Comments on: Chicago: “Land of coincidences”

By: Straight_Talk_Luigi

Straight_Talk_Luigi — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:11:01 +0000

Have they checked the water?

Try the universities and churches.

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:59:00 +0000

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?

By: AlohaGuy

AlohaGuy — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:45:53 +0000

There are no coincidences in politics.

By: trk45lt

trk45lt — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:28:25 +0000

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.

By: tuffy

tuffy — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:12:06 +0000

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.

By: zeestephen

zeestephen — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:31:33 +0000

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.

By: Alphonse

Alphonse — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:33:01 +0000

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.

By: libocrat

libocrat — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:14:51 +0000

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.

By: John Ansell

John Ansell — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:45:05 +0000

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.

By: Mister P

Mister P — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:40:49 +0000

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.

By: Bob in Myrtle Beach

Bob in Myrtle Beach — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:35:32 +0000

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.”

By: Boomer

Boomer — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:20:28 +0000

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.

By: Ahh a Lion!

Ahh a Lion! — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:14:20 +0000

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

By: Kurgan

Kurgan — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:13:09 +0000

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.

By: mike volpe

mike volpe — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:05:47 +0000

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.