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Is Obama vulnerable to blackmail?
American Thinker ^ | 12-19-08 | James Lewis

Posted on 12/18/2008 11:10:38 PM PST by malkee

Suppose you're Bashir Assad or Putin, and you watch the Blago Blowup, a month before the next president even takes office.

What are you thinking right now?

First, Obama looks vulnerable to blackmail. His homey network is full of people who can't stand the light of day. They know all kinds of things the leftist media suppress -- people like Auchi (the Iraqi billionaire), Rezko (the corrupt Syrian multimillionaire), Emil Jones (the Godfather of Southside), and the whole Daley Machine.

That's not even counting the freaky radicals or the pols Obama has surrounded himself with. Mayor Daley's brother is one of the official transition leaders, for heavens' sake, along with Valerie Jarrett and a whole, privately paid operation that doesn't have to follow Federal rules on transparency, lobbying or accounting.

Leverage on the people around Obama is the first step. So you ask your handy secret agents in the US to beat the bushes for more blackmail material. Easy enough. Chicago is a Machine town, and there's always a rumor mill in a town full of neighborhood taverns.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: auchi; blackmail; blagojevich; bleepgate; chicago; criminals; daley; democrat; democrats; emiljones; gangsters; illinois; jarrett; jones; obama; obamabots; obma; patrickfitzgerald; rezko; thugs; valeriejarrett
Some interesting stuff on Fitzgerald's motivations here.
1 posted on 12/18/2008 11:10:38 PM PST by malkee
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To: malkee

can you say blackmale ?


2 posted on 12/18/2008 11:11:20 PM PST by stylin19a ( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
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To: malkee

I hope so. I’m becoming a nihilist these days. Tear the whole bloody thing down and start over.


3 posted on 12/18/2008 11:12:19 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Our government is an edifice of artifice.)
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To: malkee

I think the fact that he is putting Hillary on staff is proof that he is vulnerable to blackmail. Do you think he would do it otherwise


4 posted on 12/18/2008 11:13:50 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: malkee

12/18/08 - URGENT NOTICE – False rumors are circulating – Justice Kennedy denied our Application for an Injunction to Stay Electoral Vote Count by Congress on January 8, 2009. However, our Writ of Certiorari is still pending and is now scheduled for Conference before U.S. Supreme Court on January 9, 2009.

Maybe he won’t make it to the white house

Obamacrimes.com


5 posted on 12/18/2008 11:14:27 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: malkee

he might be vulnerable to half-black male...

Seriously, tho’ — I thought Clinton was dodgy. Obama is the dodgiest politician ever to take the reins of a First-World Nation. His connexions to the Chicago Machine are spooky, and they leave him wide open to risk exposures such as blackmail. These exposures can be exploited by anybody, and these people do not necessarily have to have the Nation’s best interests at heart.

You’ve got a dodgy President-elect, and he has his finger on the red button. I am awful glad I live in the South Pacific!


6 posted on 12/18/2008 11:15:52 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: malkee

Blackmale in what manner? Being a FRIEND TO TERRORISTS ?

He is immune regarding anything Chicago...just saying...


7 posted on 12/18/2008 11:16:11 PM PST by alisasny (Support McCain/ Palin right now and forget about the Obama Mess!)
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To: malkee
Obama's entire life has been one of lies, deception and bullsh!t.

To make matters worse, he voluntarily surrounded himself with some of the nastiest scumbags to ever exist.

Obama is filthier than raw sewage, and his buddies are as evil as hell.

May God be with us all during this very difficult year ahead.

8 posted on 12/18/2008 11:22:52 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: stylin19a
can you say blackmale ?

The would be world blackmailers are salvation over Obama.

9 posted on 12/18/2008 11:25:52 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

i mean, can we even SAY the word “Black-mail”?


10 posted on 12/18/2008 11:30:38 PM PST by stylin19a ( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
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To: stylin19a
i mean, can we even SAY the word “Black-mail”?

Yes, say it.

I'll say it.

11 posted on 12/18/2008 11:35:20 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: malkee
Is Obama vulnerable to blackmail?

