Obamagate: Part II
Filed under: US Elections
No sooner does the world learn about the racist, thug-like comments from the pulpit of the pastor Barack Obama and his wife have been listening to for two decades, with Obama claiming he never heard them, than the other jackboot drops.
Now, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that corrupt businessman Tony Rezko (show above), currently facing a multi-count indictment for fraud, contributed not 2% (or $2,000) to Obama's first major political campaign (in 1995 for the Illinois Senate) as Obama said when news of Rezko's corruption first broke but 15% (or $15,000). And the contributions skyrocketed after that, again contrary to Obama's first claims, and reached a whopping $250,000 after three campaigns. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of Obama's corruption, since he was also involved in a questionable land deal with Rezko in order to buy his million-dollar house. Who knows what else has yet to be discovered?
Just like with his pastor, Obama claims he never knew anything was wrong. The Trib states: "After news reports of Rezko's questionable political dealings first emerged in 2005, Obama said he asked his friend about them. Rezko assured him there was nothing wrong. 'My instinct was to believe him,' he said."
Instead of investigating the charges himself, Obama chose to take the accused's word for it and keep the money. That's the best case scenario, if you believe Obama is an idiot, rather than a liar scurrying to cover his tracks. If he becomes president, is this how Obama will handle the leaders of countries like Iran and Russia, he'll blindly trust them, take their word for things like a simpleton? Can you imagine the things the left would be saying about George Bush if this type of conduct had been exposed on his part.
Last night, the nutroots attempted to respond to the horrifying news about Obama's pastor by shifting attention away from Obama's ludicrous and flatly incredible claims that he never knew about the pastor's attitudes despite sitting in his pews for two decades by attempting to attack John McCain. They tried to equate some anti-gay remarks of McCain's spiritual adviser, a hard-line conservative, with blaming America for 9/11 and condemning it to hell. The fact that the Democrats think Americans might view these two incidents as being remotely similar is a pretty succinct explanation of why they haven't reelected an elected president once since World War II while the Republicans have done it four times. The fact that they think Jimmy Carter's stupidity excuses that of George Bush is just plain pathetic.
Hey, hey -- ho, ho. Barack Obama has got to go.
UPDATE: The Hillary-Obama battle has split the Daily Kos and resulted in a walkout of the pro-Hillary camp. Not only has the main page of the blog ignored the split in the manner of the USSR, it has simultaneously with the diarist post that announced it posted another vicious attack on Hillary, accusing her of being stupider than a child and, ironically, accusing the pro-Hillary forces of being like the USSR. Seems like everyone at the Daily Kos can pretty much agree that they are all a bunch of totalitarian maniacs.
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