Auchi, Ouch

@ angellight
exactly what does hillary’s bosnia lie have to do with this?
lol.
lame deflection.

So NOW, not only is obama responsible for EVERYTHING his Pastor has said in his lifetime, he is also responsible for EVERY PERSON EVER at a SAME FUNCTION as HIM?
GIVE. Me. A. Break.
The Clintons are on overdrive…

LOL……I bet this isn’t reported on MSNBC or CNN. The MSM tries to hide all of Obama’s flaws and feasts on Hillary’s Obama actually offends people and the media says that Hillary is “piling on” WTF? Was Obama not piling on by calling the Clinton’s racist every other day even if it wasn’t them that said the comment. Oh and all the comments had “hidden meanings” and were “calculated” but Obama must have been “tired” or “misspoke” when he called small town America gun toting, bible thumping, bigots. The problem with that is he ACTUALLY SAID IT. Instead of having to hide it in a “hidden meaning” LOL The MSM is so full of crap its not even funny anymore. BIAS doesn’t even begin to describe what has went on in this election.

Hill and Bill have 109 million+ 800 000 from Urube de Colombia in their pocket, it is very interesting to know where that money came from??? Auchi said he has never met Obama and Obama says he has never met Auchi. This article seems irrelevant from our humble point of view. The problem is that Obama is everything Wright has said. Obama is everything going on in Rezko trial. Do you remember that WBush was the first named in this trial by a witness. You are forgeting the real issue here which is who can bring change in America and in Washington? Hill the Bosnian General is unelectable, McCain will bring failled WBush policies. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

so what

THIS SHOULD BE A MSM STORY!!!!!!

If Sen. Obama was at the party, someone else saw him. If no one substantiates this claim, it will die a natural death.

If you went to a party honoring someone chances are you’d remember that. Another case of Obama not coming clean unless absolutely backed against the wall with facts. Every new revelation in this Rezko trial paints a grimmer picture of Obama and I can sense there’s more to come. First we heard Rezko was just an acquaintance. Later we found out he was a key financier of Obama’s campaigns. Later we find out that Rezko helped Obama buy his family home with some shady land deal. Later we find out that Obama took Rezko to tour the property. Of course, some “bitter” folk will remain “clinging” to Obama.

It is an issue because the men involved are all entwined in deals that involved kick backs, laundering money, corrouption, strong arm tactics, bribery and so on.
These are the associates of Obama that help fund his senate run and his presidential campaign. Question need to be asked as to what is going on here.
If he does win the presidency these are the same associate that will have control of him and will call in the favors that are needed.
I really don’t think that anyone intelligent enough would not want to think of what will happen with taxpayers money if these men are as corrupted as they are.
Questions need to be asked of Obama’s involvement with these men, unless you all are going to just vote blindly and don’t give a hoot of what tomorrow may bring.

“THIS SHOULD BE A MSM STORY!!!!!!”
You mean, ABC is not MSM? How dismissive!
You’re not some media elitist are you?
But again, what IS the story? Obama attended a party. I’m sure he attended a LOT of parties in his life that were full of shady figures. As is true for any prominent politician anywhere in the world. But since there apparently is no reason anymore to discuss the war, the economy or the large scale poverty in our own country, yes, let’s make a list of all the parties that Obama, Clinton and McCain visited in their lifes! Champagne! Caviar!

I think Obama’s association with these men is what people are trying to understand and it serves no good if he lies about it then the media finds out differently, as eg. the Rezko connection.
If they were just simple friends with no strings attached then there would be nothing wrong in saying that he knows them, but to try and avoid association and then people discover there is more to it does paint the picture that someone is trying to hide something.

Is this that guy from the 60 Minutes piece Sunday? Whooooooaa! When I saw that Rezko was associated with this guy, I wondered. He is one really bad guy corrupt guy. Obama’s association with Rezko has been completely ignored by the MSM, but if Clinton eats a pickle, they’re all over it.
Doesn’t matter. Obama could wear babies for hats at this point and his followers (most of the media) wouldn’t stop pummeling Clinton long enough to notice.

