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[indimuse]

Reformer: Trial Will Reveal 'Cesspool' of Obama's Allies


For the rest go here:http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4365942&page=1



"We have a sick political culture," said Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, "and that's the environment that Barack Obama came from."

Stewart says he does not understand why Obama has lectured others about corruption in Washington and Kenya but "been noticeably silent on the issue of corruption here in his home state, including at this point, mostly Democratic politicians."

There was no immediate comment from the Obama campaign.

The trial Monday involves federal charges of bribery and extortion against Tony Rezko, a real estate developer who became known in Illinois politics as a behind-the-scenes operator and fixer.

While Obama is not considered a target of the Rezko investigation, Stewart says it will shed light on a man who was pivotal to Obama's political career.

"This wasn't just some guy who wrote a check once for Barack Obama, it's someone who was an early supporter and had a personal relationship with Sen. Obama for quite some time," Stewart said.

With the corruption trial of one of Sen. Barack Obama's longtime friends and supporters set to begin Monday in Chicago, Ill., reform watchdogs say it will reveal the "cesspool" of Illinois politics in which Obama came of age and has said little about in his campaign for president.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4365942&page=1

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4365942&page=1

"We have a sick political culture," said Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, "and that's the environment that Barack Obama came from."





"We have a sick political culture," said Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, "and that's the environment that Barack Obama came from."






"We have a sick political culture," said Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, "and that's the environment that Barack Obama came from."

[Renew Deal]

1. So far it has revealed the cesspool of Hillary's support.

We'll see.

[Kittycat]

2. Repeating the same quote over again, doesn't make it stick to Obama.

Fitz has already looked at him, he's not implicated or even on the witness list. This is a problem for our governor.

Loser.

[UALRBSofL]

3. This is a great article, thanks for posting

This is another reason Hillary will win the nomination. :)

[indimuse]

thx.

I can't believe so many people would let this slide...

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

35. Let what slide?

Why don't you show me proof Obama did anything wrong, instead of just posting the same biased innuendo day after day after day. You're no better then Kenneth Starr or Rush Limbaugh.

[zabet]

40. Reading many articles about the upcoming trial..

it has been reported that there is
no proof that Obama did favors for
Rezko but, that there is substantial
evidence to prove that Rezko did favors
for Obama. Whether these favors are
real and whether they were outside the
bounds of the law is something we will
have to wait until the trial to see.

[Lerkfish]

36. how sad

some people are unaware of how desperate they appear.

[Joe Bacon]

4. We know what a cesspool the Mickey Mouse Network is!

We know what liars run the Always Been Conservative cesspool!

[yourguide]

5. Keep on...

do you plan to continue on this witch hunt after Hillary loses on tuesday?

[UALRBSofL]

26. Hillary has no involvement in this trial

Were just waiting on the sidelines and see what happens. So to say it's a Hillary witch hunt when she isn't involved sounds desperate to me.

[yourguide]

29. Perhaps you'd like to talk about the Norman Hsu trial then...

there's no "there" there, you guys are grasping at straws and I am trying to find out if the OP will continue to perpetuate her witch hunt looking for any reason to tie obama to something negative.

[Scurrilous]

6. Thanks for reposting this!

:thumbsup:

[indimuse]

8. another NON_reader!

get used to it! Today is the day we start to learn more about Chicago politics and Obama's fiends.

[davidinalameda]

12. politics is a cesspool

Chicago is no different than most other places

[indimuse]

14. and just WHAT kind of CHANGE is Obama planning to

generate...payola...maybe?

[davidinalameda]

43. go to his website

take the blinders off and read what he wants to do

[NewHampster]

7. I'll kick this all the way to Denver

Thanks for posting

[indimuse]

10. ..."Politics of SICK"

As he runs around....DC politics..."Politics of SICK" is is game...I knew it!

[Little Star]

May I help you carry the load? k&r

[indimuse]

15. thx

:hi:

[NewHampster]

28. I love the Sig pic

and I love the woman depicted in it.

[jefferson_dem]

9. Ah...the same ABC story that was posted here like a week ago.

Maybe by you even.

[indimuse]

11. sorry nice try!

todays!

[mmonk]

13. Whitewater.

[indimuse]

16. hahhah

your'e funny...

[mmonk]

17. ABC news is rightward leaning.

They will be McCain advocates.

[Cooley Hurd]

19. ...and it's sad how supposed "Democrats" are more than happy to...

...carry the water of the right wing, isn't it?:grr:

[mmonk]

21. Yep, this is scorched earth politics.

At least if Obama is the nominee, we're seeing how he handles this type of politics of innuendo and character attacks.

[indimuse]

23. oh yeah..he's blinding me with his purity!

:puke:

[mmonk]

27. Puke all you want. This is innuendo or guilt by association.

I can play that game. Others can to. There's plenty to work with concerning the Clintons and their associations.

[indimuse]

22. paleeze

daily you obama fans throw rw slurs...innuendos..blah blah blah..

[Cooley Hurd]

41. I cannot speak for others, but I know DAMN WELL that I've NEVER...

...bashed Senator Clinton.:eyes:

[mmonk]

32. Marc Rich, Norman Hsu. etc.

Anyone can play this game.

[Bluerthanblue]

45. you'd think the Clinton's- would not do to others , what they hated being done

to them????

My opinion of both Hillary and Bill was pretty good before she ran for president.

I wish I could still hold them in high regard- but 'words are easy'- Their tactics speak a much different story about their character-


:shrug:

peace~

[Bluerthanblue]

44. there was more to Whitewater than will be found in this Rezko case-

The Clintons and the mcDougals WERE Whitewater.

Obama was a bit-player in Rezko- Hillary has no consience. Some of her supporters don't seem to either.


