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That Old House
Does everyone remember the January presidential primary debate when Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of working for the Chicago slumlord, Tony Rezko, and the uproar that resulted from her accusation? Obama vehemently denied doing any legal work directly for Rezko or his company. He said there had only been about five hours worth of work on a joint real estate development project involving a church and Rezko. Remember William Miceli? Miceli stepped forward and said he was Obama’s supervisor at Davis, Miner, Barnhill, and Galland and that Obama was basically an apprentice at the law firm at the time in question and did the bidding of others.
Remember how our Miserable Stinking Media happily dropped the story, but not before attacking Clinton for daring to besmirch the soon to be President-select’s name? (Rezko’s company developed approximately 15 building projects when Obama worked at the firm that obtained the Federal funds for Rezko’s low-income housing. Some of the projects are boarded up, uninhabitable, and under investigation; but the millions that Rezko borrowed are gone.)
In a new twist to the Rezko drama, Gina Cobb at News and Commentary for Thinking People (http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2008/12/obamas-house-is-owned-by-rezkos-lawyer.html) has printed a multipage document that names Obama’s former supervisor, William Miceli (now the attorney for the convicted slumlord Tony Rezko), as both the owner and property taxpayer for the Obama's Chicago mansion. Miceli still works for the same firm, although it’s now known as Miner, Barnhill, and Galland. (The firm’s name was shortened when Alison Davis left to join Rezko in his development projects.)
Jerome R. Corsi at World Net Daily has also been exploring the Rezko/ Obama real estate story (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84101) and shares what he has found out about the Obama house and Miceli at the Cook County’s Assessor’s Office. Corsi brings up the name of Kenneth Conner. Conner is suing the Bank of Harvey over his dismissal, which occurred after Conner questioned the Obama/ Rezko adjacent lot appraisal submitted by Rezko, which Conner deemed to be fraudulently high.
So what’s up with Patrick Fitzgerald? Chicagoans are beginning to whisper that he too has played B-Ball with Obama at a Chicago gym. Like Diogenes with his lantern, I seek an honest man….
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"Right wing sledge hammers never, ever help us." Pacific John
Love the visual. Who's the artist?
I might venture a guess, but I'm not willing to make an art-history arse out of myself.
"Right wing sledge hammers never, ever help us." Pacific John
Cal, by your answer, you have already made my day. You are a truth-teller, an honest person. If you ever decide to run for public office, I would be proud to support your campaign.
Sort of an Oxymoron don't you think?
I'm sure there are many but not in Politics, real estate or the futures market.
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keep that lantern shining in New Hampshire.
I won't hold my breath until you find one.
A Dishonest/Biased Media Is A Crime Against Democracy!
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Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
Maybe O got Miceli to be the owner in case some messy Rezko business surfaced, O could maintain plausible deniability.
Nice way to be responsible and adult "wasn't me. Wasn't my fault." Speaking of which, breaking news - O is actually working today! An actual news story Obama gets back to work.
that way the O's can legally argue that they don't own the house, which was gained through Rezko involvement. You think?
Cat, I know you have a lantern; keep it shining.
I edited your entire post to remove the word formatting which did nasty little things like stop there being a visible paragraph on the front page of pZane.
'tis always advisable to take text and paste into notepad or other text editor, then into the blog. Coming straight from word brings double the content in the form of style tags that the blog software won't recognize anyway.
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Hampy, I will remember next time.
with his lantern we are all searching for honesty. Mostly not finding it. Mostly not finding anything close to it. Perhaps our problem is not what we are searching for so much as where we are searching.
Surely it is an exercise in futility to search for honesty amongst the politicians. If those that do have some integrity were completely honest with the citizens they would never get elected. The voters force politicians to lie to them. The politicians then use that as an excuse to lie about everything.
To expect honesty or integrity in the MSM is like looking for a hyena without bad breath. Not gonna find it.
Oh course that's just my opinion based on a cynicism that is now bone deep. I don't trust any politician very much and they have earned every bit of that mistrust.
