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Obama Index Page, especially
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Years ago, the Democrats tried to assert that the Republican party was mired in a "culture of corruption,"
and only the Democrats could be trusted to obey the law. Almost since the day they introduced that
slogan, exactly the opposite has been shown to be true. I've been pointing out the Democrats' ethical
shortcomings for several years on this page,
and now it seems the Obama administration is supplying a ton of new material every week, by hiring,
defending and (in some cases) retaining a whole series of people who cheat on their taxes.
This should come as no surprise, because as some of us have been saying for about a year, Mr. Obama has
never competently managed any business or organization in his life. All this was pointed out
on this page, in case you missed it.
As the months go by, Mr. Obama's administration has begun to emit more odors of corruption than any
presidency since... the last Democrat president! Most prominently, there is a scandal building
around Congressman Sestak, who apparently got an offer he couldn't refuse --
but then he did!
Similar but different page:
Which party has a "culture of corruption?"
Somewhat related:
GE appears to be Obama's Halliburton
Criminal
Rot Spreads Through Justice Department. There seems to be a pattern emerging in the Holder Justice
Department: DOJ employees committing crimes and very little seems to happen to them. I'm not just talking
about the questionable testimony under oath of Attorney General Eric Holder or Assistant Attorney General Tom
Perez. I'm talking about theft, graft, child porn, bribery, and perjury. The fact that very little
ever seems to happen to DOJ officials who purportedly commit the crimes tells you a great deal about the
leadership of the Obama DOJ.
Rep.
Issa threatens Holder with contempt over 'Fast and Furious' operation. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation's top cop doesn't hand over
Justice Department documents within nine days. Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, blasted Holder in a letter on Tuesday [1/31/2012] for refusing to comply with the panel's
subpoena for documents relating to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-trafficking operation.
More
about Eric Holder and the politicized Justice Department.
More about the Fast and Furious scandal.
Obama
Puppetmaster Warren Buffett Biggest Winner From Keystone Pipeline Rejection. As it turns out, it is not
just natural resources and aquifer purity that Obama had in mind when sealing the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline.
No, it appears there were far more relevant numerial metrics that determined Obama's decisions. Such as the bottom
line number of Buffett's Burlington Northern, which according to Bloomberg, is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that
stand to benefit from the Obama administration's decision to reject TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline
permit.
Moving
Oil on Buffett's Railroad. It's already been widely reported that Warren Buffett, a major shareholder
in Obama, Inc. will be one of the primary beneficiaries of the decision from the White House to kill the Keystone
pipeline and the jobs it would create. The administration now makes no attempt at all to disguise the fact
that most decisions he makes are made in the best interest of Obama, Inc. shareholders.
'Thank You,
Warren.' 'No, Thank You, Mr. President!' The "tar-sands" oil from Canada, and the crude
from the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota, will be extracted regardless of the ultimate fate
of the Keystone XL pipeline, but should the pipeline not be built, nearly all of the transport infrastructure
for moving this oil will belong to one man: Warren Buffett.
Obama's
State Of The Union: The Hollow Man Speaks. [Scroll down] I had to chuckle at President Obama's
solemnly intoning the so-called Buffet Rule as an example of how 'the rich' should behave. Buffet, a nicely
placed Obama donor stands to make a tidy sum because the pipeline got cancelled because the oil we buy from Canada
will now have to be shipped via Buffet's railroads. At a surcharge, of course. It's good to be the
King's friend!
Buffett's
Burlington Northern Among Winners From Keystone Denial. Warren Buffett's Burlington Northern
Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration's
decision to reject TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit. With modest expansion,
railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the
Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.
The Editor has two questions:
Do railroads present less danger to the environment than pipes? And why is the State Department involved
in this anyway?
15
Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican: [#2] In 2010
you said Solyndra, which gave your campaign a lot of money, was "leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous
future." Today, Solyndra is bankrupt and the taxpayers lost $500 million on loans that your administration
was well aware might never be paid off when you made them. What do you say to people who say this is evidence of
corruption in your administration?
Where are the "Separation of Church and State" people now?
Jarrett's
partisan pulpit speech may have violated IRS church-state rules. On Sunday [1/15/2012] President
Barack Obama's controversial aide, Valerie Jarrett, used the Ebenezer [Baptist Church] pulpit to tell the congregation
that the jobs of teachers, police and firefighters "are now in jeopardy because Congress — well, let me be
specific — because [of] the Republicans in Congress." ... Shortly after the religious service, the
church hosted a voter registration drive for its mostly African-American congregation.
Obama's Fascist
America in 10 Easy Steps. Frankly, in a saner world, if the GOP hadn't just impeached the last
Democrat president, and if the matter of Obama's race were not an issue, this president would be facing forcible
removal from office, and several of his cabinet would be facing jail time. Barack Obama is proposing
eliminating half a million U.S. military jobs, while at the same time calling for a salary raise for SEIU members
of the bureaucracy. Interesting, that; the military tends to vote GOP, and the government workers are
staunchly Democratic.
The
Top 5 Reasons Obama Must Be Removed as Commander-in-Chief. [#1] LightSquared: If we had an
actual media, you should be able to wake up an average fourth grader at 3 AM and ask, "Who's General William
Shelton?" and the fourth grader would chirpily recite: "He's the Air Force Commander who was pressured by
the White House to change his testimony about LightSquared." The facts are not in dispute. A four-star
general has testified to Congress that he was pressured by the White House to alter his testimony to make it
friendlier to a broadband company backed by a major Democratic donor.
Grassley:
LightSquared offered me a political "win" in exchange for backing down on FCC probe. The push for
LightSquared's FCC exemption had already become embarrassing for the Obama administration, but it might be about
to turn toxic. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), who has pursued a probe of the FCC over its curious actions
towards the company owned by big Democratic Party donor Philip Falcone, now claims in a press release earlier
today [1/23/2012] that Falcone and another person offered inducements to Grassley to get him to back off of
his efforts.
Justice
Department's political action. The Justice Department has been empowered to use millions of
dollars intended to go to victims of racial discrimination to enrich pressure groups with close White
House ties. It's another revelation of the means the Obama administration is using to divert funds
to political cronies.
Hawker-Beechcraft
Denied Big Air Force Contract in Favor of Brazilian Company With Soros Connections. It seems
after investing around $100 million in this project, Hawker-Beechcraft has been excluded from a contract,
worth almost $1 billion, to build a new light air support plane. What intrigues me is the Brazilian
company Embraer, the likely contract winner, is currently under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, and the Justice Department, for possible violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Media
Ignore Obama Hawaii Golfing Buddy Who Was Arrested in Prostitution Sting. Mediaite's Nando Di Fino
reports President Obama has played at least two rounds of golf in Hawaii with a high school buddy, Robert "Bobby"
Titcomb, was arrested as part of a prostitution sting, after he allegedly approached an undercover police officer
for sex in downtown Hawaii.
The
Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers. As Solyndra and an avalanche of other ongoing green
subsidy scams erupted, so did the LightSquared debacle — a federal broadband boondoggle involving
billionaire hedge fund managers and Obama donors Philip Falcone and George Soros. In September, two
high-ranking witnesses ... exposed how the White House had pressured them to alter their congressional
testimony and play down concerns about LightSquared's interference threat to military communications.
The Justice Department Condones
Perjury — Again. Why should we be surprised? Look at how Eric Holder and the
DOJ have mishandled the investigation into Operation Fast & Furious and repeatedly misled Congress.
Schumer bro-in-law judge
nod stuns NJ. Sen. Charles Schumer's brother-in-law was quietly nominated this month to a federal
judgeship in New Jersey — a move that has some in the Garden State crying political foul, The [New York]
Post has learned. Kevin McNulty, who is married to Schumer's sister, Fran, was named to the US District
Court by the White House late on Friday, Dec. 16.
Neuter Obama. They say
Gingrich is an idea man, but has Barack Obama ever come up with a new idea, or a new approach? No, it's
always the same thing, spend, spend, spend, with him deciding where, which is why 80% of the many billions we
threw at green energy went to Obama supporters. His stimulus legislation, written by others, and including
every liberal lunacy of the last half century, also rewarded backers of Barack.
The Shadow Over Osawatomie.
While denouncing greedy corporate types, Obama occupies Wall Street with his motorcade, seeking campaign
contributions. While carping about the unfairness of capitalism, he embraces Jon Corzine. Corzine
went from Wall Street to the Senate, and from the New Jersey State House to the corporate suite of the now
defunct MF Global. Mr. Corzine says, stunningly, he doesn't know where all that money went. Perhaps
he was too busy bundling for the president's re-election to keep track.
Case
of the vanishing billion. Another Wall Street genius runs a business aground and can't remember what
happened to over a billion dollars of investor money. Forget that he was a U.S. Senator (D-N.J.) and the
governor of the great state of New Jersey and a former executive of Goldman Sachs. One would think with
those credentials he certainly was a financial "guru" or was he? One thing for sure is that the former
CEO of MF Global hasn't got a good memory. That maybe because as a politician he trained on the well worn
phase of "I don't recall."
SEC Cracking Down on
LightSquared's Falcone? Billionaire Phil Falcone, whose cozy relationship with the Obama
Administration was first exposed by NLPC, may face civil fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). According to a filing yesterday by Harbinger Group Inc., Falcone and two other
directors have received "Wells Notices," meaning that they are under investigation.
Is Obama Betting on
Another Iffy Company? LightSquared had almost every advantage in their audacious plan to exploit the Obama
administration's goal of expanded broadband delivery — key political connections in the White House, a curiously
incurious FCC, and a hotshot hedge-fund wizard as its main financial backer. The only thing LightSquared lacked was a
system that didn't create havoc on the airwaves, but the company won't let that stand in the way of their ambitions.
Watch Left-Wing Pseudo-Journalists Roll Over and Purr:
Work
for Obama, Get a Federal Contract. Solyndra, Lightsquared, and now Solayzme are all companies
that are closely connected to the Obama campaign and all got government money. While the Obama Administration
has been attacking Republicans as "crony capitalists" and using an army of left-wing pseudo-journalists to make the
attacks, the Obama Administration has been rewarding campaign friends with government contracts. In Barack
Obama's America, he, not the marketplace, picks the winners and losers. But just how far into the government
and into the Obama campaign does this crony capitalism go?
Obama
Crony-Run LightSquared's Network Now Shown to Disrupt Plane Safety Gear. Late Friday afternoon
[12/9/2011], Todd Shields at Bloomberg News broke a story about some guy, who happens to be an Obama and Democratic
Party donor (but not disclosed), against whom the Securities and Exchange Commission is formally considering an
enforcement action (also not disclosed ...), whose "wireless service caused interference to 75 percent
of global-positioning system receivers examined in a U.S. government test." Though it generated a fair amount
of center-right blog discussion over the weekend, the establishment press largely ignored the stunning result.
Broadband
satellite backed by Obama bundler a bust. Phillip Falcone, a hedge fund manager and Obama campaign
fund raiser, appears to have struck out on a $3 billion gamble to supply satellite broadband service to the
bulk of the country. Called Lightsquared Inc., the company held out the promise of fulfilling one of President
Obama's pet agenda items — making broadband widely available to the general public. The Defense
Department has just conducted a test about how the satellite's signal will affect GPS devices and it doesn't look
good for Obama's buddy.
Falcone's
LightSquared Disrupts Plane Safety Gear in Testing. Philip Falcone's LightSquared service disrupted
airplane safety equipment in U.S. tests of the proposed wireless network, government officials said. Signals
from LightSquared equipment caused "interference with a flight safety system designed to warn pilots of approaching
terrain," according a statement from the Defense and Transportation departments distributed today [12/14/2011]
by e-mail.
Jet
Fuel-Gate Is Obama's New Solyndra. SolyndraGate was no isolated case of corrupt government misspending.
The U.S. Navy was just forced to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuels from an Obama-connected firm at an outrageous
$16 per gallon.
The Volt Administration.
The headline reads like a piece from the Onion: "U.S. Navy Paying $15/Gallon for Green Fuel." ... The investment
will certainly brighten the day of T. J. Glauthier, a "strategic advisor" to Solazyme, one of the companies
selling the environmentally correct fuel to the U.S. government. Glauthier, reports blogger J. E. Dyer,
just happens to have worked on President Obama's transition team. If the administration pattern holds,
Gauthier will be paid off before the taxpayers when Solazyme files for bankruptcy.
Obama's
'Green' Initiatives: It Pays (BIG) to Be an Obama Bundler. President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign
is promising to raise enormous sums of money, by some estimates and unprecedented $1 billion. The
Finance Chair for the 2012 campaign, Matthew Barzun, is reactivating the 2008 financial network of campaign
bundlers to meet that goal. In my new book, Throw Them All Out, I expose the scandal that is
outrageous and typical: those who are raising money for Obama received large amounts of taxpayer-funded
energy stimulus money from the Obama Administration. It offers a new form of "recycling" when it comes
to campaign dollars that is unprecedented.
E-mails questioned huge
contract for firm with ties to Obama administration. A series of e-mail exchanges between officials
at the Department of Health and Human Services shows growing alarm at the amount of projected profit from a
government contract for a drug company whose controlling shareholder is a longtime Democratic Party activist.
Just another
Obama scandal. So it's not just solar-energy boondoggles when it comes to the Obama White House rewarding top
Obama donors. And now, even a top Democrat is asking some serious questions. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has
officially called on the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general to investigate a suspicious $433 million
no-bid contract for a dubious smallpox vaccine. Frankly, just about everything connected with this one smells.
The
Tentacles of Obama's Green Cronyism Reach beyond the Department of Energy. Much has already been
revealed about the Obama administration's cronyism when it comes to the Department of Energy. 80% of Department
of Energy green loans are tied to President Obama's most prolific donors including the now infamous Solyndra solar
panel company and the Robert Kennedy Jr connected Brightsource which also deals in solar energy.
Another
Obama bundler benefits from DOE loan. Abound Solar, given a $400 million Department of
Energy (DOE) loan guarantee for a project expected to create 400 permanent jobs, receives private financial
backing through an investment firm founded by a fundraising bundler for President Obama. The Sunlight
Foundation notes that Bohemian Companies, which was founded by billionaire and Obama bundler Pat Stryker,
participated with other companies in the "second institutional equity round of financing" in 2008 for
Abound Solar, which recieved $104 million total through that round of financing.
McCaskill
asks for investigation into Obama administration's sole-source vaccine contract. Sen. Claire
McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, has asked The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the Obama
administration's award of a $443 million sole-source contract to a company owned by a major Democratic donor.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that the Obama administration has taken unusual steps to procure
an experimental smallpox vaccine from a company owned by a major Democratic donor despite concerns from some
experts that such a drug was unnecessary and would not be effective.
Convicted
Felon and Democrat Strategist Robert Creamer Visits White House Five Times in August. Michelle Malkin
reports today, based on the Obama administration's latest document dump of visitor logs, that convicted fraudster and
community organizer Robert Creamer has visited the White House sixty times since January 2009 — five times
in August 2011 alone.
Obama
escaped Rezko's orbit. Although it did not go unreported, convicted Chicago political influencer
Tony Rezko's 10-year prison sentence was treated as an afterthought during the short Thanksgiving workweek.
Also an afterthought: the amazing facility with which President Obama has completely escaped Rezko's orbit
in the liberal mainstream media's standard narrative. From the coverage he gets now, you would hardly know
that Rezko dined with the current president of the United States on occasion, and even hosted him at his vacation
home. You might forget that Rezko was one of Obama's most important donors.
President Obama's Justice
Department Opposed Enforcement of Anti-Vote Fraud Laws. President Obama's Justice Department is
doing its part to maximize the Democratic turnout in the 2012 elections by filing "motor voter" suits across
the country that claim state officials are not circulating voter registration forms in social service agencies.
The lawsuit filed against Louisiana this past summer is closely timed with a separate suit advanced by ACORN's
Project Vote affiliate and the NAACP.
Obama
golfs with pal who faced prostitution charge. President Barack Obama is golfing in Hawaii with
boyhood pal Robert "Bobby" Titcomb who pleaded no contest to soliciting a prostitute earlier this year.
Move over,
Solyndra, here comes Siga. If you thought Solyndra was bigtime corruption, wait until you read
the details of the Siga scandal. David Willman of the Los Angeles Times reveals a huge no-bid contract
bearing all the signs of intervention from above, that could dwarf Solyndra. It involves the health and
safety of the American poeple, and a squandering of taxpayer resources. The Department of Health and Human
Services has signed a no-bid contracted [sic] with Siga Technologies for as much as much as 2.8 billion
dollars' worth of a high priced drug, for a terrorism threat that may not exist.
How Obama's Alternative-Energy Programs Became Green Graft:
Obama
Campaign Backers and Bundlers Rewarded With Green Grants and Loans. It would take an entire book to
analyze every single grant and government-backed loan doled out since Barack Obama became president. But an
examination of grants and guaranteed loans offered by just one stimulus program run by the Department of Energy,
for alternative-energy projects, is stunning. The so-called 1705 Loan Guarantee Program and the 1603 Grant
Program channeled billions of dollars to all sorts of energy companies. The grants were earmarked for
alternative-fuel and green-power projects, so it would not be a surprise to learn that those industries were led by
liberals. Furthermore, these were highly competitive grant and loan programs — not usually a hallmark
of cronyism. Often fewer than 10 percent of applicants were deemed worthy. Nevertheless, a large
proportion of the winners were companies with Obama-campaign connections.
President Obama's
Godfather. Despite several decades of [Herman] Cain's rise in the business world, only his
relatively short tenure at the NRA produced these multiple nasty allegations. Well maybe it wasn't
Godfathers' special pizza sauce; Ann Coulter pinpoints another godfather, a Chicago godfather and a dear
friend of President Barack Obama (D) — David Axelrod who just might be the behind the scenes trigger of
this sudden flurry of wronged women.
Lawmaker
says Obama should return book profits. A Republican congressman is calling on President Obama to
return royalties he received from the State Department's purchase of at least $70,000 in books authored by
Mr. Obama since he took office. The request by Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona cited what he called "a
time of record deficits and a heightened need to cut government spending," according to a letter he sent to Mr.
Obama Tuesday [11/1/2011].
DOE Inspector General: Over 100 Criminal Investigations
Of Obama Stimulus Spending. The Inspector General of the Energy Department, Gregory Friedman, has been
investigating the fate of the $35.2 billion his department received from the Obama "stimulus" disaster in
2009. ... You'll be delighted to know that more than a hundred criminal investigations were launched into Energy's
handling of its mere 4% of the Obama stimulus. Friedman says "these involve various schemes, including the
submission of false information, claims for unallowable or unauthorized expenses, and other improper uses of Recovery
Act funds." Five criminal prosecutions have resulted, and over $2.3 million in stolen "stimulus" loot has
been recovered.
Inspector General launches criminal probe into more than 100 Energy
Dept. loans. Solyndra is being investigated by the FBI, but that may just be the tip of the
shovel-ready iceberg. The Department of Energy is investigating more than 100 potential instances
of criminal abuse of stimulus loan monies, according to the department's Office of Inspector General.
In prepared testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday [11/2/2011],
Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said his office has launched more than 100 probes
into possible criminal activities related to the 2009 stimulus funds behind the loans.
