Spin Obama Spin!
- As a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko's successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.
- The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he's known Rezko, "I've never done any favors for him.''
- Two years ago, the two men were involved in a real estate deal that Obama later apologized for, calling it "boneheaded'' and a "mistake'' because the transaction occurred while Rezko was widely known to be under federal investigation. Rezko's wife paid full price for a vacant lot in Chicago's historic Kenwood district on the same day Obama bought the mansion next door from the same property owner for $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife subsequently sold a sliver of the land to Obama.
For want of a fence, a crooked real estate deal was hatched. Because of this deal, a lie was told. Obama may yet be the democratic nominee because of the anti-war left, but the truth about this entire deal will doom a national campaign. And we'll bet money the leaks are all coming from Hillary's people.
Labels: national politics
posted by SCC at 7:00 AM
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Please explain how or why you thing this is a corrupt deal. It sounds like a good business plan to me: Let's see:
Buyer A wants to buy property X but can't get full financing and seller wants to sell lot Y with X as a package deal because w/o X lot Y is a much less attractive deal since it is long and narrow. So Buyer A works out a deal with Seller and Buyer B whereby B will purchase lot Y at the asking price (not unusual for prime real estate in Hyde Park), in exchange seller reduces the cost of lot X the equivalent of a finder's fee while negotiating down the price of the X to a less inflated price based on the appraised value. As consideration for B buying Lot Y, A agrees to buy a portion of Y after rezoning for an inflated value thereby adding increasing the value of A's investment and giving B a partial return on his money while keeping someone else from acquiring land that A probably intends to buy as finances permit. Problem solved.
Where's the scandal? The fact that Tony Rezko may be involved doesn't make this a bad deal. It sound's pretty much like an arm's length negotiation. If you're really looking for something, maybe you want to look at whether the reduction in the price of the property as purchased by A was politically motivated but nobody seems to have mentioned the seller in any of this. . .
Many people around the clintons turned up dead or hurt they are vicious ruthless people! As far as obama he is nothing but another chicago style crook in the mold of the combine daley-stroger-blago-50 alderthieves etc... Will patrick Fitzgerald indict obama before the election? He wants scooter libby in jail now how about obama? surley daley wants obama in so he can move fitzgerald from chicago and let the "don" daley do his business here!
It is amazing that the media in this country basically ignores this scandal. Still, if we are to have a Democrat, which unfortunately I think we are, I would rather see Obama than Hillary Clinton.
and hillarys sins make obamma look like a choir boy!
Barack Obama Bin Laden says---
It does not matter if I wrote letters or lied about writing them. The liberal press will not report it and the spineless white devils will forget about it due to some deep-seeded mistaken guilt about my being half-black.
When I am elected president, the prophesy of my father and step-father will be fulfilled. Islam will be the only religion and the rest of you infidels will either submit (Islam translated means submission) or meet the death sentence given to all running-dog non-believers.
Best example--do you remember when I went to Selma, Alabama and told the crowd because of the civil rights movement that started there in 1965 my parents got together. Fools---I was born in 1961. Did the press crucify me like they would have the devil George W.? Of course not. I have them in the palm of my hand and I will crush them too once the prophesy is fulfilled.
I read in some editorial in the local paper that some lady asked the question, since Obama is running around the country running for president. What has he done for the people of Illinois. We elect him and then he is off to the races. So how do we gauge his ability as a leader?
Not a real shocker there...
for the Liberals this guy was too good to be true, and someone hyped up (and I'm not talking about rocks or blows either) this much, is bound to be exposed as a fraud.
This guy was put in the spotlight by Da Mare through his associate Reczko so he, Obama would never become a formidable candidate for mayor himself, all he is is an overglorified "fluffer" with absolutely no substance. Plus Mayor Daley controls the world through thought control and if you get too close to the truth he will send his "robots" Seiser or the Campbell Boys after you, so be careful!-he is to blame for everything.
of course he is dirty he is a politician from chicago who has been molded in the likes of that little irish prick and hot rod blago..the rest of the country doesnt care just because he is black and should automatically become president..even though he has never really done anything politically..i dont care what color the president is as long as its the most qualified person for the job
Anonymous said...
of course he is dirty he is a politician from chicago who has been molded in the likes of that little irish prick and hot rod blago..the rest of the country doesnt care just because he is black and should automatically become president..even though he has never really done anything politically..i dont care what color the president is as long as its the most qualified person for the job
6/13/2007 02:21:00 PM
I disagee he does not know if he is white or black buts wants to say he is black! he is sorta like Pat from the old saturday night live show you could not tell if it was man or woman is osama obama white or black! Born to a white mother daddy was black and left her to raise him sounds like englewood bullshit right?
