Obama on Rezko: I’m a clueless dupe…again!
“This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew.”
That was Barack Obama’s response to his corrupt crony’s convictions.
Q: How many times can Barack Obama claim to be shocked, shocked by the behavior of his longtime friends?
A: As long as the press keeps ogling, he’ll surf his way to November.
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Did Rezko ever help Michelle O’s kids? That’s all I care about….
Since he pulled his granny out from under the bus in last night’s
speech, there’s room for Rezko to take her place.
If he keeps throwing people under the bus like this, pretty soon he’ll catch up to the Clinton death list.
I like the picture Michelle.
“The Audacity Of Dope!”
Now that was funny, Rogue Cheddar.
Saying it again:
The Reverands are a REZKO RUSE!!!!!!
How long before he’s claiming “This isnt the Michelle Obama I knew.”?
I doubt the Rezko debacle will deter liberals from washing and kissing Obama’s feet. And the thrill will still be running up whatshisname’s leg.
Unless the Obamassiah gets indicted and convicted – practically impossible, considering – he’s a very strong contender for WH occupancy.
This reminds me of the first verse of a song I like…Cause I’ve got friends in low places
Governor Rod Blagovitch “I feel sorry for Tony Rezko”
How many times can he use the “this aint the guy I knew” defense before you have to start to question his JUDGEMENT of the people he associates with?
The Dope:
Where did I put that…?
I came in here for some….
I can’t seem to remem….
I sure like cocoanut.
Not buying it Barry!!!!!!
And Hillary didn’t quit because…
Rezko’s greatest hits is about to be released, including the hit singles… “gimmie jus a little less time” & “the protection program blues”
Number one with a bullet! Oh yeah!
I’m pretty sure I heard Obama on the Bob and Tom show during the Mr. Obvious segment. I believe he was saying something about never having put the connection together before.
The fact that she’s quitting on Friday might dispel that notion.
You need to add an “R” to the end.
Another excellent story MM. Now, make sure you balance it with another hit piece on McCain…
He cannot accurately assess the characters of people he’s known for years, such as Rezko or Wright or Ayres, yet he thinks he can size up the likes of Chavez, Ahmadinejad, and Kim Jong-Il?
Not that the MSM will ever call him on this.
There’s guilt and lying in this story and it’s being done by two different people. We know who’s been found guilty, so that only leaves one for the lying part.
BHO, dude, you were chin-deep in the bucket of political Illinois sleaze for 7 years! You saw nothing?–you did nothing? You sir, are the “Sergeant Schultz” of American politics.
Twenty years with your “spiritual mentor” Wright? Ayers? Phleger? Who’s next, the long lost heirs of Joseph Mengele?
Not only are you judged by those you associate with, but you are also shaped by them. I guess BHO’s “white” gramma (the one expediently tossed under the bus) never taught him about that.
Talk about more of the same, this jerk has a bad case of Clintonitaslyonsackacrapus.
Where is Oprah?
is she driving the bus?
someone has to.
Obama’s going to have to rent a second bus to throw his friends under. This one’s full.
This will work until he is under oath… and then it will become, “I DO NOT RECALL.”
Obama=Broken Record, & just when should we begin to question his judgement?
His only chance is to run with the she-creature. 50-50 on that as, as much as Hussein and that filthy, despicable, spouse of his hate it, without it, they have to convince all of its followers who wanted one thing-a “woman”- that they are better off without one. If only we had an adult running, this would be a cake walk.
Might be time for all the tough guys-MM, Ingraham, Hannity, et al, to stop the idiotic anti-McCain crap, elect the ass for one term (while holding his feet to the fire. The day AFTER he’s in is the time to attack and start the search for a REAL conservative), and then move on.
That whole line is wearing a bit thin. This guy’s not man enough to take responsibility for what he is.
He’s going to have us believe that Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, Ayers et al are not representative of his circle of acquaintances. Or at least they’re not “the people he knew”. That’s so lame.
