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Last night Barack Obama broke all records for campaign promises, with one of the most over the top self-aggrandizing statements ever uttered by a presidential candidate.
'I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.'
He’s going to heal the sick and make the oceans part.
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Abridged:
Rezko: Guilty
For an untouchable change agent, Obama certainly has a lot of questionable associates.
By Stephen Spruiell
...Barack Obama’s friend and fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko was found guilty today of mail fraud, wire fraud, soliciting bribes, and money laundering in connection to a federal investigation into political corruption in the state of Illinois. Rezko now faces sentencing on 16 of 24 counts, some of which carry punishments of up to 20 years in prison.
[...]
The following fact pattern was out in the open long before Obama severed his ties to Rezko (sometime in late 2006): In 1983, Rezko started raising a lot of money for Chicago politicians. In 1989, he and his partner Daniel Mahru started vacuuming up deals with the city to develop low-income housing, despite having virtually zero experience in the field. They proceeded to obtain over $100 million in city, state, and federal grants and bank loans to develop 30 run-down properties into affordable-housing projects, earning $6.9 million for themselves. By 2007, the city had sued them numerous times for failing to heat these properties; over half of the properties had fallen into foreclosure, and six of them were boarded up.
Obama helped put one of these deals together during his time as a junior associate at Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland. Other lawyers at Davis Miner helped Rezko acquire half of the properties that fell into disrepair. And many of these properties were located in the district Obama represented as an Illinois state senator. Nonetheless, Obama told the Chicago Sun-Times that he was unaware of Rezko’s growing reputation as a slumlord until he read Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak’s two-part series on the subject. So we are to believe (yet again) that Obama was the last person to know what one of his longtime friends was up to.
Now that may well be true — but still, it indicates that Obama is the kind of Democrat who cares a great deal about securing the funding for liberal programs like subsidized housing, but very little about what happens to the money after that. In Rezko’s case, it appears to have been doled out based on which developer had the right political connections, not which one could actually do the job.
Even if Obama can claim plausible deniability about the deteriorating shape of Rezko’s slums, he faces a more difficult challenge in explaining why he entered into a real-estate deal with Rezko after the Chicago papers had run over 100 stories about the clouds gathering over Rezko’s head. When the Obamas were looking for a new house in the summer of 2005, Rezko helped them buy their dream home by purchasing an adjoining lot they could not afford, then selling them a strip of the land on which they wanted to build a fence.
Obama admitted to the Sun-Times that when he bought the strip of land, he knew Rezko “was going to have some significant legal problems,” and characterized his decision to buy the property anyway as a “boneheaded move.” Obama said he proceeded with the transaction because Rezko had always acted “in an above-board manner with me and I considered him a friend.”
Obama may have thought all of his interactions with Rezko were above-board, but they weren’t. One of the counts against Rezko detailed how he funneled the proceeds of an illegal kickback scheme into Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. Rezko’s co-conspirator, a former trustee of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System (TRS) named Stuart Levine, told the jury that he directed the TRS to invest $50 million with a firm called Glencoe Capital. In exchange, Levine arranged for himself and Rezko to be paid a fraudulent $500,000 “finder’s fee.” Levine routed Rezko’s half to an associate named Joseph Aramanda in March of 2004. That month, Aramanda wrote a $10,000 check to Barack Obama’s campaign.
....It’s hard to believe that Obama could be so clueless about Rezko’s character, just as it’s hard to believe that Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s pews for 20 years and had no idea that the man was a radical black nationalist.[...]
In the only interview he has granted since his 2006 indictment, Rezko was asked by Chicago magazine if he would consider testifying against others to save his own skin. “Hell no,” he told the magazine. “Tell them I’ll see them in court on February 25th.” Now that his trial is over, and he’s looking at a long prison term, it will be interesting to see whether Rezko came through the ordeal with his defiance intact.
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a candidate. These two (McCain and Osabama) will make us suffer.