“Next will we all be shocked to find out Obama is friends with Ayers”
LOL. Jake addressed the very Ayres connection a week ago. It’s a total non-story as well, so nothing happened, nobody cared.
Wright has filled the airwaves for days with 4 of 5 outrageous statements found in a career as pastor that lasted 30 years or so. Everyone has seen them. As a result, after some critical reflection on what these quotes told us about Obama, a majority of Americans still prefer Obama over Clinton, as his current 10 point lead in the Gallup poll shows us. During all these attacks on Obama, Clinton NEVER took over the general lead in RCP average. That is a very telling fact. She cannot beat a man and politician so outstanding as Obama.

Obama has outspent Hillary 3-1 in PA, plus he has had 6 weeks to campaign. If he doesn’t win, he should leave the race. Any excuses for losing by the Obama campaign would just be another instance of them moving the goalposts, again.

It’s been reported that the money Rezko used to buy the lot adjacent to Obama’s 1.6 million dollar home was provided by Auchi.
Rezko had no money at the time. What people also need to consider is that Obama asked his crooked friend Rezko to help him out here because otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to afford this house (the owners had refused to unbundle these two transactions).
How many average americans get that kind of help? More importantly, how many of us would accept money from a crook?

Here we go again with Hillays team releasing a lot of crap..Man is she desperate!!!

If we brought up everything the Clintons did that seemed the least bit dishonest…Obama would look like a choir boy…GET BACK TO THE ISSUES AND CUT THE CRAP.

morningside
Even if your absurd claims were right, so what? So becasue someone helped Obama buy a house, that makes him criminal? Did anything criminal happen? The clear answer is no. So please, give it a rest already. This Rezko stuff is pure BS. The Rev.Wright stuff and the “bitter” statement are issues. But this Rezko stuff is just stupidity of the highest order.

The more information that comes out, the more Obama looks just like the garden variety opportunistic politician.
Change? What change? (Or maybe, the more things change, the more they stay the same.)

Doesn’t remember meeting an Iraqi billionaire? Isn’t he ‘against the war’ for he started to vote for it? So, who here believes that the money men and their horse/Obama didn’t meet?
Please! Especially at a party he claims he wasn’t at? This doesn’t pass the smell test.
I’m tired of being lied to by Obama and them lame I’m upbove them when I attack them the same way they attack me. Please everything this man says or does is a lie or a hypocritical stance on a subject.
Really, can someone show me one truth out of this man’s mouth?

Let me get this straight, Senator Clinton’s negative press is Senator Clinton’s fault and Senator Obama’s negative press is also Senator Clinton’s fault?

Cali girl knows the truth
When did Obama claim he didn’t attend a party? He only said he never met the man. The man said he never met Obama.

Cali girl knows the truth
Chicago tribune and NYT only said the party was hosted to “woo” Auchi. Do you know how many parties rich folks like Rezko host in a month?

I agree with drip drip drip
we did not know obama, we do not know obama and what we are learing about his is not good.
the rep. are investigating and finding out things about obama that are going to shock us more.
the obama supporters will not accept the fact that first of all Sen. Clinton
is not responsible for obama.
and second-IF obama should get the nomination because supporter of his cont to deny reality.
mccain and the rep. are going to cream him
so if all you wanted was someone to beat Sen. clinton-then maybe you have got your victory.
besides he had the media, the dnc, and blind voting black people, and lots and lots of far-left rich liberal money in his pocket.
If you wanted a dem to become the potus
you lose.
obama is underqualified and unelectable.
I just hope some of you obama supporters will have someone the age of serving in the military.

who cares? There are other issues in this campaign that deserve more attention. Iraq, Iran, health care, inflation, housing crises, terrible schools, gas prices – etc, etc. Let’s get rea1 foks!

Politics has become nothing more than content so we will watch the advertisements.

