Posted on 03/07/2008 11:51:46 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
At my urging, the brains at Kithbridge put together Rezkorama.com on Thursday to provide a continually updating news feed on all things related to Tony Rezko --Barack Obama's friend, finacier and next-door empty-lot owner. It took about a nano-second for Rezkorama to be denounced as "Swiftboating" by Obama fans at Newshoggers.com, which leads me to believe that any coverage of any democratic scandal from now until the end of time will be known as "Swiftboating," for which I think the Swiftboat Veterans for truth should charge royalties.
In any event, faux outrage among the Obamians won't be stifling interest in Mr. Rezko any time soon as Rezko is standing trial on many fraud allegations in Chicago --a trial that began this week and may go on for three months, though we can only hope it drags on through the Denver Convention.
Seen in a courtroom sketch is Antoin "Tony" Rezko appearing before federal Judge Amy J. St. Eve at federal court in Chicago, Monday, March 3, 2008, where he is on trial, charged with using political clout to run a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme. (AP Photo/Verna Sadock)
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Some, like The Atlantic's Ross Douthat, are skeptical that Rezko's Obama's connections can break through, though when I explained them to him, he relented a bit.
My view is that anyone who has ever bought a home in America will understand how the Obama's profited from Rezko's friendship. They wanted a house that was too big for their budget. Rezko's wife chipped in and bought the vacant lot next door which the common owner of the house and the lot insisted be sold at the same time. There are allegations that the price of the house was lowered for the Obamas and that of the lot raised for Mrs. Rezko, but that doesn't really matter, or, more accurately, would only make things worse. What matters is that one of the country's modern Boss Tweeds did a big, big favor for the Obamas, and many think this is prohibited by Senate rules.
It would be bad even if Tony Rezko wasn't knee deep in a number of very shady deals with very shady customers. Christopher Hitchens appeared on my radio show Wednesday eager to alert my audience to Rezko's ties to Nadhmi Auchi, a particularly intriguing character whose connections are going to startle lots of observers.
Did I mention that Obama's name come up in opening arguments in the Rezko trial? Or that Obama fled a press conference focused on the matter? Or that Hillary brought up Rezko in a debate?
Suddenly the prince of fresh and the king of change looks very old fashioned, and way too close to the kind of political sleaze that he is pledged to exile from the Beltway.
All of this has exploded on the national scene in just a few short days, and Team Clinton has every incentive to throw gas on the fire, which it certainly has and will again. (Let the record show that no one from the Clinton campaign formally encouraged me to cover Rezko.) By this time next week, who knows what we will know.
Oh my, my. Once again the Dims are poised to nominate a candidate they haven’t vetted.
That just about sums it up.
The Tony Rezco Trial Barack Obama Is Tied To
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This news clip discusses how Tony Rezco offered Barack Obama a job as legal counsel for his company.
oh, NO! you have defaced Charlie Brown.....shame, shame.
LOL
Feldman’s handbook for pathological thought and behavior says a great deal about the strange workings of the liberal mind to which plain truth is anathema.
Both Dims are possibly scheduled to self destruct. Time for a third party, real conservative. Somehow, previously, at the beginning of the primaries we got caught off guard. A true conservative may be our only chance to win the White House as well as to save our country. We are in trying times and very well may not be able to afford a Dim or RINO in the White House. It’s time for us to get real fire in our bellies. If we are to go down, let’s do it fighting, not giving in and giving up. A third party is constitutional, but do we have the guts our forefathers had? We don’t have to fight a Revolutionary War, we just have to get in gear fast and furiously and get a real conservative in the White House. We have until November. Let’s get it done.
Team Clinton has every incentive to throw gas on the fire, which it certainly has and will again."Every incentive"??? Talk about Hillary Shillery -- Team Clinton has been spraying, not slinging, mud on Obama and Edwards and everyone else in the race on both sides. I just love the MSM, don't you? If Team Clinton throws gas on the fire, isn't that also "Swiftboating"???
Not to mention Whitewater, bimbo eruptions (besides Monica), Juanita Brodderick, the FALN pardons, Marc Rich pardon, Travelgate, Elian Gonzalez, Waco, Vince Foster, Ron Brown, filegate, FBI files... geesh, the list goes on and on, and still people vote overwhelmingly for the bi*ch...
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Obamas Pastor Celebrates 9/11 (explicit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzhl-endvco
Obamas Racially-Divisive Pastor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUbUBTlmAiA
Obama Disrespecting U.S. Flag and Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkgg5Kjo
The Audacity of Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjnT4eJJvs
The Audacity of Barack Obama 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeC8BE-2T_k
Is Obama Wright? - Pastor Wright & Senator Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4
Obamas Pastor - 9/11 Fault of Israel Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnI431s1r6s
Obama - Cult of Personality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP7lUGn7HWk&;;;
Name Obamas Accomplishments if you can #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o
Name Obamas Accomplishments if you can #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFOOcEQtP0
Barack Obama: There Will Be Bamboozling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU
The Two Things Senator Obama Accomplished
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/02/27/obamas-empty-change-message/
The Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prhnc2fxAzg
Obama We Are Building A Religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xtNr5-up0U
The Obama File
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
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