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Obama Dream Team

1.  Mr. Antoin Rezko who holds a dual US-Iraqi citizenship, instead of handing cash to Mr. Obama, Rezko handed Obama a preferential price for property. This is the same form of “honest graft” and preferential treatment that sent former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner to jail over 30 years ago, see United States v. Isaacs, 493 F.2d 1124 (7th Cir. 1974).

Rezko’s connection to Obama began well before Obama ran for office and helped secure funds for Obama’s initial campaigns. As a major mob figure, Rezko’s is NOT a civic-minded fellow who simply enjoys political fundraising because he delights in good government.

It is also important to note that Mr. Rezko is a long time associate of IRAQI billionaire Nadhmi Auchi and recently Rezko received a $3.5 million loan from Mr. Auchi which helped to fund the homes Obama and Rezko bought.

2. The Auchi-Obama links go beyond the mansion deal with Rezko. The Times of London February 1 reports uncovering, “state documents in Illinois recording that Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to (an) Obama fundraiser in May 2005. Fintrade’s directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Auchi’s wife.”

Auchi’s Saddam links trace back to a failed 1959 assassination attempt on the life of then-Iraqi-prime-minister Abdul Karim Qasim.  Auchi prospered mightily in Saddam’s regime collecting “commissions” on sale of weapons and other goods to Iraq in the 1980s and 1990s.
Also Auchi was a beneficiary of Saddam Oil for Food fraud that channeled millions of dollars to heads of state, activists, terrorists, and journalists--many of whom returned the favor by backing Saddam in 2003 when the US finally invaded.

“(In 2004) Mr. Auchi traveled by private aircraft to Midway Airport in Chicago and then to a fete at the Four Season Hotel, where he met with his business partner in Chicago real estate, Mr. Rezko, as well as with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Also present that night, according to a fresh report by James Bone and Dominic Kennedy of the London Times, was State Senator Barack Obama, who had recently won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat....”

Living in the UK, Mr. Auchi is now listed as Britain’s 18th-richest man.
Auchi was denied entry into the US in 2005. It is believed that he was attempting in 2005 to win a US visa with the help of Rezko several as-yet-unnamed Illinois political figures.

3.  James Meeks – an Illinois state senator and pastor of Obama.
Last week Mr. Meeks called white American mayors “slave masters” and referred to black preachers and politicians who “protect” the “white man” as “house n-ggers.”
He was recorded telling the mostly black congregation any “white Christian” who doesn’t vote for him is a “racist.”
Obama attends Bible Study Classes with Meeks.  Meeks is one of Obama’s Super Delegates and is listed on Obama’s campaign website as prominent black supporter

4.  Mr. Wright pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ which is theologically closer to Karl Marx and Black Nationalism, than to Christianity was Obama’s mentor for over 20 years and Obama’s spiritual campaign advisor. 
Mr. Wright violent rhetoric against whites, gays and the American government are reminiscent of Hitler hate speeches. 

Obama’s church published an open letter from a Palestinian activist that labels Israel an “apartheid” regime and claims that scientist are working on an “ethnic bomb” that kills “blacks and Arabs.”

Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ also defends terrorism as legitimate resistance, refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compares the Hamas official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America’s Declaration of Independence.

Following Mr. Obama’s speech defending Mr. Wright, Mr. Obama telephoned Mr. Wright.  Shortly after that phone call, Mr. Wright retired as pastor and was given a 1.6 million dollar home. 

5.  Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were members of the Weather Underground, a group that killed police and tried to bomb the US Capitol. 
Obama served with Ayers on the board of a small, leftist foundation, the Woods Fund from 1999 until 2002 and received several thousand dollars annually as compensation.

According to the 2001 annual report, the fund made a $6000 discretionary grant to Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church “in recognition of Barack Obama’s contribution of services to the Woods Fund as a director.”

In a recent interview with the New York Times Mr. Ayers said: “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”

6.  Merrill A. McPeak is Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman.  Mr. McPeak said that American Jews are the “problem.”
McPeak has claimed “Christian Zionists were driving America’s policy in Iraq to benefit Israel.”

I confess that I don’t know much about Colombia other than coffee, drugs, drug cartels, and FARC. But I am always leery of any new trade agreements because the US almost always gets shafted. We abide by our agreements and other countries rarely live up to their ends of the deals. I strongly believe that free trade benefits both countries, but only if it is fair.

I also question the supposed impact of these agreements on our trading partners. NAFTA was supposed to help bring Mexico into the First World, which would also raise their incomes so that our workers could compete on a somewhat level playing field. A decade and a half later, Mexico’s economy is still third-rate and its society is still corrupt and practically lawless. The best indicator of this is that Mexicans are still illegally flooding across our border - in record numbers, no less.