Frankly, Obama is not qualified to
be a Senator.

Triangulate: Auchi needs a passport; Rezko needs money, and Obama needs a home.
See how it all came together for the triple alliance of Auchi, Rezko, and Obama?
Scary.

now if you people continue to bring up resko, and auchi, and bitterness,
and rev. wright,and michelle
You are going to force CNN to give obama more air time to
MAKE A SPEECH ABOUT THAT
Sen. Clinton has a plan
obama will refer you to the speech he made.

Probably the money donate to his campaign from rezko came for Auchi.
No wonder he keeps his life so secret, His closet if full or nasty stuff.
Will Obama lie about this, like he has done with everything else?

Those of you so upset over this: were you equally upset that Reverend Wright was at the prayer breakfast with Bill Clinton? I seem to recall many of you saying ‘no fair’ and ‘so what’ at that time. So please spare us the pontificating – if you don’t like Senator Obama, you don’t like him. But politicians meet tons of people, nice and bad, and probably more the latter. So this is another guilt-by-association, but I hope that most of us have moved beyond these types of things.

RUBY…what have you done to make the world a better place?

rubgy…have you checked the stench coming from the Clinton campaign…wheeew

TEFLON OBAMA seems to be the “wright” description of this guy.

Becky
Once again, you’re making something out of nothing when you discuss this trial. Don’t you have anything to say about issues. Or, in Obama’s case, lack of issues.

Ati
Are you saying Obama has a past rich in shady characters?

Yawn.

Tsk, tsk. Chicago politics. Yawn. They been paying the vig there since way before Capone. Look at it this way-its Obama’s turn to get paid.

My America
What does Clinton’s past have to do with Obama’s past. What do you mean anyway?
Obama is condemned by his past associations. Period! Hillary may have her own past to contend with but building up Obama (past and all) by comparing her to Hillary is just plain naive!

Wow! Pretty big stuff. Obama’s mentioned in a fraud trial. I guess that means when Clinton’s DEFENDING herself at her own fraud trial- this October no less- THAT will be a huge story.

Whilst Rezko is under investigation, Obama meets with him to purchase a home. At this time Mayor Daley bars Rezko from obtaining city contracts. Now if you dismiss all the lies, arrogant utterances, 20 years in Trinity, you have to wonder – are we going to elect this man as President of our country?

Important to note that it was Rezko’s attorney who specifically asked the star witness for the prosecution Levine, “was Senator Obama at the party”, “was his wife there with him”. Why would Rezko’s attorney go out of his way to bring this up, when the prosecution went out of their way not to bring up Obama’s name? Does Rezko want pay-back now???

Obama is not perfect, I think people see that, but the Clintons are the biggest liars out there, check the records, NAFTA alone should not get Hillary a vote from any unions, she said she will fix her husbands mistakes! what happened over the last 20 years? I guess it was okay, now that they have all that money, she wants to “fix” NAFTA, what a pile of *rap, she lies has been lying and will keep on lying….

So many of these comments are absolutely true where the MSM is concerned and their adoration of Obama. Chlarie Rose even went out of his way to dig up some archival footage of Obama so that he could explain his “bitter” comments. I can’t imagine him doing that for Clinton. In the same way they keep running clips of Obama chiding Hilary for having a shot and a beer; none of them repeated his bowling or cow feeding or beer drinking trips with Casey. Then there was the Tanya harding theing and the Annie Oakley thing and on and on but SHE is negative! I’m sick of the MSM attempting to insult my intelligence. Rose gave almost the entire hour last night to Obama supporters to dig him out of his hole and kept throwing in “poll” numbers to even say that Obama and Clinton were neck-and-neck in PA. Since when?

Just one more lie by Obama that the rest of the MSM will probably ignore.

I’m just curious, has anyone done an article on all of the lies, misstatements and exaggerations of Obama’s in this primary? Would be interesting.

