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Oct 3, 2008

FBI raids Obama friend's home

The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

According to Chicago authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime friend of Mr. Obama's, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan.

Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid. With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan.

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“VICTORY is Mine”

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Is there anyone that assisted with BO that is not trash? Holly cow is he just a magnet of these people or is there a more direct link?
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Pudintain wrote:
Is there anyone that assisted with BO that is not trash? Holly cow is he just a magnet of these people or is there a more direct link?
This is who Obama is ... and who he associates himself with. It is just amazing how the media will overlook who he is, and just report what he says.
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It's shocking that American news media is so willing to coverup the sinister aspects of Barak Obama.
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There is something sooo not right, this man has ties to everything so corrupt in America including being the #2 recipient of Fannie May/and Freddie Mac handouts! He lives in a Million Dollar home bought with the association of the biggest SLUMLORD in Chicago, taught and mentored by the most Liberal, Anti American preacher of all times, to have beleived in it enough to have even brought his 2 "Daughters" into the teachings of Trinity Church. He was endorsed by the Hamas himself, and was even hailed in Europe as the Messiah not to American but the "WORLD" We have seen such leaders before, Hitler, Mussolini, we have seen such followings out in Jones Town, Waco Texas!! the people of this country have been brainwashed by this hype that is infecting millions of brains, and to prove such, teachers are even orchastrating
songs about this "Messiah" amoung children in "PRE_SCHOOL" and airing it on national TV, and parents are allowing the likes of such! this sort of thing is dangerous, if you don't think this is possible, just ask yourself why people air "Commercials" on TV costing mega money? because they get into the heads of consumers, and they sell! the Blue-Koolaide is out there, and millions are commiting psychological suicide, not only with their minds, but are putting America at risk as well!
It is time to wake up before we find ourselves in an unwakable nightmare!!!!!
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Blah! Blah! Blah!
Obama/Biden '08
Obama/Biden '08
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Obama Problems

Having to have your veep vetter resign because he's involved with the mortgage co's Obama was railing about. All the while being # 2 on the list from Fanny & Freddie in just 3 short years. And Johnson just happened to be the former CFO of Fannie Mae.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/politics ...

Or like having to have an advisor resign because he had meetings with Hamas http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/943467,CST ...

Or Obama’s national coordinator for Muslim-American and Arab-American affairs has resigned this week amid a controversy over alleged connections with a suspected Muslim extremist.

http://www.wwj.com/pages/2737519.php ?

Or His going back on his campaign pledge of public money http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/politics ...

Speaking of money.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtri ...

Right, just a mere 800,000 dollar accounting glitch that just so happened to go to ACORN.

And then of course there's all the money from Rezko.

Yea, I agree. It says alot about how he'd run the country
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Blah! Blah! Blah!
Obama/Biden '08
Obama/Biden '08
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It appears the article has disappeared from the washington times.....I mean slimes
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/...

not there any more
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Hey Obama, have Michelle pick you out a tie, that goes well with prison stripes!
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it's back or maybe site was clogged

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The American Public is/are like the Romans attending the games. They aren't there to admire athletic ability, they come to see blood spilled and reward the most savage warrior.

Biden was under strict orders to stay with the Pro-Obama academic game plan, and for the most part, he did what he was told. In a free debate he might have torn her face off, or she might have torn his. We'll never know.

But in any political confrontation, the real job is to cut the other guy's heart out and serve it up on a plate. It may not be kind and it may not be pretty, but it's what the crowd wants and what they reward you for doing.

The better you are at this primitive process, the more likely you are to get followers. Or, as Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, "It is far better to be feared than loved."

Palin showed that she can be fearsome. She may have nothing but sawdust in that pretty head, but she does have a savage instinct and we LOVE our raptors.
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Pudintain wrote:
Is there anyone that assisted with BO that is not trash? Holly cow is he just a magnet of these people or is there a more direct link?
Simple answer to your question... No
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ONCE A DEMOCRAT wrote:
There is something sooo not right, this man has ties to everything so corrupt in America including being the #2 recipient of Fannie May/and Freddie Mac handouts! He lives in a Million Dollar home bought with the association of the biggest SLUMLORD in Chicago, taught and mentored by the most Liberal, Anti American preacher of all times, to have beleived in it enough to have even brought his 2 "Daughters" into the teachings of Trinity Church. He was endorsed by the Hamas himself, and was even hailed in Europe as the Messiah not to American but the "WORLD" We have seen such leaders before, Hitler, Mussolini, we have seen such followings out in Jones Town, Waco Texas!! the people of this country have been brainwashed by this hype that is infecting millions of brains, and to prove such, teachers are even orchastrating
songs about this "Messiah" amoung children in "PRE_SCHOOL" and airing it on national TV, and parents are allowing the likes of such! this sort of thing is dangerous, if you don't think this is possible, just ask yourself why people air "Commercials" on TV costing mega money? because they get into the heads of consumers, and they sell! the Blue-Koolaide is out there, and millions are commiting psychological suicide, not only with their minds, but are putting America at risk as well!
It is time to wake up before we find ourselves in an unwakable nightmare!!!!!
good post
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just like a republican, find anything and everything that could even remotely be slander and mean and then overhype it all to make the other guy look like a big bad black guy.

