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May 15, 2012

No Big Deal, But Obama's Friend Tried to Pay Off Reverend Wright
— Ace

Pardon me if this is already old.

A new book by Edward Klein called The Amateur alleges that a friend/supporter of Obama tried to pay Reverend Wright $150,000 to just go away and be quiet.

Now, the saving fact here for Obama is that this came from a friend so Obama can pretend this wasn't done at his behest.

The trouble is, immediately after Wright refused the bribe, Obama then met with him and tried to sugar-talk him into doing the same thing.

Â“After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election,Â” Wright told Klein, according to the New York Post, which obtained the excerpts.
ThatÂ’s when Obama himself got involved, Wright said, and made a personal plea to keep Wright out of the spotlight.
Â“Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place. And I said, Â‘YouÂ’re used to coming to my home, youÂ’ve been here countless times, so whatÂ’s wrong with coming to my home?Â’ So we met in the living room of the parsonage of Trinity United Church of Christ, at South Pleasant Avenue right off 95th Street, just Barack and me. I donÂ’t know if he had a wire on him. His security was outside somewhere.Â”
Wright added that Obama seemed more concern about his political circumstances than WrightÂ’s personal well-being.
Â“And one of the first things Barack said was, Â‘I really wish you wouldnÂ’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.Â’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, Â‘I wish you wouldnÂ’t speak. ItÂ’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.Â’ Â… I said, Â‘I donÂ’t see it that way. And anyway, how am I supposed to support my family?Â’ And he said, Â‘Well, I wish you wouldnÂ’t speak in public. The press is gonna eat you alive.Â’Â”

Klein then revealed the name of the guy who offered Wright $150,000.

Â“Well, what happened is that after ABCÂ’s Brian Ross broadcast the video tapes of the Rev. Wright Â‘God damning AmericaÂ’ and slamming whites and slamming Jews and America, he was contacted by one of ObamaÂ’s closest personal friends Â— a guy who travels on ObamaÂ’s plane, who plays basketball with him, who goes on vacation with him,Â” Klein said. Â“His name is Dr. Eric Whitaker. Dr. Whitaker is the vice president of the University of Chicago Medical Center and heÂ’s a member of ObamaÂ’s very tight inner circle. And he sent an email to a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ.Â”

Does that hospital sound familiar? Oh, it sure does.

Klein reminded listeners that WhitakerÂ’s hospital is the same one that paid first lady Michelle Obama $316,962 a year to handle community affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center while her husband served in the U.S. Senate.

As a commenter here is always doggedly pointing out, the hospital did not fill that job after Michelle Obama left it -- leaving one scratching one's head imagining what sort of job is so critical that you have to pay someone such a large salary to perform, and yet is simultaneously so unnecessary you can terminate the position entirely when the apple of your eye packs up for DC.

And of course there's still more, and I don't even mean the allegation that Obama appreciated that Wright helped him "convert" to Christianity without having to repudiate his "Islamic background."

I mean this good friend Whitaker is being nicely treated by the taxpaying public.

ThatÂ’s the same guy who... got a Â“glowingÂ” reference from Obama for Tony Rezko, which led to Rod Blagojevich hiring Whitaker to be the stateÂ’s public health director; and the same guy whose UHI program just got nearly $6 million from HHS as one of 26 grantees in an applicant pool of 3,000.

The six dollar million man? Indeed he is.

The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it had awarded a $5.9 million grant to a University of Chicago Medical Center program tied to Michelle Obama and run by Eric Whitaker, one of President ObamaÂ’s closest friends.
The Urban Health Initiative, which received the award, was originally based on a smaller program launched during the last decade by Michelle Obama, who was an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center before she departed to become first lady. The UHI is headed up by Obama basketball and golf buddy Whitaker, who has known the president since ObamaÂ’s days in law school and who also vacations with the first family.
Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett also has ties to the UHI.

I'm wondering why this isn't the Number One story in America.

But the answer is obvious. This story kills Obama -- ends the election now, over, done -- so it cannot be a story.

That's why it's up to us.

The media will not report this so there isn't any point whining about it.

It's up to us to report it, to publish it far and wide, to make sure every citizen in this country is aware of this bribe and the Chicago Way.

Posted by: Ace at 07:25 AM | Comments (198)
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1 Considering it is Chicago,I am a tad surprised Wright is still breathing

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 15, 2012 07:27 AM (05RcU)

2 Well, on the one hand there's who-knows-who, and on the other hand there's favoritism . . .

Posted by: Hi at May 15, 2012 07:28 AM (SB0V2)

3 The media will not report this so there isn't any point whining about it.

I know many of you don't like Jen Rubin, but she has a nice post today about the unseemliness of a whining president.

Posted by: pep at May 15, 2012 07:28 AM (YXmuI)

4 I wanna work a Wright pun in here, but everything about this seems wrong.

Posted by: JDTAY at May 15, 2012 07:29 AM (sFP59)

5 Ace,

James O'Keefe does NC with predictable results. Daily Caller has the details.

Posted by: EC at May 15, 2012 07:29 AM (GQ8sn)

6 The open corruption of this group is just unbelievable. If only there were some group that could investigate these things and then charge people for the information. Maybe make money by including advertising or something similar with their reports.

Posted by: toby928© at May 15, 2012 07:30 AM (NG097)

7 The Amateur (the book, not the SCOAMF) is going to suck a lot of wind out of Team Obama's sails in the next several weeks.

