Posted on 05/14/2012 4:06:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
Staggering under an avalanche of bad news regarding the economy, Obama’s presidential campaign took another hit over the weekend as the New York Post detailed divisions amongst Democrats and radicals, including charges that Obama tried to buy the silence of his controversial Chicago pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Author Edward Klein in his new book The Amateur writes that Obama offered his long-time radical preacher and pastor $150,000 in hush money for staying out of the spotlight during Obama’s 2008 run for president.
I might add that I have a feeling that radical association with Obama was a booming cottage industry in 2007 and 2008 for many known associates of Obama’s who drew down 150 large to stay silent.
The web site The Blaze details the email offer of money as Wright described it in Klein’s book:
“Who sent the e-mail?” I asked Wright.
“It was from one of Barack’s closest friends.”
“He offered you money?”
“Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.”
“How much money did he offer you?”
“One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said.
It’s just another turn in Obama’s “fairytale” presidency that has the country now thinking “long national nightmare.”
Obama’s presidency has struggled so badly that, according to Klein, former president Bill Clinton urged his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to challenge Obama in 2012.
Klein, reports the Blaze “has been making waves with explosive claims that former President Bill Clinton called Obama an ‘amateur’ and encouraged Hillary Clinton to quit her secretary of state post and run against him in 2012.”
And indeed there have been rumbling from Washington that Clinton has been urged by others to take on Obama.
Wrote professor Drew Westen of Emory University last summer: “Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he occasionally, as a state senator in Illinois, voted ‘present’ on difficult issues,”
The data coming out on the economy and Obama’s falling popularity amongst independent-minded voters makes the charges by Klein regarding the Clintons not just likely but probable.
And if Hillary isn’t challenging Obama, it’s only because 1) She recognizes that no matter what Democrats do this cycle, they’ll be weighed down by Obama’s increasing radicalism; and 2) She’s trying to preserve unity in the party for a run in 2016.
But the bigger story is the off-the-books money for our favorite radical The Right Reverend Wright.
If Wright is telling the truth, he surely is not the only radical associate of Obama’s that was offered a money-for-silence deal.
All of a sudden Bill Ayers reticence takes on less the character of a fellow traveler defending his buddy and more the air of a commercial transaction.
Two hundred Radicals times $150,000 comes out to $30 million- small change for Obama’s billion-dollar fund-raising machine.
The question then becomes: Where did this money come from and how was it accounted for by Obama?
But that the small question.
The even bigger question becomes: Is the footise that Obama played with Reverend Wright’s radial racial hatred-which he then sought to cover up- much different than the footsie that John Edwards tried to cover up with his knocked up mistress?
And then that question leads to asking who else Obama offered hush money to.
From an accounting and legal perspective, I would argue that even if the money was raised legitimately and accounted for in campaign filings under “hush money,” which of course it was not, Obama has a pretty big legal problem.
But his public relations problem might be worse.
The country seems to be suffering a bad case of Obama-burn.
I thought that the public was sick of the Clintons and Bush.
It’s nothing compared to where the country is verging on Obama.
Here’s hoping our long national nightmare will be over in November.
I'm not really surprised. So far it's one guy suggesting that Obama bribed Wright, or tried to. It doesn't seem from what I've read that Wright accepted.
Contrast this scant evidence with the overwhelming evidence of fraud amassed by Sheriff Arpaio and others. This Wright maybe-bribe stuff is small potatoes.
ML/NJ
Ever seen two more bogus looking flakes in your life?
They’re both grinning from ear-to-ear like the sly and morally deformed creeps they truly are, because of the superlative gag they just played on American voters!
Well, I guess I meant it takes me a bit longer to separate the shiite from the shinola than with Barry!
Our ‘long national nightmare’ will NOT be over in November, nor will it be ‘over’ in January, even if Obamugabe is defeated. It will take years to undo the damage he has done to this country’s moral fabric and economic position. He has been a disaster of biblical proportions that will leave a stain on the national conscience for generations..........
Ain't gonna happen.
Yeah, pay your taxes to fund these associations and presidents and parties who know better than you, giving them to radicals and terrorists.... We are in such good hands, I tell ya.
More damning is the money trail itself, not just Obama. This is a cover up for a machine of money trail: from the tax payer, to parties, to Planned Parenthood and to friends of OBama and a bunch of radicals paid to play hush hush..
To be fair, the New York Post is MSM.
But the rest of them? They won't cover it even if Obama was impeached and removed. They'd publish this headline on the day he went missing:
ABC Morning news says defense team of John Edwards is going to say all the money from Bunny Mellon and Fred Baron was GIFTS!!!
Gee—I would think that the kind of people who can give such sums of money would have pretty high powered accountants and CPA’s. Pretty competant people to file their tax returns!!!
Such high powered people would surely have shown such GIFTS on their tax returns properly and the GIVER is responsible for the taxes on any GIFTS over $12,000-—NOT the recipient.
Who wants to bet their tax returns do NOT show such activity????
IF a jury comes up with a verdict that these were GIFTS, there will be some serious re-filing of certain income tax returns and lots of penalties and interest on those kinds of sums of money. Other high volume donors might get a little hinky!!
Nothing like throwing your benefactors under the bus, eh?
Also- did I hear correctly that Fred Baron’s wife is named LISA BLOOM?
IF so, that would make Gloria Allred=== Fred’s Mother in Law.
If so, the ‘Mommy Dearest’ Mother in Law couldn’t get in front of the cameras fast enough to flaunt the Mexican housekeeper/mistress of Schwarzenegger to everybody-—long after her daughter and son in law had handed over massive sums of money to John Edwards to cover up that mistress!!!
Another example of how the rules don’t apply to Democrats??????
Someone needs to write a huge book on all of this.
When did the racist Wright buy that his new house in Whitey’s gated community?
Ha ha—should have known there’d be a deep Gloria Allred connection!
(Fidel, Hugo, Lula?)
Those who worship him wouldn’t care if a video showed up with obama, Ayers and Wright in a threesome. They’d say it has nothing to do with being president.
They wouldn’t care if if a video showed them discussing destroying this country. They’d say it’s a fake.
So, even if this book becomes number one on the NY Times’ best seller’s list it will make no difference. And the scary thing it there are still more of those who worship them than there are smart people who vote.
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