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  • Posted By: kristilady @ 10/15/2008 8:19:56 PM

    Lets go to fact check and get our stories straight. Obamas and Mrs Resko both bought seperate lots. Obamas wanted to extend their lot by 10 ft. They purchased the strip for $104,500 and it was only valued at about $40,000. There was no favor to Obamas here. Mrs Resko later sold the balance. Mrs Resko later sold the balance of the lot for $575,000 with a net profit of $54,500 to another party. Obamas ended up

    overpaying oveoverpaying for

  • Posted By: kristilady @ 10/15/2008 8:18:46 PM

    Lets get off this trying to pin Obama with everything. This is McCains answer to a failing campaign and his slipping in polls. First Ayers now Resko. Maybe we should be talking about the Keating 5 and Iran Contras they have more truth and substance. Also McCain was as experienced senator when they happened. Not to mention McCain's infidelity to his cripple wife and his proposal to Cindy in 1980 when he was still married.

  • Posted By: kristilady @ 10/15/2008 8:13:22 PM

    Lets go to fact check and get our stories straight. Obamas and Mrs Resko both bought seperate lots. Obamas wanted to extend their lot by 10 ft. They purchased the strip for $104,500 and it was only valued at about $40,000. There was no favor to Obamas here. Mrs Resko later sold the balance. Mrs Resko later sold the balance of the lot for $575,000 with a net profit of $54,500 to another party. Obamas ended up

    overpaying oveoverpaying for

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 5:57:10 PM

    OBAMAS MANSION: The Facts

    The story here is that the SELLER of (what became to be) the current Obama house (mansion) they live in WOULD NOT SELL the house alone to Obama and that the ADJACENT PROPERTY had to be PART OF THE DEAL. To resolve the problem (the Obamas could not afford the adjacent property), MRS. REZKO PURCHASED THE ADJOINING TRACT (nice friend, huh?). She bought the tract and shortly after sold it).

    However way the monies and paperwork involved were worked out between the OBAMAS, the REZKOS and the SELLER to make a DUAL SALE who knows how it was handled (people, read between the lines). But the REZKOS definitely played a VITAL ROLE in the Obamas being ABLE TO PURCHASE the MANSION because the seller would not let the deal go thru unless the adjacent track of property was sold with it.
    There is no doubt about that.

    The Rezkos, to buy a tract of land that they did not need just so their friends could by the house of their dream was quite a generous action on the their part. When everything is said and done, this was a HUGE FAVOR that the Rezkos did for their friends, the Obamas, with nothing in exchange (hmmmmm). So this NEWSWEEK ARTICLE got it HALF RIGHT. The 14 million was in subsidies to be used for the low income housing which Obama pushed for and got for Rezko to develop or refurbish. This is true. Problem is. . . this low income housing eventually turned into slums over time.

    Given the details about how exactly Obama was able to purchase his mansion, I have to flesh it out a bit more here: Newsweek got it half right, except event that part they got right is not totally right. The $14 million talked about in the Newsweek article (which was the use of 14million for low income housing, but turned into slums in a short time managed by Rezko). So there is some truth in what McCain says as to why one would think there was a transaction (deal) worked out between the two (Obama and Rezko). Why else would Rezko just go off and buy an adjacent tract of land so Obama could get the house of their dreams. . . Just because they are great friends? I say politics definitely were definitely involved with this mansion purchase (transaction including Mrs. Rezko buying the tract next door that the Obamas could not afford. But the help Obama got from Rezko for the purchase of the mansion was separate from the exchange of 14million dollars in subsidies for Rezko to get to develop low-income housing which over time went down the tube with Rezkos pocketing of millions of dollars. Note: This complex that Rezko developed sat within the perimeter of the districts that Obama oversaw - instead of addressing it, he turned a blind eye.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/11/2008 10:33:49 PM



      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfRb87dtY4

  • Posted By: denesd @ 08/22/2008 6:01:38 PM

    It was a huge tactical error by Obama to start this housing subject. McCain is a politician who smartly invested his money and he didn't needed a corrupt real estate developer for that. Since he opened this topic he should take the heat come out of it.

    • Posted By: Jonny860 @ 08/22/2008 6:12:12 PM

      McCain didn't invest his money, he married it.

      • Posted By: Mr. MFIC @ 08/22/2008 6:21:36 PM

        good for him

        • Posted By: Mike in Sac @ 08/22/2008 7:03:18 PM

          Good for him? How about the wife he had then? He married his money after cheating on his wife with that money. Ever hear of adultery? Then left her and his kids for that money... He gave up his own personal integrity to get ahead. Similar to how he is campaigning today.

          • Posted By: Frank56 @ 09/07/2008 8:49:58 AM

            Of course, we've heard of adultery. Haven't we all after Democratic President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his adultery with a White House intern?