Posted by: Roy at May 15, 2012 07:30 AM (VndSC)

8 Oh pshaw. It's just the way things are done in DC. And -- WAR ON WOMEN! OVER THERE!

Posted by: Somewhere inside the Beltway at May 15, 2012 07:31 AM (RD7QR)

9 Fuuuuuuccckkkk. Ogabe is now on TV honoring LEO's who have died in line of duty.

No mention of Brian Terry or Jaime Zapata

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 07:31 AM (Yhu4q)

10 Bob Beckel was bloviating about this on The Five yesterday. He almost blew a blood vessel, it appeared.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at May 15, 2012 07:31 AM (UEEex)

11 How is this any different than The Silky Ponies campaign paying his cum dumpster to shut her yap?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 15, 2012 07:32 AM (jucos)

12 I am surprised they tried to give him hush money. They had nothing to worry about from the MFM.

Posted by: Vic at May 15, 2012 07:32 AM (YdQQY)

13 I once spoke with Michelle on the phone while she was with Student Affairs at U of Chicago.

BIGGEST.BITCH.EVER

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 07:32 AM (Yhu4q)

14 Well, this is just lovely.

Posted by: Y-not, embarrassed Maroon at May 15, 2012 07:33 AM (5H6zj)

15 THE BALLS ON THESE GUYS!

Posted by: toby928© at May 15, 2012 07:33 AM (NG097)

16 they are so powerful, it doesn't matter. the machine elects them over and over. too many people are connected to the government dole. they make the city just appealing enough that taxpayers stay here, and conventions come here because of location.

Posted by: Jeff at May 15, 2012 07:33 AM (jXytP)

17 I have no snark sufficient to address the scoamfy scoamfness of the scoamf.

So there!! *shakes fist at sky*

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 15, 2012 07:33 AM (pVvkk)

18 You know the sad thing though? That whole Chicago Way thing actually diminishes the impact. I mean, of course someone tried to bribe Wright, it's Chicago. It's kind of like how no one was surprised that Louisiana politicians were inept and corrupt during Katrina.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at May 15, 2012 07:33 AM (Gk3SS)

Obama's a Cook County hack, what did anyone expect? The surprise would be if he hadn't offered a bribe to Wright to STFU.

Did people actually believe that he was the only virgin in the brothel?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - now sporting a Pope hat at May 15, 2012 07:34 AM (hLRSq)

20 Head...spinning...

Posted by: El Kabong at May 15, 2012 07:34 AM (aaAjO)

21 @5 Ah, yet another reason to be proud of my home state. >_< At least we should be going red this November.

Posted by: JDTAY at May 15, 2012 07:34 AM (sFP59)

22 It never gets too old to say, "Imagine if this was Bush."

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 15, 2012 07:34 AM (pVvkk)

23 Story 1. This is made up lies by a Republican for a book. Story 2. This is old news. Story 3. Mitt Romney eats babies.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2012 07:35 AM (7vSU0)

24 Story 4. Every body does it. So what.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 07:36 AM (C8hzL)

25 6. Romney did it first

Posted by: toby928© at May 15, 2012 07:36 AM (NG097)

26 I wonder if "Rev." Wright approve of Obama being gay?

Posted by: dogfish at May 15, 2012 07:36 AM (N2yhW)

27 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 15, 2012 07:37 AM (8y9MW)

28 Ace:

"This story kills Obama -- ends the election now, over, done -- so it cannot be a story."

Respectfully differ.

It doesn't kill him with his base. They're all in favor of him camouflaging those aspects of his background that would have hurt his electability.

It doesn't kill him with us on the right. We were already against him.

That leaves the independents, whose attitude is "Will you boys stop that fighting?" They'd hear this, and think, Yet more exaggerated charges being slung by partisans - like the right saying Clinton ran coke out of Mena, Arkansas; like the left saying Bush was Hitler; like the right says Obama wasn't born a U.S. citizen.

Don't get me wrong, it would hurt him. But game over? Naaah.

Posted by: JPS at May 15, 2012 07:37 AM (PVzSz)

29 @23 And the babies he eats aren't even free range fair trade organic. The horror. >_>

Posted by: JDTAY at May 15, 2012 07:37 AM (sFP59)

30 Obama is gay.

Posted by: Newsweek at May 15, 2012 07:38 AM (c3mby)

31
Somewhere a stiffed GM bond holder is weeping.

Posted by: Kaos Theory at May 15, 2012 07:38 AM (gppu7)

32 I think we should all, en masse, send our rÃ©sumÃ©s to UCMC and apply for Wookie-Worf's old gig. $300,000 a year no-show job? Shit just got real, bro.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2012 07:38 AM (noo6E)

33 I'm proud of myself. Just bought Klein's book on Amazon. Once upon a time I'd have never done such a thing . . . but the SCOAMF, and reading here, has caused me to evolve.

I was a political tadpole. Now I'm an effin' hunting cheetah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 15, 2012 07:38 AM (exvgC)

34 Turns out they didn't need to bribe Wright at all...the media was more than happy to bury him to protect Obama.

Posted by: El Kabong at May 15, 2012 07:39 AM (aaAjO)

35 7. Obama is just too good for us all.

Posted by: Lauren at May 15, 2012 07:39 AM (bV8xV)

36 7. Asking questions of our President Jesus 2.0 is blasphemy and raaaaaacccist, you honkies.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 15, 2012 07:39 AM (ebPtk)

37 @30 Thank you for the insightful reporting. Excuse me while my pet bird unloads on you.

Posted by: JDTAY at May 15, 2012 07:39 AM (sFP59)

38 I warned you guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1OjGhIFc

Posted by: Dennis Greene at May 15, 2012 07:41 AM (z9HTb)

39 now this.....this is a big fucking deal.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 15, 2012 07:41 AM (Ho2rs)

40
I'm wondering why this isn't the Number One story in America.

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Because we're busy making up shit about Mormon bullying and steel firms that went kaput.

That's Why.

Posted by: THE MFM, INC. at May 15, 2012 07:41 AM (C8hzL)

41 The open corruption of this group is just unbelievable. If only there were some group that could investigate these things and then charge people for the information. Maybe make money by including advertising or something similar with their reports.

Posted by: toby928Â© at May 15, 2012 11:30 AM (NG097)

We're on it...but first a shocking story!! Romney gave a geek a wedgie in 7th grade. THE HORROR!! Film at 6 and 11!!

Posted by: MBM at May 15, 2012 07:42 AM (3jGS1)

42 Pst. While you're looking into Chicago and Wright...

Posted by: Donald Young,Larry Bland, and Nate Spencer at May 15, 2012 07:43 AM (bV8xV)

43 "I was a political tadpole. Now I'm an effin' hunting cheetah."

