Posted on 07/22/2014 9:35:13 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama makes a rush hour foray into Seattle and the Eastside on Tuesday, once more holding no public events and raising money from donors who will pay up to $25,000 to see the 44th president and ask Obama a question.
The President’s political ATM machine will operate at two destinations, the Madrona home of Bruce and Anne Blume alongside Lake Washington and the Medina mansion of Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal. One event is for the Democratic National Committee, the other will benefit the Senate Majority PAC.
Air Force One is due to land at Boeing Field around 3 p.m., with the President spending about four hours on the ground before leaving for other fundraisers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The West Coast trip will bring the count of Obama fundraisers to nearly 400 since he took office in 2009.
The price range at the Blumes goes from $500 to $10,000, while the more intimate conversation at Sinegals is setting Majority PAC donors back $25,000.
With the Israeli invasion of Gaza, and destruction of a Malaysian jet liner by allies of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the eastern Ukraine, Obama has been criticized for “bad optics.” He headed to New York last week to raise money, and this week embarks on another West Coast money trip.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest dismissed the criticism on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
Rules for listening to Obama:
1.) The first thing Obama says is always a lie.
2.) Whatever Obama says that he is not going to do or tolerate is what he has already done, or will do as soon as he has a chance to do so.
3.) Obama tells the gullible what they want to hear, such as Boehner and McConnell.
4.) Obama then shames the gullible and weak Republicans, such as Boehner and McConnell, to stop bickering and pay for the Obama’s Administration’s, [read Muslim Communist Valerie Jarrett’s], unfettered success at “Fundamentally transform the United States of America” into a model Socialist European State.
Note: After a Presser, Obama usually tries to get away from his family by playing Golf, shooting Pool, drinking beer with “the folks,” or spending more time at his REAL day job: bilking money from Democrat Oligarchs, paid for by US Taxpayer Dollars, of course.
As long as he made a few sheckels for his campaign fund, that’s all that matters.
We scoff at the chump but he’s raising huge money for Democrats from America’s version of oligarchs.
Entitlement Army to provide the votes.
Crony Capitalists to provide the dough.
It’s a tough combination to defeat.
Correct, it’s something the community organizer is good at.
And westbound I-90 between Bellevue and Mercer Island is down to one lane.
Yep, this will be an absolute disaster for commuters.
At least he doesn’t’ visit Seattle as often as the Clintons and Gore did
Ask anyone who is going to be stuck on the 520 Floating Bridge (does he have to pay the tolls?) and they will probably all say that he should take a helicopter ride back and forth instead of those rolling barricade motorcades!
Somebody needs to publish the names of these fundraiser attendees....each and every one.
It makes little difference.
Business realizes we’re probably stuck with Democrats forever and is trying to buy “protection” wherever they can.
Look at this list of contributors to Podesta’s Center for American Progress outfit:
http://www.americanprogress.org/about/our-supporters/
Succinct and accurate. Thank you.
Could this be a WH/Democrat Ponzi scheme in progress?
While they bash Wall Street publicly, leaders of the Democrats' mega-funder "The Democracy Alliance" have quietly recruited venture capitalists, bankers and hedge fund moguls -- along with union bosses and red-diaper trust fund babies -- to fund their takeover goals. ....$230,000 public school union dues go to the Democrats' "Democracy Alliance."
"The Democracy Alliance" does not itself raise and spend a great deal of money. Rather, being a partner in the Alliance requires one to contribute large amounts to other left-wing groups. The Alliance evaluates left-wing organizations on various criteria, and makes recommendations to its members as to where they should put their money. Currently, the Alliance lists 21 groups in its “Aligned Network”:
<><> America Votes, American Constitution Society, Black Civic Engagement Fund, Brennan Center, Catalyst, Center for American Progress, Center for Community Change, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Common Purpose Project, Fund for the Republic, Latino Engagement Fund, Media Matters for America, New Media Ventures, New Organizing Institute, Organizing For Action, Progressive Majority, Progress Now, State Engagement Initiative, State Voices, Women’s Equality Center and Youth Engagement Fund.<><>
The most interesting of the D/A documents that have come to light is the one that contains D/A’s “investment recommendations” for 2014. Not only does it list the recommended organizations, but it rates each organization in several categories, sets out the group’s budget for 2014, and shows how much of that budget should be contributed by the 100 members of the "Democracy Alliance." One category in which DA rates the organizations is “Collaboration,” as DA believes that all left-wing groups should coordinate their activities for maximum political impact.
Opportunistic pols like Harry Reid have denounced Charles and David Koch, and others, who contribute to conservative causes as “shadowy,” “secretive” people who dare infest politics with “dark money.”
In that context, it is worth noting that most of the groups to which the Alliance and its elite liberal members contribute are 501(c)(4)s that do not disclose their donors.
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ANALYSIS Buncha sap-happy Dummy/dopes are feeding the Democrats' Democracy Alliance lotsa money---thinking its safe.....going to a "good thing."