I’d like to see someone explain why this agreement will be different from the ones that other countries are currently using to cheat on trade with us.

olandug - 02 April 2008 11:07 PM

Obama Dream Team

1.  Mr. Antoin Rezko who holds a dual US-Iraqi citizenship, instead of handing cash to Mr. Obama, Rezko handed Obama a preferential price for property. This is the same form of “honest graft” and preferential treatment that sent former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner to jail over 30 years ago, see United States v. Isaacs, 493 F.2d 1124 (7th Cir. 1974).

Excellent bullet points!

On this particular issue about alienating Columbia and Uribe striking back, this was not an uncalculated slip up by Obama, nor was this the first slight against Uribe.

Last month, when Obama’s buddy Hugo Chavez threatened to spill blood all over the Continent in defense of his terrorist FARC allies, Uribe’s government produced documents that not only revealed Chavez’ complicity, but even mentioned Obama as having had intermediaries that had contacted the FARC terrorists through back channels with the socialist Ecudorean government. According to the documents confiscated in the border raid that resulted in Reyes death, Columbian commandos showed that FARC has had assurances that Obama wants to talk with them and had promised to cut off not only Free Trade Agreements, but Security arrangements that have kept the communists at bay and restricted the flow of drugs to our inner cities. Maybe Obama is the leader of the US government plan to deliver drugs to the inner city that Rev. Wright is talking about.

Obama doesn’t seem to be bothered by hanging out with communists and radicals. Remember when he made his pre-war announcement against the war, it was at a rally sponsored by CPUSA members (communist party USA) and UFPJ co-founder Leslie Cagan who as a member of the Venceremos Brigade worked for the DGI agent that John McCain has identified as the Cuban torturer that visited the Hanoi Hilton and beat and tortured to Death 11 of his fellow prisoners. A bit more harsh than panties on the head at Abu Gharib.

Maybe these people are also crazy Uncles that you just hang out with while they advocate “Damning America”.

Hugh Hewitt played an audio excerpt(32:45) from Obama reading his book, “Audacity of Hope”. He was retelling the story of hearing Rev. Wright’s speech that inspired the title of the book, and inspired him to join the church and supposedly become a Christian. Much of his description of the sermon was about White greed and he threw out Hiroshima as an example of racism. Obama has claimed to have not heard the hate speeches of Wright. The “Chickens roost” speech also mentioned Hiroshima. Shouldn’t someone ask Obama, if Hiroshima was a Racist act. Should we assume that he won’t be carrying the Nuclear football because it is a tool of racism? This guy is tying himself in knots.

The next thing ya know, Obama will be meeting with the leader of FARC.

Democrats - The party that supports America’s enemies.

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Obama sounded so smooth in the debates yet he um and um and ums and ah and ah and ahs in a friendly interview when asked a simple question on foreign policy.  No wonder he refuses to appear on Fox.

olandug:
In a recent interview with the New York Times Mr. Ayers said: “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Amazingly, that interview appeared in the NY Times on September 11th 2001.

olandug & TJ King, I don’t know who you folks are but I haven’t seen this quality of exposure any where else in the media. Great work, I hope to see more. Amazingly I have to come to this rarely visted forum to discover it or should I say pathetically.

olandug, westat72 and T J King have all made very informative posts. However, I can’t believe that any of the information will be put in front of the general public. The media will respond like our local rag did to all the damning information that was available on now Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison: It isn’t true, so we won’t publish it. We know it isn’t true because we asked Keith and he said it wasn’t.

Does anyone disagree?

Old Grouch - 03 April 2008 12:04 PM

olandug, westat72 and T J King have all made very informative posts. However, I can’t believe that any of the information will be put in front of the general public. The media will respond like our local rag did to all the damning information that was available on now Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison: It isn’t true, so we won’t publish it. We know it isn’t true because we asked Keith and he said it wasn’t.

Does anyone disagree?

There is an upside to the media burying this stuff. People that oppose Obama can later bring it up at a time of our choosing,..like right before the 3 ring circus in Denver. It was 4 years ago this month that the revelation of “Christmas in cambodia” came out. Swiftboat is now used in the MSM as telling lies about someone, but Kerry still was never able to explain how he wrote in his book and spoke publicly about hearing president Nixon give a christmas mesage in 1968, when in fact LBJ was President. The media ignored it, but when it was forced in front of the Drive by media, they couldn’t pass the giggle test if they didnt publish it. The audio exceprts of Obama, Resko and a number of other issues that won’t pass the giggle test are going to be waiting in reserve. Keep your powder dry. His campaign is living off “hope”, when the light of truth shines on him, he’s going to need it.