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06.05.2008 2:58 pm

Convictions seem to be in fashion for Democratic fundraisers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

So Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko was found guilty of fraud, corruption and money laundering.  Hillary fundraiser Norman Hsu was convicted of fraud and she had to return over $800,000 in donations to her campaign.  Gee, two politicians from the Chicago area involved in election shenanigans!  All I can say is what

Captain Renault said when accused of allowing gambling in “Casablanca”….. “I AM SHOCKED”

Bob Scheiber

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This not reported by the PD is even more shocking, but I’m not shocked it wasn’t reported: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rezko-witness-leaves-new-questions-about-obama-real-estate-deal-unanswered/

— A CENTRIST
3:33 pm June 5th, 2008

Seems alot of “disciples of Obamessiah” are not what he thought they were. For twenty years he didnt realize his preacher was an anti-American racist anti-semite. For years he didnt realize the people who helped launch him in Chicago politics were terrorists. For years he didnt realize his money man and neighbor was corrupt. I dont really know what is worse, Obamessiah’s constant state of shock when his disciples are exposed or his lemmings refusal to acknowledge his shady connections.

— Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
3:34 pm June 5th, 2008

….but it’s Pubelican reps that get convicted and sent to jail.

— Red State Funnel Cake
5:26 pm June 5th, 2008

Speaking of shady real estate deals:

(Link) McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer
Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers.

[McCain] became a key figure in pushing the deal through Congress after the rancher and his partners hired lobbyists that included McCain’s 1992 Senate campaign manager, two of his former Senate staff members (one of whom has returned as his chief of staff), and an Arizona insider who was a major McCain donor and is now bundling campaign checks.
[…]
Betts is among a string of donors who have benefited from McCain-engineered land swaps. In 1994, the senator helped a lobbyist for land developer Del Webb Corp. pursue an exchange in the Las Vegas area, according to the Center for Public Integrity. McCain sponsored two bills, in 1991 and 1994, sought by donor Donald R. Diamond that yielded the developer thousands of acres in trade for national parkland.

In the late 1990s, McCain promoted a deal in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest involving property part-owned by Great American Life Insurance, a company run by billionaire Carl H. Lindner Jr., a prolific contributor to national political parties and presidential candidates.

— Lisa12
5:51 pm June 5th, 2008

(Link) McCain’s Top Strategist Lobbied For Iran-Linked Firm
In the summer of 2005, John McCain’s chief strategist Charlie Black, working for his firm Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, was paid $60,000 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of the Chinese oil conglomerate CNOOC. … But the bid ultimately fell through, in part because of objections over the China oil industry’s ties to Iran, a country in which it had already invested tens of millions of dollars.
[…]
On Monday, McCain, in a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, called for a broad and aggressive international campaign to divest from Iran.
[…]
But, as demonstrated by the CNOOC anecdote, if choking off Tehran’s economic lifeblood is McCain’s goal, he could have personally started down that road years ago — with his own advisers.

Indeed, in addition to Black, McCain employs several other campaign aides and fundraisers who have served in lobbying capacities in which they advocated on behalf of foreign clients with investments and interests in Iran.

— Lisa12
8:25 pm June 5th, 2008

I see Lisa 12 is out spreading more hate and lies.

Funny how she never mentions the great land deal between The Obamamessiah and his business partner/friend/donor Tony Rezko. How The Obamamessiah got an amazing good deal on a piece of land right next door to rezko. But of course the Obamamessiah will claim he ot fooled, and his lapdogs in the media will cover for him as they usually do when he says something stupid.

But don’t forget- McCain will take away our air and water!!

— tim jones
8:53 pm June 5th, 2008

It is the Obamamessiah who has an iranian agent working for him, Trita Parsi, who has been identified as an “effective node of Tehran’s efforts to manipulate US policy toward self-serving ends.” It is the Obamamessiah who has been endorsed by Hamas. It is the Obamamessiah who cannot wait to meet unconditionally with Ahmadininutjob, to genuflect before him and kowtow to his every wish. Sorry Liar12, but every vertebrate over the age of 4 months can tell which of the two presidential candidates is too inexperienced and naive to run an ice cream stand, let alone the United States-and it ain’t McCain!! To try to paint McCain as the softie on foreign policy is a hopelessly laughable (and failing) strategy. Why not try to convince us that the Sun rises in the West.

But soon the Obamamessiah will be “surprised and saddened” to learn this. Just like he was surprised and sadded to learn about Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, and Rezko.

— tim jones
9:11 pm June 5th, 2008
— Lisa12
11:30 pm June 5th, 2008

Seems to me the issue is NOT for Reps to say Dems are all evil, and Dems to say the same of Reps, BUT to utilize what power we have to clean up ALL government, and it’s NOT the property of just one of the parties….

There is enough fraud, graft, and corruption to go around ….

— hkchas
9:02 am June 6th, 2008

Does anyone remember the ninety thousand dollars in bribe money found in Congressman William Jefferson’s freezer? Obama hasn’t been proven guilty of anything yet, but if it turns out he is, he has the same get out of jail free card. The double standard on ethics and honesty is alive and well. If you are a socialist and know how to play the race card, rules and laws don’t apply.

— Bb
9:53 am June 6th, 2008

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