Richardson Withdraws To Defend Against Corruption
Jan 5, 2009 Political
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico has withdrawn his name from consideration as Obama’s Commerce Secretary. Richardson is involved in a grand jury investigation into how some people who donated money to him received a state contract.
Richardson says that he is sure that once everything is investigated he will be exonerated but that the lengthy process will detract from responsibilities at Commerce. He has vowed to serve Obama in any way helpful once this is all said and done.
Unless, of course, he is dirty.
First there was Governor Blagojevich and his pay to play scam with Obama’s Senate seat and now Richardson is caught up in a pay to play game in his home state. This one does not involve Obama in any way but it might demonstrate that his vetting process is not as complete as he believed.
The withdrawal will put a bit of a damper on the Obama Restructuring (stimulus) plan because now he will have to find a new Commerce Secretary.
This might be a blessing in disguise because Obama and the Democrats plan to spend around a TRILLION dollars on this recovery plan. It is estimated that the plan will be about 850 billion and the rest will be “goodies” attached to the bill. As if we are not already in dire straights, the Democrats plan on wasting more money on the stimulus and the pork that will surely be attached to it.
Obama is not in office yet and already two scandals have hit. One does not involve him and the other does but only in a peripheral sense.
I guess it is hard for Obama to associate with people who are clean when he has spent his entire political career dirty.
We are in for a long four years.
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Tags: commerce, corruption, Obama, pay to play, richardson, withdraw
Liberals Miss The Point On Blago-Obama
Dec 20, 2008 Political
The liberals who supported the Messiah, Barack Obama, have completely missed the point on his connection to corrupt Governor Blagojevich. The left continues to harp on the “fact” that Obama had nothing to do with what was going on and that it was a shock to the Sainted One. Perhaps this is true though I find it hard to believe that Obama sailed through Illinois politics unscathed and untouched by the turds floating in that sewer system. But, for the sake of argument, let us suppose that Obama is clean.
The Blago issue has brought to light much more important issues than if Obama has been tainted by Illinois corruption. This entire episode has demonstrated that, contrary to his claim of change, Obama is nothing more than a typical politician. His claims of transparency are now null and void as he has lied to America and he has not been transparent. Couple this with the possibility that he was tipped off about the Blago wiretaps (which allowed Valerie Jarrett to conveniently drop out) and we can see that Obama is politics as usual.
When Barack Hussein Obama had the chance to be straight with the American public he decided to lie. Now, this is nothing new to those of us who have not taken a drink of his Kool Aid. He has lied about any number of things and he is covering something up with regard to his birth. But, when the Blago story broke, America had a chance to see the true Obama. He said that no one in his camp had anything to do with it, that no one had been in contact with Blago and that he was shocked at what was taking place.
It turns out that Obama had contact through Rahm Emanuel and that Emanuel was pushing for Jarrett to be given the Senate seat by a certain date. Emanuel was recorded about 21 times conversing with the governor and his aides. From reports about the conversations it appears as if Emanuel was the messenger for Obama who wanted Jarrett to get his seat. This all shows that Obama lied when he said that neither he nor his folks had any contact with Blago or his people. He later amended this to indicate that no “inappropriate” contact had taken place.
This episode only shows that Obama is nothing more than a typical politician who will lie when it is convenient and then change that lie when evidence shows that he is being untruthful. He is not the change we need because nothing has changed.
Not to worry though, Obama has conducted an internal review and concluded that all is fine, above board, and legal. Suppose the Big Three auto makers went to DC and said they had conducted an internal review and that all was well they just needed money. Do you think Obama would be happy with that? Maybe the next time someone is accused of a crime he can tell the judge that he conducted an internal review and no wrong doing occurred. I am sure this will be OK.
The shine is wearing off Obama very rapidly. He is not in office yet and has a mini scandal to deal with. He handled it poorly because he thought that he could do as he has all along and just bamboozle the media and his followers and it would all go away. There are those who are still in the dark and it is unlikely that they will ever change their minds about the Sainted One.
This is why the liberals miss the point.
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Tags: blago, corruption, crime, emanuel, liberal, Obama, oblivious
It Is Official, Obama Says No Wrongdoing
Dec 16, 2008 Political
When the story about Governor Blagojevich trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat broke, The Sainted One said that he did not have any contact with the governor. He then said that none of his people had contact. For several days there were pictures of Obama and Blagojevich together. There were stories of the two meeting and David Axelrod said that he knew that the two had met. He said it a month before it mattered and then retracted it when Obama contradicted it with a lie.
In any event, Obama assured us that there were no contacts and then he said he was going to have an internal investigation which he knew would show there had been no contacts. After four days he completed the investigation and what do you know, Obama said there were no inappropriate contacts. He had to change from no contacts to no inappropriate contacts because it is now well known that his would be Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was caught on tape discussing the issue.
Perhaps Obama can explain how it is that he had no contact with Blagojevich when he [Obama] sent Emanuel to discuss the candidates who would be acceptable to him. If Obama sent him then it is contact. It is not face to face contact but Emanuel contacted Blagojevich on behalf of Obama and with his full knowledge. Therefore, Obama had contact with Blagojevich specifically for the purpose of discussing the Senate seat, a topic Obama says was never discussed.
