[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is getting good.....and Jesse Jackson is in the Mix....Lovely....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Anyone know folks around Chicago...course they may already know about this cesspool.

[tcrlaf]

“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?

[Non-Sequitur]

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.

[CarryingOn]

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.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Since we are focused on Obama...take a look here:

Obama knows his way around a ballot

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Some say his ability to play political hardball goes back to his first campaign

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."

Obama behind challenges

America has been defined in part by civil rights and good government battles fought out in Chicago's 13th District, which in 1996 spanned Hyde Park mansions, South Shore bungalows and poverty-bitten precincts of Englewood.

It was in this part of the city that an eager reform Democrat by the name of Abner Mikva first entered elected office in the 1950s. And here a young, brash minister named Jesse Jackson ran Operation Breadbasket, leading marchers who sought to pressure grocery chains to hire minorities.

Palmer served the district in the Illinois Senate for much of the 1990s. Decades earlier, she was working as a community organizer in the area when Obama was growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia. She risked her safe seat to run for Congress and touted Obama as a suitable successor, according to news accounts and interviews.

But when Palmer got clobbered in that November 1995 special congressional race, her supporters asked Obama to fold his campaign so she could easily retain her state Senate seat.

Obama not only refused to step aside, he filed challenges that nullified Palmer's hastily gathered nominating petitions, forcing her to withdraw.

"I liked Alice Palmer a lot. I thought she was a good public servant," Obama said. "It was very awkward. That part of it I wish had played out entirely differently."

His choice divided veteran Chicago political activists.

[Herakles]

Anyone notice that Democrats always like to get their start with some scam in real estate - remember that woman who ran as VP one and the real estate mess she and he hubby were in?

[JRochelle]

Cook County is a cesspool.

They recently raised the sales tax to over 10%.

[Dano]

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.

[Condor51]

"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!!!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right turns up Rezko heat on Obama

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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.

[Rome2000]

[lilylangtree]

I’ll do my part and forward to a lot of non-freepers.

[Katherinesays]

Obama—>Rezko—>Auchi—>Saddam Hussein & Muammar al-Gadaffi
EXCUSE ME:

Obama got his money from Rezko who got his 3.5 million from Auchi:

Where’s the media?

-Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi-born billionaire who was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Prime minister (president) Abdul Karim Qasim and stood trial in 1959. (Auchi gave fellow Baath Party members machine guns from his home for Saddam Hussein.)

-Auchi protected secret money for Saddam Hussein AND Muammar al-Gadaffi.

(Remember, Obama’s Trinity church Pastor Wright went with Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan in 1993 to visit Libyan socialist leader Gadaffi.)

-Auchi also financially backed Saddam Hussein’s plan for a pipeline from Iraq to Saudi Arabia.

-Rezko was also a business partner with Nation of Islam Founder’s son: Jabir Herbert Muhammad.

Why isn’t the media talking about all of Barack Obama’s scary friends who have ties to the worst people in history?

*Don’t forget William (Bill) Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn of the Weather Underground.

*Obama’s cousin Raila Odinga who just became co-President of Kenya this week (after 1,000 people were killed) whom Obama is said to be close to...who signed a secret pact with Muslim jihadists who were to ethnically cleanse people?

And why does Raila Odinga use Obama’s exact same campaign slogan: CHANGE....Vote for CHANGE: Look at his website:

http://www.raila07.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/16/iraq.politicalcolumnists

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

Ruh-Roh Rezko: The Leak In Obama's Boat

[hut1hut2]

Here is an update from the Chicago Tribune's online edition:

New fumble for governor's million-dollar giveaway

Loop Lab School's fire-alarm system, exit doors not up to code, city says

Rebuilt Loop Lab School unsafe to open: Inspectors

Yes, schools should comply with building codes. But let's not forget that Mayor Daley won't pass up a chance to stick it to Blago.