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FBI asked questions on Rezko land deal Value at issue, appraiser says A former Illinois real estate specialist says FBI agents have questioned him about a Chicago property that had been bought by convicted felon Tony Rezko's wife and later sold to the couple's next-door neighbor, Sen. Barack Obama.

Prominent ex-Chicago alderman to plead guilty U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur made the announcement just as the trial of former alderman Edward Vrdolyak's (ver-DOHL'-yakz) was to begin Monday morning. The one-time Cook County Democratic chairman is accused of arranging to get a kickback for a lawyer in the sale of a piece of property for $15 million. The charges stem from the same investigation that led to the fraud conviction of influence peddler Tony Rezko, the political fundraiser who helped to bankroll the campaigns of Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama.

One watches with dismay as Democratic candidate Barack Obama manages to hide the truth on his longstanding, if indirect ties to two institutions: the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), listed by the US government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial; and the Nation of Islam (NoI), condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for its "consistent record of racism and anti-Semitism." First, Obama's ties to Islamists: • The Khalid al-Mansour connection: According to former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton, Mansour "was raising money for" Obama's expenses at Harvard Law School. Mansour, a black American (né Don Warden), became...

REZKO/OBAMA SCANDAL Brings Lawsuit Remember that little land deal "Favor" that Tony Rezko did for his friend Barack (Don't Say My Middle Name) Obama. As you can see from this google earth picture. It wasn't an adjacent "undeveloped lot" it was for OBAMA'S BACKYARD. A former bank officer involved in the loan for the property says that the appraisal was tampered with, before the property was purchased and he was fired for complaining about the integrity of the loan due to the funky appraisal: Complaint hits Rezko land deal Jerry Seper A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status,...

WASHINGTON -- Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association. But associations are important. They provide a significant insight into character. They are particularly relevant in relation to a potential president as new, unknown, opaque and self-contained as Obama. With the economy overshadowing everything, it may be too late politically...

I received a call from one of the leading members of my congregation. His teenage son had gone on an outing with friends to the beach. One of the young men in the car asked him to stop at the local AM/PM Mini-mart in order to buy a bag of ice. On the way out the door, the young man picked up a carton of beer and, upon entering the car said to my friend’s son, “Let’s get out of here. Step on it!” Not knowing what was happening, he complied. That evening my friend’s son had been arrested for...

Much has been made in this election about John McCain’s judgment. Whether it was suspending his campaign, selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate, or keeping Sarah Palin from the media for a while. So let us talk about judgment. I turn to the junior Senator from Illinois. Mr. Obama has spent considerable time defending his associations with Rezco, Ayers, et al as innocent. Perhaps, they were in fact innocent associations. Perhaps Mr. Obama is the proverbial babe in the woods, who looked into their eyes and saw their souls. But that leaves one lingering question. Were these associations sensible?...

Subversives for Obama Friday, 26th September 2008 There are two American election campaigns currently running. The first, in the mainstream media, accepts Barack Obama at face value, no questions asked, while it viciously turns over Sarah Palin and her family whom it subjects to lies, smears and character assassination. The second, being conducted in the blogosphere and (with one or two notable exceptions such as the Wall Street Journal) not alluded to at all by the mainstream media, is the site of verbal warfare between Camp Obama and bloggers who are practising journalism as it used to be practised –...

OBAMA's STRANGE BEDFELLOWS TONY REZCO, REV WRIGHT, BILL AYERS, RASHID KHALIDI, REV MEEKS, FRANK DAVIS MARSHALL, ACORN, FATHER PFLEGER, GEORGE SOROS Get to know the people the man one step away from the most powerful job in the world calls FRIEND, MENTOR, SPIRITUAL ADVISORS!!!!

CHICAGO — Antoin Rezko, an entrepreneur of considerable charm who found riches in fast food and real estate, is known around Chicago as a collector of politicians. Back in the 1990s, Mr. Rezko’s office was adorned with framed photos of candidates he viewed as up-and-comers. Among them was Barack [Hussein] Obama...