Cheetah?! Shit! All I got was this ground squirrel gig. At least I can fit a lot of nuts in my mouth.

Wait... that came out wrong...

...DAMMIT...

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at May 15, 2012 07:43 AM (niW49)

44 But Romney hazed a homo in kindergarten! Theres yer story.

Posted by: maddogg at May 15, 2012 07:43 AM (OlN4e)

45 >>>That leaves the independents, whose attitude is "Will you boys stop that fighting?" They'd hear this, and think, Yet more exaggerated charges being slung by partisans - like the right saying Clinton ran coke out of Mena, Arkansas; like the left saying Bush was Hitler; like the right says Obama wasn't born a U.S. citizen. Disagree. I would say independents aren't loving this guy in the first place, though they could vote for him. This strips one of the last remaining possible reasons to vote for him away ("well he's a nice man, personally"). No one likes corruption. If I had to guess I'd say Independents hate it most of all, as far as voting decisions, because they're not deciding things on policy (at least, not much on policy).

Posted by: ace at May 15, 2012 07:43 AM (aw5Tx)

46 I was a political tadpole. Now I'm an effin' hunting cheetah.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 15, 2012 11:38 AM (exvgC)

Whoa, how many species have you got going here?

Posted by: Somewhere inside the Beltway at May 15, 2012 07:44 AM (RD7QR)

47 Obama / Biden 2012: Chickens roosting is just something that happens to those 'other' guys.

Posted by: El Kabong at May 15, 2012 07:45 AM (aaAjO)

48 Aww damn, this is the important stuff right here: Light up cereal boxes!
A flashing Trix box? Morning hangovers will never be the same.
http://bit.ly/K2lwuy

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at May 15, 2012 07:45 AM (Qxdfp)

49 Puhleeze ... hardly more damning that what was known before the 2008 election - guess what, Ace? The Phlegm 'n Craps just don't care.

Posted by: Gerry at May 15, 2012 07:45 AM (pkQix)

50 No one likes corruption.

DISAGREE. No one likes corruption that doesn't directly benefit them. In other words, Dem voters.

Posted by: pep at May 15, 2012 07:46 AM (YXmuI)

51 No one likes corruption.

As one of my favorite demotivators says, Corruption. I want less of it or in on it.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at May 15, 2012 07:47 AM (Gk3SS)

52 Ace, what are your thoughts on the Sidebar story about Obama injecting himself into the Presidential bios on Whitehouse.gov? It's unbelievable but true. I'm surprised that we don't have giant banners with Obama's face on them all over Washington.

Posted by: toby928© at May 15, 2012 07:48 AM (NG097)

53 "like the right saying Clinton ran coke out of Mena, Arkansas" I saw a reporter ask him about it, some chick, she was all like I know this is really bogus and made up by your enemies blah blah blah. Clinton turned white and stone faced, he said to her "whatever happened at Mena Airport was the Federal Government and I had nothing to do with it." I thought he was going to take the reporterette's head off. I saw it on CSPAN or something, and I was like Holy Crap, because I thought Liddy was off his rocker talking about that stuff, but from Clinton's reaction, something happened. Maybe not what all was alleged, but something, and Clinton knew about it. I was looking for some verification of that once and there was an audio clip on WRH and Rense is a loon but I saw the video when it happened, and it really happened.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2012 07:48 AM (7vSU0)

I'm sorry, Ace, I just don't have time to read about corruption at the highest levels of government that happened in the last election and has continued to today. I'm too busy thinking about whether Mitt Romney was a little icky in high school at about the time Don Draper was leaving Betty and marrying Megan and Joan's husband was leaving for Vietnam and Roger Sterling was having an LSD trip and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was hiring its first Negro secretary.

Really, sorry. I wish I had time to assimilate this new information about the President of the United States. Maybe next fall, say, after the first Tuesday of November.

Yours truly,

The Washington Post

Posted by: The Regular Guy at May 15, 2012 07:49 AM (qHCyt)

55
46. Yup.....

One of the last vestiges propping Obama up was his personal likeability.... even though most folks outside the base are, at best, iffy on his policies.

The "War on Women", the fibbing, the made up shit, and quite frankly his arrogant petulence are eroding that last leg of his to stand on. Im sure CAC can provide some insight on his lieability polling.

The Emporor Has No Clothes.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 07:49 AM (C8hzL)

56 heh

Daniel Foster, @nro:
Â“In the Late Neolithic, the wheel was invented. President Obama has made historic use of wheels for his many campaign trips to Ohio.Â”

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 15, 2012 07:49 AM (ebPtk)

57 Hash tag for those who want to let Chris Matthews know that Cliff Clavin made an ass of himself on Jeopardy too

#jeopardy

Posted by: kbdabear at May 15, 2012 07:49 AM (Y+DPZ)

58 Is it wrong to say that I wouldn't even know HOW to be corrupt if I wanted to? I have no idea who I'd bribe, or extort, or threaten. I wouldn't even know where to begin. It never ceases to amze me how enterprising crooks are. Imagine if they directed their efforts toward something legal and beneficial! We might have flying cars!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 07:49 AM (4df7R)

59 Nice photo. Holding hands, making all kinds of plans. Me and Dr. Whitaker. We got a thing, going on.....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 15, 2012 07:50 AM (noo6E)

60 Isn't John Edwards on trial for this kind of thing?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 15, 2012 07:51 AM (e0xKF)

61 Can't be said enough. RACIST!

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2012 07:51 AM (HJYyV)

62 What? This is what rich best buddies do for their political friends.

Right?

Posted by: The Late Fred Barron at May 15, 2012 07:51 AM (WNzUA)

63 I guess there's no need to say "If this were Bush"...

Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at May 15, 2012 07:51 AM (ZHge+)

64 Obama to Wright: "You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth." NY Post: http://goo.gl/QSMtQ

Posted by: Scobface at May 15, 2012 07:52 AM (IoNBC)

65 are these people in jail yet? ----No?

call me when they are

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at May 15, 2012 07:52 AM (Dll6b)

66 In the Late Neolithic, the wheel was invented. President Obama has made historic use of wheels for his many campaign trips to Ohio.

