The Patriot Perspective – Mark Alexander
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.” –Thomas Jefferson
Clinton: Down but not out
Hillary’s silver bullets
By Mark Alexander
In my last essay, “What dogs hear,” about Barack Obama’s surging political fortunes from meaningless rhetorical tripe, I noted, “Reports of Hillary Clinton’s defeat have been greatly exaggerated. NEVER underestimate the Clintons.”
Indeed, after a week of playing victim, the beleaguered damsel in distress mustered enough female voters to pull off wins in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
Including pledged so-called super delegates, Obama now has 1,567 delegates to Clinton’s 1,462. For Obama to claim the Demo nomination, he would need to win 458 of the remaining 611 delegates, while Clinton would need 563. Neither scenario is likely, which means that the nominee will instead be brokered by the remaining 346 uncommitted super delegates, most likely at the Demo convention in late August.
If all those numbers confuse you, just remember that Obama’s is the “yes we can” campaign and Clinton’s is the “yes we will” campaign-and that “we will” trumps “we can.”
Despite Obama’s lead, the Clintons are master dealmakers, which is to say, I still believe Hillary Clinton will be the Democrat nominee when the convention dust settles. In her mind, she has already spent eight years as Vice President (Gore was a mere straw man), and she simply won’t subject herself to the lesser half of an Obama-Clinton ticket.
The last time Democrats went to the convention looking for a nominee, it was Jimmy Carter v. Teddy Kennedy. However, that was somewhat amicable compared to the assault Clinton is now preparing against Obama.
Clinton, though, knows that the Democrats can’t afford another bloodbath like the 1968 convention, so she needs to take Obama out before then. She also knows that the campaign is going to get very ugly in the next three months, so putting Obama on the bottom of her ticket may not be an option. Clinton must therefore dispense with Obama, with prejudice, so she can choose her own veep, (say, former general, Wes Clark).
How will she do it?
For starters, she’ll claim to be the legitimate victor, but for being robbed of hundreds of delegates from her faux victories in Florida and Michigan. (Notably, Obama was not on the Michigan ballot).
The Democrat National Committee has stripped all 350 delegates from those two states as punishment for having moved their primaries ahead of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, which the DNC had decreed were the only four states that could hold their contests prior to 5 February, a.k.a. “Super Tuesday.”
Demos in Florida and Michigan are now asking for a do-over, to which DNC Chairman Screamin’ Howard Dean has responded, “The Democratic nominee will be determined in accordance with party rules, and out of respect for the presidential campaigns and the states that did not violate party rules, we are not going to change the rules in the middle of the game.”
Translation: Yes, Clinton won, but this is a “top-down” Party, and as duly instructed by Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, we are backing Obama.
Clinton fired back, “I’d like to see [the Florida delegates] counted because I think that’s in the best interests of the Democratic Party and our eventual victory in November.” That’s the Clintons-always putting the party first.
Second, after claiming to be the real victor, she will hang Antoin “Tony” Rezko around Obama’s neck, and throw them both overboard.
“Tony who?” you ask.
Rezko (a.k.a. “Tony the Obamanator”) is Obama’s Chicago fundraising patriarch, a “fixer” who was indicted in January on fraud, various extortion charges and money laundering for an Iraqi billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, whom military analysts describe as one of Saddam’s bagmen. (No wonder Obama opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom.)
Rezko was jailed after being indicted, not because of a risk of flight, but for his own safety. Given the history of high-profile defendants in federal racketeering cases in Chicago, he would likely not survive outside of his solitary cell. (For the record, Rezko is not Italian, he is a Syrian immigrant.)
Chicago politics hasn’t changed much since the reign of one Alphonse Gabriel Capone, whose legacy of organized crime is thriving today under the safeguard of the current Demo boss, Mayor Richard M. Daley. He, and his father, the late Richard J. Daley, have ruled Chicago with an iron fist for more than 40 years.
While Obama has yet to be directly implicated in any of Rezko’s mischief, their relationship demands far greater scrutiny than a fawning mainstream media has so far given it.
After Rezko’s indictment, Obama returned $150,000 to Rezko associates, and donated $72,650 to charity, an amount equal to Rezko’s contributions to Obama’s campaign. This is a phony gesture usually reserved for anonymous campaign donors who show up on police blotters. But Obama and Rezko have been friends for 15 years, and Rezko “raised” a lot of graft for Obama’s first congressional campaign.
Obama says he did not end his relationship with Rezko until recently because “there was no evidence of wrongdoing.”
For the record, Obama went to Harvard Law School, was elected Harvard Law Review’s first black president in its 104-year history, and completed his J.D. degree magna cum laude. I am confident, therefore, that Obama has the perspicacity to realize that his friend was a gangster.
However, their relationship goes well beyond politics, and that is why Clinton has Obama by the, uh, has him cornered.
According to The Economist, “Mr. Rezko helped [Obama] buy his home in Chicago in 2005. The seller would close the deal on Mr. Obama’s house only if the adjacent empty lot was sold on the same day. In June 2005 Mr. Obama bought his home for $1.65 million, $300,000 less than the asking price, and Mr. Rezko’s wife bought the adjacent lot.”
Obama’s Georgian mansion on Chicago’s south side and the adjacent lot were originally one parcel, but the owner divided it into two. You guessed it-the adjacent lot was purchased by Rezko for the full $625,000 asking price, about $300,000 above market value. (I know, given Obama’s rhetoric, you thought he lived in a government housing project and commuted by mass transit.)