A lot of the liberals who are in love with Obama are that way because he appears to be a non threatening black/white who can speak clearly and who will make them feel that they did the media'
s version of the right liberal thing; voted for a black man.
Notice how much FOP John Capparelli and Tony Rezko look like each other. They come from the same cloth. Money...Money...Money!!!
It's downright scary how many white lib lemmings are "tortured" by "white guilt", whatever that means.
They'd vote for this "all form, no substance" jerk Obama for that reason alone.
Republicans are assholes but Democrats are a hundred times worse.
NEVER IN MY RIGHT CONSERVATIVE MIND COULD I VOTE FOR OSAMA OBAMA EVER! HE IS THE LATEST HOT GOOF RUNNING, GORE WILL JUMP IN WATCH! BUSH IS OBVIOUSLY SUFFERING FROM ALZEHEIMERS WITH THE BULLSHIT BILL TO KEEP ILLEGALS HERE AND THEN WE WOULD GET MILLIONS MORE FAMILY (WE HAVE WAY TO MANY IN CHICAGO LET OTHER STATES TAKE SOME)!VOTE FOR RUDY G. AT LEAST THERE IS SOME HOPE! UP WITH HOPE,UP WITH HOPE, (THANKS TO jesse jackson)!
If obamma or the hatchet face ho hillary gets in...plain and simple we are fucked.
Forget Rudy G.,...too pro illegal Mexican as well as McCain. Hiliary? OMG, pleeeese just go away!! We had you for 8 years beside your cigar-sucking hubby. Plus, we don't want to see Chelsea's mug in the spot light either. Forget Obama...way too much hype for a mulatto who hasn't done anything notable for Illinois constituents and has done way too many politico "favors" that he has incredibly and conveniently forgotten. He writes a book praising the black father who walked out on him. His mother was a liberal nut....where is she? How come she isn't standing next to him at the latest political fundraising rally? Has he ever introduced her to the public?? According to the media, the people who actually took care of him were his white grandparents. I won't even get into the "Hussein" middle-name business that will go into the next topic of how he down-plays his muslim roots. Obama, cut from the same Daley-Blago-machine with a strong flavor of reverend backing now ready to go nation-wide. Wake-up America!!!
Where is the candidate that will get us out of the oil inflation and Iraq and start building up our own infrastructure. My God, New Orleans is still a FEMA-gone-bad mess. Stop pandering to all the illegals that are here sucking us dry. When was the last time you saw a new public school built on the NW side for all the folks who are holding down two plus jobs just to stay afloat and pay property taxes?? All I see are mobile trailers going up next to 80 year old buildings. Lots of new schoola going into the neighborhoods where English is the second language.
Who cares about the middle-class US citizens???
We're doomed. Canada, you're looking better all the time.
Where is the candidate that will get us out of the oil inflation and Iraq and start building up our own infrastructure. My God, New Orleans is still a FEMA-gone-bad mess. Stop pandering to all the illegals that are here sucking us dry. When was the last time you saw a new public school built on the NW side for all the folks who are holding down two plus jobs just to stay afloat and pay property taxes?? All I see are mobile trailers going up next to 80 year old buildings. Lots of new schoola going into the neighborhoods where English is the second language.
again the truth! we are getting screwed every which way! I live in garfield ridge but like many we cannot send our kids to shit kennedy high school why? Full of illegals and low class bussed inj shitheads! The school has a 70% drop out rate but yet we keep paying to teach animals send them to the circus that may help them! ASSHOLES STOP HAVING KIDS YOU A TOTAL WASTE OF LIFE IF YOU CANNOT CONTROL AND CARE FOR YOUR CHILDREN! BUNCH OF BREEDERS THAT IS ALL THEY ARE THE MORE THEY HAVE THE MORE FREE LINK MONIES THEY GET WHAT A CONCEPT!
Who cares about the middle-class US citizens???
We're doomed. Canada, you're looking better all the time.
6/14/2007 03:56:00 PM
obama what a crook just like the rest when clinton gets finished with all the dirt on him he will be out! hope it is soon as he is nothing but a chicago crook like the rest!
Barack -
Tell us about your three greatest accomplishments! What have you actually accomplished in your life?
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