A write-in would be a waste of time and no different from voting for Barak Obama. The best thing to do is to simply vote for Obama. Mind you, there are always candidates for other offices and usually there important local matters to vote on as well, so just staying home is not a good idea, either.
Vote for the HONEST leftist. Vote Obama!
This letter comes from the UK. I can hear the big-headed, All-American conceited gasps already, but I could`nt care less.
Europe should be eternally grateful to America. Without you, we would have lost WW1 and also WW2, in which not only did you win it for us, but liberated the whole of Europe from Nazi oppression.
In actual fact, the Russians won WW2 and lost 27 million people doing it. The Allies only helped.
Having said that, you do appear to have an unjustified and astonishing inflated opinion of yourselves and an enormous ego of the school bully.
Well let me tell you, the world do not care a shit about America, The cost of peace in your hands has been tens of millions of dead people.
But the world is extremely thankful for your generous hand-outs, God Bless America, although they spend all that lovely money on weapons or lavish lifestyles for their despot rulers and administration. Their people get only starvation and barbaric cruelty.
To think your country goes into crippling debt to give all these shitty countries a good living is unbelievable ! Your national debt is $10 Trillion, or $30,000 per American. It amounts to $1.5 Billion per day or $1 Million per minute. Added to this, the dollar is collapsing like a pack of cards.
Your military might is SO great, that a bunch of Gooks on bicycles and AK47`s chased you out of Vietnam like rabbits, although you threw all you had in your massive arsenal at them and polluted the country for ever ! GUNGHO ! more like DUNGHO.
Half your citizens are obese, waddling around like Mr.and Mrs.Blobby. All those huge steaks and McDonalds BIG heart attack burgers.
And now your population has gone so sick minded as to put up a WOMAN and a NIGGER for President !!!!!!!
You really should feel totally ashamed of yourselves, have a head scan, it could save your lives.
Still if that is what you want, have a nice day - the world could not care a toot, except that bunch of primitive savages in Kenya who like it very much that one of their tribe has conned the American white people to adopt him as their Presidential Golliwog.
I personally have always highly admired America even though you have made the most incredible collection of political and military cock-ups in the history of mankind. You just seem to be suckers for making yourselves look proper prats.
But I cannot comprehend your insane political behaviour in selecting such unworthy candidates for a Presidential election. It makes me want to puke that such a fine nation has gone so sick.
I don`t give a shit about your replies to this note, I`ll have a damn good laugh at them, presumably they will all be from brain-dead idiots, but if you want to be really big American cry-babies, then go on, tell Mummy about me. I`ll piss myself with excitement.
All Muslim scumbags who write in these pages - please note.
Written by a housewife in New Brunswick, Canada to her Local newspaper, this is one pissed off lady.
'Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started
by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and
have continually threatened to do so since?
Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in
downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from the nation's capitol and in a
field in Pennsylvania ?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or
crushing death that day, or didn't they?
And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured
by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in
a brutal insurgency.
I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for
incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring
about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by
beheading in Afghanistan .
I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off
Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Afghanistan come out
and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in
mosques.
I'll care when the mindless zealots who blows themselves up in search of
nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide
bombs.
I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that their freedom of
speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the
ground or their families waiting at home to hear about them when something
happens.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a ANA soldier roughing up an
Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to
move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:
I don't care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and
fed 'special' food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that
his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your
heart of hearts:
I don't care.
And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and
other times 'Quran.' Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and, you guessed it,
I don't care!!
If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends
Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous
behaviour!
If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you
choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed
by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country! And may I add:
'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in
the world. But, the Soldiers don't have that problem.'
I have another quote that I would like to add AND.......I hope you forward
all this.
One last thought for the day:
Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The Canadian Soldier
3. The British Soldier
4. The Dutch Soldier and
5. The American Soldier
One died for your soul, the other 4 for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET ALL OF THEM.
AMEN!