Prediction: When Obama gets crushed in Penisylvania because of his bitter remarks and the press realize that this will create a by-product in other states, at that time they will reach into their pockets and pull these kinds of stories. Only then will Obama get his due reward.
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Let’s make sure Obama gets paid.

S: I know Obama’s issues, I found this article and would like to know more about it. It can not be old news if it has not even gotten a trial date as yet… You must be a Hillary voter. Which is fine with me, I just would like to know the TRUTH on both before I vote.. Does anyone know about this and where it stands today???
Will the media ever report on the upcoming Clinton vs. Paul trial?
By Kathy Miller | The Hillary Project
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago email to friend
A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008 in Los Angeles to set a trial date in Paul vs. Clinton. The court delayed setting a trial date back in February, but a new trial date is expected to be announced three days after the all important Pennsylvania primary.
California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz ruled Paul’s legal team can begin seeking depositions from a host of big names – including Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton – that allegedly were witnesses to an effort by the Clintons and top Democratic leaders to extract millions of dollars from Paul in illegal donations and then cover it up.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is on the witness list in Paul v Clinton. He is a key witness and is going to be asked questions about money he failed to report.

What exactly is the suggested charge or illegal/unethical action here? How’s about a little relative comparison? Let’s put things in perspective… Obama association with one indicted person versus the Clintons’ laundry list of shady associations…
Chinese Dishwashers anyone? Marc Rich? Norman Hsu? John Huang? Sant Chatwal? Vinod Gupta? Jorge Cabrera? Dan Lasater? Hugh Rodham? Roger Clinton? Aaron Tonken? Peter Paul? Johnny Chung? Jeffrey Epstein?
If the Clintons eliminated those people charged or convicted of illegal activity, they could not see most of their friends, business associates or even go to a family reunion.

Barry Obama sure does have a faulty memory.
Should we allow someone who can’t remember going to a big party less than four years ago to be President?
I mean, a President’s term is for four years and you’d “hope” he or she would be able to remember things he did during his first year in office.
Barry Obama doesn’t seem like he has that capability.

countallthevotes
Good post. Long but good.

“What exactly is the suggested charge or illegal/unethical action here? How’s about a little relative comparison? Let’s put things in perspective… Obama association with one indicted person versus the Clintons’ laundry list of shady associations…
Chinese Dishwashers anyone? Marc Rich? Norman Hsu? John Huang? Sant Chatwal? Vinod Gupta? Jorge Cabrera? Dan Lasater? Hugh Rodham? Roger Clinton? Aaron Tonken? Peter Paul? Johnny Chung? Jeffrey Epstein?”
You’re totally right of course. Take ONLY Norman Hsu for instance, and his Bernard Schwartz connection… We’re not talking a house in Chicago here, but nuclear arms deals with China among other things. Bernard Schwartz, who worked for the Chinese shell company that the Clintons gave ballistic missile technology to after Bill’s heavily paid for re-election, put Norman Hsu on the Board of Trustees of the New School in New York. And Hillary? Hillary ear-marked 750,000 dollars to this new school as a pork barrel project. We’re talking MAJOR crimes here that are in conflict with America’s national security.
All this has been left out of the MSM I’m afraid, though the GOP has all that information filed and ready in case Hillary would win the nomination.

If Obama gets the nomination, the media and the right are going to have a field day! Think about it.
Jeremiah Wright. He does not know how to shut up. He is back on the pulpit inflaming Fox with his “stuck on stupid comment.” WHO is stuck on stupid, Jeremiah?? Go home and watch your greatest hits—I’m sure we will be subjected to them again and again. 527s in heaven.
William Ayers, Obama’s friend and fellow board member, who AFTER 9/11 said he did not regret setting bombs in DC back in the 70s.
Tony Rezko, who was involved in the purchase of Obama’s home, now on trial for corruption.
Michell Obama, who has never been proud of this country until just now, who has said that America is “mean” and has a “broken soul.” Who is bitter? But has anyone figured out why she is bitter?????
Obama’s own comments about small town America, lapel pins and “typical white people.” Has anyone suggested to him that it is not a good idea to lump people into groups and judge them? Seems sort of like stereotyping to me. Obama in particular comes off as arrogant when he does it.
You get my point. Kind of makes the Clinton’s Whitewater look like a toddler amusement ride, doesn’t it. And this is just the beginning…..

