Posted on 03/07/2008 11:02:04 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Anyone know folks around Chicago...course they may already know about this cesspool.
Where’s my Bud franchise ?
“HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-MIDDLE-NAMED” is the ObamaJesus, and immune from these attacks.
Didn’t you get this week’s MSM Memo on this?
Some familiar names are showing up as a result of the Rezko Trial...
Could we wind up with yet another Democratic president with yet another very own Whitewater? What’s Ken Starr doing these days? We may need him.
Revealing massive scale government corruption in Chicago is like calling attention to a corn stalk in a corn field. Corruption and Chicago are interchangeable terms.
Obama knows his way around a ballot
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By David Jackson and Ray Long
Tribune staff reporters
6:48 PM CDT, April 3, 2007
The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.
One of the candidates he eliminated, long-shot contender Gha-is Askia, now says that Obama's petition challenges belied his image as a champion of the little guy and crusader for voter rights.
"Why say you're for a new tomorrow, then do old-style Chicago politics to remove legitimate candidates?" Askia said. "He talks about honor and democracy, but what honor is there in getting rid of every other candidate so you can run scot-free? Why not let the people decide?"
In a recent interview, Obama granted that "there's a legitimate argument to be made that you shouldn't create barriers to people getting on the ballot."
But the unsparing legal tactics were justified, he said, by obvious flaws in his opponents' signature sheets. "To my mind, we were just abiding by the rules that had been set up," Obama recalled.
"I gave some thought to … should people be on the ballot even if they didn't meet the requirements," he said. "My conclusion was that if you couldn't run a successful petition drive, then that raised questions in terms of how effective a representative you were going to be."
Asked whether the district's primary voters were well-served by having only one candidate, Obama smiled and said: "I think they ended up with a very good state senator."
Well,...we should look around to see what we can find shouldn’t we....?
All of the old klintoon sins will be thrown in the "it's all been covered" bucket, and these two thieves will skate again.
They recently raised the sales tax to over 10%.
I hope all of this stays out of the news for a few months, the best thing would be if it comes up once he becomes the nominee, if it comes out now, HIllery will use it to destroy him,and if it doesnt, then when it comes up in the general the media will treat it as old news.
Prosecutors who keep poking around Chicago politics usually disappear.
"A church burns down and the Governor pledges 1 million dollars to help it recover."
When that was first reported I went frucking ballistic. That asshat governor 'of mine' has NO business giving MY TAX DOLLARS to a Church - period, end, stop.
The ACLU should have been all over this, but no. Why, because Jesse Jackass is involved with this Baptist Church.
But it gets worse. Doing a little digging, actually a lot, through all the State Websites I find that that &%^$ing Blagojevich has given milions upon millions to Jewish Synagogues across Chicago and IL.
This may be IL, but dammit to hell if that doesn't violate the Establishment Clause - NOTHING DOES. And in case anyone wonders, I couldn't find one PENNY that went to a Catholic Church or School.
Seeing this article just got me p*ssed all over again .. Argggggh!!!!!
Really? Like Jim Thompson? He became governor of the state.
Thanks for sharing with us!
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Lest anyone fail to remember the link between accused influence peddler, Antoin (Tony) Rezko, now on trial in Chicago, and Barack Obama, a new web site, rezkorama.com launched yesterday to help cement the connection.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt claims credit for the site and offers this explanation for it.
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