Posted on 12/11/2008 12:46:31 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama has a history of engaging in the same wheeler dealer politics that took down his friend Gov. Blagojevitch!
At today’s news conference President Elect Obama was forced to respond to the mounting questions regarding contacts his transition team had with Obama’s former longtime political friend, the disgraced Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevitch. Obama called on the Governor to resign and insisted that his staff would release records relating to any contact they may have had with Blagojevitch.
Obama’s name and that of his advisers are mentioned dozens of times in the criminal complaint against Blagojevitch and it strains credulity to believe that none of the Chicago people such as incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who along with Obama worked on Blagojevitch’s campaigns, had any contact with him on this important subject.
Obama went on to say that:
“There’s a view of politics that says you go in for sacrifice and public service, and there’s a view of politics that says this is a business, and you’re wheeling and dealing, and what’s in it for me.”
Earlier Obama stated that the wheeling and dealing brand of politics was “a violation of everything this campaign has been about.” Really? We’re supposed to believe that the most massive fundraising operation of all time didn’t have it’s fair share of pay for play the Chicago way?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Barry came from the same cesspool of corrupt politics!.....
As a U.S. Senator Obama made over $750 million in earmark spending requests. Of these, at least two directly benefited organizations to which his wife and campaign contributor had a vested interest:
It is also part of his world to “Deny, deny, deny”, no matter how much proof is shown.
You Betcha!
see just above!
How much did she make per year as a board member for that hospital?
Whats the big deal?? Blago was only trying to get his wife a high paying job , JUST LIKE 0bammy did with Michelles $300k gig with Chicago Hospitals !!
Hey Zer0, How are you hanging in there with the big boys? How's your smoking and facial tics coming along? Enjoy your ride. The fun is just beginning.
Not sure,....but I think her salary doubled....
Whats the big deal?? Blago was only trying to get his wife a high paying job , JUST LIKE 0bammy did with Michelles $300k gig with Chicago Hospitals !!
Exactomundo!......different turds, same cesspool.
This is like watching a slow motion train wreak. Pass the popcorn...
Amazing! Zero is already stinkin’ up the place and he hasn’t even had his coronation yet! I just wish the SCOTUS would be as disgusted as I am when they consider his BC case tomorrow.
Michelle Obama's hospital: On senator's wish-list
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Posted March 14, 2008 7:00 AM 
by Mike Dorning
Among the pork-barrel spending requests Barack Obama has made since arriving in the U.S. Senate is $1 million for the hospital where his wife worked at the time and $8 million for weapons technology made by a big defense contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.
Obama released on Thursday a list of all his requests for earmarked federal spending in 2005 and 2006. He already had released a list of spending requests made in 2007.
In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president at the time. The request was not ultimately included when Congress passed spending legislation that year, according to the Obama campaign.
That same year, Obama requested $8 million in funding for “High Explosive Air Burst Technology” made by General Dynamics, a military contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.
Obama’s Illinois Finance Chairman, billionaire James S. Crown, a longtime Obama supporter who has raised at least $200,000 for his presidential campaign, is a director of General Dynamics, and his family has a large investment in the company. The request ultimately resulted in $1.3 million in funding for the project.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the senator did not discuss the requests with either his wife or Crown. Vietors also said that Michelle Obama never lobbied for her employer and noted that the University of Chicago hospitals is the largest Medicaid provider in Chicago.
After Obama released his earmark requests, his campaign challenged rival Hillary Clinton to do the same.
“Bringing real change requires changing the way we do business in Washington,” Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs said in a press release e-mailed to reporters with the list. “If Senator Clinton will not agree to join Senator Obama in releasing her earmark requests, voters should ask why she doesn’t believe they have the right to know she wants to spend their tax dollars.”
But Clinton spokesman Phillipe Reines noted that any funding requests she made were subjected to scrutiny by other members of Congress and that projects that successfully were incorporated in legislation are disclosed.
"Senator Clinton is proud of the investments in New York that she has secured as Senator," Reines said. "All of her requests have been considered as part of the legislative process and were subject to debate and accountability. She has made public the funding she has helped to secure and will make public the requests she submits this year."
Obama was chairman of the Illinois Senate Health & Human Services Committee, the inside guy in the Illinois senate as far as setting up the Health Facilities Planning Board to extort contributions from companies in exchange for the approval of applications to build medical facilities.
The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her with a compensation package, reported at $317,000 annually, so they could play.
How much did she make per year as a board member for that hospital?
She went from $121K to $314K shortly after Obama became Senator. She ALSO had a Board seat for a WALMART vendor, Treehouse, that paid AT LEAST another $47K...
see #15
“She went from $121K to $314K shortly after Obama became Senator. She ALSO had a Board seat for a WALMART vendor, Treehouse, that paid AT LEAST another $47K..”
Heck, Governor B’s wife would have been a bargin in comparison.
My old and revived tagline is very to the point this week.
“The University of Chicago Medical Center hired her with a compensation package, reported at $317,000 annually, so they could play.”
Not bad pay for someone who hated America until this summer.
He attended the same church for 20 years, but didn’t know what was being preached there.
He was a close friend of Tony Rezko, but had no idea he was a crook, even though Tony helped him buy a house.
He was on the board that directed millions to Bill Ayers, shared an office with him, but didn’t know him.
He had no idea governor Blagojevich was selling his senate seat, but Blagojevich stated on tape that 0bama would not play for pay.
How can a person so out of touch with his surroundings and the actions of his close friends be effective as POTUS?
He can’t! He is just another turd that has floated to the surface in the cesspool of Chicago machine politics.
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