Jobs
Panel Member Whose Solar Firm Won Loan Guarantees Raises 'Conflict of Interest' Concerns. A
clean-energy firm led by a member of President Obama's jobs council has a stake in projects that have reaped
nearly $2 billion in loan guarantees from Washington, a case that has raised conflict-of-interest concerns
as the same jobs council pushes for more "government-backed" investment in renewable energy.
Obama clarified what liberalism is.
As president, Barack Obama has shown liberalism's true colors. ... Obama accepted a whopping $750 million in
campaign contributions — a half billion of the money coming from large donors, including the two richest
men in America. That was double the money Republican John McCain collected. If liberals had any qualms
about big money influencing the election, they remained silent. The dogs that did not bark were all those
self-appointed campaign reformers.
Another
Obama fundraiser is investor in car company that won federal loan. An investment firm whose
vice chairman has been an adviser and fundraiser for President Obama saw one of its portfolio companies win
approval this year for $50 million in loans from the administration's clean-energy loan program.
Class
war: Obama offers cash-for-votes student loan policy. President Barack Obama's new student
loan policy will force working class Americans to pay the ballooning college costs of middle class Americans,
and will also hinder needed reform of the bloated education sector, say critics. Obama is "shifting the
burden of paying for college to all of those Americans who did not graduate from college — the
waitresses, construction workers, mechanics — and that should infuriate the taxpayers who worked
hard to pay off their loans, who decided to live a modest lifestyle to pay off their loans," said Lindsey
Burke, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Obama is better than
you. The administration is downplaying the revelation that the State Department blew $70,000 in taxpayer
cash buying copies of President Obama's books. As first reported in The Washington Times, the purchase was
meant to "engage key audiences in discussions of foreign policy." It's another uncomfortable reminder of the
degree to which those who surround Mr. Obama feel it necessary to bathe him in adulation.
State
Department buys $70,000 worth of Obama books. The U.S. Department of State has bought
more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities
and stocking "key libraries" around the world with "Dreams from My Father" more than a decade after its
release. ... Leslie Paige, spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group, said
if the federal government is looking to cut costs, eliminating purchases of Mr. Obama's books is a
good place to start.
The Editor says...
In my opinion, this amounts to either bribery or graft, depending on whose idea it was.
Solyndra-linked
fundraiser still boosting Obama campaign. Steven Spinner, a former Energy Department official
with ties to the failed solar company, continues to raise money for the president and help organize events.
Dems'
900 Days Of Irresponsibility. Over the weekend, Senate Democrats passed a dubious milestone —
going 900 days without fulfilling their legal obligation to pass a budget. Worse is the fact that this
gross dereliction of duty has gone largely unnoticed.
ATF
Ignored Death Threats, Tried to Frame Whistleblower Agent to Cover Corruption. [William] Newell
was the brainchild of Operation Fast and Furious in the ATF Phoenix Field office. Newell is also the agent
who was in regular contact with a member of the White House national security team, Kevin O'Reilly, about the
lethal program. Newell also said he would conduct Operation Fast and Furious again, despite two Americans
and hundreds of innocent Mexicans dead as a result of the program. Newell used [Jay] Dobyns as a test run,
to see just how much he could get away with in his management position within ATF before getting reprimanded.
Considering nobody was held accountable for the mistakes made in handling death threats against Dobyns, Newell
knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted, at the highest levels of corruption.
More
about Fast and Furious.
What happened to "No Blood for Oil"?
Obama's
Uganda Gambit to serve Soros. [George] Soros seems to have his hand in trying to guide the
development of the oil and gas industry in Uganda. The Ugandan government would naturally be beholden
to Soros if he could show he had enough influence with the White House to bring in American troops to take
out a rebel group. Also, the defeat of the rebel group would make development of the energy industry
that much more viable since operations would be much more secure.
DOE in the
headlights. The Obama administration made $533 million disappear by giving it to a " green"
company named Solyndra. Next came a "green" company named SunPower that manufactured photovoltaic solar
panels. This time the money was upped to $1.2 billion of taxpayer money. This company was supposed
to manufacture photovoltaic solar panels for its California solar valley ranch. Amazingly it just happens
to be that the company had converted an old auto plant to a manufacturing plant for the panels. Guess where
the plant was located, of all things, in the Congressional District of a strong supporter, Rep. George Miller,
D.-Calif. Another surprise was that the lobbyist for SunPower just happened to be the son of Rep. Miller.
But of course that did not influence the senior Miller as he advocated for the loan.
Obama's Top Solyndra Crony Claimed Zero Income.
There's a lot of talk about making the Evil Rich pay their "fair share" these days. President Obama
wants us to be very angry at the spectacle of billionaires escaping from confiscatory tax rates. ... It's
too bad Obama never rails against [Solyndra crony George] Kaiser, because the well-connected Oklahoma billionaire
reported zero taxable income during five years of his rise to the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest
Americans. In another year, he claimed on $11,699 in taxable income, which works out to $5.62 per hour.
This just in: Obama stole the 2008 election.
Fake
signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana. Minus suspected fakes, then Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama likely fell short of the number of signatures needed to appear on the 2008
Indiana primary ballot, and it's possible his opponent, Hillary Clinton, did as well, according to information
obtained by The Tribune as part of an investigation into suspected ballot petition fraud.
Solyndra
funder Kaiser paid zero taxes for years. Because [Oklahoma billionaire George] Kaiser was a
campaign "bundler" — an individual who collects contributions to a candidate from others that are
then simultaneously given to the candidate — who raised about $250,000 for Obama during the 2008
campaign, congressional Republicans and media analysts have speculated that the Solyndra loan guarantee was
nothing more than using tax dollars to reward a political supporter.
Clinton,
Obama Indiana primary petitions tainted by forged signatures. Several pages from petitions used
to qualify Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the state's Democratic primary contain names and signatures
that appear to have been copied by hand from a petition for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Schellinger.
The petitions were filed with the Indiana Election Division after the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office
verified individuals' information on the documents. St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Dvorak's name
appears twice on the Clinton petitions.
Huge
Fraud in Obama's 2008 Indiana Nomination Petition? According to the [South Bend Tribune]'s
investigation, the evidence suggests that at least 19 pages of Obama's petitions were copied by two
individuals.
Obama's
Team Rejected Nomination Petition Signatures Because They Were in Print? I had heard the stories
of Obama winning his first primary by getting all of his opponents disqualified. But I hadn't heard that
the criteria for disqualifying his opponents was such a technicality. Signatures were rejected because the
names were printed? People's signatures were actually thrown out because they weren't in cursive?
(This presumes that the board didn't have some other, oddly unstated reason to think that the printed names
were fraudulent.)
Suspicious
petitions got a stamped signature. Suspected fake petition pages to place Democrats Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton on the ballot during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter registration
office on days when the Republican head of the office was absent, The Tribune has learned. The pages in
question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at
the time to sign the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious pages examined
by The Tribune contain Silcott's written signature.
Obama
Jobs Council Stacked With Democratic Donors. The group of private-sector business leaders advising
President Obama on how to create jobs and grow the economy is full of deep-pocket Democratic donors and high-profile
financiers of Obama's re-election campaign, a review of Federal Election Commission data shows.
Solyndra:
Obama's Solar Slush Fund. Newly released communications regarding the loan approval for Solyndra,
the now failed California solar energy company, show direct intervention by an Energy Department adviser and
Obama campaign fundraiser, and raise new questions of possible involvement by Rahm Emanuel and the President.
As more is learned, it becomes increasingly clear that the Administration used the Stimulus, and specifically
the green energy loan program, as a campaign slush fund to distribute billions of dollars like party favors to
supporters and to grandstand for re-election to a perceived constituency.
Obama's Commerce Nominee Wants to Limit Energy Consumption and Redistribute Wealth.
The wise man smiled and proclaimed that government should use "regulatory steps" as well as market forces to
intervene in the power generation sector. The man also told his UC Berkeley audience that government should
set higher targets for non-fossil-fuel-based energy production and penalize producers that don't comply.
The issuer of these decrees was John Bryson, who at the time just happened to be CEO of Edison International, a
company whose fortunes would increase under alternative energy mandates. Bryson now happens to be President
Obama's nominee to head the Commerce Department.
More
'Green' For Donor Energy. Follow the money, it has been said, and you'll find out all you need to know.
Two days before the expiration of the program that funneled $535 million to a failing but donor-connected Solyndra,
another billion dollars was rushed to two more solar energy companies. That money could have repaired more
than a few crumbling bridges. You'd think the program would have been suspended until the administration
found out what went wrong. Unless, of course, the program was functioning exactly as
intended — to spread the wealth around with an emphasis on Democratic Party donors.
More solar companies led by Democratic donors received federal loan
guarantees. A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company
Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in
loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of
money to Democratic campaigns.
$737
Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi's Brother-In-Law. It's increasingly hard to tell
the government's green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats' friends and family rewards program.
Wind
Power's Political Payoff. Tom Carnahan, of the Missouri Carnahans, arguably that state's most
prominent political family, is listed on President Obama's campaign website as a host of the St. Louis
fundraising extravaganza amid widespread unemployment and tanking markets. Coincidentally, of course,
Carnahan's energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, is the recipient of a $107 million federal tax
credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.
Fraud
case targets grants awarded by President Obama's friend. The indictment of a Chicago nurse
accused of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds for her personal use has turned a
spotlight on an Illinois state agency that awarded her money while it was headed by one of President Barack
Obama's closest friends, Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, records show. Under Whitaker, the Illinois
Department of Public Health awarded Margaret A. Davis — the former program director of the
Chicago Chapter of the National Black Nurses Association — a no-bid contract and seven AIDS- and
cancer-related grants that became part of her $500,000 cash-siphoning scheme, prosecutors say.
Dem
lobbyist for LightSquared sought meeting at White House. Lobbyist and former Democratic majority
leader Dick Gephardt (Mo.) sought a meeting in April with the White House on behalf of the wireless company
LightSquared, emails obtained by The Hill show. The requests to the White House, made in emails sent
April 22 and April 27 by an employee at Gephardt Group Government Affairs, were initially rebuffed.
Soros
turns up in Obama's LightSquared imbroglio. As Republican lawmakers begin to dig into the White
House's cozy relationship with a startup wireless company and the wealthy Democratic donor who owns it, a new
character has appeared on the story's edges: liberal superdonor, conservative bete noire and controversial
investor George Soros. Soros reportedly invested in the telecom company LightSquared through a hedge fund,
and many of the nonprofits he finances have backed LightSquared in regulatory and policy disputes.
LightSquared:
Obama's Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle. If you thought the half-billion-dollar, stimulus-funded
Solyndra solar company bust was a taxpayer nightmare, just wait. If you thought the botched Fast and
Furious border gun-smuggling surveillance operation was a national security nightmare, hold on. Right on
the heels of those two blood-boilers comes yet another alleged pay-for-play racket from the most ethical
administration ever.
Obama's
Predictable Scandals. The media finally conceded the Obama administration to be inexperienced and
inept, reminiscent of the Carter administration — but, they maintained, not possibly involved in any
corruption. Then suddenly scandals erupted on nearly every conceivable front.
White
House Fingerprints on LightSquared Scandal. The newest Obama Administration scandal-de-jour, LightSquared,
has quickly escalated to involve potentially "guided" testimony to two separate Congressional Committees.
Additionally, two witnesses have confirmed that the White House pressured them to alter testimony in favor of
LightSquared, a Virginia broadband provider whose executives also made very large Democrat Party campaign
contributions.
Issa,
Republicans investigate LightSquared donations. Citing concerns over alleged White House
influence in dispersing loans, California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa announced that the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee would begin an investigation into the wireless startup LightSquared. On
C-SPAN's Washington Journal Tuesday morning [9/20/2011], Issa, who chairs the Oversight Committee, named
LightSquared along with the embattled solar energy company Solyndra as examples of "crony capitalism."
Issa
to launch probe of Obama actions on Solyndra, LightSquared. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said
Tuesday [9/20/2011] that his committee plans to investigate government loan programs to private corporations
in light of allegations of improper dealings between the White House and failed energy company Solyndra and
wireless start-up LightSquared.
More
about Solyndra.
Issa
favors 'Fast & Furious' special prosecutor. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa,
R-Calif., on Tuesday called for a special prosecutor to investigate the growing "Fast and Furious" scandal, in
which the Obama administration allowed guns to walk to Mexico, where they fell into the hands of drug lords
and were found at the murder scene of at least one U.S. border agent.
More
about Fast and Furious.
The
Administration's Tangled Web. [The Obama administration is] imploding under the weight of
incompetent policies based on long-discredited progressive ideology and now a wave of scandals that involve
gun-running, witness-tampering and political payoffs — and cover-ups of all of the above.
Obama Speech was "Obama
Unplugged". [Obama is] the fellow who lectured us yesterday about fighting for the middle class
"as hard as the lobbyists and some lawmakers have fought to protect special treatment for billionaires and big
corporations." This admonition comes from the same fellow who presides over a White House that inappropriately
pressured the Office of Management and Budget to approve half-billion dollars to a company, Solyndra, which
wasn't deserving of the money and has now gone belly up. The reason the money was fast-tracked and
funneled to Solyndra was because its chief investor, George Kaiser, is a significant fundraiser for Obama.
Kaiser, by the way, is a billionaire.
Take from the rich, give to the rich.
[Scroll down] So we have a president whose administration is as pure as sewer sludge. This is far from
being the only looting of the Treasury by this administration and the previous one in its last stages. TARP
and the UAW bailout are two quick examples of shady billion-dollar deals. Sarah Palin calls it crony
capitalism. She is being polite. It is corruption.
Corruption
Squared. Crony capitalism, which has been rampant in President Obama's push for green energy, is
one thing. Rewarding donors with stimulus dollars is merely the "Chicago Way" brought to Washington,
D.C. But when ideology combines with cronyism to place American lives and the nation's security at
risk, it's quite another thing. At issue is a plan by Reston, Va.-based satellite broadcast communications
company LightSquared to build a next-generation 4G wireless phone network.
Barack Obama, Flim-Flam
Man. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has an important column in which he argues that
the Solyndra fiasco is not just a garden-variety scandal, but a criminal fraud that should land someone, inside
and/or outside of the Obama administration, in the slammer. ... The facts warrant a full-scale criminal
investigation.
House
Judiciary chairman urges Justice Department to probe Solyndra loan. House Judiciary Committee
Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) called on the Justice Department Monday to investigate a California solar firm
that filed for bankruptcy in August after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration.
Obama's
Solyndra scandal reeks of the Chicago Way. This is not a new kind of politics. It's the old
kind. The Chicago kind. And now the Tribune Washington Bureau has reported that the U.S. Department
of Energy employee who helped monitor the Solyndra loan guarantee was one of Obama's top fundraisers.
Kaiser Family Foundation 2009 grant sparks more Solyndra questions.
A Daily Caller review of the George Kaiser Family Foundation's income tax returns found that during the same
year billionaire investor George Kaiser successfully secured $535 million in government loan guarantees
for the now-failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, his private philanthropy donated to a political cause
close to the hearts of several high-ranking Obama administration officials. Kaiser, a major Obama donor,
was a frequent White House visitor during the week before the Obama administration approved that
taxpayer-underwritten financial deal.
The
Solyndra Fraud. The Solyndra debacle is not just Obama-style crony socialism as
usual. It is a criminal fraud. That is the theory that would be guiding any competent
prosecutor's office in the investigation of a scheme that cost victims — in this case,
American taxpayers — a fortune. Fraud against the United States is one of the most
serious felony offenses in the federal penal law. It is even more serious than another apparent
Solyndra violation that has captured congressional attention: the Obama administration's
flouting of a statute designed to protect taxpayers.
Obama's
Solar Scandal. Solyndra. That's the name of a company that manufactured solar
panels in Fremont, Calif. (which voted 71 percent for Obama in 2008). It was the first
company to receive a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy as part of the 2009 stimulus
package. This wasn't small potatoes. The loan guarantee was for $535 million.
Solyndra
Nation. To find a metaphor for the failed Obama presidency, look no further
than Solyndra. ... "Keep up the good work!" wrote an administration official to a Solyndra
executive last May. "We're cheering for you." That was before the bankruptcy
filing. Before the 1,100 lost jobs and the empty 650,000-square-foot production facility
in Fremont, California. Before the FBI raid of Solyndra headquarters. Before the
House Energy Committee released emails suggesting the Solyndra loan was rushed and improperly
vetted. These days the White House is tight-lipped. The only cheering comes from
Republicans sensing a possible Obama scandal.
Obama
admin reworked Solyndra loan to favor donor. The Obama administration restructured
a half-billion dollar federal loan to a troubled solar energy company in such a way that private
investors — including a fundraiser for President Barack Obama — moved ahead
of taxpayers for repayment in case of a default, government records show.
Obama's
Pet Billionaire at Solyndra. A high profile, politically well-connected California
solar energy company that had won a $535 million loan guarantee from the Obama Administration
declared bankruptcy earlier this month and closed its doors sending 1100 workers to the unemployment
line. The demise of Solyndra has already sparked an FBI investigation, congressional hearings,
and raised numerous questions of political cronyism and corruption connected to the highest
levels of the Obama Administration.
Emails
Reveal Direct White House Tie to Solyndra Scandal. Yesterday [9/13/2011], ABC
News dropped the bombshell that Bush era Energy auditors actually nixed the loan as unsound,
nd that Obama OMB staffers raised similar concerns upon their own evaluation. The White
House's political team seemed to disagree, putting the deal on a "fast track." Mere days
later, the massive government loan to the unstable "green" poster-child — backed by
major Obama donor cash — was fortuitously approved.
Is
LightSquared the New Solyndra? Last week, Air Force General William Shelton,
Commander of Air Force Space Command, told Congressional leaders in a closed-door session that
the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to favor a company that turns out
to be a major donor to the Democratic Party. ... LightSquared is funded by Harbinger Capital, a
hedge fund owned by Philip Falcone, a major donor to the Democratic Party. LightSquared's CEO,
Sanjiv Ahuja, is also a major donor to the Democratic Party.
White
House Pressure for a Donor? The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a
prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White
House pressured a general to change his testimony.
General
Reported He Was Pressured on Testimony About White House-Backed Project. Gen.
William Shelton, head of the Air Force Space Command, told House members in a classified briefing
earlier this month that he was pressured to change prepared congressional testimony in a way that
would favor a large company funded by Philip Falcone, a major Democratic donor, congressional sources
told Fox News. Republicans have raised questions about whether the project pursued by the company,
LightSquared, is being unduly expedited by the Obama administration, which has pushed for national
wireless network upgrades.
White
House Pressure for a Donor? The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed
by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know
if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.
LightSquared: The Next Big Obama Scandal.
The new Obama scandal is huge, but it's also nice and simple. LightSquared is a satellite broadband
company, based out of Virginia. It received heavy investments from a fund run by a big-money Democrat
donor named Phillip Falcone, a billionaire who "became wealthy shorting subprime debt," according to The
Daily Beast. The company's biggest investors, according to the Huffington Post, include Obama donor
and current U.S. ambassador to South Africa Donald Gips, Obama friend and investment manager George
Haywood... and Barack Obama himself...
Air Force general tells secret Congressional hearing,
White
House forced me to back project funded by Obama donor. A four-star Air Force general
told a classified Congressional hearing he was pressured by the White House into changing a political
briefing to favour a Democratic-backed firm. Air Force Space Commander General William Shelton
was speaking about a wireless project by Virginia satellite broadband company LightSquared. The
Pentagon believes it could interfere with GPS — but the firm's majority owner happens to be
Democratic donor Philip Falcone's hedge fund.
