Auchi, Ouch

Andi posted: "The latest reports on the Rezko trial again state that there was no wrongdoing found by Senator Obama. No wrongdoing - that's what matters."

Andi, if a person has a lot of friends are criminals, but he is clean, do you still want to make a friend with him? That's what matter - Obama comes from a corrupted Illinois political network where 4 of last 7 governors were convicted.

I watch Obama's rallies as jokes whenever he said he will change Washington and honesty is a powerful tool. I laughed out loud. :D

Another story that's just beginning for Obama...Does anyone care that Obama lied about going to the Iraqi fixers party? Or do you really believe he can't remember 2004?

Poor Obama! He made 4.2 million in 2007 and still does not see that he is an "elitist"..Poor Obama..ABC did not give him a pass tonight...he was on the defensive all night and had to comment after Hillary on most everything she said. I bet Chris Matthews was really feeling his pain..right up the leg. He always has to have the last word. Poor Obama..not reponsible for his associations with Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Rezko, etc. He still has NEVER answered why he stayed in that church for 20 years..even after Rev Wright and Farrakhan went to meet with Qaddafi. And remember when he said he only did 5 hours of work for Rezko? He actually has had a 17 year association with Rezko. The part he tells may be true enough he just doesn't tell the whole truth. Auchi? Can't remember. I bet he is working overtime to explain that away. He uses "speech" to skirt the truth for his own advantage.

Auchi..This is one more thing waiting to fly out of the Obama closet. Auchi...google him..direct ties to Saddam Hussein.

Come November we will have no choice..

Hoosier Sue,

Now Obama throws Pres Carter under the bus for doing exactly what he said he would do in the debates talk to leaders we normally ignore.

His excuse for critizing Carter is that Hamas is not a state, but a terrorist group. Nevermind the fact they were elected into power, or the fact that he was in front of a Jewish group so he lost his stones.

He doesn't really stand for anything, and he is always evading responsibility.

More hypocrisy from Obama, so when he does it, no probelm. Pres Carter who wrote a book standing firm in his opinion of promoting peace in the Middle East, is doing what he has done for years. But now there is a probelm, when Carter continues to walk the walk.

One set of rules for Obama another set for everyone else.

Kevin,

Like others have said more eloquently Obama often denies something before he admits the truth. How many times did he have to give more money to charity that had ties to Rezko?

He revises his truth as much as needed, and since the press isn't pressing him on anything, why would he?

If you guys think that the Republican machine is going to be quiet during the general election, then I have some nice investments for you to buy. They are being quiet now, but it will gear up and they'll be picking through skeletons. With an electorate that is largely ignorant of such scandals, and McCain's scandals decades ago, combined with his Maverick persona. Obama is going to look like the emperor with no clothes, and McCain is going to look like a Senator who was trying to solve such probelms long ago and reaching across the aisle to get it done.

Pavlov's politician exploiting 45 years of tv clips expecting people to drool support isn't impressive either.

I expect more in my President AND Harvard grads than being lazy intellectually by stealing MLKs tone....JFKs words....and Ceasar Chavez' battle cry.

rs 12:33:03pm. Unfortunately when you connect the dots is gets closer to the REAL reason Obama said he was against the war. Auchi was reported in the Chicago Sun Times as being a moneyman for Saddam Hussein. I think Hillary Clinton knew about this. I think this and the Wright/Farrakan is what she meant when she told Richardson Obama is unelectible. Rev. Wright trashed her months before it came out. Because of the media bias and the Dem. Party she was in no position to say anything because it would have been turned around on her. The Rezko thing would take care of itself. Scandals?- there's more to come. So, for all the Hillary haters, Barack Obama is not above it all and paybacks are a b##ch.

a spokesman for Obama said that he had "no recollection" of the April 2004 event at Rezko's Wilmette home. Obama recently acknowledged stopping by the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago on another occasion when Rezko was hosting a small private dinner for two Qatar bankers in February 2004. At the time, Obama was in the middle of his U.S. Senate race …………..Obama also can't remember ever hearing Pastor Wright saying hateful/racist things in the 20 years he knew him. So what else is new?

The latest reports on the Rezko trial again state that there was no wrongdoing found by Senator Obama. And you can be sure that a lot of people were fishing for it.

No wrongdoing - that's what matters.

The rest is same old Obama bashing by racists and right wingers who dress up as Hillary supporters in the blogs all over the Internet.

Is is not amazing that Senator Obama can not remember meeting VIP's on special occasions when his best friend and fundraiser Rezko was trying to con more money from them. Investigative reporters have said that Obama always rushed to Rezko's side when he was trying to impress PEOPLE WITH MONEY AND POWER. That was called pay-back time. I call it corruption when the money transaction is illegal. Case in point: Shaking hands and dining with Auchi and others. Did you know that Rezko made 20 trips overseas in two years making big money business deals and I bet Obama was informed of everything that when on even if he says he can not remember any of it
Anyone who believes the wonderful Senator Obama is absolutely honest has been drinking too much tainted Koolaid or just wants some sort of pay-back.

A voice of reason: The only way the democrats will capture the white house is together. I will not vote for Barack because of his thin resume, but if he added eight years as vice president, no one could claim that he was inexperienced and I think this would all but assure the democrats of 16 years in the white house. This is sound reasoning and Barack could end this all now and fill in the gaps and probably make a wonderful president. If democrats came together and made this the sound that both candidates could hear, maybe we could get this done.