Does a Wild Bear Sh*t in the woods? He is an offspring of Chicago politics isn't he?

12 posted on 12/18/2008 11:36:06 PM PST by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: Red Steel

13 posted on 12/18/2008 11:37:40 PM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
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To: malkee

Wonder who of Obama’s people will bring him down?


14 posted on 12/18/2008 11:57:54 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

Wonder who of Obama’s people will bring him down?

Remember Clinton? Vince Foster, rumored he was sick of things, found dead in Washington and the investigation had more holes than the Warren Commission’s white wash. Ron Brown? Convenient death with lots of mysteries too.

You probably don’t believe that the government investigatons could be manipulated to tell lies to you, and surely you believe the press would keep them STRAIGHT! If so, then you probably can’t explain how the biggest mystery in American history now has an OBVIOUS solution!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_kIDP4EQ0


15 posted on 12/19/2008 12:41:28 AM PST by BILL_C (Jimmy Carter brought us Ronald Regan, Obama's contribution will be equally good. Is it Sarah?)
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To: freekitty

...Wonder who....
Thank you for a simple and insightful question for thought.
With all the wordyness around here, it’s refreshing when a simple question kinda clears the air.....

So lets see the BO BC!


16 posted on 12/19/2008 1:47:27 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
"Tear the whole bloody thing down and start over."


A good idea. Especially while we still have the blueprints intact. (Even if the current structure bears no rersemblance to the original plan.)
17 posted on 12/19/2008 1:52:10 AM PST by shibumi (...so if it's organic, where are its organs?)
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To: stylin19a
i mean, can we even SAY the word “Black-mail”?

First, I denounce You!

Then, I denounce Mysef'!

Then, I turn us both over to

Learn more about Camp Obama

for Re-edumacation!

18 posted on 12/19/2008 1:52:10 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: stylin19a

how could they blackmail a cocaine snorting, staple shooter, get a loan from a convict, hangs out with people that would sell his seat, priase the lord the chickens have come home to roost preacher; blackmail? I’d love to know the good stuff. If he comes back to NC and refuses pork barbecue we’ll know.


19 posted on 12/19/2008 1:56:53 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: malkee

No. Nothing he does—NOTHING he does that is illegal, immoral, unconstitutional or repugnant will be treated as such.

He is the Messi-UH, the first black president, the hopes and dreams of millions upon millions.

He could, I think, murder a puppy in the middle of a kindergarten class while smoking dope and the LameStream Media would find a way to excuse the behavior.


20 posted on 12/19/2008 2:01:46 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: shibumi

Surely you aren’t talking the C-word!!!
Geeze - would that be possible?


21 posted on 12/19/2008 2:15:21 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: bossmechanic
Not without first doing away with the current bureaucracy and redefining what it means to be a voter (Disenfranchising those who pay no taxes.)

On the surface it seems a Herculean task, but then there's a reason we were passed down those old “myths.”

22 posted on 12/19/2008 2:21:29 AM PST by shibumi (...so if it's organic, where are its organs?)
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To: malkee
Yeah, like someone might find pics of him smoking dope...


Barack-Obama-40a5ac08143b

Celebrity photo

23 posted on 12/19/2008 2:23:03 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: personalaccts

OK... ya got me on “staple shooter” - what did I miss?
The rest I understood.

I’m still wondering if there will be a dog in the white house this goaround. And I’m guessin’ bacon won’t be on the breakfast menu either.

I don’t mean to mix dislikable topics on BO but it’s hard to seperate his marxism and hypocrisy from my urge to see something we might call a legitimate federal government.


24 posted on 12/19/2008 2:25:40 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: shibumi
(Disenfranchising those who pay no taxes.)

The founding fathers and even later, H.L. Mencken had the unmitigated audacity to propose just that. Once the lazy grifter realize that they can vote themselves goodies from the public till, there is no end to the theft.

All you need to do is send people through the ghetto and get them to sign petitions against "Welfare Recipient Suffrage", or to "Stop Unemployed Suffrage!"

Idiots do not know the meaning of the word "Suffrage".