From Timesonline, Feb. 26, 2008:
The spotlight fell on Mr Rezko’s ties to Mr Auchi last month when the Chicago businessman was thrown in jail for violating his bail terms by failing to declare a different $3.5 million loan from the British billionaire, made in April 2007. Prosecutors feared Mr Rezko, who travels widely in the Middle East, might flee to a country without an extradition treaty such as his birthplace of Syria.
Mr Auchi was convicted of corruption, given a suspended sentence and fined £1.4 million in France in 2003 for his part in the Elf affair, described as the biggest political and corporate scandal in post-war Europe. He, in a statement from his media lawyers, claims he is appealing against the sentence.
Mr Auchi founded his Luxembourg-based General Mediterranean Holding (GMH) in 1979, a year before he left Iraq. He says that he did business with his native country when it was considered a friend of the West but ceased to trade with the late Saddam Hussein’s regime once sanctions were imposed after the invasion of Kuwait.
Mr Rezko has told a court that Mr Auchi is a “close friend.” Mr Auchi’s lawyer told The Times: “It is untrue that my client and Mr Rezko are ‘close friends’. Mr Auchi first met Mr Rezko after the 2003 Iraq war and they have a business relationship.”
Mr Rezko and Mr Auchi have been partners in a pizzeria business in the Mid-West and a major 62-acre land development in Riverside Park in Chicago.
According to court documents, Mr Rezko’s lawyer said his client had “longstanding indebtedness” to Mr Auchi’s GMH. By June 2007 he owed it $27.9 million.
Under a Loan Forgiveness Agreement described in court, Mr Auchi lent Mr Rezko $3.5 million in April 2005 and $11 million in September 2005, as well as the $3.5 million transferred in April 2007.
That agreement provided for the outstanding loans to be “forgiven” in return for a stake in the 62-acre Riverside Park development.
A posting last week on a GMH-owned website, middle-east-online.com, portrayed Mr Auchi as a Middle Eastern “Donald Trump” with a global business construction empire.
Mr Auchi visited the United States in 2004. Pictures show him meeting Emil Jones, the president of the Illinois state senate, an ally of Mr Obama, a former state senator.
Both Mr Auchi and Mr Obama say they have no memory of meeting each other. But, according to a source, the two may have had a brief encounter at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago where Mr Auchi’s visit was being honoured with a dinner attended by the Governor when Mr Obama, coincidentally in the hotel, dropped in.
An aide to Mr Obama said he did attend an event at the Four Seasons at which Mr Rezko was present but does not remember meeting Mr Auchi. “He shook a lot of hands and met a lot of people,” the aide said. “We do not remember individual people.”
Prosecutors say that, after Mr Auchi was unable to enter the United States in 2005, Mr Rezko approached the US State Department to get him a visa and apparently asked “certain Illinois government officials to do the same.” Mr Obama denies he was approached. Mr Auchi’s lawyer has emphasised to The Times that it would be entirely false to imply that money had been lent by GMH to Mr Rezko in return for Mr Rezko seeking to assist Mr Auchi to obtain a visa. The two men’s relationship, the lawyer stressed, was a busines s one.
Mr Auchi’s lawyer said the purpose of the Fintrade Services loan was to “assist the financial position” of a pizzeria company called AR Pizza, in which GMH held a shareholding. He said the loan had since been repaid in the form of a greater stake in the Chicago 62-acre land project.

Those voting for obama, why? What change do you want?