Obama’s desire to be the candidate of change, the guy who brings a new kind of politics to Washington is a pipe dream now. He lied to the public. He and his people might not have done anything wrong but he lied about the contact. His first instinct was to lie which makes him no different than 99.9% of all the other politicians.
It took him four days to investigate and that should say something because, as pointed out at NRO:
Truth Is Available Immediately, But Lies Take Time To Coordinate
They had to make sure they knew what Emanuel said and did and they had to make sure that they all had it straight that The Sainted One has no dirt under his nails.
One last thing that is very convenient. It has been alleged that Fitzgerald kept hush-hush about certain aspects of the investigation prior to the election so as not to hurt Obama’s chances. Now, according to Obama, Fitzgerald wants him to wait until the week of the 22nd to release the results of the internal investigation. Obama will be on vacation and people will be wrapped up in last minute Christmas shopping. This should pretty much bury whatever he found out.
Looks like Barry is getting his very own Fitzmas present…
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Tags: corruption, emanuel, investigation, Obama, Senate
Now That He’s Elected They Will Cover Scandals
Dec 14, 2008 Political
All during the campaign, from the primaries to the general election, Barack Obama was plagued with one scandal after another. The issues were legitimate and they were worthy of mention but they were dismissed by the left and its media wing as nothing. The idiots at the Daily Kos and assorted other Democratic mouthpieces, the very same groups who see scandal every time George Bush passes gas, remained silent or attributed the revelations to a right wing smear job. Of course, most of the “smear” came from Democrats during their primary.
Now that the media have ensured that Obama was elected they are now free to investigate scandals and they are, to their own amazement, finding that Obama had questionable associations. Imagine that? The governor of Illinois has been arrested in a scandal that might have long reaching arms and involve Jesse Jackson Jr as well as various members of Obama’s dream team and the media are suddenly interested in particulars (but not too many).
Rahm Emanuel is one such member and things are looking bleak for him. The so called heavy weight with the foul mouth and the mean temper has been reduced to hiding in his home and sneaking out to work because he is likely smack dab in the middle of the corruption.
When the story about Governor Blagojevich broke Barack Obama expressed his surprise and disappointment and indicated that this was the first that he had heard of the pay for play scheme. He assured us that none of his people were involved in the “sale” of his Senate seat. Looks like Obama might have been a bit premature in his assessment because it is now reported that Emanuel was recorded discussing the Senate seat.
As of now there is no indication that he was involved in any of the illegal activities. The recording of him has not been released so we don’t know what was discussed but we do know that the fact he was discussing the matter is contrary to what Obama said about the issue. Obama’s statement that he had not spoken or met with the governor has also been shown to be false because there are pictures of the two together.
Obama and his team are in the middle of a scandal and they have circled the wagons. They are not discussing much, if anything at all, with the media. The man who would bring transparency to government has closed ranks and is anything but transparent. Obama has also shown that he is not above politics as usual and that his rhetoric about reforming DC was nothing more than campaign promises he never intended to keep. How could he bring a new brand of politics when he is a Chicago politician and, as seen in the Blagojevich scandal, there is nothing new or clean bout that?
Perhaps Obama should have made Hillary Clinton his Chief of Staff. She has many years experience covering up scandals. Obama is a babe in the woods when compared to the Clintons.
Then again, it was the Clinton kind of politics that Obama promised to get rid of.
What a difference an election makes
Prior to the election Obama could murder babies in Times Square and the media would ignore it. They would rationalize his acts and the Daily Kos would attribute it to a Right Wing Conspiracy and blame it on Bush.
Well moonbats, Bush had nothing to do with this. All the scandal, all the attention, and all the dirt is on your guy. George Bush had nothing to do with it though I bet he is getting a bit of a chuckle out of seeing the anointed One get the third degree.
Bush probably finds some humor in the fact that when the Plame issue was being investigated the left was in full attack mode and convicting people before they ever had a trial. Despite his insistence that he was not aware of what had taken place and who “leaked” Plame’s so called secret identity, he was branded a liar. The left was calling for investigations day after day and Bush’s people were the object of ridicule.
Now, one of Obama’s people (at least) is right in the thick of an investigation and the left is not calling for him to be frog marched out in chains. They are not calling Obama a liar because he denied knowledge and they are defending him. Why, he is a victim here. Someone did something to make him look bad or bring discredit upon him. He is getting consideration that George Bush never got.
Did Obama know anything? Who knows? However, he came from the crooked politics of Illinois and he has used questionable tactics and had questionable associations in the past so it is not beyond reason that he is involved.
However, given Obama’s past, it is likely that he sent surrogates to do the dirty work so he could stay “clean” should the deification hit the cooling device.
How long will it be before Rahm Emanuel joins the many others located under the bus?
Regardless of what happens, this scandal will no doubt haunt and hinder Obama for some time to come.
Maybe if it gets bad enough he will show that Birth Certificate so that he does not have to take office…
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Tags: chicago, corruption, crime, denial, dirty politics, illinois, Obama, pay to play, rahm emanuel, scandal
Is That Smell Around Obama From The Illinois Sewer?