The
Cash-for-Visas Program. As part of his warmed-over jobs plan, President Obama is
repackaging "Buy American" stimulus subsidies to help hard-hit homegrown businesses. At
the same time, however, Congress is pushing to expand a fraud-riddled investor program that
puts U.S. citizenship for sale to the highest foreign business bidders.
SolarGate.
A top bundler and major investor in a now-bankrupt green company made multiple White House visits before
he got a guaranteed stimulus loan that the administration monitored to ensure it was granted.
FBI serves
search warrants at Solyndra. FBI agents served search warrants this morning at Solyndra, the
Fremont solar company that abruptly closed last week, two years after receiving more than $500 million
in federal stimulus money, an agency official said. The search is part of a joint investigation
involving the FBI and the Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General, said FBI spokeswoman
Julianne Sohn, who declined to elaborate.
Solyndra
officials made numerous trips to the White House, logs show. Not only does the
now-bankrupt solar energy firm Solyndra have a cozy financial relationship with the Obama
administration, company representatives also made numerous visits to the White House to meet
with administration officials, The Daily Caller has learned. According to White House
visitor logs, between March 12, 2009, and April 14, 2011, Solyndra officials and
investors made no fewer than 20 trips to the West Wing.
The
Watermelon Regime's Pay-to-Play Way. It just so happens that key players for Solyndra
were lavish supporters of Obama during his election. For example, one George Kaiser, a billionaire
who donated over $50,000 to Obama's campaign and helped raise tens of thousands more, just by pure
random chance happens to be one of the biggest investors in... Solyndra! Kaiser chipped in
fifty lousy grand of his own money to help elect a regime that then chipped in half a billion bucks
to his now-failed business.
Obama
picks snoops' lawyer for consumer bureau. President Barack Obama wants the first chief
of his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general
who offered free legal support to three state officials who snooped through confidential state databases
in search of information about Joe Wurzelbacher, nicknamed "Joe the Plumber."
Solar gold. I am
convinced that the green jobs that Barack Obama promised were simply a politically correct
conduit to funnel taxpayer cash to the politically connected.
Republicans: Solyndra investment
'dubious' from the start. Besides questioning whether the company was a poor risk,
critics have seized on news reports that one of Solyndra's prime financial backers was an Obama
campaign bundler in 2008.
Is
there a Solyndra/ObamaCare Connection? Chatter began to emerge on Thursday [9/1/2011]
about the unique treatment received by the bankruptcy-declaring Solyndra, a government-dependent maker
of solar panels whose scheme, shaped somewhere between a pyramid and a trapezoid, was described in the
Washington Post no less...
Solyndra's
lobbyists. The Obama administration sure liked to tout Solyndra, the solar-power
company that took in millions of federal subsidies before going bankrupt this week. Given
that this company's short life was dependent on government connections, it's worth looking at
Solyndra's lobbyists.
Is
there a Solyndra/ObamaCare Connection? Solyndra resides in Fremont, California,
which in turn rests within the then-cozy confines of California's 13th Congressional District,
represented by Fortney "Pete" Stark. As chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means
Committee's Health Subcommittee during Obama's push for Obamacare, Stark was critical to
Obama's signature step in 'fundamentally transforming America.' You might recall a
few procedural curiosities, some strong-arming and vote-buying that went on way back then.
More
about Solyndra.
Report: Gibson Competitor is Dem Donor; Uses Same Wood, Experienced No Federal
Raids. If true, it add another piece to an increasingly disturbing puzzle.
Will
the Music World Protest Against Feds Eco-Zealous Raid On Gibson Guitar? Does this sudden
interest from the Feds have more to do with the fact that Gibson is non-union and relocated to Tennessee, a
right to work state?
Comcast is the nation's largest cable operator and the new owner of
NBC.*
Comcast
Employees Top Donors to Obama and 'Victory Fund'. While Comcast employees gave
$5,000 each to Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, "Comcast employees contributed nearly $80,000
directly to Obama for America and roughly $200,000 to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint account
benefitting both the Obama campaign and Democratic National Committee, through the first half
of 2011 records show." The Center for Responsive Politics analysis found 40 percent
of Obama Victory Fund contributions are coming from two very blue states: California
(25 percent) and New York (15 percent), also two states where most of our
news and entertainment media are located.
The
Comcast-Obama Alliance. The media is still showing the love for Obama. Not
only does the fawning coverage continue but media executives are putting their money where their
collective mouths are, by showering the Obama campaign with money.
The political-media complex.
There has never been any doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible for the Presidency according to the
Constitution and the binding Supreme Court precedent of Minor vs. Happersett. At least twenty
document experts have now shown that Obama's Certificate of Live Birth is a forgery. The Social
Security Administration has corroborated that Obama is using a Social Security Number not issued
to him. His Selective Service registration is a forgery. All are felonies.
Sufficient evidence is already available. The problem is that neither Congress nor any legal
authority will take action.
Obama Labor Department to Re-Define Term 'Employer' to Exclude Union Bosses.
Any day now, the U.S. Department of Labor, under former Big Labor treasurer and now Obama's current Secretary
of Labor Hilda Solis, intends to announce a new definition for the term "Employer" that will protect her union
boss friends.
Congress
to Investigate White House Involvement with Bin Laden Film. The normally tight-lipped
Obama administration is reportedly giving a Hollywood production company access to sensitive intelligence
information, in an effort to help produce a film about the Osama bin Laden raid. Why would the
White House do something like this, you might wonder? It could have something to do with the movie's
well-timed release date — a month before the 2012 election.
Sony
Hosted Obama Fundraiser, Releasing Bin Laden Movie Before Election. There may be an overtly
political reason that moviegoers will be seeing the story of the Osama bin Laden raid just before they vote
for president. Sony Pictures, the company distributing next year's film, hosted a fundraiser for Barack
Obama on their studio's premises in California last April. So far, Sony is the only major studio to hold
a political fundraiser this cycle. According to Deadline Hollywood, Sony will release the bin Laden movie,
directed by Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, on October 12, 2012 — less than
a month before the presidential election.
Civility, Obama
Style. [Scroll down] Instead Obama has used the agency chairmanships as spoils of
political hackery. To run the [National Endowment for the Arts], he appointed a Broadway producer
("Big River") named Rocco Landesman, whose chief qualification for the job was to share a business office
with one of Obama's most fertile fundraising "bundlers," another Broadway producer ("Hairspray") called
Margo Lion, whose generosity earned her a place atop Obama's "arts policy committee."
Obama's Continued Denial of Illegal
Fundraising Questions. What is clear is that the Obama administration is using this
Memorandum as a cover in saying it did no wrong when it used the room for soliciting campaign funds.
But if one actually reads it, it is simply not the case. Therefore, a thorough investigation should
still be conducted and until a Department of Justice conclusion of the use of the Map Room specifically
is determined to fall outside the realm of this law, a valid concern of illegality is warranted.
Obamanocchio. [Scroll down] These
actions serve as proof positive that Mr. Obama, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett and the rest of the Hyde Park,
Chicago, Progressive Leftist contingent are simply — at their core beings — slimy Chicago
politicians employing the "say anything to win" strategy of instituting crisis while employing fear-tactics
that target our nation's seniors and the most vulnerable among us. It is despicable and our nation
deserves better.
Obama's
OMB ignores document subpoena. Solynydra was the first firm to receive a loan guarantee under
Obama's $859 billion economic stimulus program in 2009. Obama has pushed billions of federal tax
dollars to so-called "clean energy" firms like Solyndra, which makes proprietary solar energy panel equipment.
At least one major fund raiser for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Tulsa, Oklahoma, billionaire George Kaiser,
is among Solyndra's venture capital backers and there have been multiple questions about the firm's future
viability.
Obama's
sleight of hand on lobbyist contributions. "We did this from the bottom up," Obama campaign
manager Jim Messina said of the $86 million haul last quarter by the campaign and the Democratic
National Committee. "We didn't accept one single dollar from Washington lobbyists. ..." This
is true by some definitions, but basically misleading. Plenty of Obama's large donors are, by any reasonable
definition, "Washington lobbyists" — they are simply not registered as such with the congressional
ethics and records offices.
If
Obama ignores the debt limit, he'll totally get away with it. For months Treasury Secretary Tim
Geithner has been warning Congress that a failure to raise the federal government's $14.3 trillion debt
limit would have "catastrophic economic consequences." But now that financial Armegeddon is supposedly
just weeks away, Geithner is raising the possibility that he may ignore the law entirely. And if he did,
he'd get away with it.
Spotlight
on Obama's Alleged Fundraising Illegality. President Obama may enjoy a comfortable lead among
his competitors, but it also seems that he is enjoying a comfortable leniency in protocol in terms of legality
in fundraising. The article in NewsMax explains that Obama used a room in the White House as a location
for a fundraising video in which he and Vice President Biden were touting a raffle for a dinner with the two
of them in exchange for a campaign contribution.
AmeriCorps'
Favorite Scandal-Plagued Mayor. A prominent Democratic politician who was banned from receiving
federal aid three years ago over fraud charges is once again raking in government funds from the very same
program he abused. It pays to be a FOTO — Friend of the Obamas. Our publicly
subsidized con artist is Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson.
Obama's
Suspicious Connections to Clean Tech Companies Receiving Federal Money. Since March of 2009,
Obama has spent over half of his out-of-town business trips visiting 22 different clean-tech projects
with a $90 billion stimulus check to promote the clean-tech companies of his choosing. Superficially,
Obama looks like he's supporting an industry he champions as the next big thing and a creator of an entirely
new sector of jobs. Hiding behind the curtain is a different story, though. The focus of his
clean-tech trips has been to support ventures backed by his donors.
Obama Gives New Grant to ACORN;
Did He Violate Federal Law? Why is President Obama apparently defying federal law by funding ACORN?
Judicial Watch discovered that the Obama administration is flouting the will of Congress by giving federal
taxpayer money to ACORN. Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave a $79,819 grant to
the largest branch of the ACORN tree, ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC). AHC filed papers last year legally changing
its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). It's the same old organization with a
brand new ACORN-free name.
It Turns Out Obama Gave ACORN
$541K This Year, Not $80K. Remember that story from a few days ago, the one about the Obama
administration giving ACORN a $79,819 grant in March despite a federal law that prohibits the government
from giving money to ACORN? It turns out that sum is a lowball figure.
Obama Raffle Video Not
Legal, Election Law Experts Say. A video of President Barack Obama filmed in the White House and
included in a fundraising e-mail sent to supporters is not legal, two election law experts told CNSNews.com.
The video was included in an e-mail sent to supporters of President Obama promoting a fundraising drive that
offered participants a chance to win an invitation to dinner with Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Laws
are for the little people, not President Obama. Based on his behavior, it's apparent the president
views himself as a man so lofty in vision and skill that he's exempt from the decrees imposed on the little
people. ... The following description of Title 18, subsection 607 U.S.C. is so straightforward even
a layperson could understand. ["]It shall be unlawful for an individual who is an officer or employee of
the Federal Government, including the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, to solicit or receive
a donation of money or other thing of value in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, while in
any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties.["]
The Editor says...
Read the law
for yourself.
Fewer prosecuted
in benefits program fraud. People who defraud food stamps, Social Security or other benefits
programs are less likely to face federal criminal charges. In the two years since President Obama took
office, data released by the Justice Department show the number of criminal prosecutions for defrauding those
programs has dropped by about 20% to its lowest point in a decade.
Is the FBI Investigating Obama?
In a front page story about a major FBI terrorism investigation, The Washington Post has reported that the targets
include "Chicagoans who crossed paths with Obama when he was a young state senator and some who have been active
in labor unions that supported his political rise." The implication is that the trail could lead to the
White House.
Top Barack Obama donors net government jobs.
Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama's
run for the presidency. Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered
more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at
least $150,000 more. After the election, Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House,
helping to place loyalists and fundraisers in many key positions.
Judicial Watch says...
Tax
dollars for La Raza skyrocket after Obama appoints one of its leaders to White House post. Should
anybody care when a radical left-wing special interest group gets a big boost in federally funded grants and
contracts after one of its most visible leaders is appointed to a key White House job? That's exactly what
happened after President Obama appointed Cecilla Munoz, the National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) senior vice
president, as his director of inter-governmental affairs, according to an investigation by Judicial Watch.
Obama
rubs elbows with regulatory robber barons. President Obama on Monday [6/13/2011] was scheduled
to give a pep talk for American manufacturing at a factory in Durham, N.C., where Cree Inc. makes LED light
bulbs. Cree embodies Obama-era capitalism: profiting from government grants, political
connections, revolving-door lobbyists and regulations that force people to buy your product.
More
about mandatory fluorescent light bulbs.
Crony
Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade. Barack Obama has long sought to bankrupt the coal
industry. But, Cook County politician that he is and always will be, the relevant question is: who
benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices across
America? A clue: he and his pals from Chicago have incestuous ties to the one company whose
prospects will be boosted by Obama's policies.
How
to Win Payoffs and Intimidate Enemies in Obama's America. Some recent stories instruct us
anew on the cardinal tenets of Obamanomics, a.k.a, pay for play the Chicago way. Consider first the
story reviewing the rush of organizations to get exemptions from Obamacare. So far, nearly 1,400
different entities (businesses, unions, insurers, and state and local governments), covering over three million
people, have been given exemptions from the bill by Obama's HHS Secretary Sebelius, and those waivers have a
disturbing pattern. The Obama regime clearly played the crony capitalist card in granting these waivers.
Who
gets nearly free internet and computers? Who are the lucky beneficiaries among all the Americans
who fit this category? Are you sitting down? Poor blacks in Obama's hometown in Chicago are the
ones getting the sweet deal. Is it also a coincidence that Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former Chief of
Staff, was recently elected mayor and may need to boost his reputation among this same group of people...
Obama's
half-brother runs questionable charity. President Obama's half-brother runs an off-the-books
American charity that claims to support poor Kenyans — but it lies about its federal status and no one
knows how it spends its money. The group, the Barack H. Obama Foundation, was named after the
president's father and founded by his sibling Abon'go Malik "Roy" Obama, a 53-year-old polygamist who
recently made headlines by adding a third wife — who's still in her teens.
Top
official from Obama-backed black chamber faces criminal charges. A top official from the U.S. Black Chamber,
Inc. — the Obama-backed, rival upstart to Harry Alford's National Black Chamber of Commerce — has a
checkered past and faces criminal charges from allegations he exploited a Hurricane Katrina victim.
May the Constitution rest in peace.
Thanks to the malfeasance or political cowardice of the Republican and Democratic Parties, we now have an
ineligible individual, Barack Hussein Obama, occupying the White House. In addition, there is an
increasing amount of credible evidence to suggest that forgery may have been committed during Obama's campaign
for the Presidency. Yet there are no ongoing official investigations. Quite the contrary,
everything is being done by both political parties to suppress any discussion of wrongdoing.
All the President's Funny Money.
President Obama's perpetual campaign cash-o-matic machine kicks into high gear again this week as the
celebrity-in-chief heads to Hollywood for several high-priced fundraisers. But while the Democrats'
2012 re-election team stuffs its hands into every liberal deep pocket in sight, questions about the Obama
2008 campaign finance operation still fester. Last week, the laggard watchdogs at the Federal Election
Commission announced an audit of the Obama 2008 campaign committee -- which raised a record-setting
$750 million. White House flacks are downplaying the probe as a "routine review."
Washington's
"Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2010. Remember the promise President Obama made just
after his inauguration in 2009? "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this
presidency." Instead, Americans have suffered through lies, stonewalling, cover-ups, corruption,
secrecy, scandal and blatant disregard for the rule of law ... this has been the Obama legacy in its first
two years. In 2010, Obama was caught in a lie over what he knew about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's
scheme to sell the president's vacated Senate seat. Blagojevich's former Chief of Staff John Harris
testified that Obama had personal knowledge of Blago's plot to obtain a presidential cabinet position in
exchange for appointing a candidate handpicked by the President.
U.S.
Gives Obama Donor $500 Mil For "Green" Projects. One of President Obama's top fundraisers has
been rewarded with more than half a billion dollars in stimulus money for "green" projects and a coveted
adviser position at the federal agency that regulates his highly profitable business ventures. It's
the very cycle of money, influence and access that Obama vowed to break when he came to Washington,
according to the investigative journalism group that broke the story this week.
FCC Expands Internet Takeover,
Adds Bailouts and Price Controls. The FCC has inserted itself, as a government agency, into the roaming
contract negotiations between private-sector companies. It does so by compelling an agreement and setting
"reasonable rates." ... This is the very definition of crony capitalism. Some companies seek favors from
the FCC. The FCC rewards them with a "regulatory bailout." The bailout allows the corporations to
avoid taking the corrective action necessary to compete in a free market. In turn, those companies become
more dependent upon, and supportive of, increased regulations.
Appointed by Obama to Investigate Union Corruption,
Former
SEIU Official Cuts Number of Investigators. Has President Barack Obama been deceiving America,
with his Ethics Executive Order 13490? It certainly appears that the actions of the Obama Administration
are far from his recent statement that he has "put into place the toughest ethics laws of any Administration
in history [pause] in history." A host of Obama's appointments call into question the President's
commitment to his own Ethics Order.
Misprision of Treason:
Top
DOJ Officials Abandon CAIR Terror Finance Prosecutions. It is a felony offense to know or
have reason to know that seditious activity is underway and do nothing about it. The term used
in the U.S. Code for such a crime is "misprision of treason." Counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole
reveals today that political appointees in the Obama-Holder Justice Department would appear, at a minimum,
to be candidates for prosecution for obstruction of justice and perhaps guilty of violating this statute.
The Aroma of
Illegality. [Scroll down] Obama and Eric "My People" Holder may natter on about
"equal protection." That's just talk, though. What they care about is not the 14th Amendment
but their political program. Example: if you are a white voter in Philadelphia, you don't get
equal protection from armed Black Panthers who strut about polling places. And if some nebbish in the
Justice Department who hasn't gotten the message brings a suit against the Panthers, a higher-up (maybe
even "My People" Holder himself) can quietly drop the suit when he thinks no one is paying attention.
Soros Wins Under Obama's
Energy Policies. Abby Wisse Schacter, in the New York Post, notes that the Obama administration
is clamping down on oil and gas development in America (both onshore and offshore) but is hell-bent on helping
other nation's tap their resources and points out that such help is being showered specifically in New Guinea,
of all places.
George Soros: Demagoat. Another
interesting note: Soros has a lot invested in Brazilian oil production. His puppet, Obama announced
that the U.S. would be investing and trading in Brazil's oil development. Of course, Obama doesn't want to
drill here in the U.S. The connection is very clear. Since Soros is out to destroy the USA like he
has other countries, all of the organizations he funds are nothing but puppets for him, just like Obama.
Obama went to Brazil to protect the Soros investment there in Petrobras.
Obama's
Shady Union Ties. Would most people consider it quite odd that the president of the most
infamous union in the country-the AFL-CIO-brags about how frequently he is a visitor to the White House?
In his words, that's two or three times a week, and that's in addition to his numerous weekly phone conversations
with White House officials. What union business could possibly require such a close alliance between
the AFL-CIO and president Barack Hussein Obama? Certainly, we can only hazard a guess, but if AFL-CIO
president Richard Trumka's actions in the recent past are any indication, he's getting more than tea
and crumpets during his visits.