This letter comes from the UK. I can hear the big-headed, All-American conceited gasps already, but I could`nt care less.
sp4 - so could we
Europe should be eternally grateful to America. Without you, we would have lost WW1 and also WW2, in which not only did you win it for us, but liberated the whole of Europe from Nazi oppression.
sp4 - exactly correct
In actual fact, the Russians won WW2 and lost 27 million people doing it. The Allies only helped.
sp4 - we fed clothed and supplied armaments to them and made it possible
Having said that, you do appear to have an unjustified and astonishing inflated opinion of yourselves and an enormous ego of the school bully.
sp4 - perhaps, but that does not make us wrong
Well let me tell you, the world do not care a shit about America, The cost of peace in your hands has been tens of millions of dead people.
sp4 - so be it. The cost of the eurotrash wars was estimated to be 60 million
But the world is extremely thankful for your generous hand-outs, God Bless America, although they spend all that lovely money on weapons or lavish lifestyles for their despot rulers and administration. Their people get only starvation and barbaric cruelty.
sp4 - nonetheless, we gave it with the best of intention and we do not have total control on how they spend it
To think your country goes into crippling debt to give all these shitty countries a good living is unbelievable ! Your national debt is $10 Trillion, or $30,000 per American. It amounts to $1.5 Billion per day or $1 Million per minute. Added to this, the dollar is collapsing like a pack of cards.
sp4 - trust me f--khead, we're good for it
Your military might is SO great, that a bunch of Gooks on bicycles and AK47`s chased you out of Vietnam like rabbits, although you threw all you had in your massive arsenal at them and polluted the country for ever ! GUNGHO ! more like DUNGHO.
sp4 - General Giap of the N. Vietnamese armay claims we won EVERY BATTLE
Half your citizens are obese, waddling around like Mr.and Mrs.Blobby. All those huge steaks and McDonalds BIG heart attack burgers.
SP4 - they are living their lives, after we threw off our f--khead colonial oppressors
And now your population has gone so sick minded as to put up a WOMAN and a NIGGER for President !!!!!!!
sp4 - an ivy league-educated lawyer and a lifetime political wag woman. By the way how's margaret Thacher?
You really should feel totally ashamed of yourselves, have a head scan, it could save your lives.
sp4 - we threw off our colonail oppressors and became the worlds preeminant power.
Still if that is what you want, have a nice day - the world could not care a toot, except that bunch of primitive savages in Kenya who like it very much that one of their tribe has conned the American white people to adopt him as their Presidential Golliwog.
sp4 - like I said, an Ivy League guy who, on his worst day, would be an improvement over gthe losers your nation has trotted out for the last 15 years
I personally have always highly admired America even though you have made the most incredible collection of political and military cock-ups in the history of mankind. You just seem to be suckers for making yourselves look proper prats.
sp4- we won ww1, ww2, and made sure the Germans didn't annex you.
But I cannot comprehend your insane political behaviour in selecting such unworthy candidates for a Presidential election. It makes me want to puke that such a fine nation has gone so sick.
sp4- covered that, see above
I don`t give a shit about your replies to this note, I`ll have a damn good laugh at them, presumably they will all be from brain-dead idiots, but if you want to be really big American cry-babies, then go on, tell Mummy about me. I`ll piss myself with excitement.
'There will always be an England, as long as their is an America to defend her'
'The cost of peace in your hands has been tens of millions of dead people.'
What a load of nonsense.
This guy is full of crap.
If I am wrong, please do back up this claim with some credible sources.
GEE, ESS PEE 4, I never knew you cared. Kiss and make up ?
I knew that would get up your crutch. Fantastic bulls-eye.
Look on the bright side my darling, while you are paying your taxes and the US is accumulating Trillions of dollars in debt from the IMF, the world is enjoying your sheer benevolence and kindness in utter ecstasy.
They even show their gratitude by blowing up your pieces of furniture and real estate all over the place, together with thousands of American lives.
Gave New York and the Pentagon one hell of a makeover. Still, it will make a good car park.
