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Typical Chicago Politics Will Come Back To Haunt Obama ( New Revelations from London )
Flopping Aces ^ | Feb 26, 2008 9:24 am | Curt

Posted on 02/26/2008 11:59:34 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

While the NYT’s prints a foolish attack piece with lots of innuendo about the Republican nominee, they remain silent on a story that is quite big AND has plenty of evidence to suggest wrongdoing.

Something which you can bet your bottom dollar will see the light of day over and over and over again if Obama is the nominee.

No fawning over the Messiah by the English press here. Hell, they even put up a picture of Obama that isn’t flattering:

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The story itself is well done, but can get convoluted at times with all the figures. Here is the cast. First up is Nadhmi Auchi, a European billionaire with a scandalous past:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: auchi; chicago; corruptdems; il2008; obama; rezko
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So are they doing this to help Hillary or McCain? The Laborites I know want us to elect Obama.
No kidding they think Hillary is too much like Lady Thatcher, whom they despised.
21 posted on 02/26/2008 12:32:45 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Very good news for Republicans, politically.

This is probably not going to be a definitive campaign-killer, but at least it is likely to be effective in achieving dirt-parity when it comes down to McCain vs Obama. McCain has a long and vulnerable track record otherwise vis-a-vis Obama, which was one of my major worries with respect to this match-up.

McCain has no worries vs Clinton of course. Any dirt on McCain could have been called and raised anytime.


22 posted on 02/26/2008 12:34:21 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Barack Hussein Obama is a very dangerous charlatan. He was elected to the US Senate under dubious means that involved the release to the MSM of previously sequestered divorce records that undermined his opponent. This left-wing radical is not what the guilt-ridden white liberals think he is. His election would drive the US into the ground economically and make it open season on Americans everywhere for the islamic jihadis. It is the duty of all people who care for the US to drive this message home to folks considering voting for this fraud.


23 posted on 02/26/2008 12:37:13 PM PST by astounded (The Democrat Party is a Clear and Present Danger to the USA)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Related link....

Did Saddam Figure's Millions Influence Obama? (There's more to Rezko than just slumlording...)

24 posted on 02/26/2008 12:39:15 PM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Obama has indicated willingness to end federal oversight of the Teamsters [& gets Hoffa endorsement]” ~ Robert Novak 2/23/08 [Crumbling Ohio Firewall]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974928/posts

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This is a column from The Times of Northwest Indiana.

BY MARK KIESLING
Times Columnist | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/02/25/columnists/mark_kiesling/doc297cac7c5a2c0929862573f9001e42cb.txt

The television above the bar at Chris’ Place was filled with the talking heads of various politicians who hope they will one day soon be anointed to carry their party’s standard in November.

Phil the Teamster, who is scrupulous about having a cold one only after all his deliveries have been made and his rig safely back in the yard, held up some exotic brew to eye level and gazed at one of the heads though a reddish haze.

“I have never voted for a Republican in my life,” said Phil. “But if Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, I am voting for John McCain.”

The bar, never a particularly noisy place, went as silent as death.

We knew Phil was a Hillary Clinton sort of fellow, but we never dreamed he would ever think of pulling the GOP lever under any circumstances. He is strictly an unreconstructed union man.

He’s also no racist. He lives in an integrated neighborhood and judges each person on merit, not pigmentation. So The Senator, whose idea of exotic beer is Old Style in a Miller Lite glass, asked him why.

“He’s a Crook County politician, that’s why,” Phil said. Stan the Bartender mouthed the word “Cook” from behind his unlit cigar.

“I said Crook, and I meant Crook,” Phil said. “This guy is from Chicago. He sounds smooth, and he might have the rest of the country fooled, but he doesn’t fool me. You don’t come from Chicago and go that far that fast without owing somebody something.”

Well, he has been seen palling around with indicted businessman and influence peddler Tony Rezko, who also is a buddy of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But does that make Obama the third person of the Unholy Trinity?