Dec 13, 2008 Political
Governor Rod Blagojevich’s public exposure of the crime in Illinois politics has given us insight into the mind of the liberals who supported Barack Obama. When Patrick Fitzgerald was going strong in the Valerie Plame case the liberals were like sharks in bloody water. They could not wait to see what he had to say about George Bush and the people around him. They had orgasms thinking about Bush administration officials being frog marched out in chains. The heavy activity happened around Christmas and the liberals were calling it a “Merry Fitzmas.” Fitzgerald knew who disclosed Plame’s not so secret identity in the first three days but he ignored that and kept going. He finally got Scooter Libby on perjury though if the investigation had stopped when Fitzgerald had discovered the “leak”, Libby would never have been convicted.
Now, Fitzgerald is hot and heavy in Governor Blago’s crimes and though it is around Christmas there is little of the Merry Fitzmas feeling going around, at least on the left.
Blago is accused of trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder. Blago is upset that he was arrested because he figures he could have gotten top dollar for the seat since Obama hardly used it. The extent of the corruption is unknown at this time but speculation is that it reaches far into the Obama circle of advisers. The left refuses to believe that Obama or his people were aware of any of this and cite Fitzgerald’s statement as proof. Fitzgerald said:
“…there’s no reference in the complaint to any conversation involving the president-elect or indicating that the president-elect was aware of it.” Media Matters
The liberal media, that went absolutely nuts in convicting Bush officials in the Plame affair (in the court of public opinion), are quick to point out Fitzgerald’s words as proof that Obama is not involved. The truth is, Fitzgerald only said that there is no reference to any Obama involvement in the complaint. That does not mean Obama was or was not involved, it only means that any involvement he might or might not have is not mentioned in the complaint against Blago. This parsing of words has escaped the left just as Clinton’s parsed words did for eight long years. Obama came from the sewer that is Illinois politics and he certainly has a few turds stuck to him.
Despite the media’s interpretation of Fitzgerald’s words, there is evidence that at least some in Obama’s circle are involved. Whether Obama is or not remains to be seen but he will be as protected now as he was when he was campaigning. Michelle Obama is referred to on page 64 of the indictment. There is an indication that Blago spoke with someone representing Obama and the fact that Blago knew that Obama would not pay to play begs the question of how he knew it without speaking to someone.
There was speculation that Rahm Emanuel was the one who turned Blago in but this appears to be a ruse to cover actual involvement. The tough guy ballerina has tap danced around this issue because there is indication that he spoke with Blago on behalf of Obama. Obama said that he was shocked at what happened and that he would not comment on the issues until an internal investigation was completed to find out what his people knew but assured everyone that none of them were involved. How does he know this if the investigation has not been completed. It would have been much wiser for Obama to say he had confidence that no one was involved but that he did not know for sure and was looking into it. If it turns out that one of his people was involved, Obama will be seen as a liar.
Well, he might not by the media who will excuse it as someone doing something behind his back. Obama cannot be allowed to fail and he cannot be held to the same standards the left and its media wing demanded of George Bush. Chris Matthews has already told us that it was his job to ensure Obama succeeds. How objective does anyone think he will really be? Hell, the media have already called the Blago incident fodder for the right wing smear machine. The left would never do that. No, just ask DeLay, Foley, Bush, Rove, Libby, etc…
Jesse Jackson Jr, son of a race baiting poverty pimp and so called civil rights aficionado by the same name, was mentioned in the indictment as well. He was candidate #5 for the Senate seat and the one Blago felt was willing to play the game. Jr has stated that he was not involved in any pay to play scheme but he has retained a lawyer. Jackson Sr stated that he was not an emissary mentioned in the indictment and that he was not involved. Sr has been involved in countless shake down schemes throughout his career so it is not inconceivable that he was working to get his son a Senate seat. All this takes away from Obama and what he did or did not know, which is the key.
You see, the left loves to ask that question. What did [insert Republican name here] know and when did he know it? The same standard needs to be applied to Obama and we deserve straight answers. The public deserves a media that will go after this story with the same fervor it demonstrated in the Plame case.
It is interesting that these issues are rearing their ugly heads before the anointed one even takes office but certainly not unexpected from those who paid attention to more than the liberal media.
I think that Obama is tangentially involved in this issue and that he has other political misdeeds that might come to light. Rahm Emanuel is certainly involved in all this and when the full breadth of this investigation is known, he might be an embarrassment to The One.
In any event, this is not some rendition of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy as those on the left would have people believe. This is an issue that is the result of the corruption that permeates Illinois politics and that corruption, at this time, is full of Democrats who have connections to the illegitimate so to be president elect.
Is there any doubt that the next 4 years will be full of scandals?
The number might make the Clinton scandals pale in comparison…
Obama; Change we can believe in or no change from the corruption that raised him? Does anyone believe that as far and wide as corruption extends in Illinois, that some of the many Illinois insiders Obama has around him are not tainted? Does anyone believe Obama grew up in that atmosphere and left unscathed?
At least he has a reason to sneak a cigarette…
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