    • Posted By: jeremiah256 @ 08/22/2008 6:10:25 PM

      Comment: It was a huge tactical move by Obama to start this housing subject. McCain is a politician who smartly kicked his first wife to the curb after her accident and married a multi-miilionaire.

      There, fixed it for you. No thanks necessary.

  • Posted By: Frank56 @ 09/07/2008 8:42:29 AM

    Newsweek, don't forget to mention where Rezko got the money from to purchase that land so Obama could get his deal. He received a wire transfer from Nahmed Auchi just before he transacted the land deal. That's why Mr. Rezko's bond was revoked. Nahmed Auchi was already convicted of corruption in France and the FBI believes that Mr. Auchi was Saddam Hussein's money launderer. It's really so comforting to see just how biased the mainstream media is. So much for professional journalism.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 5:55:31 PM


    PART 1 of 2 - BARACK OBAMAs FRIEND: Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist, former PLO terrorist)

    Obamas relationship with Rashid Khalidi goes beyond conversation. According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the University. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.

    Sources at the university told World Net Daily (WND) that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.

    Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful Fundraiser for Obamas failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.

    As WND reported, an ANTI-ISRAEL Arab group run by Khalidi's wife, Mona, received crucial funding from a Chicago nonprofit, the Woods Fund, for which Obama served as a board member with William Ayers (the notorious terrorist from infamous Weather Underground (VIDEO).
    .
    In 2001, the Woods Fund, which describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to Khalidis Arab American Action Network, or AAAN. The fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

    Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an ANTI-ISRAEL line.
    The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, The Subject of Palestine, that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the Nakba or catastrophe of Israels founding in 1948.

    When Khalidi departed the University of Chicago in 2003, Obama delivered an in-person testimonial at a farewell ceremony reminiscing about conversations over meals prepared by Mona Khalidi.

    According to a Los Angeles Times account, Obama said his talks with the Khalidis served as consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. It is for that reason that I am hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation ??? a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashids dinner table, but around THIS ENTIRE WORLD.

    (Continued from another of my Posts below)

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 5:54:11 PM



    (Continued from another of my Posts above)

    PART 2 of 2 - BARACK OBAMAs Friend Rashid Khalidi (Palestinian Activist)
    Khalidis farewell dinner was replete with ANTI-ISRAEL speakers. One, a young Palestinian American, recited a poem in Obamas presence that accused the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticized U.S. support of Israel, the Times reported: Another speaker, who reportedly talked while Obama was present, compared ZIONIST SETTLERS ON THE WEST BANK to Osama bin Laden.

    ISRAEL A CONSTANT SORE.

    Just last week, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a "constant sore" in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the Palestinian question a RUNNING SORE.

    In his piece, Palestine: Liberation Deferred, Khalidi suggests Israel carried out ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israels establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authoritys stated acceptance of a Palestinian state ONLY in the WEST BANK, GAZA STRIP and EASTERN SECTIONS OF JERUSALEM; and argues ISRAEL SHOULD BE DISSOLVED and instead a bi-national, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.

    During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an apartheid system in creation and a destructive RACIST state. He has multiple times implied support for Palestinian TERROR, calling SUICIDE BOMBINGS A RESPONSE TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION. He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to those who gave their lives in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.

    Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism and claim the dedication is in reference to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which at that time committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist group SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.

    Speaking in a joint interview with WND and WABC radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama. I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician, Khalidi stated.
    Khalidi said he supports OBAMA for president, because he is the only candidate who has EXPRESSED SYMPATHY FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE.

    Khalidi also LAUDED OBAMA FOR SAYING HE SUPPORTS TALKS WITH IRAN. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it cannot talk with the Iranians. Asked about Obamas role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago. He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama. (WONDER WHY?).

    SOURCE: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65108

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 5:49:26 PM


    Do you (really) know enough about Obama . . ? Do you NOT want to know?

    Here are The Facts:


    OBAMAS RELATIONSHIPS STEMMING FROM HIS DIRECTORSHIP OF THE WOODS FUND:

    1. WILLIAM (BILL) AYERS - An admittedly unapologetic Washington D.C. terrorist whom Obama worked with on the Board of Directors for 8 years. Both the Ayers and Obama families were socially connected outside of work (Michelle also worked with Ayers wife - see 2 below) - FRIENDS

    2. BERNADINE DOHRN - An admittedly unapologetic Washington D.C. terrorist, wife of Bill Ayers; she and Bill hosted fundraiser for Obama; Dohrn worked with Michelle in the same Law Firm. Both families associated with each other socially - FRIENDS

    3. Woods Funds Investments has had ASSOCIATIONS WITH RADICAL ANTI-ISRAEL ORGANIZATIONS (the clients that Obama and Ayers had thru Woods Fund),

    * Arab American Action Network (AAAN): Supports expanded rights for illegal aliens... [and was] founded by anti-Israel professor RASHID KHALIDI, former director of the PLO press agency and onetime moderator of PLO advisory committee. Rashid and families were friends and interacted socially.