“I’ll tell you another thing,” said Mark the Cop, who was on his usual seat by the door. “If Obama or Hillary get in, that’s the end of any kind of federal investigation into corruption in Northwest Indiana.”

It is local lore that Republican-named U.S. attorneys go after corruption in this county in which Democrats have held every countywide office since 1931 and Democrat-named U.S. attorneys have other priorities, let us say.

No one denies this. The Republicans say they come in to clean house. The Democrats say the Republicans come in to impose a political agenda.

Phil judges McCain the way he does other people, on merit. A Vietnam vet, Phil has a soft spot for a guy who spent years as a North Vietnamese POW, even if he is a Republican.

His heart says McCain. His loyalty says Clinton. But his gut says not Obama.

The opinions are solely those of the writer. He can be reached at markk@nwitimes.com or (219) 933-4170.


25 posted on 02/26/2008 12:43:34 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("I drive a Hybrid. It burns both gas AND rubber." ~ knews_hound)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
More on Auchi, from 2007....

Anglo Arab Organisation President: UK-EU Parliamentary delegation to Lebanon, Syria a success

26 posted on 02/26/2008 12:46:14 PM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The UK press will be the hole in the caliph’s ratmedia shield. The British press hates all politicians, especially American.They will cut him into little pieces with no fingerprints of our’s on it.


27 posted on 02/26/2008 12:47:01 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: mewzilla; Spunky
Thanks,,...from the link:

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To: jdm

Obama's friend Tony, is HilLIARy's friend also.

HilLIARy, Tony, Bill
9 posted on 02/26/2008 8:05:47 AM PST by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)

28 posted on 02/26/2008 12:48:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: astounded
currently, obama is the only senator who has STOPPED the appointment of a new federal election finance official which would allow McCain and other repub to make request regarding the election financing.
That sweet Obama is shutting off McCin and other Repub ability to fiance there campaigns .
Even Hillary has not gone this DIRTY and LOW DOWN.
29 posted on 02/26/2008 12:49:08 PM PST by ncalburt
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Speaking of the Toons, and while we're on the subject of Auchi, some interesting info here....

Ken Timmerman Discusses Oil For Food Scandal in Book

30 posted on 02/26/2008 12:52:00 PM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: All; mewzilla
From deep in the Times (UK) story:

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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.

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So Obama has a figure much like Clinton's HSU>>>>

31 posted on 02/26/2008 12:59:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’ll bet Obama and the Toons have a lot in common. Maybe even some of the exact same people in common.


32 posted on 02/26/2008 1:00:49 PM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: All; SJackson; SandRat; NormsRevenge; blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Allegra; tobyhill; ...
Rezko was considered a flight risk....see post #31...
33 posted on 02/26/2008 1:02:01 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: USS Alaska; Matchett-PI; astounded; buwaya; kalee; montag813; tcrlaf; KingSnorky; newheart; ...

See #31....


34 posted on 02/26/2008 1:08:59 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: ncalburt

Now that is some good stuff to know...also see #31....


35 posted on 02/26/2008 1:10:54 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: alecqss

See #31...very interesting....


36 posted on 02/26/2008 1:12:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: KingSnorky
.....(Gee, I hope McCain doesn’t repudiate the preceding statement as offensive to the Democrats.)

That'll depend on whether it's his day to be a Democrat or a Republican, doesn't it?
(Oops! Stupid me. He's always a RINO)

37 posted on 02/26/2008 1:20:13 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Glad you included the links to John Batchelor.
He has been on this subject big time on his Sunday evening radio talk show.


38 posted on 02/26/2008 1:21:35 PM PST by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m not a Hillary fan, but I have no joy seeing that seemingly only way to defeat her is to support a bigger scumbag, one that comes complete with a totalitarian movement and an incessant agitprop.
39 posted on 02/26/2008 1:22:25 PM PST by alecqss
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To: SoCalPol

Another artice on World newdaily....Maybe the Clintons are at work????

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57341


40 posted on 02/26/2008 1:27:18 PM PST by Hojczyk
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