A Thousand Points of
Blight. In a 2006 speech to the National Press Club about lobbying reform, Illinois Senator
Barack Obama waxed eloquent about the malevolent influence of special interests on Beltway politics: "The
American people are tired of a Washington that's only open to those with the most cash and the right
connections. They're tired of a political process where the vote you cast isn't as important as the
favors you can do." ... Four years later, Obama had long since moved to Pennsylvania Avenue and was receiving
frequent visits from people with more than a passing resemblance to the iniquitous special interests whose
influence had once filled him with righteous indignation.
The Tyranny Of The
Green. [Scroll down] Awards are merely paybacks for political campaign contributions.
British Petroleum was awarded a safety award for its Deep Water Horizon rig a year before the Gulf Coast
disaster. A Politico article by Erika Lovley cited: "During his time in the Senate and while
running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC
and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records."
Obama
administration keeps giving out Obamacare waivers. Although House Energy and Commerce Committee
Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, is about to launch a congressional investigation into Obamacare
waiver selection, the administration continues to approve waivers from health-care law for labor unions and
others. In fact, since Upton first requested documentation from Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius in late January, the administration has issued 307 more Obamacare waivers, 47 of which
for labor unions. That brings the total number of waivers to 1,040. Labor unions received
269 of those.
Vulnerable And Unpopular.
The ObamaCare waivers granted to businesses and organizations now number more than a thousand. This is a
desperate tactic by the administration — as well as a tacit admission that the law is deeply flawed.
The Department of Health and Human Services added 126 waivers Friday [3/4/2011], bringing the total
to 1,040.
More about
the waivers, favoritism and unfairness associated
with Obamacare.
Obama's
Discriminatory Application of Laws Abounds. CNSNews.com reports that the administration gave
one-year waivers to 28 separate local chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union,
exempting them from an Obamacare requirement that bans annual limits on what insurance plans will pay for
coverage. The UFCW's political action committee spent $673,309 in independent expenditures promoting
Obama's 2008 election.
Obama's
Labor Department isn't just about helping unions. Don't like your boss? Just call Obama's
Department of Labor, and they'll help you find a lawyer. ... There is a Bush-era executive order still in
effect ... which bars the federal government from directly hiring trial lawyers on a contingency fee basis.
This program, which merely refers them, might not actually break the rule, but it walks right up to the line.
Obama's Ongoing War on
Inspectors General. One inspector general after another faults the Obama administration for using
suspect methodology to burnish its claims regarding job creation. At one point, Obama wanted to create
a brand new $30-billion government program to grant loans to small business. The program was designed to
be free of any oversight by inspectors general. This program had the potential to be a thirty-billion-dollar
slush fund to channel taxpayer dollars to those people who are allies of the Obama administration.
Rep.
Issa: Obama 'feigns perfection' without achieving it on lobbying rules. Congressional
leaders offered a chilly response to President Obama's call for lawmakers to match the White House in
publicly disclosing their meetings with lobbyists. The Republican in charge of government reform,
Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), rejected the suggestion out of hand and brushed back the president by noting
reports that White House officials met with lobbyists at coffee shops to avoid their own disclosure rules.
Obama's Solar Nightmare:
[Scroll down] How else have the Democrats been trying to change our power industry? By the old-fashioned
way: changing the rules of the game and then using our tax dollars to enrich green schemers. The
grand champion of spending boosts by Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress has been a 1014% boost in spending
for the "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program." Then there is something called the Green Jobs
Labor Fund — which did not even exist prior to 2009 and has received hundreds of millions of dollars.
But wait... there is more. Much of the stimulus money also went toward funding green schemes, and one
of the major beneficiaries have been solar power promoters. These are, in the words of Washington Post
columnist Robert Samuelson, "pipe dreams." Many of the promoters and hucksters behind these "ventures"
have chummy relationships with Democrats...
Obama Administration one of the most corrupt, says
Rep. Issa. US Representative Darrell Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, spent the weekend bashing the Obama Administration saying it was one of the most corrupt
administrations ever. The California congressman stated he intends to investigate such incidents as Obama
White House promises made to Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak to drop out of his Senate race in 2010, and the
allegations of misconduct by Justice Department officials in the handling of the allegations that New Black Panther
Party intimidated voters on election day.
Is
there corruption in the Obama administration? [Scroll down] Here's a slightly more complete
list of corruption in the Obama administration, or questions that deserve investigation for possible corruption
and violation of his ethics rules:
• Ex Google lobbyist Andrew McLaughlin working as the No. 2 tech policy guy in
the White House discussing net neutrality with Google lobbyists (registered and unregistered) while
Google stood to profit from the administration's Net Neutrality rules.
• Former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson taking a job as Treasury
Department chief of staff within 9 months of his work for Goldman.
• Obama officials meeting off campus for official business for the sake of
avoiding the Presidential Records Act.
Government as a Criminal Enterprise.
The Obama administration is "one of the most corrupt administrations in modern times" said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)
Sunday, January 2. As the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
we can expect some explosive revelations.
Former Car Czar Rattner To Pay $10 Million
To Settle Pay-to-Play Lawsuits. Former Obama "car czar" Steve Rattner agreed Thursday to pay $10 million
to settle two lawsuits filed by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for an alleged kickback scheme involving New York
State's public pension fund.
Former car czar
Rattner to pay $10M in pension fund probe. The investment banker who helped lead the Obama administration's
auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10 million to settle influence-peddling allegations in New York.
Obama
party stays in home taxed at $300. The absentee owner of a multimillion-dollar home being used
by President Barack Obama's visiting entourage gets one of the biggest residential property tax breaks on
Oahu. Kevin Comcowich, the Houston investment executive who purchased the nearly 5,000-square-foot
home for $9 million in January 2008, was charged $300 in property taxes this year.
Pigford and
New Black Panthers: Friends at DOJ. At the Justice Department, one man has played a central role in
two of the most controversial racialist policies of the Obama Administration — Associate Attorney General Thomas
Perrelli. This bundler of huge campaign contributions for the Obama Campaign is now the second highest ranking
Presidential appointee at the Justice Department. Perrelli is best known for his central role in dismissing the
slam dunk voter intimidation case brought and dropped against the New Black Panther Party. But the leftist
Perrelli has outdone himself.
Obama's
DOJ is a freedom of information disgrace. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
(CREW) just issued what is probably its unkindest press release so far about the Obama administration, comparing
its Justice Department to the Bush administration when it comes to transparency.
How to tell when a democrat
is losing an election. Obama just endorsed sending out $250 checks to the 58 million
seniors receiving social security checks coincidently only two weeks before an election. Yet it's Obama,
Pelosi, and Reid who took away $500 billion in Medicare from those same seniors.
Obama Rules That SEIUs Law Breaking is OK By Him.
With a recent Federal Election Commission decision, Obama's government has ruled in favor of the SEIU's illegal
kickback scheme and decided that such law breaking it is A'OK as far as he is concerned.
Obama's Costly Green
Jobs Project. [Scroll down] So there's really no way the Ivanpah business model can lose.
Up-front financing and price guarantees for thirty years down the road. So who might benefit from such a cozy
government-business arrangement? Brightsource investors include Google.org (a member of Van Jones's
Apollo Alliance) and the California State Teachers Retirement System. Billions in federal financing,
billions every year for the next thirty years in taxpayer subsidies for above-market priced electricity, with
profits going to Obama insiders like the Apollo Alliance and a teachers' union? Should we really call
this "clean" energy?
41 Obama White House
aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes. Over the years a lot of suspicion has built up across
the country about Washington and its population of opportunistic transients coming to see themselves as a
special kind of person, somehow above average working Americans who don't labor down in that monument-strewn
former swamp. Well, finally, an end to all those undocumented doubts. Thanks to some diligent
digging by the Washington Post, those suspicions can at last be put to rest. They're correct.
Gen. 'Stonewall'
Holder. [Scroll down] The administration, moreover, touts itself as "the most transparent
in history" while steadfastly refusing to disclose the names of lawyers who previously litigated on behalf of
al Qaeda members (though two, principal deputy solicitor general Neal Katyal and national security division
attorney Jennifer Daskal, were well known for their work on behalf of detainees). The Obama Justice
Department seems determined to prevent the timely release of information that might give the public insight
into just who is offering advice on controversial matters of national security.
Covering up for George
Soros. [Scroll down] For example, Soros has made a boatload of money off his huge investment
in the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, a company that has benefited mightily from its deep offshore oil
reserves. Barack Obama had the U.S. Export-Import bank extend billions of dollars of loans to underwrite
Petrobras's offshore oil development. Soros positioned himself to reap big gains just days before his
pal in the White House pushed for billions in loans to Petrobras — a company from a country that
can certainly tap the financial markets on its own to raise funds to tap oil off its shores.
Obama's Other
Chicago Problem. [Scroll down] Mr. Obama continued to swing for Mr. Giannoulias right
through the news that the Giannoulias's Broadway Bank had loaned millions to Michael "Jaws" Giorango, a
convicted bookmaker, as well as other crime figures. He stuck with him through the news that some of
this money had been disbursed when Mr. Giannoulias was the bank's senior loan officer. And Mr. Obama
stuck with him when even the Democratic speaker of the Illinois House, Mike Madigan, refused to endorse Mr.
Giannoulias. "My history in politics, if you were alleged to be connected to the mob, you were done,"
said Mr. Madigan in the run-up to the 2006 treasurer's election.
Why Do Ethics Cost
More in the Obama White House? In 2008, the Bush administration paid four White House Ethics
advisors a total of $383,015, whereas the four Ethics advisors in the Obama White House will rake in $491,176
in 2010. Three of those four, according to FEC records, are Obama campaign donors. Interestingly
enough, the Obama administration's 2009 report listed no Ethics advisors... which could go a long way toward
explaining their actions.
Obama's
pattern of rigging the rules. Barack Obama learned from Saul Alinsky's manual that the most
essential tactic for expanding power is to make opponents abide by the rules while never enforcing the
rules against one's allies. That's exactly what his Justice Department and other executive departments
are doing in case after case, all aimed at rigging the deck in favor of the political left.
Obama's Treachery:
Election tampering by Obama treads upon the very foundation of American exceptionalism — free
elections in a representative democracy. ... Election tampering and transparent corruption are not business
as usual unless you're a Democrat. Whether it be suppression of the black vote in the south for a
hundred years after the Civil War, Tammany Hall politics at the turn of the 20th century in New York,
machine politics in Chicago, or bribes and payoffs for votes on health care and stimulus funding, the
failure to prosecute polling place intimidation by the Black Panthers in Philadelphia or Acorn voter
registration fraud, this is the Democratic Party Way, the Obama Way.
Daschle
Goes, Geithner Stays? High-profile tax-scofflaw Tom Daschle has been shamed out of an
appointment as secretary of health and human services. ... But the most outrageous offender, Timothy
Geithner, was confirmed as Treasury secretary, borne aloft on an air of indispensability.
When Crimes
Become Mistakes. For a president who said he was going to preside over the most ethical
administration in history, Barack Obama has shown an astounding talent of being able to find appointees who
mistakenly manage to forget to pay their taxes. Just look at Timothy Geithner, for example. The
new Treasury secretary — the man who oversees the IRS — forgot to pay $34,000 in taxes.
Schumer, Durbin and Barney Frank See No
Problem with Treasury Nominee's Tax Problems. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank
(D-Mass.) told CNSNews.com that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner is qualified to serve despite his failure
to properly pay at least $34,000 in taxes. Other members of Congress, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) agreed, but some Republicans questioned the nomination.
Surely this isn't what Obama meant when he vowed
change. Three of his top nominees have been caught with tax problems, two them departing abruptly
Tuesday. Two more were former lobbyists named to high positions despite Obama's ban on lobbyists in his
administration. Yet another, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, had to withdraw weeks earlier because of
an investigation into alleged "pay-to-play" politics at home.
Victims of
the Tax Code? Not So Fast. The tax system is complicated. It is, according to many
lawyers and tax preparers, in need of sweeping reform. But the tax code can hardly be blamed for the
recent problems of Obama administration appointees who came up short in what they owed the government,
several tax experts said yesterday.
Culture of
Corruption II. When in the last election Democrats spoke of a "culture of corruption" in
Washington, few realized they were making a promise. The Obama Administration is not yet three weeks
old but already features a growing collection of ethically challenged officials.
The Neediest Cases. Tom
Daschle is not the Tom Daschle Barack Obama thought he knew. Today, as the Washington Post reports,
Daschle withdrew his nomination as secretary of health and human services, "citing the distractions that
followed his failure to pay all of his taxes in recent years." Hey, how come when "distractions" were
raised about Obama during the campaign, the candidate told us to shut up and talk about the real issues,
whereas when the "distractions" concern Obama's nominees, he throws them under the bus?
Making Americans
Sick. [Scroll down] The Fanjul family of Palm Beach, Fla., a politically connected family,
has given more than $1.8 million to both Democratic and Republican parties over the years. They and
others in the sugar industry give millions to congressmen to keep high tariffs on foreign sugar so the U.S.
sugar industry can charge us higher prices. According to one study, the Fanjul family alone earns
about $65 million a year from congressional protectionism.
Welcome
to the major leagues, President Obama. There are multiple lessons to be gleaned by President
Barack Obama from the withdrawal Tuesday of former Sen. Tom Daschle as the White House nominee for secretary
of the Health and Human Services Department. [For example] Having made strong public defenses of two of
your three major nominees with tax problems, you have become a defender of Washington's business-as-usual
culture and given up the opportunity to portray yourself as the man who was going to bring change to the
Potomac. It was a huge mistake to condone conduct by your Treasury and HHS secretary nominees that
would have ruined the reputation of most people.
Daschle dashed, and some promises, too. It
wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama was on the campaign trail, talking about hope and change, about the
purity he would bring to Washington. ... Now comes reality, governing, and two cabinet nominees who evaded
taxes, one nominee faced with corruption allegations and another nominee who was going to keep an eye on
government performance but who apparently neglected to keep an eye on her own.
Standing Behind
Daschle. When Barack Obama was asked last Monday if he still supported Tom Daschle, his
embattled Health and Human Services nominee, the president gave a firm one-word response: "Absolutely."
Oh, the ethics of it
all. Mr. Daschle proved to be a true limousine liberal; he failed to pay taxes on the limousine
he used while earning $5.2 million advising — among other industries — insurers and
hospitals (two of the industries he would be overseeing). ... After Mr. Daschle removed his name from
nomination, the president said the withdrawal filled him with "sadness and regret." Why would it if he
is serious about upholding ethics in Washington?
Obama
Needs to Give Tax Dodging Nominees a Rest. The form contained 63 questions for those seeking
high posts in the Obama administration. The questionnaire asked for writings, speeches, financial
statements, tax returns, e-mail, brokerage statements, mortgage papers, some documents going back 10 years
or more. ... Perhaps the Obama team should have added a 64th question. "Have you ever cheated on
your taxes?"
A touch of Chicago. You can't say
this new administration isn't changing Washington. Because politically, the nation's capital is starting
to look a lot like Chicago on the Potomac, complete with the sleazy deals and subsequent embarrassment.
We're supposed to believe that any resemblance between the goings-on in the Windy City, whose civic culture is
legendary for its, uh, ethical flexibility, and the current process of picking a Cabinet is purely
coincidental.
Obama Needs
To Fire Someone. The first revelations were Tim Geithner and Bill Richardson. Now Daschle
and Killifer are gone because of unpaid taxes. Next Hilda Solis comes along letting us know she was not
only pimping for a labor group against Congressional rules, but her husband had tax liens for 16 years.
She wants us to believe that she has no knowledge of the tax matter. It is possible that her husband did
not know that she was in the California Legislature or a member of Congress, but now realizes that he should
do the right thing and be a model citizen. It certainly possible he hid it from her until Obama came
calling and he had a "Honey, we need to talk" conversation. However that scenario seems a little
farfetched to me.
Here We Go Again.
Let's see... a Democratic representative gets free housing from a pollster who enjoys some very lucrative
contracts from both that representative and a very influential group said representative heads up? Why,
I'd never even suggest some kind of a quid pro quo arrangement. All through his campaign, Obama and his
surrogates touted his great judgment and his commitment to change and transparency. Yet more and more of
his nominees keep getting exposed for their ethical lapses ... .
'The Most Sweeping Ethics Reform in History'?
Barack Obama promised during his campaign to "clean up both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue" with "the most sweeping ethics
reform in history." He declared that his administration would "have the toughest ethics laws of any administration
in history." But shouldn't that moral commitment extend to all of those he appoints, too? Recently, many people
were nominated by Obama for high-ranking positions in his administration. Six of them were involved in tax evasion
or other shady deals.
Above the
Law. These are the times that tax men's souls. Unless, that is, you're an Obama
administration appointee and opt out — or try to.
Democrats
self-destructing over ethics. The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly
handing over to Republicans the same "culture of corruption" issue that Democrats used so effectively
against the GOP before coming to power.
Democrats hit ethics pothole early in Obama
administration. The Obama administration and the new Congress are rapidly giving Republicans the
same "culture of corruption" issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.
Democrats' ethical issues are popping up at a dizzying pace, after less than two months of party control of both
the White House and Congress. Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. is only the latest embarrassment.
The People Who Can Make or
Break Obama. [#5] Roland Burris: ... The Illinois GOP is calling for him to resign and the
Democratic Senate is nervously eying the contradictory transcripts. The dilemma for the Senate and the
White House is once again how to deal with the ooze of corruption from Illinois. Will they put a halt
to the budding storyline — which includes figures such as Rep. Charlie Rangel, Sen. Chris Dodd, and Reps.
James Moran and Jack Murtha? It is getting hard to deny that the Democratic Party is rife with
corruption.
More personnel
trouble for Obama? It looks like 3 times will not be a charm when it comes to getting
someone — anyone — honest enough and subservient enough to run the Department of
Commerce for President Obama. First, it was Bill Richardson who somehow slipped under the radar of
Obama's super sharp vetters, having problems with cronies back in New Mexico. Then it was Judd Gregg who
withdrew his name after Obama blindsided him by politicizing the census. Now it's Gary Locke —
former Governor of Washington and now lobbyist for a firm that does a lot of business in China —
who may have to be thrown under the bus. Why? The old Clinton-Gore connection to the Buddhists.
And a close association with former Clinton era fundraiser and convicted felon John Huang who raised hundreds
of thousands of dollars for Locke.
Barack Obama surrounding
himself with spivs and chancers. So for those impressed more by words and racial symbols than
performance, the most unqualified president since before even John F. Kennedy remains above the kind of
vicious media criticism routinely heaped on Bush. But how loudly would the people who cheer Obama have
screamed if Bush had, for instance, surrounded himself with this extraordinarily long list of spivs and
chiselers?
Rep.
Grace Napolitano Pays Herself $200,000 In Interest On 1998 Loan. The Democrats campaigned to
take over the reins of the majority in Congress by promising to "drain the swamp" of a "culture of
corruption" by the Republican Party. Examples of Democratic corruption or self-dealing go largely
unnoticed. For two weeks now, the national media has ignored a Los Angeles Times report that Rep.
Grace Napolitano has paid herself more than $150,000 in interest on $150,000 she loaned herself in her
initial 1998 House campaign.