So where are the genuine heavyweights — the real thinkers, the achievers, the people who have done something and given something? I guess they’re not members of the New Party, so no chance Obama would meet them.
Yeah, I think Hillary finally realized that Obama will get a free pass for ANYTHING.
What I’m forced to ponder is…
Does Hillary now realize that her success up through the end of 2007 was probably only due to the free pass she and Bill had always received?
But wait a minute… The MSM has been telling us for the past 8 years that GWB is the DUMMY!
Oh good Lord!
Maybe MO is the one who wears the PANTS.
Yes it is, Barry. Yes it is.
This is not the grandmom I knew….
This is not the Reverend I knew…..
This is not the Pastor I knew…..
This is not the Rezko I knew….
“I Know Nothing! I see nothing! Nothing!” SGT Schulz
I’ve said it before….OBAMA will have to actually shoot someone before the adoring masses realize they are ogling an empty suit.
Mookie, re: The fact that she’s quitting on Friday might dispel that notion.
Clinton’s NEVER quit. But shame on you for doubting! Infidel. The truth is she neeever left you! How is your guy Baal these days doing anyhow?
Sure, the Tony Rezko he knew hadn’t been caught.
According to Fox News, Hil’s not doing anything til Saturday and she’s not actually quitting, she’s “suspending” her campaign.
I was wondering why she would pre-announce her announcement 3 days in advance, but now I see what’s happening. She’s hoping (or plotting) for something to come out of this to make him quit or at least get superdelegates to denounce him.
Oh yeah, she kept her promise… now keep yer distance, if yah know what I mean…
It does not matter. Barack Hussein could snort coke and rape sheep on PBS and he would get a free pass.
Especially in light of the comments written here, most of them pointless, I have to ask: what now? What’s the solution? He continues to say, “This isn’t the [insert name here] I knew.” Why? Because it works. So, I ask, how can we fight this, not just complain about it?
How about this:
1) Organizations drop their fear of losing their “non-profit” status and run whatever ads their consciences feel are appropriate. For example, I have yet to see any commercials by anti-abortion groups against Obama: why? Just pay the taxes and throw down the government’s leash on freedom.
2) Become active in your community’s politics. Write articles to your local paper, representative, Senator (yes, even if it is Obama himself) about your concerns. Don’t just write in smart aleck comments on MM’s sites and expect things to improve.
We fight on the battlefield we’re given, not the battlefield for which we wished. Get used to it.
Dis isn’t da “Sammy the Bull” Gravano I knew.
–John Gotti
Yep. Sounds about the same.
Aggggrah! PBS. I was going to call it a night, BUT now you bring up PBS! OK so it sucks that I gotta pay taxes to PP to kill babies… AND I gotta pay for the indoctrination of those who survived too???
Look, I love Reagan, but no freakin way did we defeat communism!
Hot off the presses at the RNC…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_duAgLWSVY
I just googled Obama Rezko and got over 723,000 hits…
I’m going to make some popcorn!
There’s nothing to defend.
Something was up, but not UP enough to take him DOWN. So yes, Mrs. Malkin, free pass to Novemeber perhaps January.
If Barack is elected President (God Help Us!) will David Letterman keep his Great Moments in Presidential Speeches with all of Barack’s flubs? He should start now with Barack’s flubs and rename it “How Barack Fooled Us Today!”
The eeeeevil white demon MAAAN did this to Obama!
I can see it now:
“I am not the same Barack Hussein I once knew…”.
No I did not!
YES you DID!
“brooklen red and Leatherneck are not the same posters I once knew…”
havok, that really hurt… & if you don’t come round on Sunday I understand… just slide it under the door.
b-red…
I’d like to help but Barack Hussein has commissioned me to find another bus for him to chuck some more people under. Alas, I am busy on Sunday.
So many busses so many more people to toss…
Dang it Leatherneck! now look what you done!
Such as…
I’m not intending to sound arrogant or put anyone down, but really, do these comments really help anything? How about discussing how we beat the guy, not make light of a pretty serious situation?