It's exactly stuff like this that WILL doom O. They just can't grasp that the world has changed, and that we can now mock their silliness unencumbered by the barrier of the media.

Posted by: pep at May 15, 2012 07:52 AM (YXmuI)

"As a commenter here is always doggedly pointing out, "

Obama eats dogs?

Posted by: wth at May 15, 2012 07:53 AM (wAQA5)

Slightly OT:

Whitaker loves a good poodle braised in red wine with onions, shallots, and carrots. Served over a bed of arugula, naturally.

Me? I'm more of a Jack Russell terrier kabob kind of guy.

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 15, 2012 07:53 AM (sWgE+)

69 65 Obama to Wright: "You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth."

NY Post: http://goo.gl/QSMtQ

Posted by: Scobface at May 15, 2012 11:52 AM (IoNBC)

THAT should be the Drudge Headline.

Posted by: jwb7605 at May 15, 2012 07:53 AM (Qxe/p)

70 Look over there..Romney cut some boys hair off 47 years ago.. Get him!

Posted by: the pink cracker formerly known as the hobbit Donna at May 15, 2012 07:53 AM (ZHge+)

To me the real story? Is how they constantly LIE and get away with it because the media covers for them....

Eventualy, some enterprising reporter WILL see that Pulitzer Prize story out there though... like that one reporter who is actualy reporting on Gun Walker stuff.... and then the preference cascade....

Because one thing the American people detest, is being lied to.... they don't go looking for the lie.... but once its shoved in your face that you did lie? Done...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 15, 2012 07:53 AM (lZBBB)

72 http://alturl.com/2hxqt MP3 of Clinton denying he had anything to do with Mena.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2012 07:54 AM (7vSU0)

73 Ace, 11:43:

"I would say independents aren't loving this guy in the first place, though they could vote for him. This strips one of the last remaining possible reasons to vote for him away...."

Fair enough, and the independents not loving him is one of the reasons I'm getting less pessimistic about this election - watching the Obama campaign overreach trying to win them back is getting to be entertaining.

Posted by: JPS at May 15, 2012 07:54 AM (PVzSz)

74 All this is in a state that has had 2 consecutive governors sent to prison. I don't think that giving someone a "job" that pays $300K per year, or giving someone a gubmint grant or contract for 6 million is even considered corruption there.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2012 07:55 AM (HJYyV)

75 Just a note of notey-ness.

A lot of Klein's claims are plausible, but most of it is cheesy journalism, including one scene that looks full-blown fake to me. Summary: Hillary tells Bills he won't primary Obama because of "loyalty." That almost kills the whole book for me right there.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 07:55 AM (oS2lG)

76 >>>That leaves the independents, whose attitude is "Will you boys stop that fighting?" I think there's a risk of that, but only if Romney doesn't provide a positive reason to vote for him. But, yeah, a 100% negative campaign will suppress Independents and Leaners from turning out, imho.

Posted by: Y-not, embarrassed Maroon at May 15, 2012 07:55 AM (5H6zj)

77 Bills he = Bill she

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 07:56 AM (oS2lG)

78 "THAT should be the Drudge Headline." I agree. It's devastating.

Posted by: Scobface at May 15, 2012 07:56 AM (IoNBC)

79 73 http://alturl.com/2hxqt

MP3 of Clinton denying he had anything to do with Mena.

Oh, lord... been hearing those stories for years but not for the reasons you'd think.

My dad grew up with Barry Seale, the Mena pilot who ratted on the Cartel, so I always heard stories about how we couldn't go out near the Salvation Army in BR because one of dad's friends got shot and killed there.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 15, 2012 07:57 AM (e0xKF)

80
Bills he = Bill she

..... no ..... you had it right the first time.... ;-)

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 07:57 AM (C8hzL)

81 This is all nothing but a distraction from the real issues confronting everyday Americans right now.

Posted by: GAY MARRIAGE at May 15, 2012 07:57 AM (sPO/s)

82 A lot of Klein's claims are plausible, but most of it is cheesy journalism, including one scene that looks full-blown fake to me. Summary: Hillary tells Bills he won't primary Obama because of "loyalty." That almost kills the whole book for me right there. Klein was on radio this am and the way he described it is not exactly that way. He says Hillary smarter than Bill - it isn't that she is loyal to Obama, but to the Democrat Party, that she is in better shape for 2016 if she does not primary Obama, because she will lose some goodwill if she is a disloyal Democrat.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2012 07:58 AM (7vSU0)

In the Late Neolithic, the wheel was invented. President Obama has made
historic use of wheels for his many campaign trips to Ohio.

There's got to be a hashtag for this on Twitter, right? what is it? #ObamaThruHistory? Because it SHOULD be.

"Billions of years ago, single cellular organisms first began to form on Earth. President Obama has furthered the rights and dignity of all protoplasmic slime by appointing Valerie Jarrett to his staff, making her the first pond scum ever to act as Adviser to the President."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 07:58 AM (4df7R)

84 Eventualy, some enterprising reporter WILL see that Pulitzer Prize story out there though... like that one reporter who is actualy reporting on Gun Walker stuff.... and then the preference cascade....
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That's what I'm hoping. Some young punk who owes nothing to Obama and wants to make a name for himself.

Trouble is, his editor will have to go along with it.

But that's where Breitbart comes in!

Okay, we're better now.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 07:58 AM (oS2lG)

85 "I know many of you don't like Jen Rubin, but she has a nice post today about the unseemliness of a whining president. " But they treat Obama like a dog. There's a joke about eating dogs in there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to even bother.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2012 07:58 AM (HJYyV)

86
Jarrett to his staff, making her the first pond scum ever to act as Adviser to the President."

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Meh.... dont kid yerself. Valerie IS the acting president.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 07:59 AM (C8hzL)

87 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

And Barack Obama turned to him and said, "I could do it better".