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Pudintain wrote:
Is there anyone that assisted with BO that is not trash? Holly cow is he just a magnet of these people or is there a more direct link?
there is definitely more! it's out there and it's public! it seems americans want this liar - cheat - and thief - their president! well - let it be so! i believe impeachment and removal from off ice will occur within the 1st 6 months of his presidency! problems in background do not disappear before or after inauguaration!!!! good luck!!
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It should be noted that "Republicans" do not include "McCain." Although McCain saw this crisis coming, and attempted to avert it, he is now foolishly engaging in demogogic populism, blaming Wall Street for "forcing" loans on poor people who coudn't afford them.
He knows better. But he's too foolish to know the truth is actually on his side. He doesn't need to demogogue up Wall Street. This was a fifteen year campaign by the Democrats, ACORN, and Fannie and Freddie's executives to loosen up mortgage requirements to the point where there simply where no requirements at all.
Net result? Trillions of federally guaranteed dollars flow into the housing market that shouldn't have been there -- suddenly buying a house becomes the easiest possible purchase you can make. All you need is a signature and a smile.
If the federal government were guaranteeing a trillion new dollars for no-money down car purchases with no credit checks or proof of employment or income, what do you think would happen to the price of cars?
They'd triple. For a while.
Housing market turns into dangerously overinflated bubble. Which is what always happens when a trillion fresh, cheap, easy dollars flow into a sector and begin chasing the same limited pool of goods.
Millions of credit-poor homebuyers -- with erratic and unverified incomes -- now have mortgages with payements well out of their range. But at least the homes are still worth their selling price... so if they default on a $350,000 house, no sweat, the bank now owns the $350,000 house, which can be sold for $350,000 to someone else.
But finally the bubble bursts -- and now all those credit-poor, erratic income homeowners now have mortgages for $350,000 on houses actually worth $150,000.
So what do they do? They walk away or stop paying. Which makes perfect economic sense.
Leaving Fannie and Freddie guaranteeing a trillion in bad mortgages. Which means you're guaranteeing them.
The bank made a $350,000 payment to the home-seller -- but now has only a $150,000 home to show for it. Uh-oh.
You the taxpayer just went on the hook for that $200,000 loss.
Wall Street's contribution? They stupidly bought up derivatives based on these junk mortgages, thus putting themselves, and the entire financial system, at dire risk.
But they didn't create the risk. The stupidly bought into the risk, but they didn't create it.
It was Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, ACORN, Franklin Raines, Penny Pritzker, Jim Johnson, and of course Barack Hussein Obama who actually built the bomb.
And I Repeat... Even now, the lisping marble-mouthed shufferin'-shucatash socialist moron Barney Frank is still fighting to federally guarantee the zero-money-down "seller financed" down payment mortgages that got us into this mess.
Because he's fucking stupid. As are most Democrats. They have no idea how money is made or how services and goods are exchanged. All they know is they want to distribute those services and goods more "fairly."
He doesn't agree with the basic idea that People who don't have enough money to afford a house shouldn't have one. He honestly believes that idea is "unfair."
Everyone should have a house. People who can't afford them most of all.
And if you tell him doing so will cost the government another 1-2 trillion in ten years, and will put the economy in crisis again, he'd say, "Fine." It's a fair trade as far as he's concerned.
Because who's paying that 1-2 trillion? People who have money. If provoking a crisis is the only manner to get the wealth distribution he craves, that's fine by him.

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get them confused, was it Barney Frank or Michael Jackson that got sick from eating the seven year old wiener?

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Recordo wrote:
The American Public is/are like the Romans attending the games. They aren't there to admire athletic ability, they come to see blood spilled and reward the most savage warrior.
Biden was under strict orders to stay with the Pro-Obama academic game plan, and for the most part, he did what he was told. In a free debate he might have torn her face off, or she might have torn his. We'll never know.
But in any political confrontation, the real job is to cut the other guy's heart out and serve it up on a plate. It may not be kind and it may not be pretty, but it's what the crowd wants and what they reward you for doing.
The better you are at this primitive process, the more likely you are to get followers. Or, as Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, "It is far better to be feared than loved."
Palin showed that she can be fearsome. She may have nothing but sawdust in that pretty head, but she does have a savage instinct and we LOVE our raptors.
+100 internets for you!

Never was there a better post on Topix....well save for a few of my own anyways.

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mike wrote:
just like a republican, find anything and everything that could even remotely be slander and mean and then overhype it all to make the other guy look like a big bad black guy.
Your post is from naivete or ignorance of the facts, Obama is dirty, no question he's crimanlly connected, and anti-American....face it...do yourself a favor and do some research....he's not what he and the DNC has spun...he's sinister with a sinister motive.....one not in America's best interest. Sorry you and many others don't get it cause we'll all suffer the consequences if he is elected.
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make that criminally connected....
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Obama Problems

Having to have your veep vetter resign because he's involved with the mortgage co's Obama was railing about. All the while being # 2 on the list from Fanny & Freddie in just 3 short years. And Johnson just happened to be the former CFO of Fannie Mae.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/politics ...

Or like having to have an advisor resign because he had meetings with Hamas http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/943467,CST ...

Or Obama’s national coordinator for Muslim-American and Arab-American affairs has resigned this week amid a controversy over alleged connections with a suspected Muslim extremist.

http://www.wwj.com/pages/2737519.php ?

Or His going back on his campaign pledge of public money http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/politics ...

Speaking of money.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtri ...

Right, just a mere 800,000 dollar accounting glitch that just so happened to go to ACORN.

And then of course there's all the money from Rezko.

Yea, I agree. It says alot about how he'd run the country.
mike wrote:
just like a republican, find anything and everything that could even remotely be slander and mean and then overhype it all to make the other guy look like a big bad black guy.
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