I tell you what my Alice-in-Wonderland friend, why don`t the US help their allies instead of shitty third world grot-pots, inhabited by savages ? Give my regards to the March Hare.
Darwin would have been completely dumbfounded at your addiction to the
sub-human species that unfortunately occupy a large proportion of Mother Earth. Have you simply NO knowledge of evolution ?
I bet you just love the Muslim`s, got a picture of Osama over your bed have you ? He`s not a bad guy really, just hates Americans.
..here's my reply:
You live in the half empty glass.I believe in the greater good. I like mine better. America is a practical nation. Our closest friends were once our worst enemies, and now are the most prosperous nations on earth. This is a powerful litany. I'll let it set with history as to the rest, but I'll side with an Obama looooong before I flush the USA. Now, if you want to goose step into the futre, heck, inmy mind it's your right, but after the failure of THAT mess, I say join the winning team.
OK SP4, I still love ya, regardless of your misconceptions.
BUT, before you hate people like me who are really on your side - read this honest and very genuine comment. Even your distorted view of life will not argue with this.
TOMORROW IS THE 6TH JUNE. Any idea`s ? Ah well, such is the memory of American bean heads. It happens to be the anniversary of D-DAY, 6th June 1944 - 64 years ago !
I ALWAYS every single year of my life, think of all those young men storming the beaches of Normandy at 05.00 for the Airborne and 06.30 for the Infantry, that fateful day. Especially those poor Americans of the 82nd (All American) and 101st (Screaming Eagles) who jumped into Normandy before the main assault. They had a very hard time.
BUT, most of all my heart bleeds for those mostly young guys who were ordered to attack the beaches, particularly Omaha. The poor Americans of the 1st (the big red one) and 29th divisions were mown down in thousands, the casualty count was horrific.
The Americans suffered about 6,000 casualties on D-day, including 2,500 Airborne and 2,000-3,000 on the beaches, mostly Omaha. The British had 2,500 casualties, so we had our share of grief.
Almost all of these young men who died are still there.
If I have anything to thank America for it is THIS. I relive that dreadful carnage every single year and really feel hurt.
It is for this treasured but sad memory, I sincerely THANK America and will do until I die.
A terrible deal, but we won and won big. The good outweighed the bad. Europe freed. Millions saved from a hell on earth.
This is linear thinking
You are engaged in circular thinking. You just go round and round...
Rather than the stroll down memory lane, I say look at NOW:
45,000 per month dying in the Congo
...? how many dying in Darfur?
deaths due to facist and marxist neglect in Myanmar and China.
If you wish to lament the dead, fine. Me?....I say address the heartbreaks of the NOW.
Even Tonny from Dachau(Belgium) thinks in the present and the future, for the most part.
Go spend some time on that. Write your MP or Congressman. Learn froom the past. Live in the present.
No point in talking to the likes of you. You are a disgrace to America, no wonder many writers in these pages say you are a perfect prick.
If you think that the American sacrifice made on D-day is just a walk down memory lane, go tell it to the families and the descendants of those killed and the survivors. Over 6,000 American casualties just a memory and you are more concerned with those black pigs in Africa - you should be shot.
As for the Congo and Darfur - who gives a bloody shit ! These are the countries who spend American taxpayers and the IMF debt you have incurred to buy weapons to kill their own people or starve them to death.
The whole of Africa is a pox on humanity. I could`nt give a monkeys bum if the whole damned lot died, good riddance - THE WHITE MAN`S BURDEN !
I know now why you are so in love with that black turd Obama.
Well make the most of it, because he will be voted into obscurity by people who DO love America.
@ rude little prick in UK
The boys from the bronx and kansas that died by the thousands on the beaches and hedgerows of Normandy (and elsewhere), did so to eradicate the ideology you espouse. It is deeply ironic that you praise them. While they suffered greatly, they gave better than they got and the world is better for it.