A Dishonest/Biased Media Is A Crime Against Democracy!
Problem is I also remember Martha Stewart.
Obama's life isn't real - it's a really bad soap opera we're all suffering through. First we hear that he made a deal with Rezko to purchase the mansion and the adjacent property. So, as far as everyone was/is/was(???) concerned Obama owned the Obama mansion in Chicago... but now we learn he doesn't own the Obama mansion, but his former boss does, who is also Rezko's attorney. So, is Obama paying his former boss RENT????
Which leads me to my final question: Who is Barack Obama and is there any REAL about the guy? First he owns the mansion which he bought with the help of shady Rezko, but he didn't actually buy it, his boss owns it, unless Obama bought it and gave it to his boss because he just knew, at the time, he was moving into the White House and wouldn't be needing it. Then we have Obama was born in Hawaii, but he wasn't because he was born in Kenya, but he was actually adopted by an Indonesian, and he won't show his birth certificate which would solve the whole problem. He also went to college/law school but there are no papers proving he actually wrote anything when he went and no one is allowed to see his transcripts...but we assume he actually passed somehow because he went to work for the law firm which represents Rezko... And after 143 days of being a US Senator he ran for president with nothing proving he did anything except vote "present" when he was an Illinois Senator.
Nope. This would make a great soap opera if we weren't all suffering through this crap!
but I am determined not to go down the bunny hole to Wonderland again. Get a lantern.
Call regenery press, you've got a good book started there!
may I suggest that you not search among the politicians of Illinois?
Texas Darlin' has a post up with predictions for 2009. One of them is that the Rezko connection will continue to haunt Obama in the coming year. It's my fervent wish that she is right.
The media are well-known for turning on those they have elevated. You'll not find an honest man there, either. When and if they decide to expose Obama they will do so with all the viciousness they previously directed at Hillary and Sarah. We'll be left once more to sift through the flaming rhetoric in an attempt to find the truth.
As for Fitzgerald, he's a puzzler. Dems fell in love with him when he prosecuted Libby for the Plame outing but he let the big fish get away. I've always felt that Libby was simply a fall guy whose conviction was orchestrated by Republicans to make the whole mess go away. Fitzgerald went along with it because he's one of them and it seems to have worked the way Bush and Cheney wanted it to.
But what if Fitz harbors some resentment over that? What if he's turning on his handlers in Washington as payback for hauling him up short?
What if his muddled pursuit of Blagoejvich is simply cover for Obama? While Obama's a bit embarrassed by this he's sitting in the cat-bird seat. There is no evidence of any direct dealings between Obama and Blago, except for Emmanuel's handful of phone calls and even then there is nothing to indicate there was a quid pro quo. Obama's far too skilled at covering his tracks to have left anything damning behind.
In the meantime, the truly vile facts of Obama's rise to power are ignored by the chattering class. If they can just get him inaugurated it will be impossible to remove him. Congress participates willingly in this circus with threats to have Roland Burris blocked from the Senate if he arrives for Tuesday's inauguration. All the while, Obama's crooked dealings in Chicago and his failure to demonstrate his eligibility to hold the office of POTUS go unexplored.
One wonders about Fitzgerald's motivations.
I told you so!
Get a lantern. Or, if you prefer, you can blog with Blogojevich (warning: his language would be beeped on the air) at: http://snarktwain.hypocrisy.com/2008/12/10/blogging-with-blagojevich/
Was wondering what I could do with my afternoon. Problem solved.
Have lantern. Still searching. Long time now.
I told you so!
I keep thinking that Hillary had some very damning information about Obama but couldn't use it for obvious reasons. No journalists would do any real investigative reporting, either because of constraints put on them by their superiors or for the simple reason that nobody wanted to be the one to take down the first AA guy to have a real shot at being president. It just wouldn't have been PC. Corsi doesn't have the best reputation for non-biased journalism. I will admit that I downloaded his book at Audible.com. It really didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, though. I do think it shed some light on how far people will go to protect Obama when Corsi was arrested while in Kenya while he was trying to dig-up info about Obama's birth. I have really admired Fitz up to this point, but if he has been turned, then all hope that Obama will be exposed for what he is goes out the window.
but the truth sets us free, as long as we don't go down the bunny hole to Wonderland again.