Posted by: pep at May 15, 2012 07:59 AM (YXmuI)

88 Klein was on radio this am and the way he described it is not exactly that way. He says Hillary smarter than Bill - it isn't that she is loyal to Obama, but to the Democrat Party, that she is in better shape for 2016 if she does not primary Obama, because she will lose some goodwill if she is a disloyal Democrat.
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Well, okay, but that's not how it was in the book excerpt I saw.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 08:00 AM (oS2lG)

"Me? I'm more of a Jack Russell terrier kabob kind of guy."

German Shepherd Pie.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:00 AM (sPO/s)

90 >>#jeopardy

And here's what you didn't win, Chris! But that's not all! You've disgraced your family for generations to come! You're a complete loser!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ braucht ein Bier at May 15, 2012 08:02 AM (/kI1Q)

91 90 "Me? I'm more of a Jack Russell terrier kabob kind of guy."

German Shepherd Pie.

Braised bulldog

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 15, 2012 08:02 AM (e0xKF)

92 I suspect if one pokes around your going to find the UofC medical center got a lot more then $6M from Obama.

Posted by: Jean at May 15, 2012 08:02 AM (WkuV6)

93 91 >>#jeopardy

And here's what you didn't win, Chris! But that's not all! You've disgraced your family for generations to come! You're a complete loser!

Don't worry, I'll do better next weekend on The Price Is Right!

Posted by: Chrissy Matthews at May 15, 2012 08:03 AM (e0xKF)

94 >German Shepherd Pie.

Braised bulldog

Spaghetti and Mutt Balls

Posted by: Jones in CO at May 15, 2012 08:03 AM (8sCoq)

95 Somewhere a stiffed GM bond holder is weeping.

Posted by: Kaos Theory at May 15, 2012 11:38 AM (gppu7)

Somewhere a border agent lost his life

And the wind screams "Barry"

Posted by: Insomniac at May 15, 2012 08:03 AM (DrWcr)

96 "Bills he = Bill she" Aww. I thought "Bills" was her pet name for him. Cause, ya know, they're such an affectionate couple.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2012 08:04 AM (HJYyV)

97 >>There's got to be a hashtag for this on Twitter, right? what is it? #ObamaThruHistory? Because it SHOULD be.

#ObamaInHistory

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ braucht ein Bier at May 15, 2012 08:04 AM (/kI1Q)

98 #ObamaThruHistory - in the wake of massive global upheaval due to meteor-made climate change, Barack Obama was there to quell the fears, heal the oceans, and usher in a new Paleogene Period.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:04 AM (sPO/s)

99 As a commenter here is always doggedly pointing out, the hospital did not fill that job after Michelle Obama left it -- leaving one scratching one's head imagining what sort of job is so critical that you have to pay someone such a large salary to perform, and yet is simultaneously so unnecessary you can terminate the position entirely when the apple of your eye packs up for DC.

Duhh Ace...The job of Senator's wife Who brings in the Fat Earmarks from DC was discontinued due to the lack of qualified candidates.

Posted by: U of C hospital at May 15, 2012 08:05 AM (3jGS1)

100 The first gay president is turning out to be quite a douche.

Posted by: El Kabong at May 15, 2012 08:05 AM (aaAjO)

101 Dr. Eric Whitaker appears to be a fat white guy so maybe this story will get some traction.

Posted by: Dang at May 15, 2012 08:06 AM (Ky1+e)

102 OT but too good to ignore. Lawrence Reed has a question: "Why is it that statists believe that if you tax cigarettes you will discourage smoking but if you tax work, risk-taking and capital formation, you get a healthier economy? Do they really think that work, risk-taking and capital formation are like cigarettes?"

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 15, 2012 08:06 AM (Hx5uv)

103

The outrage du jour.

MFM: Yawn.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:06 AM (4q5tP)

104 >>The job of Senator's wife Who brings in the Fat Earmarks from DC was discontinued due to the lack of qualified candidates.

Racist.

Posted by: Berlean M. Burris at May 15, 2012 08:06 AM (/kI1Q)

105 Cackle, those history jokes are great.

"When I took office, I gave the order for our armed forces to utilize their full biological abilities in the battlefield. I am proud to report that they are now speaking, sweating, and eating."

"When I took office, I gathered my scientific team and told them we must fully utilize all technological advances for our national effort. Today I can report that more wheels are in use than ever."

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 08:07 AM (oS2lG)

106 Corgi on the cob.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:07 AM (sPO/s)

107 Blackdemocratium is a powerful antidote.

Posted by: real joe at May 15, 2012 08:07 AM (lgANn)

108 Ben Smith is on AMessNBC right now. I never realized what a flaming homosexual he is. NTTAWWT

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 08:08 AM (Yhu4q)

109

Did Wright end up taking a trip out of the country in 2008??

Oh, yeh, Nice Deb linked to Gateway Pundit about it.

Real journalists would look into the funding for that. Who knows, might not be anything since it appears he's gone there before.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 15, 2012 08:08 AM (XdlcF)

110 How much is that doggie in the window? The one with the fat on his thighs.

Posted by: Cricket at May 15, 2012 08:10 AM (DrC22)

111

Blackdemocratium is a powerful antidote.

'Member when Reagan was the teflon President?

Preezy O gots mo' better stuff.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:10 AM (4q5tP)

112

So....this guy Whitacker, has been like Barky's Bunny Mellon?

You know, John Edwards' sugar mama -- Bunny Mellon.

Posted by: wheatie at May 15, 2012 08:10 AM (dHMPi)

113 Mama - yeah, but he never went there while unconcious, gagged, and bound with duct tape before...

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:10 AM (sPO/s)

114 A bit OT but Drudge has a link up where you can see the salaries of Federal employees. Snoop away!

Posted by: U of C hospital at May 15, 2012 08:10 AM (3jGS1)

115 I think it entirely possible that someone could or would offer Wright money to shut up and that Obama knew nothing about it. And that this person would end up getting millions in grants? Well, complete coincidence. Happens all the time.

Posted by: blaster at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (7vSU0)

116 70 65 Obama to Wright: "You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth." ------------------------------------ Especially bout dem damn jooooooos!!!

Posted by: Sam I Am at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (ShuAW)

117

Cocker au Vin.

(magnifique!)

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (sPO/s)

118
Dr. Eric Whitaker appears to be a fat white guy so maybe this story will get some traction.

-------

Nope. Look at that photo again. Holdin hands with the First Gay President.

Protected Class.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (C8hzL)

119 Someone needs to doctor up an old voter registration card for Obama showing he was one a Republican. Then the MFM airstrike can commence. You'll be able to see it from The Moon.

Posted by: El Kabong at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (aaAjO)

120 1789 - Vulcan and Searcher among the first White House dogs. 1963 - Obama eats his first dog.

#ObamaInHistory

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (ebPtk)

121 terriyaki terrier

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:11 AM (4q5tP)

122 Golden doodle soup.

Posted by: pep at May 15, 2012 08:12 AM (YXmuI)

123

With no return ticket...

On TSA's watch list...

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 15, 2012 08:12 AM (XdlcF)

124 "Did Wright end up taking a trip out of the country in 2008?? " Maybe he needed some R&R after being stabbed in the back.

Posted by: nerdygirl at May 15, 2012 08:12 AM (HJYyV)

125

Someone needs to doctor up an old voter registration card for Obama showing he was one a Republican.

Not Obama. Momma Stanley.

Then we'd finally get all the dirty laundry on who she REALLY WAS.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:13 AM (sPO/s)

126 See, this is one of the things the election should be about. Here's the other problem, for Obama in this: it proves that he heard every word out of "Reverend" Wright's mouth.

The feeble protestations that he had no idea what went on in that church fly right out the window. That needs to be broadcast along with the corruption business.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 15, 2012 08:14 AM (8y9MW)

127 Beagle Bagels.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:14 AM (sPO/s)

128 >>How much is that doggie in the window?
>>The one with the fat on his thighs.

I don't want no fat dogs waddling around the White House. NOW GET ME SOME MORE FRIES.

Posted by: Mrs SCOAMF at May 15, 2012 08:15 AM (/kI1Q)

129 Shih-Tzu Etouffee

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:15 AM (4q5tP)

130

Ah, why not play it the liberal way:

Rev. Wright was paid to go to Ghana to keep him quiet and find evidence of E. Warren's Native American ancestry!!!1!

Unless you can show me proof that all the money for the Ghana trip came from Repulicans, it *must* be true.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 15, 2012 08:15 AM (XdlcF)

131 103 OT but too good to ignore. Lawrence Reed has a question: "Why is it that statists believe that if you tax cigarettes you will discourage smoking but if you tax work,
risk-taking and capital formation, you get a healthier economy? Do they
really think that work, risk-taking and capital formation are like
cigarettes?"

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 15, 2012 12:06 PM (Hx5uv)

----------

Excellent point! ....This should be repeated....over and over.

Posted by: wheatie at May 15, 2012 08:15 AM (dHMPi)

132 Ruffaletta.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:16 AM (sPO/s)

133 Aww. I thought "Bills" was her pet name for him. Cause, ya know, they're such an affectionate couple.
Posted by: nerdygirl
----------------

Hee-hee. Normally I'd go all WaPo and not bother issuing a correction, but that one was TOO egregious.

Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 15, 2012 08:16 AM (oS2lG)

134

You want to get this and other stories out into the media? We're going to have to force-fuck it into the public consciousness.

And that work is going to be done by people like Ace, who does this full time.

Hit the tip jar when you can so he can spend more time dragon-punching Obama in his bitch wrinkle and less time scrounging for rent money and stalking hobos.

Consider where your dollars are better spent: getting THIS message out, or trusting the RNC to do it.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 15, 2012 08:17 AM (CSF9r)

135 Airedale Almondine

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:17 AM (4q5tP)

136 >>I'm wondering why this isn't the Number One story in America.

Yer being facetious, right?

Well, Mr. Virtuoso of Twitter...time to get to work

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 08:18 AM (Yhu4q)

137 135
You want to get this and other stories out into the media? We're going to have to force-fuck it into the public consciousness.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 15, 2012 12:17 PM (CSF9r)

That sounds painful, yet titillating. Tell me more...

Posted by: Somewhere inside the Beltway at May 15, 2012 08:18 AM (RD7QR)

138 Cockerpoo Vindaloo

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 08:19 AM (Yhu4q)

139 Almond Bark.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:20 AM (sPO/s)

140

I have to wonder how well Dr. Whitaker knew who he was dealing with - a black pastor who feeds off the controversy he generates. Can you imagine trying to buy off Jesse Jackson - wait never mind that one. Still, this kind of aggressive minister, they don't feel pity, or fear, or remorse. And they will not stop, ever. Furthermore, Whitaker left an email trail. People should know better in this day and age.

As to getting the grant, as if by magic. If America has evinced no interest in how the current administration spends China's money by now, it never will. The majority of the public has to know by now that Obama rewards his friends and punishes his enemies by every means the state has available. This isn't a story, per se - it's SOP.

Posted by: Advo at May 15, 2012 08:20 AM (7vbG1)

141 Stray dog = free range

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 08:21 AM (Yhu4q)

142 Pasta Presa Canario

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at May 15, 2012 08:21 AM (e0xKF)

143 Yorkie Pot Roast

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:21 AM (4q5tP)

144 1 Considering it is Chicago,I am a tad surprised Wright is still breathing

Posted by: nevergiveup at May 15, 2012 11:27 AM (05RcU)

-------------

Maybe that's why he's talking? ....His best bet for staying alive now, is to spill his guts about Barky.

Posted by: wheatie at May 15, 2012 08:21 AM (dHMPi)

145
Chicken Poodle Soup

Posted by: fixerupper at May 15, 2012 08:22 AM (C8hzL)

146 I wanna work a Wright pun in here, but everything about this seems wrong.
Posted by: JDTAY
Because two wrongs don't make a Wright.

And, yes, I denounce myself.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 15, 2012 08:22 AM (FTuxU)

147

Poodle skirt steak.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (sPO/s)

148

We're going to have to force-fuck it into the public consciousness.

You know what's great? Before I even finished reading that comment, by the end of this sentence I KNEW it was written by EoJ.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (4df7R)

149 The media that will ignore this and other revelations yet to come is the same media that keeps telling us that Sarah Palin did not give birth to her youngest child.

Posted by: Bow Tying White Boy at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (BSuxu)

150 Do any other large hospitals in major urban areas have a position "to handle community affairs"? If so, which ones and what salary is paid for that position? Inquiring minds want to know.

Posted by: chinaacid at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (GPduJ)

151 138 You're not reading Shades of Grey by any chance?

Posted by: Dagny at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (JoL4S)

152 setter scampi

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:23 AM (4q5tP)

153 New York Times today, front page story: Politics Seen in Obama's Same-Sex Marriage Support Obama's Switch on Same-Sex Marriage Stirs Skepticism http://tinyurl.com/7d6q3vx "Most Americans suspect that President Obama was motivated by politics, not policy..."

Posted by: steveha at May 15, 2012 08:24 AM (jWWfL)

154 Malted Mutt

Posted by: jinxthecat at May 15, 2012 08:25 AM (l3vZN)

155 German Shepherd Pie

Posted by: Sam I Am at May 15, 2012 08:25 AM (ShuAW)

156

What are the odds that Chicago burns to the ground during the G8 summit? Anyone? It just seems like that would be a fortuitous "distraction" for the Preznit, and we know how very much the SCOAMT loves him some distractions.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 08:26 AM (4df7R)

157 Are you kidding? Wright has pictures, documents, and affidavits with someone. If anything happens to him, all of these things automatically go public. These people are criminals. They know they have to keep their valuable information in such a way that if they "disappear" it will come out. I bet those people learned a lot from the Arkansides.

Posted by: Dagny at May 15, 2012 08:27 AM (JoL4S)

158 The clip of Clinton on Mena. Watch how white he gets. http://tinyurl.com/ng5ej6

Posted by: Lord Humungus at May 15, 2012 08:27 AM (Yv6gq)

159 157 What are the odds that Chicago burns to the ground during the G8 summit? Anyone? It just seems like that would be a fortuitous "distraction" for the Preznit, and we know how very much the SCOAMT loves him some distractions.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter at May 15, 2012 12:26 PM (4df7R)

I'm not sure Rahm would go for that. He seems to have a strong sense of self-preservation.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 15, 2012 08:27 AM (RD7QR)

160 Just makes me wonder who else Obama tried to pay off, and succeeded. Like that woman he supposedly had an affair with who is now off working somewhere in the Bahamas or something.

Posted by: sydney jane at May 15, 2012 08:27 AM (t6l3d)

161 Seriously...Ben Smith is gay as hell

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Albie Damned at May 15, 2012 08:28 AM (Yhu4q)

162

Dachshunds and Mash

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:28 AM (sPO/s)

163 Thanks for connecting the dots here. I had only heard bits and pieces of this until now (mainly the Rev. Wright aspect). This is indeed a powerful story of cronyism for which the right always gets maligned. Payback time.

Posted by: Flounder at May 15, 2012 08:28 AM (Kkt/i)

164 rev. wright didn't take the "obama money" ?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 15, 2012 08:29 AM (Ho2rs)

165 New England Chow Chowder

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 15, 2012 08:29 AM (4q5tP)

166 Bolognese bolognese.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 08:30 AM (4df7R)

167 I'm not saying Ben Smith is gay, but he is Barney Frank's go-to when he needs to slip the media a leak...

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:31 AM (sPO/s)

168 @166 - That got audible laughter.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:31 AM (sPO/s)

169 Great Danishes.

Posted by: reason at May 15, 2012 08:32 AM (sPO/s)

170 I'm not sure Rahm would go for that. He seems to have a strong sense of self-preservation.

Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at May 15, 2012 12:27 PM (RD7QR)

Hmm... very true. Maybe just some of the seedier sections of the city. Or possibly a minor conflagration would start when someone -- probably a racist Tea Party Nazi -- thoughtlessly tossed a cigarette butt into a pool of what may or may not have been lighter fluid on the front stoop of a certain Reverand's church...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 15, 2012 08:32 AM (4df7R)

171 "Behest" .... I see what you did there.

Posted by: sophistahick at May 15, 2012 08:33 AM (jSWqX)

172 The Oriental fellow seems to be saying to himself, "That's so ghey!!"

Posted by: Cricket at May 15, 2012 08:36 AM (DrC22)

173 It's up to us to report it, to publish it far and wide, to make sure every citizen in this country is aware of this bribe and the Chicago Way.

My only reach is through either Facebook or the twitters...OK actually only Facebook. You should have a Facebook "Share" button with each post so I can annoy the few friends I have with more political updates.

Posted by: BuckIV at May 15, 2012 08:38 AM (AtjNL)

174 You want to get this and other stories out into the media? We're going to have to force-fuck it into the public consciousness.

And that work is going to be done by people like Ace, who does this full time.

Hit the tip jar when you can so he can spend more time dragon-punching Obama in his bitch wrinkle and less time scrounging for rent money and stalking hobos.

EoJ, is your day job teaching creative writing? Pure poetry...

Posted by: U of C hospital at May 15, 2012 08:40 AM (3jGS1)

175 Off hospital sock

Posted by: Hedgehog at May 15, 2012 08:41 AM (3jGS1)

176 I don' know how much this will impact the voters, no matter how much it gets discussed online, but I bet there are a lot of elected Dems paying attention. They hope to have careers after November and the more toxic Obama is, the more they will distance themselves from him. I'd further bet that more than a few Dems are sick and tired of watching their Party get Barack-ified, and are actually looking forward to his exit.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 15, 2012 08:41 AM (hiMsy)

177 I'd further bet that more than a few Dems are sick and tired of watching their Party get Barack-ified, and are actually looking forward to his exit.

That would require them to feel at least a little shame. I don't think they do. Any of them.

