Posted on 01/25/2008 4:36:33 PM PST by tcrlaf
“The idea of women supporting someone like Hillary just because she is a woman [dubious sometimes] is beyond me!”
What about the idea of blacks supporting Obama? Or mormons supporting Romney? Or veterans supporting McCain? Or baptists supporting Huckabee? Identity politics is big this year, and not just for the democrats.
Bush’s fault
[someone like Hillary]
Yes, I well understand ‘identity and affiliation with’ but you missed my ‘key words’ SOMEONE LIKE.
Hillary is so crooked, imperious, arrogant, etc, etc, that it should be a shame on women who vote for her just to get a woman in office.
Lol, and that’s just the Clintons! Good graphic Phil
When it comes to ‘questionable’ $$ fundraising,
the Kringtone’s WROTE THE BOOK!!
I'd bet ABCNews.com 'idnetified it because it was handed to them on a silver platter by Terry Linzer --- the dumpster diving King.
Either way, I'm sitting back and microwaving some popcorn and watching the show. With Obamas Chicago connections, I'm just as sure he can do a retalitory strike with some Chinese nukes. His buds there know where a lot of dirty laundry is stashed.
We'll see if it happens. My suspicion is that this is all theater and come the summer convention, Hillary and Obama will be grinding away in their honnymoon suite --- (she's on top of course.)
You don't understand. The script has been written, Obama will be the first black vice president. (Bubba was the already the first black president, ya know.)
This is all theater and the midia already has the script and has memorized all their lines.
OK. So, I’m waiting for the Clinton finance scandal espose. I’m sure it’s cominng soon.
In addition to a land deal, Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to indicted dealmaker Antoin “Tony” Rezko include an internship the senator provided the son of a contributor at the request of Rezko, an Obama spokesman confirmed today.
John Aramanda served as an intern for Obama for about a month in 2005, said Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs. His father is Joseph Aramanda, a Rezko business associate who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal corruption case against Rezko. Aramanda has contributed $11,500 to Obama since 2000, Gibbs said.
“Mr. Rezko did provide a recommendation for John Aramanda,” Gibbs said. “I think that it’s fairly obvious that a few-week internship is not of anything of benefit to Mr. Rezko or any of his businesses.”
The revelation of the internship comes after Obama acknowledged a mistake in buying property from Rezko in January 2006 — a deal that enlarged the senator’s yard in the Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side. The transaction occurred at a time when it was widely known Rezko was under investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office.
“It was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe that he had done me a favor,” Obama — a likely presidential candidate — told the Sun-Times in November.
Rezko was indicted in October for allegedly trying to collect nearly $6 million in kickbacks from government deals and trying to shake down a Hollywood producer for $1.5 million in campaign contributions to Gov. Blagojevich.
Obama and Rezko have been friends since 1990, and the Wilmette businessman has raised as much as $60,000 in campaign contributions for him.
After Rezko’s indictment, Obama donated $11,500 to charity — the amount Rezko contributed to the senator’s federal campaign fund.
Gibbs said he did not know whether Obama was considering returning any contributions from Aramanda given his alleged role in the federal corruption cases against Rezko and former Teachers Retirement System board member Stuart Levine.
Aramanda is identified as “Individual D” in Rezko’s indictment. And when Levine pleaded guilty in October, Aramanda again was listed as “Individual D.”
Aramanda was identified by the Sun-Times as “Individual D,” who allegedly received a $250,000 kickback tied to a scheme to steer lucrative state pension deals to firms and consultants that donated to [Illinois Governor Rod] Blagojevich. Aramanda is not specifically named or charged with criminal wrongdoing in the court papers. He could not be reached for comment Saturday.
Aramanda has contributed $11,500 to Obama's campaigns since 2000, Gibbs said. He gave $1,000 toward Obama’s run for Congress against Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) in 2000; $500 to Obama’s Senate campaign in 2003 and $10,000 to his Senate campaign in 2004, Gibbs said.