I like your style; get a lantern for NC. (I'm hoping to get at least one lantern in every state.)
Thanks BJ, I will.
Most of them are fired by the new PIT (President In Training)
I assume PITO will be no different and he'll fire Fitz before the indictment. Blago will get an ambassadorship to someplace quiet and Burris will be a great Senator in the tradition of other great Senators from Illinois.
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but isn't Fitzgerald a Dem? Some are saying that Bush could make Fitz some sort of special council; thereby keeping him.
I actually like Burris; he has a good record and isn't in anyone's pocket. Some are arguing that the Dems will not be able to unseat him, no matter how hard they try. I hope he stays; I am sure he will be better than any O-pick.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in 2001, by George W. Bush.
He cut his teeth on Democratic Governor George Ryan, ultimately sending Ryan to prison.
He's a Bushie, through and through. That's why he survived the purge at Justice and why his pursuit of the people responsible for Valerie Plame's outing did not reach to the top. I believe his efforts there had the full support of the White House, which saw in him a chance to make it appear as though justice had been done.
Do not trust this man. Despite his carefully cultivated reputation as a renegade and do-gooder he is constantly looking for the next opportunity to occupy the spotlight.
I told you so!
Wonder if his intention was to protect the Senate or embarass his Oliness
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it's confusing because in Illinois both parties belong to what John Kass calls ","the Chicago Combine." It is often hard to tell them apart, and people often quit trying for the sake of sanity.
Patrick Fitzgerald, the son of a New York doorman, has an Elliot Ness reputation in Illinois; he is considered an "untouchable." I really have respected him in the past exactly because of that reputation; that is why the whole Rezko thing is disheartening, as was the Valarie Plame Wilson case. A 2005 article in the Washington Post paints almost a white knight image of him (see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55560-2005Feb1?language=printer).
In that article, Peter Slevin paints Fitzgerald as above politics: "Patrick Fitzgerald is careful to be apolitical in his targets and his public life alike. He registered to vote as an Independent in New York, only to discover, when he began receiving fundraising calls, that Independent was a political party. He re-registered with no affiliation, as he did later in Chicago."
In a Chicago Daily Observer article (see: http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/the-fate-of-patrick-fitzgerald,2033/), Thomas Roeser considers Fitzgerald to be an instinctive Democrat and discusses his fate under President Obama. .Roeser writes: "Because Pat Fitzgerald is such a straight arrow, pols here don’t know how to deal with him. Regarded as an instinctive Democrat due to his Irish heritage as the son of a hotel doorman, born in Brooklyn, Fitzgerald has nevertheless been fearless in prosecuting close-up allies of Mayor Richard II and will likely indict a second governor, Democrat Blagojevich with rumors that this will be done before Thanksgiving."
...I realized that I'd goofed. I was just about to post a correction when I saw this from you.
Somehow it's hard to believe Illinois elects any Republicans at all.
Thanks for setting me straight, BJ.
I told you so!
I think it's important to note that Fitz seems to have gone out of his way to treat Obama carefully. While his pursuit of the governor is a bit of an embarrassment for Obama, it's been nothing worse. I'd feel a lot better about him if he'd stop letting the big fish get away.
Honest reputation or not, Fitzgerald seems to have a taste for the limelight. Why else prosecute all these high-profile cases?
I'm betting he survives as US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Just a hunch.
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Fitzgerald has been almost solicitous in his treatment of Obama. I guess no one wants to come across as hurting OBamBam's feelings.
President in Training...that's a good one. I like that. But don't you think that it will look really obvious if Obama fires Fitz. I don't know if he will fire him. Of course, it is customary for the new president to fire all the US attorneys, but I think it will look as if Obama is afraid of what will come out if Fitz stays.
He'll just accept the resignation and the MSM will treat it as standard fare.
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