Another
day, another scandal from Team Obama. From pocketing $100,000 for a cattle futures trade made
in her name by a lobbyist, to White water, to Filegate, to Travelgate, to Monicagate, to the Mark Rich
pardon, to Norman Hsu, to hubby investing overseas, to hubby collecting $50 million in speeches, to
hubby pocketing money from the Saudis... (Have I left anything out? Probably.) Mrs. Clinton is
the most corrupt official ever appointed to a Cabinet post.
U.S.
charges Obama fund-raiser in $290 million fraud. Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than
$290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday [9/21/2009].
Another Obama pick
owes back taxes, but it's OK because, now caught, he'll pay up. Word today that yet another
Barack Obama appointee has a little problem with taxes — a $10,000 problem. Ron Kirk, the
former mayor of Dallas who would be the White House chief trade representative if confirmed, didn't pay
taxes on some speaking fees he donated to his alma mater and he tried to write off the full $17,000 costs
of his Dallas Mavericks season tickets. Not sure if we have room here to list every other would-be
Obama appointee who turns out to have some tax problems.
The Editor says...
Season tickets (or lifetime tickets) to the Mavericks games can't possibly be worth $17,000. And I would
think that any former Dallas mayor could get in to see the Mavericks at no charge, but I guess not.
Another Obama Nominee, Another Tax Problem.
It appears you have to be a tax cheat to get an appointment in this administration. The latest case of tax
delinquency is Ron Kirk, Obama's pick for U.S. trade representative. It seems Mr. Kirk, a former Dallas
mayor, owes some $10,000 in back taxes for speaking fees he received which he failed to report as income.
And oh yeah, for those season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks!
President
Obama suffers a trust deficit. For sheer chutzpah, it would be hard to top the scene on Capitol
Hill yesterday. As Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner vowed to go after wealthy Americans who shield money
in tax havens, the man wielding the chairman's gavel in the House Ways and Means hearing was Democrat Charlie
Rangel. Perfect together. Geithner and Rangel are two peas in a pod when it comes to dodging their
own taxes, and neither is embarrassed about demanding others pay up.
Geithner
Touts Tackling Tax Evaders After Failing to Pay His Own Taxes. Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that the Obama administration, which has been
riddled with tax problems, is mounting plans to go after tax evaders.
Cabinet
picks throw wrench into message. In the short time Obama has been in office, his administration
has faced a number of questions about statements made by Cabinet officials that seemed to contradict his
policies or put the White House in an awkward position. One of the more recent examples happened last
week when Attorney General Eric Holder said that the president would seek to reinstate the assault-weapons
ban, an assertion that surely sent chills up the spines of Blue Dog Democrats and checks pouring in to the
National Rifle Association.
Conflict-of-interest
issues grow for urban czar Adolfo Carrion. President Obama's new urban czar, Adolfo Carrión,
admitted Tuesday he has not paid an architect who designed a renovation of his Bronx home two years ago. That
presents conflict-of-interest issues because at the time the architect was a key player in a Bronx development that
needed approval from Carrión, then the Bronx borough president. In a statement to the Daily News,
Carrión admitted he hadn't paid architect Hugo Subotovsky to design a porch and balcony for his City
Island home.
What's Obama smiling
about? The Obama presidency is becoming a reverse fairy tale: The prince is turning into a
frog. ... What about integrity in government? Judging by his gutter-ball series of appointments and attempted
appointments, I am beginning to think that either his vetting process was actually looking for crooks or the president
is moving in the wrong circles. Obama put a tax-cheat in the U.S. Treasury, tried to put an even bigger tax-cheat
in Health, and only reluctantly dropped an accused influence peddler as commerce secretary.
Exclusive:
Democratic donors rewarded with W.H. perks. During his first nine months in office, President
Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private
briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings.
Conflict of Interest for
Obama's Weatherization Czar. [A small window company called Serious Materials] got some high
profile endorsements from President Obama and Vice President Biden, which is suspicious because the company's
vice president for policy is married to the overseer of President Obama's weatherization program, Cathy Zoi.
Amazingly, Serious Materials was the only "green" window company to receive some recent tax credits from the
federal government.
'Poster Child' for Obama hypocrisy on green jobs? Robin
Roy is a senior executive of Serious Materials, a California-based windows maker that was virtually unknown
within its industry until last year when President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden began praising it as, in
the latter's words, the "poster child of green industry." ... Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi, Roy's
wife, just happens to be the Obama appointee in charge of the government's crash weatherization program.
Big Government's
Cronies. Of all the window companies in America, maybe it's a coincidence that the one which
gets presidential and vice presidential attention and a special tax credit is one whose company executives
give thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign and where the policy officer spends nights at home with the
Energy Department's weatherization boss. Or maybe not. There may be nothing illegal about
this. ... But it sure looks funny to me, and it's odd that the liberal media have so much interest in
this one company.
The Weatherization
Boondoggle: Leave it to the left to turn something as sensible as insulating your house into
a big-government organized-labor boondoggle. ... President Obama's proposed $6 billion program known as
HOMESTAR, a.k.a. Cash for Caulkers, is only one of many energy efficiency initiatives taking place on federal,
state and municipal levels.
Funk & Wagnall's
Standard Dictionary of the Rnglish Language,
1964 International Edition, Volume One, page 548.
Cash
for caulkers invites for-profit politics. The Obama administration appointee who would run a proposed
subsidy program dubbed "Cash for Caulkers" has intimate ties to a company that has lobbied for the bill and would
profit from it. Al Gore acolyte Cathy Zoi, the Energy Department official in charge of energy efficiency,
has testified in favor of the caulkers bill, which the House passed last week. She would administer it if
it became law and is married to an executive at a window company that has pushed for this legislation.
Obama
Donor Gets Sweetheart Real Estate Deal in Chicago. With much-publicized ties between President
Barack Obama, the SEIU labor union and the ACORN volunteer organization, it would be a safe assumption that
someone with a business relationship with not just one, but both of those groups would have an inside track
on doing business with an Obama associate.
Obama
amnesia: Fishy campaign donations in '08. President Barack Obama made a number of accusations at his
State of the Union speech on Wednesday. Chief among them was his attack on the Supreme Court, who sat a stone's throw
away from him in the House chamber, for their decision to roll back a number of campaign finance laws last week.
Historian
Martin J. Sklar Makes the Case for Eric Holder's Impeachment. [Scroll down] This raises two important
political and constitutional questions: Is the decision to try [9/11 terrorists] as criminals rather than as
prisoners of war legal, and are those who made this decision to be held accountable? If it is not legal, and
if it was indeed Eric Holder's decision, is this an impeachable offense?
Academic malpractice.
In the recent annals of senatorial vote-buying, there have been the Cornhusker Kickback and the Louisiana
Purchase. Now make way for the Bismarck Earmark. ... From a policy standpoint, the entire bill is a bad
idea because it takes away consumer choice. By the standards of ethical government, the legislative
sausage-making undertaken by Mr. Conrad and Mr. Harkin smells particularly rancid.
Obama's bundlers
occupy dozens of key positions. [Scroll down] An analysis by the American Foreign Service
Association, for example, found that Obama has stuffed the diplomatic corps with more political appointees (i.e.,
cronies) than any president in the past 40 years. Only a year into the administration, close of half
of the president's biggest donors already have federal jobs.
DOT
Spokesperson's ACORN-y Background 'Very Telling'. So in Barack Obama's America, what happens to
a person who ... In October 2008, registered to vote in the Buckeye State, even though she was not a resident,
and apparently obtained an early-voting ballot? [And] Along with a dozen others, avoided a threatened felony
prosecution that month by signing "a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their
names from the rolls." Why, you get hired by Uncle Sam at what is probably a six-figure salary to be a
Transportation Department spokesperson. Isn't that obvious?
$150M
Anthrax Vaccine Contract Goes to Firm With Close Dem Party Ties. The Obama administration has
steered up to $150 million in federal funding for the development and production of an anthrax vaccine
to a bio-defense firm with strong Democratic Party ties, Fox News has learned.
Obama, the Chicago
Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund: [Scroll down slowly] We saw how stimulus money
flowed disproportionally to Democratic districts (twice as much as GOP districts). But we won't see how
this 30 billion dollar slush fund is spent. Will it flow to window companies run headed by the husband
of the White House official in charge of weatherization, as was stimulus money? Will the money flow to
companies headed by Democratic owners, as was a lucrative no-bid contract for work on Afghanistan?
Identifying the Gitmo
Nine: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. seems to have a bizarre urge to stick his finger in
the eyes of congressmen. On subject after subject, he has refused to give substantive answers to basic,
straightforward congressional inquiries. In the latest instance, Mr. Holder's obstinacy could put
national security at risk.
Q:
How Much Does It Cost to be a Federal Judge in Rhode Island? A: About $700,000. Ed
Whelan flags a report that trial lawyer John J. McConnell, who was nominated by the president to a
district judgeship in Rhode Island, donated nearly $700,000 in the past 20 years to various Democrats.
Holding Holder in
contempt: The Senate Judiciary Committee has cause to consider finding Attorney General
Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress. During his confirmation process last year,
Mr. Holder withheld a tremendously important legal brief from the committee. Combined with a
series of other occasions on which the attorney general has stonewalled congressional queries, this new
revelation reflects so badly on Mr. Holder's ethics that it puts in doubt his fitness for office.
The Big Wind-Power Cover-Up:
Spain exposed the boondoggle of wind power in 2009, discrediting an idea touted by the Obama administration.
In response, U.S. officials banded with trade lobbyists to hide the facts.
Breaking the Obama
Code: The Green Money Machine. [Scroll down] As a few dozen dot com billionaires
gathered in a Palo Alto living room one evening in early 2007, then-Senator Obama rallied potential new donors
over the speakerphone. After the call, the host John Roos, a prominent lawyer, emphasized what most of
his guests already knew. The clean-energy revolution was gaining momentum. The election in 2008
would be the critical moment. The ethics-based green revolution could be passed into law and Obama was
their guy. Roos raised much money and opened many doors for Obama that evening. In May 2009, despite
initial criticism from Japan, Roos was given the plum appointment of U.S. Ambassador.
ObamaCare
Signing: Ex-con at the Scene of the Crime. Convicted felon Robert Creamer, who wrote the
blueprint for the Democrats' health care reform campaign, attended official health care signing celebrations
in Washington, D.C. yesterday. He was joined by numerous activists and "community organizers" who have
had their sights set on nationalizing health care and have finally achieved it. Creamer's spouse, Rep.
Jan Schakowsky, was one of the bill's most vociferous proponents.
Possible Supreme Court
pick had ties with Goldman Sachs. A top prospect for the Supreme Court was a paid member of an
advisory panel for the embattled investment firm Goldman Sachs, federal financial disclosures show.
Solicitor General Elena Kagan was a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global
Markets Institute, according to the financial disclosures she filed when President Obama appointed her
last year to her current post.
Obama energy
official has ties to firms that stand to benefit. A top Obama administration official who's
helping lead a campaign for energy conservation has a major financial interest in two companies that are
poised to benefit from the government's spending. Cathy Zoi, the assistant secretary of energy for
energy efficiency and renewable energy, owns between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of stock in Landis+Gyr, a
Swiss-based manufacturer of special electric meters that are used to create an efficient "smart" grid of
electricity use.
The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud.
While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago
Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House. ... The Chicago
Climate Exchange (CCX) advertises itself as "North America's only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse
gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide." Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce
Foundation from 1994 to 2002 when the CCX startup grants were issued. As president, pushing
cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities. Now isn't that special?
Obama's Owned — You Can Bank On It.
[Scroll down] How about just punishing the guilty? The Democrats can't do that because the list of Wall Street's biggest
offenders may turn out to be eerily similar to the list of Obama's biggest campaign contributors. Employees
from Goldman Sachs gave more to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of
California — with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase quickly following in sixth and seventh place.
Shoring Up Chicago's
Community Bank. Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee want to find out if
anyone in the Obama White House attempted to influence the financial bailout of a well-known Chicago-based
"community bank," which faced FDIC closure last week, and which, going back to the Clinton Administration,
has had close ties to ACORN and the leftist community-organizing world of Chicago.
Tony
Rezko, Barack Obama, the FBI Mole, and the Somnolent Chicago MSM. The Chicago media covers
Illinois political corruption like crime reporters. They show up at the scene, gather for the perp
walk, snap a photo, and cover the trial. In short, they wait for the story to happen and then accept
official explanations with minimum scrutiny. Consequently, when the Machine gets caught, it's generally
not the media that breaks the story. And it's been that way in Chicago for a very long time.
Were
Obama's own mortgage documents signed by a 'robo-signer'? A consumer advocacy Web site has obtained
some mortgage paperwork for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's home in Chicago. The documents,
which show that the couple's mortgage of $210,000 was fully paid on May 10, 2005, are signed by a Chase
Home Finance vice president Marshe Craine. The interesting thing about the documents is that Craine's
signature on court documents related to other people's homes looks radically different from the version on
the Obamas' paperwork. In other, unrelated cases, attorneys for homeowners have accused loan processing
companies of allowing employees to forge other people's signatures.
Did
someone mention Tony Rezko?
The Shady
ShoreBank Bailout. "No more bailouts, no more greed, how many profits do you need?" That's
been a signature chant of community organizers and Big Labor thugs who have stormed bank offices and financial
executives' private homes decrying corporate welfare over the past several months. But now that the federal
government and a coalition of big banking interests are poised to bail out a crony Chicago bank with longtime
ties to the Obama administration, Saul Alinsky's avenging angels are nowhere to be found.
No
penalty for misuse of federal credit cards. An investigation that found thousands of dollars in
unauthorized purchases of clothing, gold coins, flat-screen televisions, gym memberships and college tuition
payments by employees of the Federal Protective Services using government purchase cards has resulted in no
disciplinary action.
Too
Green To Fail? Sometimes banks are too small to fail, such as when they are in the president's
hometown, deal with the president's friends and serve the president's agenda. Or should we perhaps say
too connected to fail?
Rumors
abound as to exactly how Mrs. Obama obtains her wardrobe. Rumors abound as to exactly
how the first family obtains all the pomp and frills associated with Mrs. Obama's wardrobe. Do
the Obamas pay for it all themselves or are the first lady's outfits given to her gratis? As
with most things, it appears the answer lies somewhere in the middle. Ikram Goldman, owner
of the Chicago boutique Ikram, manages the majority of the first lady's sartorial needs. Any
designer wishing to dress Mrs. Obama must first go through Goldman, who remains exceedingly
tight-lipped as to her dealings with the first lady.
AIG Hired To
Regulate AIG. Sometimes, the revolving door spins a little too quickly. James Cole,
Obama's recent nominee for Deputy Attorney General, has worked as an independent consultant at AIG for
the past five years — the company at the center of Department of Justice investigations as
recently as two months ago. His firm was paid $20 million to assist with AIG's legal compliances
in that investigation.
Revealed: The Obama
Donor List. In 2008 the liberal media provided the cover needed for Obama to get elected, but
two years later, questions remain about his relationship with ACORN and it has been clear that Obama has lied
repeatedly to the American people. Its time to get Obama and ACORN on the record about what really happened
with the donor lists in 2007 and 2008.
Bam
booster 'mega-fraud'. A Manhattan businessman who once hosted a $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser
for President Obama was busted in a $21 million bank fraud yesterday [7/23/2010]. Courtney
Dupree, 41, was snared by the president's new Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.
Retired general: Congress should
give Obama ultimatum. Retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a noted military leader
who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites,
earlier told WND he would like Obama to resign. Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in
1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific, said, "We now must call for the
immediate resignation of Barry Soetoro (aka President Barack Hussein Obama) ... based on incompetence,
deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution."
Obama
rewarded party donors with 'key jobs in government and millions of dollars in contracts'.
President Obama faced fresh controversy today [6/16/2011] after it emerged that he rewarded rich supporters
who donated cash to his election campaign with influential jobs in government. Obama had previously
promised during his presidential run in 2007 to cut out wealthy donors who buy their way into key posts.
But a a [sic] report has found that 200 donors were rewarded with key posts in the White House
and lucrative federal contracts.
Blago Goes Down. "This time the
verdict was unequivocal," reports the Chicago Tribune, "with the jury of 11 women and one man finding
Blagojevich guilty [6/27/2011] on 17 criminal counts he faced, including charges of wire fraud, attempted extortion,
bribery and conspiracy." One of those guilty verdicts came on the infamous charge of attempting to sell
Barack Obama's Senate seat.
Justice Has Never Been High
on Eric Holder's Docket. Obama considered ACORN to be an arm of his campaign. That's why
his campaign paid ACORN affiliate Citizens Services Inc. to do partisan political work. The Obama
campaign disguised its $832,598 payment to Citizens Services Inc., falsely describing it in campaign
finance filings as "polling, advance work and staging major events." In reality, CSI performed
get-out-the-vote services. After the subterfuge was uncovered, the Obama campaign claimed it had
simply goofed up and filed an amended report with the Federal Election Commission. Whoops. This
could be a violation of election laws but Attorney General Holder couldn't care less.
The Joe Sestak Section
Note: The newest material is at the bottom of this subsection.
Interference!
In an editorial today [3/4/2010], the Washington Times is calling for an investigation by the Justice
Department into two potentially serious violations of federal law by officials in the Obama White House,
including Deputy White House Chief of Staff Jim Messina.
Jobs for
political dropouts. [Scroll down] The story broke Feb. 18 when Rep. Joe
Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat, told a local cable news show that somebody in the administration
offered him a high-ranking job if he would decline to challenge party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter in his
state's Democratic primary this year. ... This was the second such story in the past half-year.
Two Members of Congress Say...
If Administration Offered Sestak Job to Drop Senate Race It
Could Be a Crime. Two members of Congress said this week that someone in the White House may have
committed a crime if they offered Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) an administration job in exchange for him not running
in Pennsylvania's Democratic senate primary against Sen. Arlen Specter, an allegation that Sestak said was true.
Sestak's little
bribe problem. Joe Sestak, Democrat nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania has got some 'splainin'
to do, and he is dodging the question. Sestak revealed some time ago that he was offered an inducement
(rumored to be appointment as Secretary of the Navy) to stay out of the Senate race against Arlen Specter,
something which is a serious crime.
Sestak
to comply with political job-offer probe. U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak pledged Monday to "absolutely"
comply with investigators if his claims of a politically motivated White House job offer become the focus of
a federal probe.
Republicans, Dems press White
House on job offer. Republicans and Democrats pressured the White House on Tuesday [5/25/2010]
to disclose whether it offered a federal job to Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak if he would drop his Senate
primary challenge against Democratic incumbent Arlen Specter.
Durbin:
Sestak needs to explain job offer. Majority Whip Dick Durbin says Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) should
come clean about exactly what he was offered to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. "At some
point, I think Congressman Sestak needs to make it clear what happened," Durbin said.
Justice
Department declines to appoint independent counsel for Sestak case. The Department of Justice
doesn't need any outside help investigating the White House — at least that's what DOJ says.
In a letter to California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich attempts to
tip-toe around the congressman's request for an independent counsel to investigate a bribery claim made by
Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak.
Top
Obama adviser says 'no evidence' that Sestak's bribe charge is true. Senior adviser to the
president David Axelrod said Monday evening that there is "no evidence" that White House officials tried
to keep a Democratic congressman from entering the Pennsylvania Senate race by offering him a high-ranking
government job.