In other words, Rezko subsidized Obama’s discount with the purchase of the adjacent lot. Notably, Rezko’s lot purchase coincides with receipt of a “loan” from his Iraqi friend, Auchi.
Rezko’s trial began Monday, and his relationship with Obama will be a hot topic for as long as the trial lasts. Of course, Hillary will have to let the Leftmedia do her billing, and withhold any direct accusations, lest Obama will have time to resurrect the Clinton’s association with Jim and Susan McDougal and their Whitewater real estate “deal.” Of course, we previously published a photo of the Clintons with Rezko.
Clinton has a pocket full of additional silver bullets. The remainder of this campaign will be interesting.
Quote of the week
“These Clintons are like cockroaches. They’ll be the last thing left after a nuclear blast.” -Rush Limbaugh
On cross-examination
“The first rule of politics is, ‘Never count out the Clintons.’ Their political conglomerate, Clinton Inc., is like Glenn Close in that bathtub scene in the movie ‘Fatal Attraction.’ It always comes back to life a second or third time.” –Pittsburgh Tribune’s Salena Zito
Open query
“There are many questions… about [Obama’s] relationship with indicted political fixer Tony Rezko… What was the exact nature of his relationship with Mr. Rezko?… How much money did Mr. Rezko bundle for him?… What favors did Sen. Obama perform for Mr. Rezko?” -Clinton campaign spokesman Howard “The Hatchet” Wolfson
This week’s ‘Braying Jackass’ award
“We say; we hope; we believe-yes we can.” -wisdom from Barack Hussein al-Obama
This week’s ‘Braying Jenny’ award
“We f***ed up in Ohio. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it… She is a monster, too-that is off the record-she is stooping to anything. It looks like desperation. You just look at her and think, ‘Ergh’… The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.” -Obama’s foreign policy advisor Samantha Power
CULTURE
Faith and Family: Cherry-picking theology
Anxious to justify his pro-homosexual position, Barack Obama invoked Scripture to back his support for same-sex unions. Stumping in Ohio last weekend, Obama theologized, “I think that [a same-sex union] is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial, then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”
Perhaps Obama refers to the “do not judge” command of Jesus. Liberals love to interpret that phrase to mean that morals don’t exist. Meanwhile, the “obscure passage” from Romans 1 talks of wicked men who “although they claimed to be wise… became fools,” and whom God “gave… over to shameful lusts… the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men…” Such men “are without excuse.” Similar teaching appears in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 1 Timothy 1:9-10 and Jude 7, not to mention Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. Hardly “obscure.”
Obama claims his position is his own view in his own mind. In this, he is correct. His selective Christianity may appease his own conscience, but as musician Michael Card once wrote, when we make God in our image, our faith is idolatry.
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Tagged: Antoin “Tony” Rezko, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Democrats, Harvard Law School, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, idolatry, indecent acts, Richard M. Daley.
confuseddemocrat
Sun 03/23/2008
The Clinton’s are named defendants in a Civil Fraud Case connected to Campaign Finance irregularities and have not disclosed the appeal of the case. There will be a trial date set at a hearing on April 25th, just 3 days after the key Pennsylvania Primary for the Fraud Case Paul v. Clinton in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Plaintiff says he will call Gov Rendell will be a witness in the case. He probably should not be raising funds for Michigan until he has answered questions about this 2000 Clinton Fundraiser. From what I understand, this case began when prior to Sen. Clinton’s 2000 New York Senate campaign and also raised donations for Pres. Clinton’s Library.
We don’t know the Clinton’s side of the story because they have not disclosed this. But Peter Paul tells his side of the story on Video.
Just Google: “Hillary Uncensored”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019
Los Angeles Superior Court of Appeals: http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org
Then click on Civil Case Summaries and enter case number to see case history.
Case Number: BC304174
Los Angeles Superior Court Public Information Office at (213) 974-5227.
The GOP has utilized the services of a 527 Citizen’s United to produce a 90 Minute Movie they are already showing to defeat her in the Fall if she wins the nomination. The GOP uses her Fraud Case in their movie as one of many reasons she should not be President.
This is the Movie that the Citizens United has created for the GOP to for the fall.
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_PEHskBuQg
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_SfPvtY-s
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog6WBL7jog
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqlYlTxnUdE
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9hXf5yckbY
6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKftVPA85jI
7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCQOgTKtNhA
8) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRHPrjf4h6g
9) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-5MrOrqPE
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Amish Patel
Mon 03/10/2008
This democratic nomination battle us turning out to be such a fight. I sincerely hope that the “loser” gets signed on as the VP candidate.
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USpace
Sat 03/08/2008
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Firing Powers was a mistake, Obama has shown himself to be subservient to the PIAPS.
Great post. Obama’s aide was right. Hillary is a monster. Of course not the same kind of monster as Hitler, Mao or Stalin, but a monster nonetheless.
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
don’t call monsters monsters
never expose their evil
never upset a monster
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
claim to care for people
call yourself progressive
your policies hurt poor folk
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
elect women presidents
who cover for their husbands
who rape other women
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if you’re MAD
punish your country
VOTE for Hillary
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http://www.hillaryproject.com/
Go here and watch ