Evidence scant that Wright hurt Obama much in Ind., N.C.

Evidence scant that Wright did much damage to Obama in Ind., N.C. primaries

May 8, 2008

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Posted By: Rob-is-right @ 05/08/2008 2:08:52 PM

Comment: Shrillary has played the race card again!!!!!!

May 8, 2008
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Posted: 12:03 PM ET

Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday.
(CNN) ??? In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama???s candidacy.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY.

Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22.

Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way.

"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."

From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Barack Obama ??? Hillary Clinton
Posted By: Rob-is-right @ 05/08/2008 2:08:42 PM

Comment: Shrillary has played the race card again!!!!!!

May 8, 2008
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Posted: 12:03 PM ET

Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday.
(CNN) ??? In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama???s candidacy.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY.

Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22.

Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way.

"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."

From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Barack Obama ??? Hillary Clinton
Posted By: Rob-is-right @ 05/08/2008 2:08:31 PM

Comment: Shrillary has played the race card again!!!!!!

May 8, 2008
Clinton touts support from 'white Americans'
Posted: 12:03 PM ET

Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday.
(CNN) ??? In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama???s candidacy.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY.

Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22.

Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way.

"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that."

Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."

From: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Filed under: Barack Obama ??? Hillary Clinton
Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 05/08/2008 11:46:41 AM

Comment: Barack Obama - Subplots of Operation Board Games - Part I

by Evelyn Pringle
Previously:

Barack Obama - Operation Board Games For Slumlords
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00064.htm>
Barack Obama - The Wizard of Oz
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00452.htm>

The investigation dubbed â??Operation Board Games,â?? into the influence
peddling within the cesspool of corruption that encompasses Illinois
politicians from both major parties, has developed into multiple
subplots, many of which feature Barack Obama.

This two-part article is the last article in a 3-part series. The first
two, Barack Obama - The Wizard of Oz
<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00452.htm> and Barack Obama -
Operation Board Games For Slumlords
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_evelyn_p_080404_barack_obama___opera.htm>,

cover Obamaâ??s rise to fame in the political mafia of Illinois,
bankrolled by the now infamous Syrian-born influence peddler, Antoin
â??Tonyâ?? Rezko.

They also give the details of Obamaâ??s involvement in a slumlord business
largely operating out of the Chicago-based Davis, Miner & Barnhill law
firm, which hired Obama in 1993, with his boss, Allison Davis, reaping
in the profits with Rezkoâ??s development company, Rezmar.

The â??Board Games For Slumlordâ?? article gives in-depth details of the
federal investigation along with the names of people who are listed as
â??Co-Schemersâ?? and â??Individualsâ?? in the indictments issued thus far.
Therefore for the most part, this article will refer to all the scams
collectively as what prosecutors refer to as â??pay-to-playâ?? schemes...

Campaign finance laws in Illinois have aided and abetted influence
peddling schemes for years because they allow donors to give as much as
they like to candidates running for state office, so the skyâ??s the
limit....

A trial exhibit produced by an FBI agent, identifies major contributors
who donated $1.43 million to Blagojevich between 2001 and 2004. The
Chicago Sun-Times compared the exhibit to government campaign records on
Obama and found he received more than $220,000 from many of the same
donors between 2001 and 2004.

John Roger, the head of Ariel Capital, an investment firm that ended up
with major money from the pension funds, is on the FBIâ??s summary of
Blagojevichâ??s top contributors. He also gave Obama $25,000.

Rogers is a member of the finance committee for Obamaâ??s presidential
campaign. Rogers also served on the campaign finance committee for
Obamaâ??s US Senate run with Tony and Rita Rezko, Allison Davis, and Myron
â??Mikeâ?? Cherry....
- Posted By: Illinois Voter @ 05/08/2008 11:49:07
  
  Comment: On April 22, 2007, the Tribune noted that City Hall records show
  Michelle Obama began work as a $60,000-a-year mayoral assistant to
  Richard Daley in September of 1991.
  
  At City Hall, Michelle formed close friendships with Valerie Jarrett,
  and many other top Daley aides, including former Corporation Counsel
  Susan Sher and David Mosena, who was the mayor's chief of staff when
  Michelle first joined his administration.
  
  â??All have long since left the city payroll,â?? the Tribune wrote,
  â??but are
  loyal to the mayor and now the Obamas.â??
  
  On June 13, 2006, Michelleâ??s employer, the University of Chicago
  announced that, "Valerie Jarrett has been appointed as the new Chair of
  the University of Chicago Medical Center Board and also Chair of a newly
  created Executive Committee of that board. She has also been named
  Vice-Chair of the University's Board of Trustees."
  
  According to the announcement, Jarrett "served for eight years in City
  of Chicago government posts, first as Deputy Corporation Counsel for
  Finance and Development, then as Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard
  Daley in 1991," and, "as Commissioner of the Department of Planning and
  Development from 1992 through 1995."
  
  Jarrett served on Obamaâ??s US Senate campaign finance committee and
  serves on Obamaâ??s presidential campaign finance committee along with
  Alex Giannoulias and Mayor Daleyâ??s brother Bill.
  
  The political mafia of Illinois now plans to move the Chicago brand of
  corruption to Washington in a U-Haul hooked up to their second choice
  candidate. Americans will never allow it to happen. They will either
  vote for McCain or not at all.
  
  If Obama becomes the nominee, the Republicans will unleash a non-stop
  expose of Obama in the mainstream media that will make the swift boat
  attacks against John Kerry seem trivial. Only this time, they won't have
  to make lies because the truth will be on their side.
  
  The tracking of the subplots that developed as a result of the Board
  Games investigation, has revealed a spider-web of corruption that spread
  from the Chicago Loop to O'Hare Airport to the Illinois Tollway, all the
  way to bid-rigging in Iraq, with Iraqi-born billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi,
  owner of General Mediterranean Holdings, a Luxemburg-based conglomerate
  with investments all over the world in everything from defense
  contractors to pharmaceuticals, at the center of many schemes.
Posted By: okie3 @ 05/08/2008 8:30:57 AM

Comment: You might now want to run that poll in SE Oklahoma.
Posted By: ToadTreeHugger @ 05/08/2008 7:41:26 AM

Comment: You state yourself: "in both Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday, nearly half of white voters said Wright influenced their pick of a candidate."

Enough said.

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