Law is a white racist thing. I’m glad this country is finally putting this uptight WASP stuff behind us and not discriminating against blacks who make funny land deals, or new Americans without papers.
Send_Me, we beat them with humor…
They can’t stand up to humor… how bout you?
Can’t say “dupe.” It’s racist.
Actually you might be on to something…
I think Obama, B. Hussein feels so COMFORTABLE around people like wright, rezko, farrakan and company that Ahmamadjihad or Hugo or Castro is right up his alley.
They’re his kind of people, he CAN relate to them. Obama is used to hangin’ with those types.
He IS ONE OF THEM.
Ahmamadjihad and all.
( sadly BHO would give away the farm and deny Israel his promised help so he must be stopped, but at least some of this madness now makes a little sense to me.)
Hey, Send Me…(where?)
Michelle Obama is co-hosting The View on June 18th.
Did he really say that? And Mookie, are you serious?
They sure don’t help Michelle’s children.
Yes. Cindy McCain co-hosted in April and now it’s Michelle’s turn. And both Senators McCain and Obama taped messages that will run before the premiere of Army Wives on Lifetime this Sunday.
Future leader of our country ? Gaaaawd help us !
Hmm, yeah. Tell me how that works out for you.
In terms of politics, if it’s a choice between humor vs. reason: I’ll take reason, thanks. (I suppose that’s about all I can say in response to an ad hominem question.)
Wherever I am sent.
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’
And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’”
Isaiah 6:8
leatherneck, take the bass, 1,2,3,
Darling you send me
I know you send me
Darling you send me
Honest you do, honest you do
Honest you do, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You thrill me
I know you, you, you thrill me
Darling you, you, you, you thrill me
Honest you do
At first I thought it was infatuation
But woo, it’s lasted so long
Now I find myself wanting
To marry you and take you home
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You, you, you, you send me
I know you send me
I know you send me
Honest you do
Whoa-oh-oh, whenever I’m with you
I know, I know, I know when I’m near you
Mmm hmm, mmm hmm, honest you do, honest you do
Whoa-oh-oh, I know-oh-oh-oh
I know, I know, I know, when you hold me
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh, whenever you kiss me
Mmm hmm, mmm hmm, honest you do
At first I thought it was infatuation
But woo, it’s lasted so long
Now I find myself wanting
To marry you and take you home
I know, I know, I know, you send me
I know you send me
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, you you you you send me
Honest you do
It’s a Brooklyn thing… you wouldn’t undrestand.
Well heck…I’m no apologist for BHO, but I bet Bush is saying the same thing about McClellan these days.
“That’s not the Scott McClellan I knew”.
Hrrrumph.
Only an Obama can make me *snort* and *yawn* at the same time.
He’s not even president yet and I can’t stand listening to him speak. Ugh.
They better keep lots of teleprompters on hand for him cuz he ain’t no good off the cuff.
“This is not the Achminijad I knew, I am saddened about his nuking Tel Aviv”
The hits just keep on coming!
It seems that the only experience Obambi has is with radicals, racists and crooks.
Hillary must be really P.O.’d.
Yep, the shoe is on the Obama foot now. He’s the MSM darling and just like Clinton of old, nothing will stick.
Some putz on Townhall today was claiming it’s all the ‘smart’ people who are voting for him…
Well played sir, well played.
What is this? Is he so clueless he can’t even think up anything better than “this isn’t the man I know”?
He can’t recognize ANY of his cronies? Is he THAT dense? Or does he truely expect the world to beleave this sham? I seriously doubt he’ll last till the convention…his own party might ask for a recount.
How many times can someone, running for president, keep claiming they’ve been “had” or found out that they never knew the person that they just “renounced?” For someone who’s seemingly intelligent, perceptive, and charismatic I find such lack of judgement utterly perplexing.
This man is either the world’s worst judge of character or the best liar since Bill Clinton. It appears to be a toss up.
emjem24 – Both
You watch the faces of Obama’s adoring crowds and know that something is going on. The fools have ears but do not hear; they have eyes and do not see. The scumbags in the news media are even more blind, or corrupt.