Gibbs said John Aramanda served in Obama’s Capitol Hill office from July 20 to Aug. 26, 2005, during which he received an $804 cost-of-living stipend. Aramanda was one of nearly 100 interns who worked for Obama in 2005, Gibbs said.
Since Rezko has become an issue in the Presidential race, I am creating a sort of primer for the relationship between Obama and Rezko over the years. It will only touch on the issues with Rezko and his indictments as related to Obama as I don’t have nearly the time it would take to show Rezko’s involvement with Blagojevich and others.
I. Early Connections–Job Offer
III. Legal work on projects Rezko was involved
IV. Letters of Support for projects Rezko was involved
V. Intern-son of Rezko ally/Obama donor
VII. Land Strip Purchase from Rezko
VIII. Landscaping and Property Maintenance Arrangement
The best synopsis of the Obama Rezko relationship was done by the Trib on January 23rd:
Both men declined to comment on their once-close friendship. Obama has been accused of no wrongdoing involving Rezko and has insisted that he never used his office to benefit Rezko.
Thus far, there is little in the public record to suggest otherwise, and the few exceptions that have come to light appear minor. On Capitol Hill, Obama once gave a summer internship to the son of a Rezko business associate on Rezko’s recommendation. Earlier, as a state senator, Obama was one of several South Side political and community leaders who wrote state and city officials urging approval of public funding for a senior housing project involving Rezko.
But when Rezko pushed for passage in Springfield of a major gambling measure, Obama vocally opposed it.
Obama publicly apologized for his 2005 property deal with Rezko, calling it “boneheaded” because Rezko was widely reported to be under grand jury investigation at the time. And Obama has given to charities $85,000 in Rezko-linked campaign contributions, including $40,035 last weekend following a published report suggesting that Rezko funneled a $10,000 donation to Obama through a business associate. Aides to Obama say the senator had no knowledge of any such scheme.
It is my belief that the Clintonistas have access to almost any type of intelligence on just about any human on the face of the earth to use for extortion at their pleasure They use it to control the planet in their own warped sociopathic view of the world.
They are almost like the perfect storm of politics.
It's cause they're joined at the hip financially and otherwise. See my post(s) above.
My bet is that Rezko hosted the event and invited all his pals to come pony up for the Clintons. It'd be interesting to scrutinize the Bill Clinton Campaign FEC report(s) from back then.
I read that, but come on......not even the DNC would seat them, as it would be patently unfair to do so.
Probably on his "brag wall" at the office!
I thought Rezko is the one on left? /sarc
Reminds me of a comment I heard from a guy I know about another guy in town. He was talking to a buddy, saw the guy go by. The second fellow pointed out "Hey, he never goes anywhere without the 'Ball and Chain'" (wife, in case that's not obvious). My buddy pointed out "Ball and Chain implies a degree of freedom of movement that he doesn't really have". OUCH!
He won the next time after she changed her name and started acting and appearing more normal. I guess they put enough lipstick on the pig and fooled the voters.
“He is a wimp she can control and will be chosen in order to get the hispanic vote.”
You make an important point that not many have thought through.
IF Hillary Clinton wins, who would she have as VP?
A wimp she can control.
Remember Al Gore?
When Vince Foster died, Bill was truly upset. And scared.
He had just seen that the tentacles of the Dixie Mafia had wrapped themselves very tightly around him, considering it was the White House. He thought he controlled it.
Well, he did. But only one wing.
Hillary had her own.
When Vince died, Hillary and her staff were busy cleaning out Vince’s files.
Jerry Parks was doing detective work for Hillary.
Bill liked him too.
Bill knew who put the ‘hit’ out on Jerry, and Vince, and Ron Brown.
He knows who can put the ‘hit’ out on him.
Why does Bill Clinton stay married to Hillary?
A wimp who she can control.
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