Count All the Votes: the $3.5 million loan transferred from Auchi to Rezko via SYRIA in April 2007, was what landed Rezko in jail for bond violation. Rezko transferred some of that money to his wife, because creditors were looking for payment from Rezko and he could not hold any assets, and Rezko’s wife proceeded to make the $650,000.00 purchase of the vacant lot next to the Obamamansion, closing the same day as the Obamas. The Obama’s received a $300,000.00 discount off the asking price of the mansion, Rezko’s wife paid full price for the vacant lot which the Rezko’s never used. Rezko’s wife later sold part of the lot to the Obama’s for $104,000.00. Most people would call that Rezko deal a kickback to Obama.

rs,
I would call it a kickback, especially considering that the subsequent sale of the strip of land (10ft) then put the development of the adjoining lot in jeopardy. There are very strict zoning laws in that locale so that the size of the lot was no longer enough for builing a home. So, in effect, the “sale” of the 10-ft strip of land, after the original sale of the two pieces of property, markedly decreased the market value of Mrs. Rezko’s lot.

People have lost interest in OBama. Only losers will support him, he is no general election candidate material.
Get down OBAMA

To Kravitz: Do you think you are “protesting too much”? Don’t look behind that curtain, there’s no corruption there, no connections to Auchi there, no connections to Khalidi and the PLO there, no connections to Said there, no connections to Hamas there, Obama must be paying those networks lots and lots of money for them to all look the other way….

Jake,
Would you please look into the story about the Obama campaign talking with Hamas? If true, I think America needs to know about this ASAP!
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-degree-of-separation-klein.html
“Following their conversation with Dr. Yousuf, at approximately the 8 minutes, 15 seconds mark, Batchelor and Klein discuss the possibility that someone speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign has already been in contact with a representative for Hamas. However, to date, that person has not been named.”
Link to audio of interview (8-9 minutes):
http://dmm.broadchoice.com/__2f28/on_demand/jerusalem_archives/
THANKS!

I would like to withdraw my vote for Obama..

A major speech is on its way. Oprah will purchase obama time on all, repeat all the TV media available worldwide and obama will begin a new, enlightening, dazzling speech, telling everyone what they should be thinking, not what they actually heard. And he will be praised, and all will shout hallelujah, and the world will stop turning, and we will all kneel and prone ourselves to this all powerful and divine messiah that Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Joe Biden and MSNBC and Keith O and Chris M have created. Please throw rose petals as this magic one speaks. Please record this magnificent speech of words that have taken on new meanings that the Golden Boy has told us to hear. Listen only to the Boy make his words magic. This will again be hailed as the speech of the century and if you don’t believe every word he tells you to believe, then you are a bigot and a racist and you will go to hell for your sins. You sinners.

“The response, “I don’t recall” is often used to evade perjury charges.”
True. It has been counted that Hillary has answered “I don’t recall” to judges about a 250 times in her life. IN COURT. Yes, she was the first First Lady to be indicted, as WE recall well.
In short, so far it’s 250 for Hillary to Obama’s ZERO statements of that kind in court. She’s finally leading!
But let’s shift to the relevant stuff.
Hillary Clinton said she opposed the Dubai Ports deal… — Her husband was getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to support it.
Hillary Clinton said she opposed Colombian free trade agreement. — Her husband was getting paid tens of thousands of dollars to support it.
But, the latest Clinton controversy is the most outrageous:
Hillary Clinton said she opposed the slaughter of Tibetan protesters. –Her husband received hundreds of thousands by the company that posted the photos of the Most Wanted Tibetan activists on their internet page.

Have I just “misread” something in this article? Has someone here compared obama to the pope visiting here? Is the pope coming to visit with his holiness obama? Is this trip to the USA to meet with the second coming? Is the pope here to bless the Golden Boy? Oh I get it – the pope has arrived to bless the Reverend Wright, Louis Farrakhan and to give his support to the Golden Boy and perhaps arrange for a set of angel wings. Obama followers must be getting dizzy from hearing all this – more kool aid please.

kravitz,
I have problems with much about Obama, outside his “words.”
Also, I was not speaking of words having two different meanings. Rest assured that any statements on Rezko by Obama or Auchi have been flown by an attorney. The fact that both say “I do not recall” is significant, legally.
I don’t mean to sound so caustic to you, personally. It is not personal at all. Sometimes I reread my posts and am surprised. I think it is easy to forget that there are real people behind the posts who strongly believe in their candiates.
With “I don’t recall,” I stand my ground. This was purposeful. There is enough verification that both men met and Obama attended. It was a dinner to honor Auchi. It was not happenstance that Obama attended.