That's exactly how Madoff operated. Money-laundering, tax evasion was part of the Madoff mix---helping investors, foundations, and tax-exempts break the law in a seemingly legal way.
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Madoff helped himself to the untraceable money in the process.....and got himself in trouble. When he went to jail for 125 years, investigators found Ponzi King Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.
COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.
But the purpose of this complex financial architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.
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"Just keep the money pouring in."
"I'm okay as long as I don't lose power in midterms."
Thanks Liz. Did you see this post from yesterday?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383458/meet-head-lefties-koch-network-michelle-malkin
Never hear hairy scream about this guy or the contributers do we?
Has he found a loop that allows him to pocket some of it or skim off he top?
Can’t see how he benefits unless he’s got some type of financial facet working. He’s always been about the $$$,$$$,$$$.
That's b/c you're honest. Dummycrats are in tight w/ Wall Street for good reasons---shrewd Wall Street types know how to make money disappear faster than a cream puff at a Weight Watcher's weigh-in.
EXHIBIT ONE Non-profits, tax-exempts, foundations, and do-good organizations are notorious money-launderers and tax evaders----as denoted by the IRS. One common laundering MO is one non-profit writing a check to another non-profit (think The Democracy Alliance). The check receiver takes a cut for himself then deposits the rest offshore for the donor's use later......how they skim off tax-free money for themselves.
EXHIBIT TWO 2012 Obama bragged he was "so popular" he was the first billion dollar candidate. Later on in the campaign, he was whining that he had to "borrow" money to continue.
EXHIBIT THREE The Chicagoland criminals wasted no time.....they had a stranglehold on the US Treasury from the getgo. Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel---fresh from Wall Street-- in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (and the IRS).
THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.
When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings of the Treasury that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09
More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html
NOTE WELL: Treasury insiders who know the trajectory of interest rates can make bundles of money.
THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD shortly after quitting his powerful WH job as Obama's COS, Rahm held a presser declaring he "just remembered" he really, Really wanted to be Mayor of Chicago. Then Rahm announced he had magically "raised" $10 million for his campaign in "just a matter of weeks." (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down). Ya gotta wonder how much Wall Street Rahm wired offshore when Obama put him in charge of the entire US Treasury.
No histrionics about this guy from Koch-happy Harry Reid.
THE MODUS OPERANDI LaMarche previously served as president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies.... an offshore Bermuda-based political front stocked with acolytes of shady billionaire George Soros.
The so-called "charity" run by LaMarche dumped some $40 million to help fund the Obamanomic "Health Care for America Now" group.
As the so-called health group tax disclaimer discloses, "HCAN is related to Health Care for America Education Fund, a project of The Tides Center, a section 501(c)(3) public charity." (Fast-tracked by Lois Lerner?)
The Tides Center and its parent, the Tides Foundation, have seeded some of the country's most radical leftists.......the communist-friendly United for Peace and Justice, the jihadist-friendly National Lawyers Guild and the grievance-mongering Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Nothing better than undermining US national security tax-free.
Do you remember the British Journalist that had located the Clinton offshore account numbers ? He told his home office he’d bring the info with him on his red eye flight. When he didn’t show he was located murdered in his motel room! Did even make it to the airport .
Past time to make offshore accounts public knowledge !
AG should have the information in her files
Accused con man R. Allen Stanford used corporate money to become a big man at last year's Democratic convention in Denver. A video posted on the firm's web-site shows Stanford, now sought by U.S. Marshals, being hugged by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and praised by former President Bill Clinton for helping to finance a convention-related forum and party put on by the National Democratic Institute.
"I would like to thank the Stanford Financial Group for helping to underwrite this," Clinton said to the crowd at the event. Stanford Financial was listed as the "lead benefactor" for the gathering, and Stanford was permitted to address the audience of several hundred.
The SEC charged yesterday that Stanford was running a fraudulent offshore investment scheme that may have bilked customers out of as much as $8 billion. Over the last decade, Stanford has spent more than $7 million on lobbyists and campaign contributions to Washington politics in both parties, although the vast majority of the money has gone to Democrats.
"We had no reason to believe that a very public company that was also engaged in philanthropic work might be suspect," said a spokesperson for the National Democratic Institute, Amy Dudley. (Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
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REFERENCE VP Biden's son Hunter Biden was previously a top official at Stanford's PARADIGM Global Advisors, a hedge-fund holding company founded with Vice President Biden’s brother, James, and marketed by convicted finance fraudster Allen Stanford.
As Paradigm chairman, Hunter Biden oversaw half a billion dollars of client money invested in hedge funds while remaining a lobbyist. Cooper chipped in $2 million for the ill-fated venture, which went down in flames amid nasty fraud lawsuits." (NOTE Stanford is now in jail but the Biden's got off scot-free.)
"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar stimulus.
My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "
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Offshore Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by VP Biden's relatives
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
NOTE A lawyer for Hunter Biden and James Biden told reporters the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)
How much of HIS fund does he keep when leaving office. If more then 0% the law needs to be changed to that. The presidency should not be a pathway to wealth. If nothing more he is setting a bad precedence
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