new ideas are auditioned at what has become one of the Chicago School’s most hallowed institutions: the workshop. There are scores of these workshops each year. Generally open only to the economics community, they are where Nobel laureates, junior faculty or those from other universities hoping for appointment to the Chicago faculty come to present and defend what is expected to be cutting-edge thinking of the highest order. The cross-examination can be merciless. A European academic who recently attended a workshop was taken aback by what he described as the “intellectual bloodthirstiness” of the session.
But Obama skipped the workshops and, to Richard Epstein, this is a disappointment. Epstein, an expert on corporate law at the university and a formidable inquisitor, says the workshops are valuable because they guard against intellectual complacency.
“I’ve got a term—I call it intellectual glaucoma, narrowing your vision. For most people it’s almost imperceptible, but what happens is if you keep working in the same niche, the niche gets deeper, you don’t see over the edges and you start getting tunnel vision.”
The workshops, says Epstein, are “our anti-glaucoma medicine.”
“You have to sit there and listen to papers good and bad on every kind of discipline . . . and then you have to ask questions about things you don’t know about—just to make sure the forces of glaucoma don’t take hold. And Obama never did that,” he says.” (end snip)
The ‘leaker’, perhaps?
An interesting read, especially the contortions that the writer goes through to protect the empty suit as some brillant mind when all of the evidence is to the contrary...lol.
It also ties in that Rezko was behind Obama’s first loan with the Broadway bank when he could not afford the loan for the condo. Broadway bank is now under investigation for loaning to two felons while the IL Democrat Senate candidate was the senior loan office. Like Hillary and the Rose Billing records, he knows nothing. The Tribune broke that story last week.
Thanks Maggie, Great information. Want to make certain that PKM see it too. Really think we/FBI could find a pay for play here somewhere if they are interested.
Liz, do you think the FBI would be interested in investigating?
If he nominates Stone..All H SHOULD break loose about how he got the appointment in Chicago....
WE demand to know who knew what, when! He’s just arrogant enough to appoint him, just because he thinks he can.
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