Whose supporter spent millions of dollars funding a school in Africa when children in her hometown live in squalor and poverty. We know where Mr. O & Ms. O’s priorities lie.
Does nobody see who is pulling Obama’s strings? Notice how quiet she has been for some time now? Very suspicious indeed.

Tired of his words. Don’t matter to me anymore. I am burned out hearing his sermon like words on TV.
They are hate phrases, political attacks, lies, and elitisms. This guy will say ANYTHING at ALL COST to win. Point me to me Oabama’s good actions reverend Wright, Oparah, Rezko, Farakahn!

kravitz
How about his actions, shady associates and complete lack of solutions to any issue?

Adlai Stevenson
Not to worry — it was simply a bone-headed mistake. (Something that any innocent person could do)

“Does nobody see who is pulling Obama’s strings? Notice how quiet she has been for some time now? Very suspicious indeed.”
LOL! Maybe you should check the Obama site more often. Let me see… 5 events in PA scheduled for MO on April 15 and 16. And I guarantee you, this woman ain’t gonna be quiet during these events, she’s a helluva speaker.
Plus, today:
“Michelle Obama will make her first late-night television appearance this Tuesday. Mrs. Obama, “direct and plain-spoken, with an edgy sense of humor uncommon in a political spouse,” according to a recent Newsweek profile, will go head to head with another direct-talker, Stephen Colbert.”
A suspicious quietness, did you say?

Mark my words: Auchi indirectly paid for Obama’s mansion and the lot next door. Auchi gave money to Rezko, who then passed it on to Obama. And Auchi got a lot of his wealth by stealing from the U.N. Oil for Food Program that was meant to feed the people of Iraq and send basic medical supplies for little children during the sanctions regime, during which millions of children died unnecessarily.
Auchi is not the only Iraqi crook with whom Obama and Rezko did business. There is Aiham Alsamarrae who was appointed minister of electricity. He is also a US citizen. He and Rezko orchestrated a scam: they set up some corporate entities, awarded Iraqi contracts to build power plants to themselves and one Chicago ex-cop, pocketed the money and nothing ever got built in Iraq. Obama had meetings and dinner with Alsamarrae to help schmooze the right people and get the deal passed through.

Alsamarrae has been convicted in Iraq for stealing millions of dollars for the government and defrauding them with the bogus contract scam. But he is in Chicago, living fat. Nuri al-Maliki tried to get him extradited, but the US government won’t send him to Iraq–perhaps because he is going to be a witness in the Rezko trial. Fitzpatrick, the attorney general prosecuting the case, has already taken a deposition from Alsamarrae. I don’t know whether he will take the stand or not.
At least Hillary Clinton’s friends aren’t manipulating the chaos and war in Iraq to defraud the American people and the Iraqi people.

The witness testified under oath, I presume. Whereas, Mr. Obama’s spokesperson did not have to.
Mr.Obama has banked on charming people with empty rhetorics and pleasant, albeit insincere, posturing. As a defensive mechanism, long before the Bosnia incident he has been calling Mrs. Clinton deceptive and misleading. One wonders why? He is also the same. Mrs. Clinton has her husband, but Mr. Obama has lot of reporters, journalists, liberal “out-of-touch” professors, and on his side. They will all defend him even if committed an egregious act. So anything negative that you bring up about him will fade and the blame will be put on Clintons. But only till August!
His nomination will make moderate (shall I say, the happy non-elite) democrats to move toward republican side. Perhaps, this will be further aided by hard-core conservatives deserting the republican side.