25 posted on 12/19/2008 2:28:45 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots

Oh, come on guys, that was all in his past, and now he’s a nice converted Christian socialist. sarcsarcsarcsarc


26 posted on 12/19/2008 2:30:10 AM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: Bon mots

Yup....
sounds like a recruiting ad for ACORN.

Hmmmmm.
Wonder how they’re doin’ these days?


27 posted on 12/19/2008 2:32:32 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: All

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28 posted on 12/19/2008 2:38:58 AM PST by Cindy
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To: malkee; All

For all his faults, I will always be grateful to President Bush for bringing the Presidency back to where it should always have been, from a behavioral standpoint. He restored class, maturity and sobriety to the office.

Say what you will about his conservatism (which was lacking in many areas) but his ethics were strong.

I was so glad that, for the last eight years, I didn’t have to get up each day and wonder what flavor of corruption was tainting the office of the Presidency. I didn’t have to wonder who was preforming sexual acts on him under a desk, who he had groped, who he had sexually abused, who he had extorted money from or taken money from for political favors, and who around him was corrupt enough to harm our national security or political process for a handful of whore’s silver.

We didn’t have to consider ANY of those things for the classy First Lady either.

And the people GWB surrounded him with were largely clean of the stain of corruption and graft.

We may have disagreed with his policies, but we didn’t doubt for a second that they were there to do their jobs.

I know this for a fact because if there had been anything that the media and other liberals who suffered from BDS that they could have dug up, there is no doubt they would have, because they tried like hell.

This is more of the Clintons, only worse because they are from Chicago. Chicago is just as corrupt as Boston, only with a lot more experience and moxie.

Get used to this. Anyone who took the time to look before the election could have easily seen this, but the ignorant dummies simply did not care. They wanted someone to pay for their mortgages and gasoline.


29 posted on 12/19/2008 2:56:59 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: bossmechanic

shooting staples into telephone poles. Hanging the community organizing signs up. Has Obama ever shot a gun? answer is NO. He only shot staples.

Think about it. Every president had military expereience except Clinton. That means they all fired a weapon. Clinton could say “what is; is with a weapon”. Obama would say a staple gun. I crack myself up.


30 posted on 12/19/2008 3:05:12 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: Prole
"Obama's entire life has been one of lies, deception and bullshit."

-Starting with his birth certificate.

31 posted on 12/19/2008 3:13:20 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

I am awful glad I live in the South Pacific! Yep, you South Pacific folk may have to carry the torch after this thing settles out. The rest of us may be a larger version of the Vietnam boat people, so keep a light on for us.


32 posted on 12/19/2008 3:14:01 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: iopscusa

> The rest of us may be a larger version of the Vietnam boat people, so keep a light on for us.

Wilco. There will be piping hot coffee, samwiches and dry blankets waiting for you on the beach.


33 posted on 12/19/2008 3:25:46 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: personalaccts

Ah yes - yet another mystery revealed.
Thanks....
Will use later.


34 posted on 12/19/2008 3:33:16 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: FBD

He won’t allow it to be disclosed.

Think about it.

Could his birth certificate prove, for example, that he had a DWI?
Could his birth certificate prove he had been unfaithful to his wife?
Could it prove he had committed a felony, or been judged mentally incompetent, or some other incriminating fact?

Answer: Not at all

He was fresh as a new born babe then.
The ONLY thing it can show is if he is eligible. That’s it, folks. And for some reason, he does not want anyone to see it.

Blackmail? This is liable to make Arkanacide look like pre-school!


35 posted on 12/19/2008 3:34:01 AM PST by djf (We need to make steel. We need to plant wheat. We need to fix the roads. So we print more dollars!)
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To: djf
Some people believe it might list his religion as Muslim, or even list a different father.

I tend to think you are right, however.
-and it's definitely black mail material.

36 posted on 12/19/2008 3:56:35 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: djf

> Blackmail? This is liable to make Arkanacide look like pre-school!

That particular ball could be live up until January 20, with the potential price rising right up until then, I speculate.