Did
Sestak Get WH Job Offer? Media Seem Not to Care. In February, Congressman Joe Sestak,
D-Pa., alleged that the White House had offered him a "high-ranking" job in exchange for him refraining from
challenging Sen. Arlen Specter in that state's primaries. Since Sestak defeated Specter on Tuesday
[5/18/2010], a number of media outlets have profiled him. The White House denies that it ever made
such an offer, which means either the Obama administration or Sestak is lying.
Sestak
confirms WH job offer to get out of Senate race. Rep. Joe Sestak, winner of the Pennsylvania
Democratic Senate primary, is refusing to provide more information on what job he was offered by a White
House official to drop of that race, although he confirmed again that the incident occurred. The White
House was backing incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) in the primary. Sestak acknowledged in an interview in
February that he was offered a position by an unnamed White House official — a potential violation
of federal law — but has not offered any specifics on conversation.
Gibbs on
Sestak: 'Nothing inappropriate'. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday [5/23/2010]
that Republicans are "continuing to dredge up" allegations that Rep. Joe Sestak (D) was offered a job to
stay out of the Pennsylvania Senate primary. Sestak reiterated on "Face the Nation" on Sunday that
he was offered an administration post, but Gibbs said he was "not going to get further into what the
conversations were" with the congressman.
Scarborough
Rips Press for Coverage of Alleged Sestak-Obama Deal. MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has had a few
missteps and stumbles over the years, perhaps tarnishing his conservative credentials in some people's view,
but he still raises some great points every now and then.
Why
Sestak's allegations matter. Some people wonder why Sestak's allegations matter. After all,
isn't this what all presidents do, cut deals with taxpayer-funded jobs in order to defuse intra-party
rivalries? The answer is, maybe they do, but it's still illegal. Such deals are not usually
discussed in public, but this one has been and now its potential illegality matters.
Obama
White House probe of Obama White House finds no impropriety. Obviously, nothing to see over here,
folks. Move along now. Joe Sestak, the newly-elected Democratic Senate nominee from Pennsylvania,
repeated his assertion Sunday that somebody he did not identify from the Obama White House offered him an
administration job he did not detail, possibly in return for him dropping out of his undesirable primary
challenge of Arlen "I Was a Republican Before I Realized I Was a Democrat" Specter. Obviously, Sestak
didn't accept the offer.
The
Real Question For Joe Sestak. If Sestak was really offered a job to drop out of the race, a crime
occurred. If he is not being forthcoming about who offered him the job, what job he was offered, and the
conditions surrounding the offer, Joe Sestak is covering up a crime.
Something
Rotten in the State? All seven Senate Republicans on the judiciary committee have written
Attorney General Eric Holder calling for an independent counsel to investigate the alleged bribe.
They cite 18 U.S. Code Section 600, which forbids the offer of any government job "as
consideration, favor or reward for any political activity" or "in connection with any primary election or
political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office." If Sestak was
offered a high government post to get out of the Pennsylvania race, it would appear an open-and-shut case
that a felony was committed by someone high in the White House.
Obama Omerta.
Sestak's star has faded quickly. Following a couple of days of post-election glow, the Philadelphia-area
congressman has become mired in a scandal. Sestak continues to be tight-lipped about what exactly the
White House whispered last summer, when, according to him, a senior Obama aide dangled a top administrative
post — some Chicago-style bait — in exchange for dropping his challenge to Specter.
Though Sestak didn't bite, the episode continues to haunt him.
Sestak-Gate:
Did Obama Commit an Impeachable Offense? Rep. Joe Sestak, the winner of the Pennsylvania Democratic
Senate primary, says quite openly and repeatedly that he was offered a job by the White House if he would drop
out of the race against Sen. Arlen Specter. Having secured Specter's conversion to the Democratic Party,
thus giving the party a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, the Obama administration obviously sought to
keep its word to Specter that it would do its utmost to deliver the Democratic nomination to him. According
to Sestak, that included a job offer.
Look
Who's Behind the White House/Sestak Stonewall. After three months of zipped lips and feigned
ignorance, the Obama White House is finally taking real heat over Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak's
consistent claims that the administration offered him a job to drop his Senate bid. Now it's time to
redirect the spotlight where it belongs: on the top counsel behind the Washington stonewall,
Bob "The Silencer" Bauer.
The Transparent Trap: If there's nothing
to hide, why all the secrecy? This is what happens when you claim to be the most transparent
administration in history. Reporters are going to pester you all day, testing that claim. Which is
probably why the president has cut back on his official press conferences.
Lack of
sunlight over Mr. Sestak's claims. It would be awfully ham-handed if, as Mr. Sestak claims, an
administration official presented the situation as an explicit quid pro quo: Don't challenge
Mr. Specter and the Navy (or another job) is yours. Would it be illegal? Mr. Specter said so, but
ethics laws do not seem designed for this circumstance. Ordinarily, bribery takes place in the opposite
direction: Government officials aren't usually the ones offering something of value.
Holder
Asked to Appoint Special Prosecutor to Look Into Alleged Sestak Job Offer. In a letter to
Attorney General Eric Holder today, all seven Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee "urge the
appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Congressman Joe Sestak's claim that a White House official
offered him a job to induce him to exit the Pennsylvania Senate primary race against Senator Arlen Specter."
A
Lie or a Felony? [There are one of two things going on here:] Either Joe Sestak is a liar
and he's not telling the truth about this, or somebody inside the White House committed a felony.
[Federal law] 18 USC 211 says that a government official cannot receive anything of value in return
for a promise of government employment. That is to say, you can't offer somebody a government job in
return for receiving anything that could be considered a benefit.
The Editor says...
A liar would not rise to the rank of Admiral in the US Navy.
Obama's Watergate.
The White House is facing a major scandal — one that threatens to bring down President Obama. It
could be his Watergate. Rep. Joe Sestak, Pennsylvania Democrat, is the man at the center of the growing
political storm. He reconfirmed this week his allegation that a senior White House official offered him
a high-ranking job in exchange for withdrawing from the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary. It is
widely believed the position was that of secretary of the Navy.
Illegalities Or Politics As Usual?
[Scroll down] I believe the offer made to Sestak is an example of Chicago style politics at its best or
worst, depending on your point of view. If Sestak can be believed, and there's no reason he shouldn't,
the Obama administration may be in big trouble. Someone within the President's sphere believes Washington,
D.C. — with all its faults — is an extension of Illinois. If this is true, it is an
infestation of the greatest magnitude.
Circuit Breaker. In
The Promise, a sympathetic account of the Obama administration's first year, Jonathan Alter reports
that the president attempted to entice troubled White House Counsel Greg Craig to gracefully exit the White
House by offering him an appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. According to
Alter, "the White House was anxious that the offer not leak, for fear it would look as if Obama were
offering judgeships as consolation prizes." Deservedly so.
Original
Sestak Admission At Odds With White House Spin. Larry Kane, known as the "dean of Philadelphia
television news anchors," has been covering Pennsylvania politics for more than 40 years. During
a February 18th interview he asked Congressman Joe Sestak to clarify a rumor he had been hearing for
months. "Were you ever offered a job to get out of this race?" Kane was referring to the Democratic
Senate primary against Arlen Specter. "Yes," Sestak answered. "Was it Navy Secretary?"
"No comment," said Sestak. According to Kane, Sestak talked about staying in the race but added that
he "was called many times" to pull out.
GOP asks FBI to investigate 'collusion,' possible obstruction of justice.
All the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have joined Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking GOP member
of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, in writing a letter to FBI Director Robert
Mueller over the Joe Sestak affair. The lawmakers urge Mueller to investigate "collusion" and possible
obstruction of justice involving the White House, former President Bill Clinton, and Sestak's brother, who
was consulted during the drafting of the new White House report.
Something
Stinks At the White House. When it comes to the continuing Sestak scandal, the White House
is up to their eyeballs in a cover-up. Major Garrett, Fox News' chief White House correspondent
flat-out asked the president to come clean at his press conference yesterday [5/27/2010].
GOP: White House can't investigate itself in Sestak
matter. I've just gotten an internal Republican analysis of the White House Sestak
statement. There's no doubt the GOP is highly skeptical of the Obama administration's story
that former President Bill Clinton was enlisted for the purpose of offering an unpaid advisory
position — nothing more — to Sestak in return for Sestak's agreement not
to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.
The Sestak
Smell Test. In short, it appears that there is no "advisory position" in existence that Sestak
would 1) be qualified for and 2) consider preferable to a Senate run and 3) allow him to retain
his House seat. Which brings us to the word "job." Sestak uses it himself, not "position" or "role" or
"advisory capacity" or anything else.
Can a president make it legal?
[Scroll down] Aside from the obvious legal issues that offering someone what amounts to a bribe in an effort
to manipulate an election could present, there is a broader and symbolic issue at heart. After winning the
South Carolina Democratic primary, then-candidate Barack Obama proclaimed: "We're looking to fundamentally
change the status quo in Washington."
Sestak
Case Puts Rahm Emanuel's Backroom Politics Back in Spotlight. The White House official behind the
controversial offer to Rep. Joe Sestak is no stranger to hard-nosed political horse trading. White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who enlisted the help of his former boss Bill Clinton to approach a congressman about
sitting out a Senate primary race, has been involved in several political controversies during his 20-year-plus
career in Washington.
Sestak Message Ran
Through Clinton. The White House said Friday [5/28/2010] that it tapped former President Bill
Clinton last year to try to nudge Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak out of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate primary contest.
Clinton's
Role in Sestak Controversy Stirs Questions. Like an aging sports star who can't stay away from the
game, Bill Clinton's direct role in the firestorm over President Obama's job offer to a lawmaker for a political
favor has raised questions about whether the former president was used and abused by a cynical administration or
whether he took advantage of the White House to burnish his legacy.
Is
the Impeachment of Barack Obama Moving Forward? So did Barack Hussein Obama commit a felony by
offering Congressman Joe Sestak a "high ranking" Cabinet position to drop out of the Pennsylvania Senate race
against Sen. Arlen Specter? Let's be clear. The commission of an actual felony is not actually
required in order to impeach a sitting president, but if Sestak's allegation is true, and if Barack Hussein
Obama's fingerprints are all over this offer, that's a felony, and drawing up Articles of Impeachment against
Barack Obama becomes a necessity.
Clinton 'whiff of scandal' returns.
Bill Clinton's picture is again a fixture on cable news. Republicans are sternly demanding a special prosecutor.
And legal commentators are bickering over the finer points of federal criminal statutes on bribery and graft. It
feels like 1997 — but it's 2010. And Barack Obama can't be happy.
Sestak
was ineligible for job Clinton offered. In a little-noticed passage Friday [5/28/2010], the
New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President's Intelligence
Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton. And indeed a look
at the Board's website reveals this restriction.
Clinton
Cutout. The White House's official explanation for Sestak-gate is one for the books: We
employed Bill Clinton as courier to present an offer of no value. Since when does Special Delivery bring
empty packages?
Rahm to Bill
to Joe. At his Thursday [5/27/2010] press conference, President Obama said that "I can assure
the public that nothing improper took place" in the curious case of Joe Sestak and the Pennsylvania Senate
primary — but he declined to say what, exactly, took place. After yesterday's pre-Memorial
Day weekend news dump, now we know. Sort of. Maybe. In a way.
White House whitewash:
The White House had initially denied the charge, but since Sestak's February admission both the administration and the
representative had clammed up, giving themselves ample time to get their story straight. ... President Obama, when
grilled at a press conference earlier this week, declined to tell the story himself. Instead, he burbled the same
sort of strange blather as his erstwhile press secretary, Robert Gibbs, namely, "I can assure the public that nothing
improper took place." If he could assure us that much, why couldn't Mr. Obama simply tell the press and the people
the truth?
Crime
Isn't the only issue. Like so many careless things this President and his team have done politically,
it seems the slop-job on cleaning up after the Sestak mess is getting messier than the oil spill in the gulf, and for
good reasons. The story Joe Sestak told for ten weeks on the campaign trail, is very different from, the most
recent report released by the White House on Friday. Pulling Bill Clinton in, one of the most well documented
liars in elective political history, to be the fall guy is an easy way out. But not an explanation that seems
all that credible.
Obama
dodges, but Sestak questions won't go away. [Scroll down] The matter at hand is a
conversation that took place between Sestak and the White House. To determine whether any wrongdoing
occurred, we have to learn both sides of the conversation. If the White House releases its side
of the story, then we'll have to hear from Sestak, who has so far refused to provide any details.
Only then can investigators evaluate both versions of events.
Issa:
Explanation of Sestak Deal Is Bad Cover-Up of Crime. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said the
explanation for the Sestak affair — that former President Bill Clinton offered the Democratic
congressman an unpaid position on an advisory board if he would drop his challenge against party-switching
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — is not plausible because as a sitting congressman Sestak
couldn't have served on a presidential commission.
Sestak cover
story starts to unravel. Crafting a cover story that is consistent with awkward facts is hard.
Did the best and the brightest miss this? Sestak was not eligible to serve on the Intelligence
Advisory Board.
White
House can't get its Sestak story straight. Did you hear the one about how President Obama got
Slick Willie Clinton to offer second-term Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak an unpaid appointment to an obscure White
House advisory panel in return for dropping his primary challenge to incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter? Obama
and his Chicago boys are still guffawing over how all the chumps in the media reported that one with a straight
face. Hey, it's a just another reason why running a gangster government is nothing but laughs for the
Obama crew in the White House.
Can
GOP stir up public to dig into Sestak affair? To many Republicans, the White House's story
on the Joe Sestak matter just doesn't add up. Why would chief of staff Rahm Emanuel enlist former
President Bill Clinton — outside of Barack Obama, the biggest gun in the Democratic world — to
offer an obscure, unpaid position to Rep. Sestak in exchange for Sestak agreeing not to challenge White House
favorite Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate primary? Why send the Big Dog to offer such a
little treat? And why believe Sestak, a former Navy admiral, would give up his dream of being a senator
in any event?
Rahm Emanuel Throws Obama Under the Bus.
Admitting to a misdemeanor in writing doesn't exactly help Obama, so what exactly is going on here?
Usually the political playbook for this type of thing is either lying your tail off or nailing the scandal to
a fall guy — both proven strategies in Washington. Lying would have been much easier:
"We never made Sestak a job offer, the guy is nuts, etc..." Turn it into a he-said-she-said situation
and no worries. Sestak loses the election and Obama stays in power.
Robert
Gibbs raises the Sestak stonewall. The White House's self-exonerating report on the Joe Sestak
affair has given spokesman Robert Gibbs a new way not to answer questions. Now, when asked about the
offer of a federal position to Sestak in return for Sestak's agreement not to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter
in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Gibbs simply refers reporters to the White House report. When
reporters respond that the questions are not answered by the report, Gibbs freely acknowledges
that — and then refers them to the report again. And so on.
Robert Gibbs refuses to provide details of job offer. White House
press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated Tuesday [6/1/2010] that Rep. Joe Sestak was not offered a spot on the
President's Intelligence Advisory Board but refused to say what was dangled in front of the Democrat in an
attempt to remove him from a Senate primary.
The
President and "Hush" Offers. The White House's so-called report was a joke as well. A
full-scale investigation conducted and relayed on two pages? Just because the White House's top lawyer
plants his imprimatur on a hastily-crafted talking points memo doesn't absolve the administration from its
questionable behavior. Mr. Clinton's involvement alone tells anyone with a pulse the White House was
trying to move Mr. Sestak off a very nice perch.
Jimmy
Carter + Rod Blagojevich = Barack Obama. [Scroll down] Obama and his comrades face the
drip, drip, drip of scandal as revelations about bribing candidates with government jobs if they will drop
out of a political race in favor of Obama's pick make news. Exactly as fallen former Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich is charged with doing. Obama aides will testify at that trial, and the nation will see that
Barack Obama has a long history of engaging in the sleaziest of Chicago-style political deal-making.
Romanoff, Sestak and
RICO. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and his deputy, Jim Messina, both seem to have
violated at least the spirit of the law in dangling potential jobs before would-be candidates, apparently to
entice them out of contested Senate races. If allegations by disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
prove true, it would mean the White House engaged in similar behavior in President Obama's political home
state — raising the specter of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
Rahm Emanuel Pays Property
Taxes After Inquiry. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was three months behind on his
property tax payments until [WBBM] brought it to his attention.
Sestak
a no-go for any job. So what was the deal? The White House admitted Thursday [6/3/2010]
that it offered Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff a job at the U.S. Agency for International Development,
but it has never said specifically what it offered Rep. Joe Sestak to keep him from challenging Arlen
Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate primary.
The
Summer of Corruption Plot Thickens. In Chicago politics, there's an old term for the publicly
subsidized pay-offs and positions meted out to the corruptocrats' friends and special interests: boodle.
In the age of Obama, Hope and Change is all about the boodle. So it was with the stimulus. And
the massive national service expansion. And the health care bill. And the financial reform bill.
And the blossoming job-trading scandals engulfing the White House.
Obama Fails the Test
of Office. Bill Clinton, that great, close friend of Obama, offered Sestak not a job, but a seat
on some kind of intelligence council unknown to even the most experienced Washington media hands. A
useless position, without even a salary, and one which, it turns out, Sestak wasn't even eligible for.
This as the payoff for backing out of a viable senate campaign in one of the key mid-Atlantic states.
That's what Mister I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman wants us to believe. This is obviously a story
cooked up to curtail further inquiries while legally covering everyone involved.
Issa Seeks Independent Probe of White House Job Offers.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has filed a referral to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel to investigate job
offers reportedly made by the White House to Democratic Senate candidates to keep them out of electoral
primary races against other Democrats.
Alleged Facts in White House Memo Appear to Document
Lawbreaking. Three top House Republicans sent a letter to the White House counsel Wednesday
[6/2/2010] saying they believe that a memorandum the counsel released Friday purporting to explain the
administration's actions in offering to appoint Rep. Joe Sestak (D.-Pa.) to a federal position in exchange for
Sestak declining to make a Democratic primary run against Sen. Arlen Specter (D.-Pa.) presents a set of facts
that appear to violate the law.
Clinton
Denies Asking Sestak To Drop Out. Just when you thought it was safe to accept a White House Job
offer, the Joe Sestak Job scandal has reared its ugly head once again. Silent through the mess, former
President Bill Clinton has finally spoken and denied the White House explanation that he met with Joe
Sestak to offer him an administration job to drop out of the Democratic Primary against soon to be
former Senator Specter.
Clinton
Denies He Tried to Lure Sestak Out of Race Against Specter. Former President Bill Clinton this
week denied any role in trying to lure Rep. Joe Sestak out of the Senate primary against establishment-backed
Sen. Arlen Specter, an assertion that undermines a White House explanation of a controversy that left egg on
the face of President Obama. Clinton made the denials three times as he responded Tuesday [8/10/2010] to
a reporter asking him why he is campaigning for Sestak, who defeated Specter in the May primary, if he tried
to get him to drop out of the race.
Clinton Denies White
House Version of Jobsgate Scandal. Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning this week for
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee Joe Sestak, has been caught on video contradicting the Obama White
House official statement on the Jobsgate scandal. Not once. Not twice. But three times.
Is
Bill Clinton lying? Or Sestak? Either former President Bill Clinton is lying, or Pennsylvania
Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak is. Both can't be right.
Steele seeks Sestak probe. The
chairman of the Republican National Committee is urging Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate claims that
the White House tried to offer Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) a job in exchange for dropping out of his state's
Senate primary last spring.