    Read the story of Rashids close connection to Obama :

    Among the current luminaries of AAANs STAFF ARE: (a) Vice President Ali Abunimah, who maintains the website ElectroicIntifada.com and is a Board member of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center; and (b) Executive Director Hatem Abudayyeh, who has CONDEMNED THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND ITS MILITARY KILLING MACHINE.

    * American Friends Service Committee (AFSC): a Radical Quaker organization that supports Americas unilateral disarmament [and that BACKED] THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS, POL POT, FIDEL CASTRO, AND THE PLO.

    In fact, AFSC recently formed a partnership with MEChA. MEChA is one of several groups that INTEND TO RECLAIM AZTLÁN (the southwestern portion of the United States).

    * Midwest Academy: [A] training organization that TEACHES RADICAL ACTIVISTS TACTICS of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.

    Read the entire article: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/03/obamas-problematic-directorship-woods.html

  • Posted By: trini @ 08/29/2008 12:52:29 PM

    Is plain ready on day one?

    • Posted By: Rocky2001 @ 09/05/2008 4:08:32 PM

      Is Barry?

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 09/05/2008 5:06:42 PM



        Yes, I agree. . . that is the more important question. HE would be the HEARTBEAT. . . and SHE would be the HEARTBEAT AWAY.

  • Posted By: TruthnPolitics @ 08/27/2008 5:25:32 PM

    It is no secret that Factcheck is a tool for the Obama campaign. Obama wrote letters to government agencies so Rezko could get loans for his projects. This was Obama's way of paying back Rezko for financing his run for State Senate and U.S. senate. Obama asked Rezko for help in buying a house he could not afford. McCain exposed Charles Keating's dealings which resulted in Keating being arrested. A very big difference between Keanting and Rezko. As far as McCain owning several houses, I think that's great. Success is the American dream. Being successful ishould be applauded, not condemned.

    • Posted By: raddave @ 09/02/2008 2:00:08 PM

      McCain did not expose Keating's dealings. It is funny when an organization shows something favorable for Obama, it is in the tank for him.

  • Posted By: TruthnPolitics @ 08/27/2008 5:39:41 PM

    Obama is a disgusting human being who has voted three times for infanticide. This is on the state senate record, but they still deny he did. He also voted to release sex offenders early from jail. He was the only YES vote for early release. See "Obama's Twisted Mind-Obama's sick voting record". on the internet. Also see "Obama voted Infanticide-Living babies thrown into waste bins". Obama is one sick individual, and should not be President. Look at his sick friends, William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, and others. Obama is not a christian as his church doesn't preach christian beliefs. They preach hate of America, hate of whites, and hate of jews. Their beliefs are more inline with Islam.

    • Posted By: raddave @ 09/02/2008 1:55:34 PM

      the lie about Obama supporting infanticide has been debunked. http://mediamatters.org/items/200808220022?f=s_search
      Obama's church does not preach hate of whites or Jews and one could argue that Rev. Wright did not preach a hatred of America, only what he perceives are its racist policies.

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 08/25/2008 12:26:51 PM

    The Obama Five: Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, Odinga and Ayers

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 08/29/2008 12:04:47 AM


      . . . and Bernadine Ayers (Ayers wife and fellow Washington terrorist bomber); Rashid Khalidi (Palestine advisor, PLO terrorist);

  • Posted By: waiting4change @ 08/28/2008 1:03:02 PM

    THE TRUTH ABOUT MCCAIN:

    A lot of people are familiar with S&L crook Charles Keating's illegal contributions to John McCain in the 1980s. What most don't know, however, was that Keating was implicated in the BCCI takeover of a number of S&Ls, including his own. With me, so far?
    Carl Lindner, an Ohio billionaire with CIA and underworld connections who owned Chiquita Bananas, was Charles Keating's original partner, banker, and mentor. Lindner got Keating wrapped up with schemes involving the usual cast of BCCI characters, shady Saudi bankers, the Bush family, and Iran-Contra money laundering. Keating was always a sort of pass-through guy, without any real money of his own. But, a lot of money flowed through Keating to McCain and his wife, Cindy, in an Arizona real estate scam. Lindner who was recently convicted of financing Right-wing death squads in Colombia, is still giving big, dirty campaign checks to McCain. Now, that's a story that the American people need to hear.
    The public should get a view into the background of Lindner, Keating and McCain, which essentially boils down to big Mafia money that has flowed into the GOP and various extreme Rightist groups around the world since Meyer Lansky made a deal with the Republicans in the mid-1940s. John McCain got onto the mob pad because he was willing to do business, and Cindy's father was a long-time wise guy in the Bronfman-Marley liquor racket. In exchange for their legalized gambling and liquor concessions, Top Bosses Lansky and Giancana straightened up the mob's image in the southwest, in exchange the GOP (along with elements of the CIA) got a piece of the action.