:hi:

peace~

[Lucinda]

48. The Rezko trial judge worked with Ken Starr on Whitewater

Hope she doesn't have an agenda.

[MethuenProgressive]

18. Wait for it...

Any minute a DUbama will drop in and clain "allies" is racist code speak...

[indimuse]

20. DUbama..lol..

I know..in coming^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[PATRICK]

24. So I suppose

when Obama denounces Chicago it will satisfy the reform minded folk? If this is about guilt by association we might as well go ahead and nuke Illinois. Unless Obama is tied to a criminal act or anything remotely like McCain's whorish servitude to lobbyists I would like to stop hearing the idiot parrot words Rezco and Muslim and black every time someone is "disturbed" about his candidacy. The list of presidents hating sordid connections from backers who went down BECAUSE their guy became president or did not profit from the association cannot be quite compared to the flood of looters accompanying the GOP into the Treasury. Joseph Kennedy seemingly had a mob alliance to help JFK. Truman had some corrupt local backing. Various friends and allies went down in the Carter and Clinton presidencies.

The simple cure for most of that would be to clean the money element as much as possible out of politics.
Whatever candidate you support, a major plank and condition would be precisely that reform- as Sen. Biden
emphasizes, at the very nexus of all election woes. So instead of piously jumping in the very next breath from (Scumbag Name) to (Candidate) let's in the very next breath advocate foremost for campaign finance reform.

If you have more than a dozen big financial backers in your rise you probably have at least one crook or scumbag in the lot. The game attracts and breeds them.

[Avalux]

25. Fitzgerald has investigated this through and through.

There are no 'revelations' that will implicate Obama. I know Hillary supporters are desperate for something horrible to come out that will take him down but it isn't going to happen. Sorry.

[leftofcool]

30. But, he doesn't have to be implicated

I doubt seriously that he has done anything wrong or unethical but it is about perception. In the political arena, if someone is preceived to have done something wrong or unethical, that is just as bad as having actually done something wrong or unethical. It is about what the MSM can make people percieve, not what they can make people believe. And if you don't think that half of the American people are a bunch of gulliable boneheads, ask yourself how John Kerry got beat.

Left of Cool

[Adelante]

31. This one's from today's Chicago Tribune

Prosecutors allege that Rezko misused the power he gained from his prowess as a fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, scheming to extort kickbacks from firms seeking state business or regulatory approval. But Rezko's lawyers will attack the credibility of Stuart Levine, the government's key witness, questioning his memory of events because of his alleged heavy use of cocaine, crystal meth and other illegal drugs.

"That clearly is the battle line they want to draw," said Zachary Fardon, a former assistant U.S. attorney who was part of the prosecution team that convicted former Gov. George Ryan in 2006. "The defense wants it to be all about Stuart Levine."


Levine, who sat on two influential state boards, pleaded guilty to scheming with Rezko to extort almost $6 million from firms seeking to invest state pension funds and a hospital seeking approval of expansion plans.

-snip

The defense is expected to make much of the fact that Rezko appears on the fringe of the alleged fixes, dealing mostly with only Levine. And while federal investigators secretly tape-recorded hundreds of Levine's telephone conversations, only a few involved Rezko, and those were innocuous, the defense will argue.

-snip

In addition to maintaining an alleged $25,000-a-month drug habit, Levine, a longtime Republican fundraiser, schemed to steal money on other boards on which he served, including at least one charity, and only agreed to cooperate when he faced what amounted to a life sentence if he was convicted, the defense says.

Ronald Safer, a former federal prosecutor who represents a client in another criminal case in which Levine is cooperating, called the government's star witness "a walking crime wave."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-strategymar03,1,1253554.story?page=1

[Zachstar]

33. So do you plan to do this again after tuesday, indimuse?

I know what the fuck you are doing. You are loading up whatever you can into a anti-hope, anti-support preverbial shotgun and trying to aim it at the general population hoping that some of the pieces of shit will cause this election to go all the way to the convention. Where whoever wins will be swiftly defeated by the Republicans who have plenty of other preverbial shotguns.

You arent going to pull this swiftboating shit and think it will stick with me. If you do a little research you will find out why I am more than experienced with this kind of shit.

Keep in mind I was a republican supporter in 2004... I know this bullshit you are trying to pull. It WILL NOT work IT WILL NOT gain you any friends. IT IS BAD for the UNITED STATES.

[indimuse]

34. fact is not swiftboating!!

go learn!

[Lerkfish]

37. come up with facts, first.

see you next week! oh wait, no I wont.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. I Don't Have A Dog In This Fight As It Appears Obama Will Be The Nominee

It is interesting that the MSM has decided to drop this bomb shell now...

[Hepburn]

39. Just a thought....

...but get a life.

[anamandujano]

42. BO supporters should start HOPING that even though Rezko had a dirty

relationship with all the other politicians in his sphere, his relationship with BO was clean.

[sueragingroz]

46. and this is why obama operatives are desperate for Hillary to quit tomorrow.

[Redstone]

47. Jay Stewart! JAY STEWART! Let's vote based on what JAY STEWART says! (Whoever the fuck

Jay Stewart is.)

(Yes, the OP told us who Jay Stewart is. But why we should vote based on his opinion escapes me entirely.)

Redstone

[Hoof Hearted]

49. Well it's about time! Talk about a long ass honeymoon.

[laugle]

50. Just one more reason for

Hillary to stay in the election! We need a choice.

If the media had done their job and vetted him instead of slobbering all over him, people might have thought differently......well better late than never.........time will tell...............

[Danger Mouse]

51. Let's talk about Hillary's own dirty dealings, huh

I think she's got a lot more questions to answer than Barack does, honestly.