A similar case? Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff:
Holder
ignoring bribes under his nose. Last fall, the Denver Post reported that somebody in the Obama
White House offered a plum job to former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff on the condition that he drop
his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Michael Bennett. Then in February, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., told
a talk radio program that somebody in the Obama White House had offered him a job in exchange for dropping his
Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter.
What
if Sestak Wasn't the Only One? It should be noted there are differences between the Romanoff and
Sestak cases. One: [Andrew] Romanoff, it seems, was not directly offered a position. Two:
Romanoff was not yet officially a candidate when the administration was not offering him a position.
Denver
Post Goes Silent on Senate Candidate Job Offer Scandal. A Democrat candidate running against a
Senate incumbent is offered a job by the White House as an incentive to drop out of the primary race.
Sounds like the Joe Sestak scandal in which he alleged that someone in the White House offered him a job in
order to drop out of the race against the incumbent senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter. Right?
Well, yes. However, this also perfectly describes another similar scandal in which it is alleged that the
White House offered a job to Andrew Romanoff in order to drop out of the primary race for the senate from
Colorado against incumbent Michael Bennet. And the amazing thing about this scandal is that the
newspaper that broke it has since remained completely silent on any further reporting.
Denver
Post Finally Gets Around to Mentioning Romanoff Job Offer Allegation Again. After 8 months of
being in a silent lockdown mode on the subject of whether the White House offered the Democrat Senate candidate from
Colorado, Andrew Romanoff (photo), a job if he would remove himself from the primary race, the Denver Post has finally
gotten around to reporting on it again following their initial September story.
White House reporters need to ask about Romanoff job offer, too.
Byron notes that the GOP, not to mention the public at large, have good reasons to be highly skeptical of
the White House's version of events surrounding the Sestak job offer. In particular, little attention has
been paid to allegations that the White House made a very similar offer to Andrew Romanoff to get out of the
Colorado senate primary where he is challenging incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet.
Big donor holds job White House dangled.
A high-end donor to President Barack Obama holds one of the jobs White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina
dangled in front of Andrew Romanoff to dissuade him from running the Democratic Colorado Senate primary.
Romanoff Cracks: Secret
White House Jobsgate E-Mail Revealed. In a revelation that will send shock waves through the American
political landscape, the Denver Post last night [6/2/2010] revealed that Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff
has now reluctantly admitted he discussed "three possible jobs with the deputy chief of staff of the Obama
administration — all contingent upon a decision by Romanoff not to challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet."
Andrew Romanoff: W.H. offered
three jobs. The White House acknowledged Thursday that it made overtures to Colorado U.S. Senate
candidate Andrew Romanoff about a possible administration job as it was trying to steer him away from a
primary challenge against Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. The statement by Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs came the day after Romanoff revealed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina offered to
consider Romanoff for three posts as an alternative to his Senate campaign.
Another
'job offer'. After first stonewalling, the White House yester day confirmed that it
tried to lure Andrew Romanoff out of the Colorado Senate primary with an administration job, to help
its preferred candidate, incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet. Sound familiar? The Denver Post
ran a story on the rumored job offer last September — but White House spokesman Adam Abrams
said then, "Romanoff was never offered a position within the administration."
Misdemeanors... or Crimes? On this matter
of offering federal jobs to potential candidates to induce them not to run against Senate Democratic incumbents,
this White House is drifting dangerously close to the falls. Colorado's Andrew Romanoff has now
confirmed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina trolled three federal jobs in front of him, if he
would desist and not run against incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet. And Romanoff has produced an e-mail
where Messina presents the three-job menu, one of which might be his, if he passed up the Senate run.
Who's afraid of Barack Obama?
Nobody. [Scroll down] While his momentary turn as foulmouthed intimidator (I can't recall a
time when another President had to be bleeped during a televised interview) may reveal he knows the value of
bravado, there is much evidence to show he hasn't quite mastered the power of fear and intimidation to actually
get what he wants. Obama may be walking loudly, but he is carrying a very small stick. Proof?
Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff.
Obama's Treachery:
[Scroll down] In a quote attributed to Robert Gibbs, Obama's mouthpiece, "The White House has a
legitimate interest in avoiding messy Democratic Party primaries. ... Presidents, as leaders of their
parties, have long had an interest in ensuring that supporters didn't run against each other in contested
elections." Oh really? Should presidents bribe rivals to get them out of the way?
More commentary about Obama's cabinet and staff.
Other questionable associates and endorsements
The job destroyers.
Iran's chief mad mullah, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, loves the [Occupy Wall Street] protests, the government
of China applauds them, and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is positively gung-ho. Naturally, the American
Nazi Party favors the lusty attacks on the "Judeo-capitalist banksters" while the Socialist Party USA and the
Communist Party USA are happy passengers on the anti-Wall Street bandwagon. Oh, and Barack Obama hearts
the movement, too. Because you should judge a man by his allies, our president might want to reconsider
the villainous company he is keeping.
Happy Dependence Day from Your
Community Organizer Friends! What's that? July 4 is called Independence Day, you say?
Not to the radical mob-o-crats of ACORN, La Raza, SEIU, and the legions of other socialist groups that are
swinging a wrecking ball at the foundations of this great republic. America is under siege as extremists
determined to pulverize the U.S. Constitution deliberately bankrupt the nation, destroy the electoral system,
and drive the economy into the ground.
What on Earth Was Leon Panetta Doing
Palling Around With a Spy-Linked Communist? President Obama's nominee for Secretary of Defense had a
previously undisclosed friendship with Communist Party USA figure Hugh DeLacy, according to a new report. The
nominee, Leon Panetta, is currently director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He previously served
in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Obama's
CIA Director Linked to Spies Through Communist Party Figure. New research from writers and researchers
Trevor Loudon and Cliff Kincaid shows that Leon Panetta, the CIA director being considered on Thursday [6/9/2011] for
the position of Secretary of Defense, had a previously undisclosed personal and friendly relationship with Hugh DeLacy,
a prominent member of the Communist Party USA. DeLacy visited such countries as China and Nicaragua and was
himself a personal contact of identified Soviet spies Solomon Adler and Frank Coe and accused spy John Stewart
Service. Panetta spoke at DeLacy's memorial service, directed a series of letters to him personally as "Dear
Hugh," and placed a tribute to him in the Congressional Record.
Panettagate: A Real Scandal Involving National
Security. Trevor Loudon and I have dug into the background of CIA director and Secretary of
Defense nominee Leon Panetta. It's too bad that we didn't have this material assembled before now,
but better late than never. The evidence shows that Panetta had a close and personal relationship
with a member of the Communist Party by the name of Hugh DeLacy, whose record included meeting with
communist espionage agents. By any objective standard of journalism, this should be big news.
But the question now is whether the media, liberal and conservative, will take time off from Weinergate to
pay attention and examine the evidence.
Commies
on parade. Blogging at Ringo's Pictures, the blogger Ringo provides scores of remarkable
photographs detailing the events at the annual May Day parade held in downtown Los Angeles on May 1,
2011. The images are frightening and illustrate the latitude we have allowed serious hate-groups
and espousers of virulent anti-Americanism to move about freely and publicly call for the overthrow of
the American political system. Right smack in the middle of the reds we find a passel of disheveled,
seriously overweight thugs from Barack Obama's favorite labor union, the SEIU.
Stupidity
at the Top. [Scroll down] David Brock, in his 1996 biography, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham,
called her "Alinsky's daughter." So now we know why Hillary's first move as First Lady was to organize an
effort to enact a National Healthcare bill, which socialist Nancy Pelosi and Obama were to use later as their
model. If David Brock called Hillary "Alinsky's daughter," Obama could be called "Alinsky's son."
In fact, Alinsky's real son, in a letter to the Boston Globe, praised Obama for stirring up the masses at the
Democratic National Convention in the Alinsky style. He said, "Obama learned his lesson well.
I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully." Is it not
interesting that the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination were both students of Saul
Alinsky? And is it not interesting that a majority of Americans, in their ignorance, voted for one
of them to become America's supreme leader?
You Must Be A Racist
If You Don't Love Obama, Right? Percy Sutton, one of the most respected civil rights activists and former
Manhattan borough president who was also Malcolm X's attorney, gave an interview on the NY1 cable station in 2008
about his opinion of Barack Obama. ... The interview took place during the 2008 campaign and was promptly squashed
by the Obama campaign. ... To understand why this was done one would have to understand who Dr. Al-Mansour is.
He is a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist whose speeches are very similar to Rev. Wright in its anti-Americanism,
anti-Semitic and anti-white rhetoric.
Barack Obama:
Radical-In-Chief?. Have you ever heard of a group called UNO of Chicago? No, not the deep dish
pizza chain; the Left-wing community organizing outfit. How about the Midwest Academy? Does the name
James Cone ring a bell? If you're like most Americans — including many who consider themselves fairly
well informed about President Obama's background and associations — you're probably drawing a blank on all
three questions.
Obama's Other Anti-Semitic
Guru. The disclosure, during the 2008 presidential campaign, that Barack Obama had for two
decades sat contentedly (perhaps with his cerebral hearing aid turned off) listening to the tirades of his
pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright against "them Jews" caused him some brief embarrassment but no harm at the polls,
certainly not among Jewish voters. No attention whatever was paid to the possible link between Obama's
moral tone-deafness in the presence of clergyman Wright and his intense admiration of another, more unctuous,
political clergyman with even less charity toward Jews than Wright: namely, Archbishop
Desmond Tutu.
Obama
Campaigned Before Socialist Group in 1996. Newsletters published by the Chicago chapter of the
Democratic Socialists of America show President Barack Obama actively participated in a 1996 rally co-sponsored
by the group and held at The University of Chicago during his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate.
The president's defenders, including Obama himself, have sought to deflect questions about his socialist connections
and dismiss them as partisan hyperbole or as guilt by association — regarding his connections with
William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Frank Marshall Davis. But an article in the March-April 2000 edition
of the Chicago DSA's newsletter, The New Ground, detailing its recommendations for the March 2000
Democratic primaries suggests the group considered Obama one of its own.
It is us. This
president's overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his
ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and
student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology-
and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists
like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones,
Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al.
Obama's Desperate
Push for Socialized Health Care. I have written this post to explain why President Obama is so
desperate to pass health care legislation, seemingly regardless of the cost to the Democratic Party. The
reality is that President Obama owes his success and his hold on power more to three Marxist groups than he does
to the Democrats. The three organizations, Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy
and Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America, all worked with Barack Obama for years and helped get him
elected. Now they want payback.
Barack Obama and the Committees of
Correspondence: The process of forming Committees of Correspondence (CoC) began in
late 1991 when approximately one third of the Communist Party USA membership split from the party
to form a new organization. The former communists joined with former Maoists, Trotsyites,
socialists and anarchists to launch CoC at Berkeley, California in 1992 and to convene the official
founding conference in Chicago in 1994. In 2000, Committees of Correspondence became Committees
of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Barack Obama and Democratic Socialists
of America: Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization
in the US. It is one of two official U.S. affiliates of the Socialist International. It was
formed in 1982 from a merger of the Michael Harrington led Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee
and the smaller New American Movement. DSA works inside the Democratic Party and has cross
membership with the Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism,
Socialist Party USA and the Green Party USA.
Rep. Paul Broun not sure if Obama is
a citizen. [Scroll down] The Georgia congressman spent much of the rest of the
interview attacking Obama as a "socialist." "I know he is," a socialist, Broun said. "You
look at his own writings. He said when he was in college he leaned to Marxist tendencies and is
linked to Marxist professors. He joined Marxists clubs. And look at who he's put in his
administration, they're devout socialists." "America has to stand up and decide if we want to
be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation," he said.
The Perils of Professors.
A large chunk of [Obama's] adult life has been spent attending, teaching in, and living in close proximity to elite
universities. The intellectual bent (e.g., disdainful of American exceptionalism, ignorant of the workings
of free-market capitalism, infatuated with the public sector) and the posture (e.g., remote, condescending)
of liberal academics are evident in Obama's persona and governing style. And his saturation in Left-leaning
elite schools certainly explain much of what ails him.
Obama's Comrades Push
Socialized Medicine. The push to socialize U.S. health care came not from the "people," but
from a small clique of Marxists, led by a man with close personal ties to President Barack Obama. This
group's goal is fully socialized, government run "single payer" health care — as long promoted through
Congressman John Conyers' National Health Insurance Act, or HR 676. The leader of this Marxist
clique is Quentin Young — a retired Chicago physician, a life-long Marxist activist and long time
friend and political ally of Barack Obama.
Obama's Comrades Push
Socialized Medicine. The leader of this Marxist clique is Quentin Young — a retired
Chicago physician, a life-long Marxist activist and long time friend and political ally of Barack Obama.
Young has known and worked with Obama for years in Chicago and has reportedly directly influenced Obama's
views on socialized medicine. According to radical journalist John Nichols writing in The Progressive,
"Obama...learned about single-payer health care from his old friend and neighbor Dr. Quentin Young, the
longtime coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program."
Obama's Afghan Pickle.
An out-of-the-closet communist, [Carl] Davidson first met Barack Obama in 1996, when the aspiring state senator
actively sought the endorsement of Davidson's New Party. Davidson and like-minded Marxists had created the
party specifically to elect fellow travelers and useful idiots to political office. Obama apparently fit
the bill. He secured the endorsement, and party volunteers proceeded to assist him in his successful
campaign.
Obama's Other
Controversial Church. While John McCain was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, First
Unitarian Church of Honolulu — at which the elementary-age Obama would later attend Sunday school
after returning from Indonesia in 1970 or 71 — was sheltering deserters and AWOLs recruited by
'flirty fishing' coeds from a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) group known as "The Resistance". ... The
story of his ties to the church began to emerge only after he attended [his grandmother's] memorial service. ... The
connection to Vietnam deserters has not been included in any of the Obama-related coverage.
Obama's other church: 'We've always been
activist'. The Hawaii church where President Obama attended Sunday school as a boy has "always"
been involved in political activism, the church's pastor told WND in an interview. "The Sunday school
has always been and to this day still is involved in political activism," said Rev. Mike Young, pastor of
First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. "We are involved in community organizing, helping churches in foreign
countries, social justice issues, like making sure inmates get dinner," said Young, speaking from Hawaii.
Gay-Porn
Kingpin Linked to O. One of the "bundlers" who has raised $50,000 to $100,000 for the Barack Obama
presidential campaign is Terrence Bean, who once controlled the biggest producer of gay porn in America.
Bean, the first gay on Sen. Obama's National Finance Committee, is the sole trustee of the Charles M.
Holmes Foundation….
Obama's associations may haunt
bid. [Emil Jones Jr.], the president of the Illinois Senate, amounts to Mr. Obama's political godfather and
was an important part of his longshot victory for U.S. Senate in 2004. He helped the little-known politician meet the
right people, and he picked Mr. Obama to handle high-profile legislation during the two years leading up to the election.
Mr. Jones is known for steering state money to a few favored institutions, including some that employ his relatives.
Several of his relatives have gotten state jobs, and his wife's government salary jumped 60 percent after he became Senate
president. He has played an important role in blocking ethics legislation in Illinois.
Greg Craig: Obama's Next Thorn.
He defended John Hinkley, Jr. after the latter's attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. He defended
former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sanchez-Berzain, a human rights violator accused of 67 deaths.
He was a "personal attorney" for Kofi Annan in the UN Oil for Food scandal and he provided "special counsel" to
Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial. … And he's a senior foreign policy advisor to presumptive
Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
Obama Flunks Another Test.
Why is it that Obama surrounds himself with people who carry so much baggage? … One of the most important jobs of any president is
to make appointments — and Obama's record so far doesn't inspire confidence.
Obama
VP Committee Member Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure. Now that Jim Johnson has quit Barack Obama's
vice-presidential candidate selection team, maybe somebody, anybody, in the media, instead of making "He's havng a bad day"
excuses, might focus on the questionable judgment of Barack Obama in having Eric Holder serve on that team. Besides
his already-known role in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier March Rich,
there's the matter of former Clinton Administration Deputy Attorney General Holder's involvement in the Elian Gonzalez
case in 2000.
Alice In Obamaland. In
June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, [Alice Palmer] wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's
newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World. It detailed her experience attending the
27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet system. … Obama
and Palmer both oppose school choice and vouchers and successful programs like the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships.
They prefer the central planning of education as dictated by the teachers unions and the commissars at the National
Education Association.
Can the U.S. afford a
president who can't recognize anti-Americanism? Finally, Barack Obama saw the light and broke with
Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. It took him 20 years to realize that its leaders, its in-house
publications, and even its guest preachers were anti-American. If elected president, he will not have so long a
grace period to make his decisions.
Princess
Obama Derangement Syndrome. First, it is quite clear that any questioning at all of Obama's
background is entirely off-limits. Next, the posters fail totally to grasp that the real point isn't
what faith he professed or was brought up in as a child — it is the fact that he has not told the truth
about his early background. … The sole reason for the questions about Obama is the many discrepancies
in the accounts of his early life — including his own accounts — plus his
many questionable associations.
Obama's
Bundler, Osama's Enabler. Should a major party candidate for president, who has pledged his
support for our troops, reject the money and support of an anti-American extremist who thinks Osama bin Laden
had a "valid" argument on 9/11 and says she is currently acting "to undermine the war effort"? Barack Obama should be
forced to make that decision about the ample funds he has received from Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.
With
friends like these, Obama doesn't need enemies. Do we want someone in the White House that the bad guys of the
world fear or do we want someone there that the Hamas', Castro's, and Chavez's of the world openly support? A rhetorical
question for those that haven't yet bothered to peer beyond the handsome, the smooth, and wholly inadequate would-be
president Barack Obama.
Another Obama
Supporter Slips Under the Bus. Yesterday [6/25/2008], we asked the question "Who is Martin
Klonsky?" It turns out Mr. Klonsky was another one of those radical acquaintences of Barack
Obama who are only a "distraction" from the real issues of the campaign; like trying to find someone
who wasn't a Weather Underground/radical racist/bigot/crook from Obama's past.
Communist Party Backs Obama.
Barack Obama's patriotic tour has run into a snag. More evidence of communist backing for the candidate
has surfaced. The latest to emerge publicly in Obama's camp is Joelle Fishman, the chairman of the
Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Political Action Commission. In a column titled, "Big political shifts
are underway," Fishman says that Obama could lead "a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right" this
November and that he is "ready to listen" to the "left and progressive voters" backing him. Fishman
makes it clear that the CPUSA is part of this coalition.
Obama Should Come Clean
On Ayers, Rezko And the Iraqi Billionaire. [Scroll down] But in April 2004 he [Nadhmi Auchi] did
attend a dinner party in his honor at Rezko's Chicago home. Mr. Obama also attended, and according to one guest,
toasted Mr. Auchi. Later that year, Mr. Auchi came under criminal investigation as part of a U.S.
probe of the corrupt issuance of cell-phone licenses in Iraq. In May 2004, the Pentagon's inspector general's
office cited "significant and credible evidence" of involvement by Mr. Auchi's companies in the Oil for Food
scandal, and in illicit smuggling of weapons to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Obama Unbinds. The exposure of
various relationships (Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko to name a few) has raised the question "Who
is this guy, really?" to one of the most important in the campaign. … Yet, an audience of adoring
followers has easily swallowed and digested campaign responses that not only do not answer the question
but seem to deliberately obfuscate or distort the reality presented.