Is is not amazing that Senator Obama can not remember meeting VIP’s on special occasions when his best friend and fundraiser Rezko was trying to con more money from them. Investigative reporters have said that Obama always rushed to Rezko’s side when he was trying to impress PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND POWER. That was called pay-back time. I call it corruption when the money transaction is illegal. Case in point: Shaking hands and dining with Auchi and others. Did you know that Rezko made 20 trips overseas in two years making big money business deals and I bet Obama was informed of everything that when on even if he says he can not remember any of it
Anyone who believes the wonderful Senator Obama is absolutely honest has been drinking too much tainted Koolaid or just wants some sort of pay-back.

a spokesman for Obama said that he had “no recollection” of the April 2004 event at Rezko’s Wilmette home. Obama recently acknowledged stopping by the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago on another occasion when Rezko was hosting a small private dinner for two Qatar bankers in February 2004. At the time, Obama was in the middle of his U.S. Senate race …………..Obama also can’t remember ever hearing Pastor Wright saying hateful/racist things in the 20 years he knew him. So what else is new?

Hoosier Sue,
Now Obama throws Pres Carter under the bus for doing exactly what he said he would do in the debates talk to leaders we normally ignore.
His excuse for critizing Carter is that Hamas is not a state, but a terrorist group. Nevermind the fact they were elected into power, or the fact that he was in front of a Jewish group so he lost his stones.
He doesn’t really stand for anything, and he is always evading responsibility.
More hypocrisy from Obama, so when he does it, no probelm. Pres Carter who wrote a book standing firm in his opinion of promoting peace in the Middle East, is doing what he has done for years. But now there is a probelm, when Carter continues to walk the walk.
One set of rules for Obama another set for everyone else.
Kevin,
Like others have said more eloquently Obama often denies something before he admits the truth. How many times did he have to give more money to charity that had ties to Rezko?
He revises his truth as much as needed, and since the press isn’t pressing him on anything, why would he?
If you guys think that the Republican machine is going to be quiet during the general election, then I have some nice investments for you to buy. They are being quiet now, but it will gear up and they’ll be picking through skeletons. With an electorate that is largely ignorant of such scandals, and McCain’s scandals decades ago, combined with his Maverick persona. Obama is going to look like the emperor with no clothes, and McCain is going to look like a Senator who was trying to solve such probelms long ago and reaching across the aisle to get it done.
Pavlov’s politician exploiting 45 years of tv clips expecting people to drool support isn’t impressive either.
I expect more in my President AND Harvard grads than being lazy intellectually by stealing MLKs tone….JFKs words….and Ceasar Chavez’ battle cry.

Poor Obama! He made 4.2 million in 2007 and still does not see that he is an “elitist”..Poor Obama..ABC did not give him a pass tonight…he was on the defensive all night and had to comment after Hillary on most everything she said. I bet Chris Matthews was really feeling his pain..right up the leg. He always has to have the last word. Poor Obama..not reponsible for his associations with Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Rezko, etc. He still has NEVER answered why he stayed in that church for 20 years..even after Rev Wright and Farrakhan went to meet with Qaddafi. And remember when he said he only did 5 hours of work for Rezko? He actually has had a 17 year association with Rezko. The part he tells may be true enough he just doesn’t tell the whole truth. Auchi? Can’t remember. I bet he is working overtime to explain that away. He uses “speech” to skirt the truth for his own advantage.

Andi posted: “The latest reports on the Rezko trial again state that there was no wrongdoing found by Senator Obama. No wrongdoing – that’s what matters.”
Andi, if a person has a lot of friends are criminals, but he is clean, do you still want to make a friend with him? That’s what matter – Obama comes from a corrupted Illinois political network where 4 of last 7 governors were convicted.
I watch Obama’s rallies as jokes whenever he said he will change Washington and honesty is a powerful tool. I laughed out loud. :D