Dude, Keep the Change
If these are the types of appointments we can expect from Obama, we need to keep him as far from Washington as possible.
I’m sure you’ve heard of Obama raising $9 Million dollars rubbing elbows with fellow elitists. Hollywood (like Obama) LOVES to think of themselves as “regular” people. Of course, they’re anything but.
This is my favorite part….Obama’s campaign finance manager, Penny Pritzker organized the event. Her name should be familiar to us, but alas MSM continues it’s free ride of liberal criminals. Her family’s bank, Superior Bank of Chicago, was shut down in 2001 for SUBPRIME LOAN ISSUES!!!! HELLOOOOO!!!! 7 years ago, her bank was blazing the way for others to follow (they started pursuing suprime loans in 1993). 7 years ago, her bank fleeced $2 BILLION from the American economy. They made the blueprint for our current crappy bank mess. While our country’s economy flounders due to greed and lax oversight, this is who he picks as a finance manager…? Amazing.
Other notable Obama Adviser’s:
Eric Holder - Former Assistant Attorney General under Clinton (on Obama’s VP search committee) - played a leading role in Clinton’s last hours pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Marc never admitted to any wrongdoings, never did time, and was a fugitive of the US, any of which should make him ineligible for a pardon.
Greg Craig - He and his firm have been the Clintons’ attorney of record for the last decade. Yet, during the primary, Greg was making rounds making negative attacks on Hillary. Anyone smell conflict of interest? Anyone smell attorney/client privileges being broken? I sure do.
James A Johnson (in June he resigned as advisor for the VP process) - This fellow ran Fannie Mae from 1991-1998 (IS STILL A PAID CONSULTANT TO FANNIE), and received over $5 million in loans from Countrywide. These are loans where Countrywide overrode its internal limits on loan size, amount of allowable debt and number of loans to a single borrower.
Franklin Raines - (served in the Carter and Clinton adminstrations) took over at Fannie Mae after James Johnson. His stellar leadership resulted in his indictment. In 2006, the OFHEO announced a suit against Raines in order to recover some or all of the $50 million in payments made to Raines based on the overstated earnings initially estimated to be $9 billion but have been announced as 6.3 billion. He was accused of abetting widespread accounting errors, which included the shifting of losses so senior executives, such as himself, could earn large bonuses. He settled the case, without admitting any wrongdoing (and handing over $24.7 million - all innocent folks hand over that much, right?)
Samantha Power - had to resign as foreign policy adviser to Obama after she said of Hillary, “She is a monster, too—that is off the record—she is stooping to anything.” Power warned Clinton’s campaign against reveling in the trial of Obama donor Antonin “Tony” Rezko, who is facing corruption charges.”I don’t think it’s a good idea for the Clintons to get into a competition over who’s got the most unsavory donations, you know what I mean?” Like Marc Rich, Samantha?
Rob Malley - Middle East adviser to Obama had to resign after it was discovered he had been secretly meeting with HAMAS!!! Obama said he’d never meet with Hamas (even while Jimmy Carter was going to visit them). I guess Obama meeting with unsavory leaders without precondition only goes so far…???
Mazen Asbahi was Obama’s coordinator of Muslim affairs for only 10 days. He resigned after links were made to Jamal Said, a man thought by the U.S. Department of Justice to be involved in racketeering and fundraising for the Palestinian terror organization Hamas.
I absolutely SHUDDER to think of who this cat would select on his cabinet. His judge of character just plain SUCKS.
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Comment by Steve Dietrich on 27 September 2008:
The story of Eric Holder is even worse than presented. Holder was assistant Attorney General under Clinton.
In an unprecedented move Clinton asked Holder to approve the Marc Rich pardon without sending it through the normal process which would have raised a number of red flags. Pardons are never given to fugitives.
Holder testified to Congress that he was not “aware” of the facts of the Marc Rich case when he approved the pardon and sent it on to Clinton. However, at the time he approved the pardon the first item on a google search for “marc rich” would have been the State Department’s webpage of Most Wanted International Fugitives and near the top of the list Marc Rich - sharing space with Osama and others.
Marc Rich was on the State Department’s most wanted list and yet Holder claimed to be unaware of the details.
Comment by Jason Blanchard on 30 September 2008:
Steve, thanks for the additional detail. I felt like I could have gone on for days, but there’s only so much typing I can do. Their favorite president was scandal ridden for his entire presidency, yet he’s remembered as some kind of hero. If we keep telling the truth, sooner or later, they’ll hear it.
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