After inauguration it would be more than a blackmailer’s life is worth to keep that ball in play: blackmailing a sitting US President would be an excellent way to get very dead very fast. Therefore the information would likely be used in a different way after that.

And you’re right: Arkancide could look like a game of tiddly-winks compared with this.


37 posted on 12/19/2008 4:43:40 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: malkee

The blackmail threat should be mentioned every time the birth certifigate scandal and any Blago ties are talked about. Even before he’s taken office, Obama is a bigger blackmail target than the Clintons ever were and, as usual, the MSM is totally blind to what is blindingly obvious.


38 posted on 12/19/2008 4:48:23 AM PST by GBA
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To: Recovering_Democrat
No. Nothing he does—NOTHING he does that is illegal, immoral, unconstitutional or repugnant will be treated as such.


39 posted on 12/19/2008 5:09:54 AM PST by paulycy
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Thanks Diehard, we may just take you up on that gracious offer. Stay strong and safe.


40 posted on 12/19/2008 6:28:20 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: DieHard the Hunter

How do you blackmail someone that could care less?
It’s called the Audacity of Smoke.


41 posted on 12/19/2008 6:29:22 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: bossmechanic

> How do you blackmail someone that could care less?
> It’s called the Audacity of Smoke.

(grin!) that’s clever!

I wonder if he’s gay?
I wonder if she’s trans-gender, and I wonder if her name is really “Michael”?
I wonder if that is the nature of the potential blackmail?
I wonder if that is the reason for him cozying-up to the homosexual community?
I wonder if he intends to “come out of the closet” during his Presidency?

All of this is unprofitable speculation: yet this is the precise sort of speculation that he encourages by being secretive about something that ought to be fairly straightforward: precisely where was he REALLY born, and who were his REAL parents?


42 posted on 12/19/2008 6:38:45 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: malkee

I’m Sure Putin already has a complete dossier on him to be presented at their first face-to-face meeting.

Putin will probably own him outright.

It probably won’t be long before we see SS-18 missles in Cuba, and the only response from Obama’s cabinet will be the chirping of crickets...


43 posted on 12/19/2008 10:49:05 AM PST by PsyOp (Put government in charge of tire pressure, and we'll soon have a shortage of air. - PsyOp.)
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To: malkee

This is just an excerpt. Please indicate that in the future.


44 posted on 12/19/2008 2:39:36 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Mount Athos
"I think the fact that he is putting Hillary on staff is proof that he is vulnerable to blackmail. Do you think he would do it otherwise ..."

I agree with the sentiment of your post.

45 posted on 12/20/2008 6:27:32 PM PST by Radix (There are 2 kinds of people in this world. Those with loaded guns & those who dig. You dig.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Suppose you're Bashir Assad or Putin, and you watch the Blago Blowup, a month before the next president even takes office... Obama looks vulnerable to blackmail. His homey network is full of people who can't stand the light of day. They know all kinds of things the leftist media suppress -- people like Auchi (the Iraqi billionaire), Rezko (the corrupt Syrian multimillionaire), Emil Jones (the Godfather of Southside), and the whole Daley Machine... not even counting the freaky radicals or the pols Obama has surrounded himself with. Mayor Daley's brother is one of the official transition leaders, for heavens' sake, along with Valerie Jarrett and a whole, privately paid operation that doesn't have to follow Federal rules on transparency, lobbying or accounting.
How does this explain how the so-called news media rolled over these past couple of years? Let me try... Obama doesn't care what anyone knows about him or thinks they know about him, he gets a free pass, and will continue to get a free pass. The current level of attention is (despite what I and probably plenty of others would like to think) is just the media alibi for not having done what it says is its job.
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46 posted on 12/21/2008 11:42:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
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To: paulycy

That is sooooo....Gay.


47 posted on 12/22/2008 7:05:55 PM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: FBD
Like OJ Simpson, in time, Obama will be in deep shiite. Bank on it. Both conceited arrogant punks. They always slam into brick walls. It usually happens when no one is looking, and comes as a “big surprise”.
48 posted on 12/22/2008 8:03:48 PM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER

good comparison!


49 posted on 12/23/2008 6:43:59 AM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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