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1. #1
   On May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am, terrig said:

   Well we know this sure isn’t helping Michelle Obama’s kids is it?/sarc off
   Again, the company you keep but that means nothing to the Obamanation does it?

2. #2
   On May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am, mike volpe said:

   It is NOT merely Chicago that Obama opponents should connect Obama to, but Cook County and Springfield. I live in Chicago, and the three governments Chicago, Cook County, and Springfield all make D.C. look pure. Names like Stroger, Daley, Blagojevich all need to be explored by Obama opponents. That is the way to counter his so called outsider’s image

3. #3
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pm, Southpaw said:

   I’ve been wondering why Hillary keeps hanging in there. It’s almost as if she knows something the rest of us don’t…YET.

4. #4
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm, Barry F. said:

   Now…now…these things are just coincidental. We’re making a mountain out of mere speculation aren’t we?

5. #5
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, Paco833 said:

   Am I alone in remembering that there is video out there of Rev Pfleger commenting after the Wright press club fiasco and Obama’s second repudiation – video in which Rev Pfleger states that he “spoke to both Rev Wright and Mr. Obama and I am counseling both…”

   Will someone ask if Obama was ‘couseled’ by Rev Pfleger after the Wright dustup?

   Also Rev. Pfleger was in trouble last year (+)for suggesting violence against a Chicago gun shop.

6. #6
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, Barry F. said:

   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:00 pm, Southpaw said:

   I’ve been wondering why Hillary keeps hanging in there. It’s almost as if she knows something the rest of us don’t…YET.

   It had best be happening soon, Soutpaw. HRC is running out of time.

   If there’s another shoe to drop, she will need to be putting to the side of his head pretty soon. It’s going to have to be a knockout blow.

7. #7
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

   TKO! Talk about a dogfight.

8. #8
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, Silkyinfamous said:

   Southpaw said:

   I’ve been wondering why Hillary keeps hanging in there. It’s almost as if she knows something the rest of us don’t…YET.

   I agree. Something funny is in the air, and the odor hasn’t reached the media yet. All in due time. If FL and MI don’t get included, she’ll spill the beans.

9. #9
   On May 30th, 2008 at 12:23 pm, libocrat said:

   Rodham is hanging in there because she is obsessed with power and she is obsessed with herself. What does she gain by dropping out. This is IT for her. IT’s her life, her dream, the job is hers damn it.
   What I find so interesting is that nearly every black person in America expressed love and admiration for Rodham…..until….the Immaculate Obamination. Then they shitcanned her with “the quickness”.

10. #10
    On May 30th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, ddhinnyc said:

    If you watch the video of this “priest” making the statements he apologized for later and for which Obama said he disagreed….

    EVERY PERSON IN THE CHURCH AUDIENCE WAS ON THEIR FEET, APPLAUDING WHAT THIS “PRIEST” SAID IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT.

    So how is it that Obama is the only member of that church who disagrees with what its pastors say?

11. #11
    On May 30th, 2008 at 12:29 pm, John Ansell said:

    Hey Mike Volpe, What about Bill? You know who I’m talking about? B.C.? If Michelle checked my post the other day I left her all the trails to the story without having to be fitted for cement shoes to go swimming in lake Springfield.

12. #12
    On May 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pm, spo-con said:

    Let me be clear, uuuuuuuum, that is NOT the back of MY head in that photo ! This is just another distraction.

13. #13
    On May 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm, mike volpe said:

    John, Bill? I have a friend that I refer to as B.C. I don’t think you are talking about him though.

    There is no need to go conspiracy shopping. Chicago, Cook County, and Springfield are all three a cess pool of corruption. There is overwhelming evidence of this. Our mayor and our governor may each be indicted for corruption related charges. Our former governor is in jail.

    All we need to do is lay out what can be found through google searches and we can draw the narrative to Obama’s political machine connections.

14. #14
    On May 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, Mister P said:

    I grew up on the South side of Chicago, where precinct captains got paid for supposedly inspecting meat, while they walked each day in the precinct on their real job: Getting at least 60 percent of the votes for Daley.
    Daley grew up on the streets a member of the Irish Athletic Club, an Irish American gang in Bridgeport. His chief of police and chief of the fire department were fellow gang members.
    His son is now following the corrupt legacy of his father. The machine extended right into all the black precincts and included the mafia and black gangs of the South Side.
    Obama had to sell his soul to this machine to become a representative in the first place.
    The dots connect because all of them are connected (Though we all know that conspiracies do not exists

15. #15
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm, mike volpe said:

    Mister P,

    you are absolutely right. What I mean by not going after conspiracy theories, is that they aren’t conspiracies. Google Richard Daley and corruption and there will be thousands of articles.

    Except the corruption doesn’t stop in Chicago. We just got a massive sales tax hike in Cook County. Why, so that corrupt friends of Todd Stroger could get cushy jobs. What about Springfield? One governor is in jail and the current is under investigation. This is the political legacy that Obama came from. The dots are connected and anyone with google skills can connect them themselves.