But there are doubters. Democratic activist/leftist Lanny Davis was on Glenn Beck tonight talking about Israel-Jews and Obama. Davis tried to appear confident, but he is one worried Jew. Perhaps the Obama, Wright, Farrakan, PLO connection is catching up with him.
But does it matter? Wright, Rezko, Pleger and the rest did not seem to hurt. The man seems to have something going for him. How the rest of the country sees it is to be seen.
Here we have a candidate who just shrugs his shoulders. When cornered, he just mentions “hope” and “change”. People stand and cheer. Amazing!
We are so Screwed ’08′
When oh when will the drooling masses admit that perhaps this is not the Messiah they thought they knew?
“I did not have sex with that woman…” – WJC
It’s difficult if not impossible to use reason to battle the emotional masses that follow the Dope. Remember the Clinton years? Eight years of theft, corruption, and suspicious deaths at the national level and Slick Willie only loses his law license. Then the missus moves to New York and gets elected senator. And you think reason has any chance of stopping the Dope?
Quite a recurring theme there for Obama.
Oooohhhh! I know what it is. He is experiencing early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Are we sure this guy got an ivy league education?
He is being a prefect example for what you learn at Ive League schools now.
It’s getting awfully darn crowded under that bus. How many more people will His Most Imperiously High Holiness the Obamessiah have to toss under it?
It’s interesting that the media does not consider this news.
Remember how they linked every elected Republican directly to Jack Abramoff?
It is a wonder to me that news outlets like the NY Times, CNN, NBC haven’t had retaliatory things happen to them….physical retaliatory things….
They absolutely deserve the worst they can get.
Anybody that believes this dolt had better grab his pant leg and hold on . . . because you’d never be able to navigate through the real world by yourself.
I believe the term for Obama’s type is that of educated idiot.
MSM all over this, not. The Dallas Morning News, page 8 has 1 small paragraph near the bottom of the page.
Obummer is only vociferating the Liberal mantra. ” That’s not the Tony I knew” = complete lack of accountability.
My 8 year old is more responsible than that.
In January 2008 Obama pushed aside questions about his dealings with Rezko by saying, “Nobody had an inkling that he was involved in any problems” and “Nobody had any indications that he was engaging in wrongdoing.” This is the mantra his handlers have issued him.
Here is part of an exchange he had with Diane Sawyer about Rezko:
OBAMA: …Nobody had any indications that he was engaging in wrongdoing. …
SAWYER: excuse me, but you did say that it was boneheaded to enter into the real estate relationship with him on that parcel of land when he was under a cloud of suspicion.
OBAMA: Well, what is certainly true is that in terms of appearances, and I’ve already said this, that I should not have entered into any kind of agreement with him….
Obama just selected Eric Holder to help vet VP candidates. Holder helped Marc Rich get a pardon.
Obamessiah the Great. Not.
Poor Tony. The first thing I thought of was Michael Bolton in the movie Office Space. All worried about going to the federal “Pound me in the @$$” prison. I wonder who Rezko will cough up to keep that from happening.
I watched O’Reilly last night, just to see if he would mention Tony Rezko, and he didn’t. The crawly thing on the bottom of the screen did. I remember getting sick and tired of hearing about Abramoff every night, but then he was mixed up with Republicans, with a democrat or two mentioned, but mainly Republicans.
But to get back on thread, I don’t want a person who’s kept bad company for years, and don’t have the basketballs to admit they were bad, as my President. Barack Hussein Obama is just not the one to lead this great Country. “This is not the Rezko I knew.” Give me a break already!!!
Obama is driving she is in the back riding with him
EVERYONE knows that Daley and the mafia have had close connections for decades. Obama does not become a representative in the first place without Daley, Resko and his mafia friends.
I guess I need to add old Tony to that one.
Fantastic point.
I like the phase: educated beyond his intelligence myself.
Must be a Hi-Rider bus. Is Rezko a Typical White Person?