Obama the Harvard Lawyer.
Obama's HLS [Harvard Law School] professors included Charles Ogletree, a leading voice advocating taxpayer-funded
slavery reparations. Although Obama never publicly supported that position, Ogletree was among Obama's
mentors at HLS and now sits on Obama's black advisory council, along with former Harvard professor of
Afro-American Studies, Cornel West, according to the National Journal. West also serves as honorary
chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Listen Up, John
McCain!. Something else I don't comprehend is why presidential candidates, who always insist
they're ready to govern on day one, don't make a point of telling us who will be in their cabinet on that
fateful day. … I'd love to know what positions Jesse Jackson, Charles Schumer, Richard Durbin, Barney
Frank, Barbara Boxer, George Soros and Charles Rangel, would hold in an Obama administration.
Sojourning Socialists.
Barack Obama has joined forces with a white socialist he calls a "good friend" — the Rev. Jim Wallis,
founder of "Sojourners." He too believes in "liberation theology," sans the black nationalism.
In fact, Wallis is the white version of Jeremiah Wright, sans the black rage.
FBI raids Obama friend's
home. The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is
a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. According to Chicago
authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime
friend of Mr. Obama's, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan. Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois
Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid.
Obama's
Advisors — A Source For Concern. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential
candidate, is not a key member of the Senate committees on foreign relations, armed services or intelligence,
has not initiated-led any significant legislation and has not devoted himself to national security issues.
He surged into the Senate and the presidential race from the Illinois local-political-social arena. Obama
relies on a battery of experienced advisors, who influence/shape his world view ... .
Don't tell
me — ANOTHER radical in Obama's background? As Chicago (and Illinois, for that
matter) reels from a fiscal crisis resulting in a cutback of services and layoffs of thousands, Mayor Daley
spends many millions on public relations and image building. One of the beneficiaries is Marilyn
Katz. Where have I heard that name before? She is a bundler for Barack Obama, a person with a
radical past (head of security for the Students for a Democratic Society — SDS — from
which Bill Ayers' militant Weathermen group splintered).
Another
Communist in Obama's Orb. Meet Michael Klonsky, Obama's "social justice" education
expert. ... Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology
in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama,
moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a "social justice" blog on
the official Obama campaign website.
Radical in the White
House. [Scroll down] When I first found programs from the Socialist Scholars Conferences
Obama attended in New York in the 1980s, I saw a number of people who were later part of his political circle.
I was particularly struck by the name James Cone, who was Jeremiah Wright's theological mentor and the founder
of black liberation theology. There were other talks on black liberation theology at those conferences
as well. That meant Obama would very likely have known about Wright's theology even before he met
Wright, and would have recognized its socialist content. Following this trail, I discovered that many
of Obama's organizing mentors and colleagues in Chicago were prominent socialists, with ties to the group that
had sponsored those early socialist conferences. The policy preferences, tactics, and strategies of these
socialist organizers are recognizable in the administration's conduct today. In fact, the Obama
administration continues to coordinate its grassroots support through many of the same socialist organizers
he worked with in previous years.
Raila Odinga
Obama's Kenya ghosts.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their
ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama
were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview,
Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before
adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle."
The Kenya Connection: If Mr. Obama did
not know about Mr. Odinga's electoral deal with the Kenyan Islamists when he offered his support, then he
should have known. If he did know, then he is guilty of lending the prestige of his office to America's
enemies in the global war on terror. We need to know exactly what Mr. Obama knew about
Mr. Odinga, and precisely when he knew it.
'No plans' for
Odinga-Obama meeting. Senator Barack Obama is absent from the list of dignitaries with whom Prime Minister
Raila Odinga is scheduled to confer during his current visit to Washington. … Mr Odinga has said he is a cousin of
Mr Obama's, although the senator's representatives deny that the two men are related.
Obama raised $1 million for
foreign thug's election. Sen. Barack Obama, with a donation of nearly $1 million, and a
son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi were among the biggest contributors to the presidential campaign of
controversial Kenyan leader Raila Odinga, according to an internal document obtained by WND. The memo
was prepared by the head of Odinga's campaign finance accounting section, Shakeel Shabbir, as an official
report delivered to the national treasurer for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party, or ODM.
Obama's violent pal in Africa.
Raila Odinga — a Marxist thug politician in Kenya — has been backed to the hilt by Obama. [Jerome]
Corsi and [Mark] Hyman have been publicizing — or trying to publicize — the connection
far and wide. Odinga ran for and lost the presidency of Kenya in late 2007. His
backers — egged on by the sore loser himself — took the approach of vote for our
candidate or risk being hacked to death.
Kenyan PM backs Obama.
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, in a show of support for US presidential candidate Barack Obama, paid a surprise
visit to Obama's relatives in the east African country, reports said on Monday [10/27/2008]. Odinga met with the
86-year-old Sarah Obama, the Democratic candidate's step-grandmother, and other members of his family in the tiny village
of Kogelo in western Kenya, according to Kenya's The Standard newspaper.
Obama And Machete Politics: Sen.
Barack Obama campaigned on Marxist Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga's behalf in Kenya in 2006 and, with the help
of the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, raised nearly $1 million for Odinga's campaign. When Odinga
lost his presidential election, he refused to accept the results and incited riots resulting in thousands being
macheted to death or burned alive in their churches.
John L. McKnight
Obama's McKnight In Shining
Armor. Obama needed help getting into Harvard Law School. He got it from a disciple of
Saul Alinsky who shared the socialist agitator's belief in the radical change the young community organizer
could embrace.
Guess who recommended Obama to enter Harvard.
In a revelation tying Barack Obama even closer to radical community organizing, WND has learned that a renowned
disciple of the late socialist agitator Saul "The Red" Alinksy wrote a letter of recommendation for Obama
when he applied to Harvard Law School. Obama approached Northwestern University professor John L.
McKnight — a loyal student of Alinsky's radical tactics — to pen the Harvard letter
in the late 1980s.
Khalid al Mansour
Obama Had Close Ties
to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age. New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire
who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.
Are Khalid al Mansour and Obama
Friends? Civil rights activist Percy Sutton said he was solicited by a man named Dr. Khalid
al Mansour to send a letter of reccomendation on behalf of Barack Obama to help him gain acceptance to
Harvard many years ago. But who is Khalid al Mansour and how did he know Barack Obama?
Another
Radical Obama Association? Old videos appear to show a radical Muslim named Khalid Al-Mansour
helped Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gain acceptance into Harvard Law. Civil rights
activist Percy Sutton recalled being solicited by a man named Dr. Khalid A-Mansour to write a letter of
recommendation to help Obama gain acceptance into Harvard Law in this undated television interview.
Barack Obama -- Magna Cum
Saudi? We know he's a Harvard graduate and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Less
known is the story of how he got into the prestigious Ivy League university. As Newsmax's Kenneth
Timmerman reports, he was helped by a letter written by Percy Sutton, former Manhattan borough president
and a credible candidate for mayor of New York in 1977. In an interview earlier this year on New
York's all-news cable channel NY1, the 88-year-old Sutton made some interesting revelations about his
relationship with the young Obama.
Black
Racists Recruited to Guide the Jihad. Black Muslim lawyer Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour
recently made news when it was revealed that he was a patron of Barack Obama and recommended him for
admission to Harvard Law School in 1988. Back in the 1960s, al-Mansour, whose "slave name" was then
Don Warden, was deeply involved in Bay Area racial politics as founder of a group called the African
American Association. A close personal adviser to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, al-Mansour helped
the pair establish the Black Panther Party….
Terrorists, Terrorism and Obama:
[Scroll down] There is reason to believe that Obama's college years may have been funded by Royal Saudi
money funneled through Saudi international fixer and Black Panther adviser Dr. Khalid Al Mansour, aka Donald
Warden. Former New York Borough President Percy Sutton states that he wrote a letter on behalf of Obama,
recommending him for admission into Harvard Law School. Sutton states that he did not know the young Obama
at the time, but that he was asked to write that letter by dear friend Dr. Khalid Al Mansour, who stated he was
engaged in raising funds for Obama's education.
Obama's Benefactor: Dr.
Khalid al Mansour, I presume .... Percy Sutton, NYC political icon in the African American community,
tells a news reporter that Dr. Khalid al Mansour solicited favor and recommendation on behalf of Barack Hussein
Obama in order to secure Barack's entry into Harvard. Think about that.
Alexi Giannoulias
Is Alexi
Giannoulias Obama's next "not the man I knew"? Giannoulias also hosted a fund-raiser for Obama
in Chicago in September, 2007, omitting it from his public schedule and keeping it closed to the press.
Could it be that Obama didn?t want the press asking questions about a New York Post article published that
same morning entitled "Obama's Mob-Tie $idekick?"
Obama's banking buddy:
One of the speakers at the DNC on Monday night was Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, whose speaking
slot raised a few eyebrows. Not only is he very young and in a low level state office, his family's business,
Chicago-based Broadway Bank, has ties to organized crime. The ties between Giannoulis and Obama may be even
more troubling that those between Obama and the likes of Jeremiah Wright because there seems to be so little
upside for Obama in this relationship.
Sam Graham-Felsen
Another Obama Marxist: Barack
Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his
campaign. And they seem to feel the warmth. … Sam Graham-Felsen, hired to run Obama's blog, writes about Noam Chomsky
in a Marxist publications that openly calls for revolution against the American government. This is a Presidential
candidate's choice to run the on-line portion of his campaign. That speaks volumes of his character and worldview.
Another
Unsavory Obama Associate, Official Blogger a Communist? The list of Barack Obama associates that
hold views that clash with mainstream America is getting longer every day and now we can add another notch in
the "anti-American" column of Obama campaign workers and supporters. This time we find that the Obama
campaign's official blogger, Sam Graham-Felsen, has spent time in France participating in labor riots, has
written for a socialist magazine, hung a communist flag in his home, and was a fan of Marx while at Harvard.
Rashid Khalidi
The Obama-Khalidi
Connection: [Rashid] Khalidi is a former professor at the University of Illinois and was a close
friend of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. At a farewell dinner for Khalidi before he took the Columbia
job, Obama's speech was filled with glowing praise for his friend, including references to the many meals they
had shared. He thanked Khalidi for opening his eyes about the problems of the Palestinians. Khalidi
himself has given vocal support to suicide bombers.
The Audacity of Tenure. It
turns out that the "change agent" running for president has yet another colorful associate the media seldom
ask him about. "You mentioned Rashid Khalidi, who's a professor at Columbia," Barack Obama said in
Boca Raton this year. "I do know him because I taught at the University of Chicago." "And he is
Palestinian." Actually, "Between 2001 and 2002, when Obama was director of the board, the Woods Fund
gave a total of $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), an anti-Israel outfit run by Mona
Khalidi," Brad O'Leary reports in his new book, The Audacity of Deceit.
Debunking
Obama's Ayers "Fact Sheet". Let's examine Obama's claim that his connection to [William] Ayers
and [Bernadine] Dohrn is "tenuous" and "phony." ... I suppose the goodbye party for prominent Israel basher
and Arafat apologist Rashid Khalidi, attended by Obama, Ayers and Dohrn, is also unworthy of discussion.
Obama-Khalidi-Ayers
and the MSM. [Rashid] Khalidi is a Columbia professor and strong advocate for the Palestinians.
He is a man of the left, and he is close to Obama and Ayers. Obama's friendship with Khalidi would be
unsettling to many supporters of Israel — if it was well known, which it isn't.
Obama's Friendship with
Khalidi: Many politicians have distanced themselves from positions and associations of their youths.
But in Obama's case, he is distancing himself from positions staked out as recently as 2003. ... [Rashid] Khalidi is not
distancing himself from his past. Consistent with what you'd expect from someone who justified PLO attacks on
civilians in Israel and Lebanon from 1976 to 1982, Khalidi routinely refers to Israel as a "racist" and "apartheid"
state, and professes to believe in a "one-state" solution to the conflict. Guess which country would have to
disappear for that "one" state to come into existence?
The PLO's Professor:
Before delving into the details, it's worth entertaining the legitimate question of why Khalidi's background and writings should raise concerns about Obama himself.
The L.A. Times story from April about their relationship answers this question quite clearly. Not only
did Obama know Khalidi, but the professor was his "friend and frequent dinner companion" who Obama was close
enough to that he attended the 2003 going away party thrown when Khalidi was moving to New York.
Why Is the L.A. Times
Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape? Given the extraordinary sudden turnabout in US policy toward Israel
under the Obama Administration, I have become obsessed by the repressed 2003 videotape of Rashid Khalidi and Barack
Obama. That tape — or so we are told — is ensconced in a safe at the Los Angeles Times building.
In the current situation, its release by the paper is more important and newsworthy than ever. The
Khalidi tape could be of tremendous significance in revealing the provenance of Obama's views on the Middle
East and the degree to which the public was misled on those views during the presidential campaign.
Louis Farrakhan
Reject and Denounce:
The list of objectionable figures — Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Father
Michael Pfleger — surrounding Barack Obama is growing. But the one who is the most infamous
garners the least attention: Louis Farrakhan.
Why Islamists Cheer For
Obama: The Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gushed, "this young man [Obama] is the hope of
the entire world that America will change and be made better." He went on to say that Obama "could turn
out to be one who can lift America from her fall." In another appearance, Farrakhan stated that he
"represents hope that the United States will change for the better."
Obama's Farrakhan Problem:
Barack Obama has a Louis Farrakhan problem and not because of his endorsement from Farrakhan. Instead, it
is because of Obama's more-than-passing association with Farrakhan and those who are close to the Nation of
Islam leader. In spite of Farrakhan's long history as a racist, bigot and anti-Semite, Obama thought
favorably enough of him to join Farrakhan's 1995 march on Washington, D.C. Reportedly, Obama joined
Reverends Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton in organizing the march.
Extreme Endorsements
Could Sway Moderate Vote. Obama has even garnered the praises of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation
of Islam. "You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack
has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything
about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely
speaking," Farrakhan said.
Endorsements
Finding Friends On Far, Far
Left. If Obama is smarting because he didn't get an official Communist Party USA endorsement,
maybe he will be mollified by the approval of an old communist to the south. Fidel Castro in the spring
wrote in the state newspaper Granma that Obama is "the most progressive candidate for the U.S. presidency."
That's an endorsement that anyone who doesn't have a socialist agenda should be ashamed of, especially given
Castro's murder and intimidation of his foes and his repeated, egregious human rights violations of average
Cuban citizens. But from what we can tell, Obama has not rejected Castro's support.
Socialist chief
endorses Obama. The head of France's opposition Socialist Party strongly endorsed U.S. Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama and said Sunday [8/31/2008] that an Obama victory would be "good news" for the
United States and the world. Francois Hollande said an Obama presidency would usher in a positive, new
chapter in international relations.
Obama Will 'End 30 Years of
Ultra-Right Rule,' Communist Paper Says. The Communist Party USA's newspaper is defending
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama against potential defectors on the left, saying his candidacy
represents a "broad multi-class, multicultural movement." In a July editorial, "Eye on the Prize," the
People's Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, admonished anyone on the
left who might consider abandoning Obama.
Marxism's Rebirth?
America's Communist Party is giddy over current political events, saying its movement has reached a "turning
point." There's no mystery why. Their candidate is the White House front-runner.
Saul Alinsky's son: "Obama learned his
lesson well". In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist
author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky's son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for "learning his lesson well"
from the Communist guru. Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week's
Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama's detractors couldn't: blown the
cover on the presidential hopeful's communist leanings.
Barack Obama and
Alinsky's Rules for Psychopaths: [Saul] Alinsky boasted about his close alliance with Frank
Nitti, Al Capone's second in command in the Chicago Mob during the 1930s. ... Alinsky's close alliance with
Frank Nitti tells us something crucially important today. Alinsky was also a lifelong ally of the
Stalin-controlled Communist Party, at a time when Stalin was known to have murdered tens of millions of
people. He was proud of building a bridge between organized crime and the power hungry Left.
That tacit alliance may continue today.
4 Weathermen terrorists declare support for
Obama. The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed
as signatories on an online petition calling for an "independent grassroots effort" to help strengthen Sen.
Barack Obama's campaign. The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent
organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator's election.
More
Celebrity Endorsements for Barack Obama: Kim Jong-Il and Fidel Castro. It's nearly unanimous;
terrorist groups and cruel dictators have made a clear choice in the US presidential election.
Obama offers change
Kim Jong-Il can believe in. North Korea prefers Democratic candidate Barack Obama over
Republican John McCain, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan said.
Hamas Endorses
Obama. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has received an endorsement he might well
wish he hadn't — from the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top
political adviser in the Gaza Strip, delivered his endorsement in an interview with WorldNetDaily
and WABC Radio in New York.
Hamas Adviser Ahmed Yousef Praises Barack Obama.
Hamas Hearts Obama.
Hamas praised Barack Obama. Then Barack Obama's campaign said how flattered it was. Then Obama had
to toss an advisor once it became public that the guy was working with Hamas.
Fidel Castro Endorses
Obama — Again. On Nov. 5, 1982 a Dade County, Fla., grand jury indicted Rene
Rodriguez Cruz for smuggling drugs into the U.S. This murderer headed a Cuban agency that Jeremiah
Wright "worked with for decades" by his own admission, and whose staff he regards as "friends." These
"friends," arranged the visit for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's and his 300 person entourage to Havana in
1984, which included Rev. Wright. "Viva Fidel!" bellowed Reverend Jackson while concluding his speech
at the University of Havana during that visit. "Viva Che Guevara! ... Long Live our cry of Freedom!"
Al-Jazeera for Obama. Colin
Powell's predicted and expected endorsement of Barack Obama was transformed into big news by the pro-Obama
media. But Arab propaganda channel Al-Jazeera's intervention in the U.S. presidential contest is also
extremely significant. Al-Jazeera, a mouthpiece for enemies of the United States, aired a Moammar
Gadhafi speech praising Obama and followed with a story depicting supporters of Sarah Palin as white racist
Christians. The channel is subsidized by the oil-rich Sunni Muslim plutocracy/dictatorship in Qatar.
Obama Getting Support From Gaza
Strip. Obama already has distanced himself from an earlier endorsement by a Hamas official. Joanne
Yaron, chairwoman for Democrats Abroad in Israel, said she though it was "lovely" that Palestinians in Gaza were
campaigning for Obama.
At the U.N.,
Many Hope for an Obama Win. There are no "Obama 2008" buttons, banners or T-shirts visible here
at U.N. headquarters, but it might be difficult to find a sliver of territory in the United States
more enthusiastic over the prospect of the Illinois senator winning the White House.
The U.N.'s Candidate.
The definition of socialism includes government ownership and control of the means of production, and the
Obama administration is prepared to sign agreements and carry out policies that in effect will do just that.
The U.N. couldn't be happier. An informal survey of U.N. officials by the Washington Post found overwhelming
support for the former Illinois state senator.
The Old Mistaken Identity Play.
The White House last November released a guest list of 110 names and 481 visits as part of the
President's Volunteer Disclosure Policy. Names on the White House guest list included Malik Zulu Shabazz,
William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Robert Kelly (a.k.a. R Kelly) and ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
Even more intriguing is the fact that this is just a small portion of the multitude of guests who have trod
into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since Obama's inauguration; imagine the names they are NOT revealing.
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