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Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 8:46:28 AM   
DomKen


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Status: offline 		No more PAC or federal lobbyist money for the DNC just like his own campaign.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080605/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_money

Not holding my breath for McCain and the RNC to follow suit.
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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 8:59:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds great.  Read carefully, though, a lobbyist only has to launder the money through a family member or friend.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:03:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nice picture!
He's already riding around in the limosines.
Yup, a real, "man of the people!"
A limosine liberal.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:13:22 AM   
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Sounds great.  Read carefully, though, a lobbyist only has to launder the money through a family member or friend.

The PAC money is more where I'm concerned. Individual donors are under rather strict limits on how much they can give, $2300 per election. So a lobbyist really intent on giving can reasonably come up a way to give maybe $50k which isn't going to hold a lot of weight with someone who has raised $200+ million.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:40:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		     Based on a quick, albeit suspicious, perusal of this article, i imagine that someone has taken that into account, and has a way of laundering PAC money with equal ease, and, if they are earning their salary, through a less trackable route.  To be honest, i would find it surprising if anyone in politics was really seeking a way to turn down money.  Just a thought.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:47:15 AM   
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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: atursvcMaam

Sounds great.  Read carefully, though, a lobbyist only has to launder the money through a family member or friend.

The PAC money is more where I'm concerned. Individual donors are under rather strict limits on how much they can give, $2300 per election. So a lobbyist really intent on giving can reasonably come up a way to give maybe $50k which isn't going to hold a lot of weight with someone who has raised $200+ million.


DomKen, they'll take $20 grand from a Chinese spy, they don't give a shit.
Who was that guy who gave the Clinton's all that money from China, "Johnny"....something or other?
And Bernard Schwartz's (A big "friend of Bill's") company, the Loral Corp gave the Chinese Western rocket technology.
The Chinese haven't had a rocket blow up on the pad in ten years, have they?
It used to be that every third rocket exploded on the pad.
So, "gifts" can be more than just cash.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:51:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rezko was just convicted too...

Funny how the media hammered Bush when Abramoff was convicted but they wont touch the Obama-Rezko connection.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:54:42 AM   
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Rezko was just convicted too...

Funny how the media hammered Bush when Abramoff was convicted but they wont touch the Obama-Rezko connection.


Gee Cyber, that *is* kind of "odd" that the Press isn't reporting on that now, isn't it?

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:55:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		It will be interesting to see how a PRESIDENT acts who is not completely beholden to BIG BUSINESS.

A guy like that used to be tagged as a COMMUNIST.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 9:58:52 AM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Nice picture!
He's already riding around in the limosines.
Yup, a real, "man of the people!"
A limosine liberal.
I'm almost certain that if you were ever a presidential candidate you'd be riding around in a hardened Limo.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 10:02:39 AM   
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=rezko&btnG=Search+News
That's articles by, amongst others,
AP
Reuters
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Boston Herald
Chicago Tribune
BBC
Guardian
San Jose Mercury News
National Review

It's definitely getting coverage although while Gov. Blagovich may be in trouble Senator Obama's contact with Rezko is restricted to one land deal with zero evidence of any sort of quid pro quo. Compared to Abramoff that's nothing. Heck compared to the nothing that was Whitewater this is even more nothing.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 10:09:41 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Nice picture!
He's already riding around in the limosines.
Yup, a real, "man of the people!"
A limosine liberal.
I'm almost certain that if you were ever a presidential candidate you'd be riding around in a hardened Limo.


Here we go with the excuses!
Yup, just like when Jimmy Carter and Roselyn walked down Constitution Avenue after his swearing in.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 12:48:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Nice picture!
He's already riding around in the limosines.
Yup, a real, "man of the people!"
A limosine liberal.
I'm almost certain that if you were ever a presidential candidate you'd be riding around in a hardened Limo.

Hell no!!!  I'd be riding around in a hardened Prius!

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 3:02:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes, the Rezko conviction is all over the press and will be a hot issue during this election.

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RE: Business as usual for Barack - 6/5/2008 6:00:35 PM   
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Yes, the Rezko conviction is all over the press and will be a hot issue during this election.


I suspect they are too busy photoshopping to bother with a boring old financial corruption story...

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