16. #16
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm, Kurgan said:

    The links from the Broadway Bank, Rezko, the Giannoulias family and Barack Obama run long and deep.

    There is one wild card in this: Boris Stratievsky.

    The Russian mobster was recently arrested for laundering $80,000 through and FBI front in New Jersey.

    I will give you one guess what his banking institution of choice is in Chicago. You got it: Broadway.

17. #17
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:14 pm, Ahh a Lion! said:

    You wouldn’t want to be labeled as a conspiracy theorist now would you Michelle?

18. #18
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:20 pm, Boomer said:

    It appears the new messiah has enough baggage to fill up a C-5B Galaxy when it comes to his questionable associations. From what I gleamed of Chicago politics from my family relations in the Northwest corner of Indiana the corruption of Chicago would make most of our lying crapweasels in DC actually blush.

19. #19
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:35 pm, Bob in Myrtle Beach said:

    Obama is a Chicago Politician, period!

    And to those outside the influence of the Windy City, that means he’s as “connected” as they come. He’s not a babe-in-the-woods…pure-as-snow, political messiah, “comin’ for to carry us home”. He’s a political hack who’s neck deep in the deepest political cesspool that’s ever been.

    Now that’s all IMHO, but it’s an opinion based on a long life of living in Porter County IN. (aka “The Chicago Mob’s Graveyard”) and several years working in Chicago. The toddlin’ town…”Where you go along to get along.”

20. #20
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:40 pm, Mister P said:

    Without Daley’s machine JFK never gets elected. Unfortunately for JFK his brother went after the mafia. Soon later both are dead. Chicago is as down and dirty as they get. VOLPE if you have a chance check out Mike Royko’s book on the Daley machine call The BOSS.

21. #21
    On May 30th, 2008 at 1:45 pm, John Ansell said:

    Mike Volpe, I was born and raised in Springfield and the person I’m talking about is a Republican Power Broker from Springfield. He was “Individual C” in the Rezko trial. No conspiracy here. My uncle was the finance commissioner at the time this deal was going through and he fought against it tooth and nail.

22. #22
    On May 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm, libocrat said:

    How does all this talk about Jesus Obama (not a muslim) Tony Rezko and the techinicolor pay-offs, Bill “BOOM BOOM” Ayers and his wife Bernadine “F.B.I’s 10 most wanted” Dohrn, help pay for Michelle Obama’s kids piano lessons.

    This is all just distracting us from the fact that Obama is a follower. And he follows ass-hats.

23. #23
    On May 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm, Alphonse said:

    On May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am, mike volpe said:It is NOT merely Chicago that Obama opponents should connect Obama to, but Cook County and Springfield. I live in Chicago, and the three governments Chicago, Cook County, and Springfield all make D.C. look pure.

    Used to be true, but Bush has raised Chicago-style cronyism to the national level. What is his non-feasance on illegal migration but crony-corruption to reward business at the expense of the nation and rule of law? His corruption is costing the U.S. billions upon billions of dollars. The corruption in Iraq under Rice/Bremer/KBR may well be the greatest corruption dollarwise in history.

    http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_24/print/coverprint.html
    The American-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority could well prove to be the most corrupt administration in history, almost certainly surpassing the widespread fraud of the much-maligned UN Oil for Food Program.

24. #24
    On May 30th, 2008 at 3:31 pm, zeestephen said:

    CAUTION!

    CAUTION!

    This Rezko article may have an important error.

    When gamblers fail to pay back casino loans in Nevada, state law treats that like a bounced check.

    It is very likely the Nevada indictment of Rezco has NOTHING to do with bounced checks written on an Illinois bank.

25. #25
    On May 30th, 2008 at 4:12 pm, tuffy said:

    Obama could be under indictment and his fans would find that either
    a) hawt b) a framejob or c) all of the above.
    I’m guessing c.

26. #26
    On May 30th, 2008 at 4:28 pm, trk45lt said:

    It makes me ill to think that anyone from the City of Chicago/Cook County/State of Illinois Dem-GOP Combine would be considered for the Presidency. Maybe the Presidency of the Cook County Board. Or is it “Crook County”. Obama is nothing more than a Cook County Dem Party hack who is unqualified to be elected dogcatcher. Mr.P and Mike Volpe are right on the money. As a fellow sout’ sider, Im glad that there are some folks who understand Just how corrupt Chicago politics is.

27. #27
    On May 30th, 2008 at 4:45 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    There are no coincidences in politics.

28. #28
    On May 31st, 2008 at 6:59 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On May 30th, 2008 at 4:45 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    There are no coincidences in politics

    That is a rather hard statement. Unfortunately I am beginning to think it is also a true statement. But I must admit Chicago, Cook County and Illinois always surprise me with new levels of “differentness”. Have they checked the water?

29. #29
    On June 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    Have they checked the water?

    Try the universities and churches.