Posted by: grognard, SMOD-Squad at May 15, 2012 08:47 AM (NS2Mo)

178 American Eskimo Pies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Clitoris at May 15, 2012 08:54 AM (zF6Iw)

179 47 "I was a political tadpole. Now I'm an effin' hunting cheetah."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 15, 2012 11:38 AM (exvgC)

Whoa, how many species have you got going here?
*
*
I am large; I contain multitudes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 15, 2012 08:57 AM (exvgC)

180 Anyone know a reporter ballsy enough to ask where the money came from?

Posted by: Bob Woodward at May 15, 2012 09:00 AM (rnQk1)

181 Not shame, self-preservation. If you're a Dem in NC for instance, the absolute last thing you want is to be tied to Obama in what could be a "wave" year. Of course there is a good chunk of true believers, but others would stick any Party label on as long as they got the sweet, sweet power. I'd like to see a major public schism erupt between the Obamamaniacs and the wishy-washies, but they've managed to maintain incredible discipline for years.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 15, 2012 09:07 AM (hiMsy)

182 Isn't Edwards on trial for doing the same thing ?

Posted by: JeffC at May 15, 2012 09:07 AM (A3tpD)

183 Halsted Retriever on toast

Posted by: DaveA at May 15, 2012 09:33 AM (ZYrSB)

184 Papillon frittes

Posted by: DaveA at May 15, 2012 09:37 AM (ZYrSB)

185 I'd further bet that more than a few Dems are sick and tired of watching their Party get Barack-ified, and are actually looking forward to his exit.

I wonder if the first in line of anti-barackified group are the Clintons and company. Snake man Carville never seemed to like Obama very much. Early on Carville took swipes at Obama even after the nomination. Carville was saying shit when Republicans were still bowing. I recall Carville whining about Obama not visiting the Gulf.

Posted by: long island at May 15, 2012 09:48 AM (kzp9t)

186 Yes, if there were a schism, Hill and Bill would be the logical titular heads. Where else would the disgruntled Dems go? Not exactly a deep bench in lib land.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 15, 2012 10:17 AM (HethX)

187 In case Ace stumbles into this thread, Whitaker has strong links to Blago and Rezko too. http://tinyurl.com/6mmaetf If you feel like it Ace, and dig and hammer, you could make Obama respond to things like Weiner did. Just saying. There is smoke there dude.

Posted by: Lord Humungus at May 15, 2012 10:27 AM (Yv6gq)

188 _____________________________________

The way this story is being treated is chillingly surreal. How is it that not even Fox News is covering this story as a major news item?

It's beyond bizarre.

One of Obama's inner circle, indeed one of his close friends, is accused of offering a $150,000.00 bribe to shut-up the outrageous mouth of Obama's personal spiritual mentor. Then when the alleged bribe is turned down, Obama pays his embarrassing associate a personal visit to ask him to clam up out of fear that it could cost him the 08' election.

And the press (even Fox) yawns?

What the hell is going on?

If it were revealed that Romney had as a personal spiritual mentor a Mormon priest who remained an out-spoken hold-out for polygamy, the press would hound Romney endlessly even though Romney himself (and the Mormon church) clearly reject polygamy.
Now imagine that it were later alleged that one of Romney's close friends had offered a $150,000.00 bribe to shut the polygamy pedaling priest up.
If there was any truth to the allegation, it would have utterly torpedoed Romney's bid for president.

I can understand why the story would be down-played. But why is it getting no play?
Again, what the hell is going on?

Posted by: _Dave_ at May 15, 2012 10:27 AM (2amQY)

189 In a sane world there's no freakin' way that such an arrogant,, corrupt, inept poltroon like Bambi would ever even stand a glimmer of a chance of being the first gay president, let alone the first one to win a second term. How seriously mentally I'll does one have to be to vote for this jerk?

Posted by: Natasha at May 15, 2012 10:37 AM (Cl5yh)

190 Eventualy, some enterprising reporter WILL see that Pulitzer Prize story out there though... like that one reporter who is actualy reporting on Gun Walker stuff.... and then the preference cascade.... Posted by: Romeo13 at May 15, 2012 11:53 AM (lZBBB) Your faith that the surface appearance of humanity in the journalistic profession is representative of some underlying decency is endearing, if not realistic. The Pulitzer committee is as corrupt as the rest of them.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 15, 2012 11:59 AM (bxiXv)

191 Rahm wants to be America's Mayor. I would not rule out anything re NATO summit. I have heard that the Taliban have been invited.

Posted by: miti at May 15, 2012 12:47 PM (Y95e4)

192 I was drugged and kidnapped to Mexico and all I got was this tee shirt.

Posted by: reverend wright at May 15, 2012 01:24 PM (NG097)

193 Edwards got laid. We got screwed.

Posted by: MarkD at May 15, 2012 01:40 PM (iYBP2)

194 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at May 15, 2012 02:11 PM (7W3wI)

195 What burns my ass is that Wright didn't shut up but he didn't hurt Obama at all.The MFM buried it.

Posted by: steevy at May 15, 2012 03:06 PM (7W3wI)

196 Ace, I luves ya man, but this headline/story doesn't remotely kill Obama. 'Politician indirectly helps give sweet deal to friend from back home,' is business as usual in DC, Chicago, NYC, et al.

I don't think anyone cares about allegations from Rev. Wright. They didn't in 08 and they will even less so now.

[except for us, obvs]

Only one thing kills Obama. 13.1% unemployment.

Posted by: horn at May 15, 2012 06:30 PM (tAHf5)

197 And didn't Axelrod's firm do the PR for some Whitaker initiative?

Posted by: OceanusRex at May 22, 2012 02:59 PM (yAI5q)

198 All of these comments are nice, but understand you're most likely preaching to the choir. You all need to get off your duffs and convince anyone you can to vote against Obama. Hold your nose and vote for Romney if that's what it takes. Obama is ruining this nation and cannot be given a second term. At that point he's unfettered and god knows what he'll try to do.

Posted by: disgusted ex democrap at May 22, 2012 04:29 PM (e1oQv)

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