  • Posted By: waiting4change @ 08/28/2008 1:01:59 PM

    THE TRUTH ABOUT MCCAIN:

    A lot of people are familiar with S&L crook Charles Keating's illegal contributions to John McCain in the 1980s. What most don't know, however, was that Keating was implicated in the BCCI takeover of a number of S&Ls, including his own. With me, so far?
    Carl Lindner, an Ohio billionaire with CIA and underworld connections who owned Chiquita Bananas, was Charles Keating's original partner, banker, and mentor. Lindner got Keating wrapped up with schemes involving the usual cast of BCCI characters, shady Saudi bankers, the Bush family, and Iran-Contra money laundering. Keating was always a sort of pass-through guy, without any real money of his own. But, a lot of money flowed through Keating to McCain and his wife, Cindy, in an Arizona real estate scam. Lindner who was recently convicted of financing Right-wing death squads in Colombia, is still giving big, dirty campaign checks to McCain. Now, that's a story that the American people need to hear.
    The public should get a view into the background of Lindner, Keating and McCain, which essentially boils down to big Mafia money that has flowed into the GOP and various extreme Rightist groups around the world since Meyer Lansky made a deal with the Republicans in the mid-1940s. John McCain got onto the mob pad because he was willing to do business, and Cindy's father was a long-time wise guy in the Bronfman-Marley liquor racket. In exchange for their legalized gambling and liquor concessions, Top Bosses Lansky and Giancana straightened up the mob's image in the southwest, in exchange the GOP (along with elements of the CIA) got a piece of the action.

  • Posted By: GTX13 @ 08/28/2008 11:34:28 AM

    ...Before we spot the Obama's corruption of Chicago Mafia, our question remain the other one first: Is Obama legally qualified for this job ?!...
    Obama's birth certificate is a forge document, done by the Obama's KGB bodyguards and a disintegrated and dieing DNC. If anybody is interested to know the truth about this question, please open the site: www.hcsfjm.com
    So, everybody, including NBC and CNN, does know Barack Hussein Obama was born Muslim, outside of US territory and his real birth's certificate is kept out of public sight, in order to be stolen the US Presidency by an impostor Muslim, a puppet of our enemies.
    Regarding the financing, all mass media has revealed the multimillion financing campaign was a result of a massive plot and conspiring of Russian KGB, anti American Muslim forces and a Nazi-Communist hybrid as George Sorros. Wake Up, Americans !!!

  • Posted By: themick752 @ 08/27/2008 8:39:06 AM

    How is Obama's relationship with Rezko any different than McCain's relationship with Charles Keating who was jailed in the Savings and Loan scandal that cost taxpayers $116 Billion and caused ordinary people to lose their life savings? Keating was a buddy of McCain's and donated over $100,000 to his senatorial campaign. McCain was one of the Keating 5 and was in up to his neck in this horrendous scandal.

  • Posted By: dorfy @ 08/25/2008 6:04:32 PM

    McCain better watch it - his hands aren't exactly clean regarding some ofhis own dealings - like the S & L climate in the 1980's and the Keating 5. He travelled extensively with Keating and some of the others close to him - trips to the Bahamas I believe? Lots of folks are too young to recall this period, but believe me - McCain was right in the midst of it.

    Obama may have on expensive house in Chicago - but McCain has SEVEN HOUSES, many much more expensive than Obama's. And - none of them are his, aas all are claimed in his wife's financials. Married to a beer heiress, McCain can hardly say he's had to work hard to create his lifestyle.

    What a joke. Yu can really tell the McCain campaign is slinging mud any direction they can. Tasteless. Targeted to dumb down the public.

    This is the "issues oriented" campaign McCan promised? Not hardly. He's just another cranky old guy trying to win like all the others before him - with deception, deceit, and playing on fears just like GW Bush did. Just like Bush. Just like Bush.

  • Posted By: user7 @ 08/25/2008 11:02:38 AM

    hope mccain keeps pouring it on, obamahama's association with the underground is not what we need in the white house, keep obama in the only house he owns, bought with an indicted felon, rezko

  • Posted By: mariadcruze @ 08/25/2008 10:21:35 AM

    pumas are fisty *** To holly rider you seem to be one racist bitch. If mcain get elected i hope you loose you job and i hope the economy will get even worse. The job market is soo tight right now and you people still want to vote for the old looser.
    obama 08,12

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