If you really do want to do something useful and fight against dark age fascism, why not boot up with the 7th Paras/Royal Horse? Go POSH my man!
TO SP4 - HELLO BWANAMANJun 5th, 2008 - 18:19:43
No point in talking to the likes of you. You are a disgrace to America, no wonder many writers in these pages say you are a perfect prick.
sp4 - nonetheless, that does not make me wrong.
If you think that the American sacrifice made on D-day is just a walk down memory lane, go tell it to the families and the descendants of those killed and the survivors. Over 6,000 American casualties just a memory and you are more concerned with those black pigs in Africa - you should be shot.
sp4 -of all people, I do not disrespect the dead in WWII. It is that, we can no longer help them, but builld on the successes they gave us. After all, look at the stellar success it was. The peoples of Africa are not pigs. We can help them. You are not livingin your grandfathers world.
As for the Congo and Darfur - who gives a bloody shit ! These are the countries who spend American taxpayers and the IMF debt you have incurred to buy weapons to kill their own people or starve them to death.
sp4 - 'we cannot save everyone, but we can save some' - Wm. Jfferson Clinton. On this, the likes of GW Bush and Bill Clinton are in agreement. Only their methods differ.
The whole of Africa is a pox on humanity. I could`nt give a monkeys bum if the whole damned lot died, good riddance - THE WHITE MAN`S BURDEN !
sp4 - How did you decide to embrace failure? Was it personal?
I know now why you are so in love with that black turd Obama.
Well make the most of it, because he will be voted into obscurity by people who DO love America.
sp4 - actually, I am a Reagan Conservative, but I would vote for Obama before I went down the path you are. I have looked down that path before. Believe me, there is nothing at the end, but sadness and death. No thanks! You're a hater and you have no control over it.
Conservatism is predicated on less government and more freedom. The problem in the world is that folks do not have enough freedom and security. If they have these things, they can rise to their potential. The only way to get both is democracy.
Humanity's success ultimately depends on how successful we are in helping our fellow man. Think life, and for god sakes, find something to be happy about, before your life is over.
America is a nation of risk takers. We'll take the risk of helping our fellow man.
You pox-ridden little shit. Call yourself American - you don`t know what life is all about. Get out of your pram, make sure your diapers are clean and bugger off to church where you belong.
My letter was from the heart, I feel as gut-wrenched by the slaughter of young American boys on D-Day as I do my own soldiers. I re-live that day EVERY 6th June. You maggot eaten spineless piece of crap - you don`t deserve to be called American.
7th paras - Royal Horse ! They are a load of poofter`s, you would fit into their nursery, but not me mate.
I WAS in the British paras (2 Para in fact) for a few years. We were the tough guys who never stood any nonsense, boot `em or shoot `em. 7th Paras indeed ! a lot of bloody wankers.
AND just to make you feel really proud of your heritage, I have seen many US Airborne dummies take our para course AND FAIL !
Don`t be so bloody big-headed American, when it comes down to toughness, you are no better than anybody else. Go get your glorious testimonials from the Gooks in Vietnam, you know the little guys on bicycles who kicked your arses and sent you running all the way home to Momma.
'Don`t be so bloody big-headed American, when it comes down to toughness, you are no better than anybody else.'
Never said otherwise. Well, we are a lot tougher than most, but there are plenty of other well trained highly motivated soldiers from other countries. I'm not sure if you are confusing me with someone else.
'the little guys on bicycles who kicked your arses and sent you running all the way home to Momma.'
Here is where you lose credibility. The US military wasn't defeated in Vietnam. The war was lost politically. Its similar now in Iraq - but even worse. We lost more troops on a bad day in WWII than we have lost in 5 years in Iraq, and yet the Dems would have given up the field to our enemies years ago.
'Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness [W.C.]'
And by the way, why the hell are you trashing the US when you god damned soon to be Eurabians won't even put up a fight?
Eh?
I'm just a little confused here, why was sp4 talking to SP4???
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