The witness testified under oath, I presume. Whereas, Mr. Obama's spokesperson did not have to.
Mr.Obama has banked on charming people with empty rhetorics and pleasant, albeit insincere, posturing. As a defensive mechanism, long before the Bosnia incident he has been calling Mrs. Clinton deceptive and misleading. One wonders why? He is also the same. Mrs. Clinton has her husband, but Mr. Obama has lot of reporters, journalists, liberal "out-of-touch" professors, and on his side. They will all defend him even if committed an egregious act. So anything negative that you bring up about him will fade and the blame will be put on Clintons. But only till August!
His nomination will make moderate (shall I say, the happy non-elite) democrats to move toward republican side. Perhaps, this will be further aided by hard-core conservatives deserting the republican side.

Preposterous, this is the typical example of "elitism".  Obama goes to a dinner to honor and IRAQI BILLIONAIRE but he is to elite to even acknowledge the person that the dinner is in honor of.  In essence it Obama in the room, forget about the honored guest.  It's either that scenario or anyone expected to believe that BS is just a plain idiot and incapable of adding 2+2.  Well I know the answer is (4).  The writing is on the wall.  Precisely whyK. Rove picked this candidate to dupe the Democrats. Wake up before we end up in a Republican depression. Because if McCain wins that's where we are headed.

Alsamarrae has been convicted in Iraq for stealing millions of dollars for the government and defrauding them with the bogus contract scam. But he is in Chicago, living fat. Nuri al-Maliki tried to get him extradited, but the US government won't send him to Iraq--perhaps because he is going to be a witness in the Rezko trial. Fitzpatrick, the attorney general prosecuting the case, has already taken a deposition from Alsamarrae. I don't know whether he will take the stand or not.
At least Hillary Clinton's friends aren't manipulating the chaos and war in Iraq to defraud the American people and the Iraqi people.

It's not just that Obama and his wife were there...they both lied and said they werent...Kind of like the Rezco deal...Why would Rezco do $300,000 favors for Obama if he had not been getting something or expecting something in return?

Whitewater was a failed real estate development that some friends sold to the Clinton's...They did nothing illegal ..and after millions of dollars and years of Republican investigation they still did nothing wrong...

Obama was in a real estate deal which was the only way he could buy his house...Rezco did it in his wife's name with borrowed money because he was under very public investigation. During that time period Rezco owned 11 slums in Obama's state Senate district (Obama had written him letters of recommendation). In those slums people went without heat in the Winter while Rezco raised and bundled money for Obama's US Senate campaign. Obama is on record with at least 6 lies...He apparently cannot remember events in 2004 or 2005.

If Obama gets the nomination all the garbage comes spilling out.

SOME PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE THIS BECAUSE THE MSM REFUSES TO COVER THE STORY!

Mark my words: Auchi indirectly paid for Obama's mansion and the lot next door. Auchi gave money to Rezko, who then passed it on to Obama. And Auchi got a lot of his wealth by stealing from the U.N. Oil for Food Program that was meant to feed the people of Iraq and send basic medical supplies for little children during the sanctions regime, during which millions of children died unnecessarily.
Auchi is not the only Iraqi crook with whom Obama and Rezko did business. There is Aiham Alsamarrae who was appointed minister of electricity. He is also a US citizen. He and Rezko orchestrated a scam: they set up some corporate entities, awarded Iraqi contracts to build power plants to themselves and one Chicago ex-cop, pocketed the money and nothing ever got built in Iraq. Obama had meetings and dinner with Alsamarrae to help schmooze the right people and get the deal passed through.

re Mrs. Obama on Colbert Report: Clinton is scheduled for Thursday, but candidate Obama, no Annie Oakley when it comes to unscripted appearances, is sending in the spousal surrogate for the "Colbert bump"-by-proxy. (Whatta chicken.)

"Does nobody see who is pulling Obama's strings? Notice how quiet she has been for some time now? Very suspicious indeed."

LOL! Maybe you should check the Obama site more often. Let me see... 5 events in PA scheduled for MO on April 15 and 16. And I guarantee you, this woman ain't gonna be quiet during these events, she's a helluva speaker.

Plus, today:

"Michelle Obama will make her first late-night television appearance this Tuesday. Mrs. Obama, "direct and plain-spoken, with an edgy sense of humor uncommon in a political spouse," according to a recent Newsweek profile, will go head to head with another direct-talker, Stephen Colbert."

A suspicious quietness, did you say?

cindyct... kevin...
.""GET BACK TO THE ISSUES AND CUT THE CRAP.""

These ARE the issues you morons!!! Stop being SO NAIVE!!!

Adlai Stevenson

Not to worry -- it was simply a bone-headed mistake. (Something that any innocent person could do)

"Rezko's wife paid full price for the vacant lot which the Rezko's never used. Rezko's wife later sold part of the lot to the Obama's for $104,000.00. Most people would call that Rezko deal a kickback to Obama."

The Obamas "bought" part of the lot, but had the use of ALL of it, as well as the only entrance INTO it, until news of the arrangement became public.

MAYBE Obama's really everybody's socialist brother, but his lifestyle and associates, for years and years, don't seem particularly to support this interpretation.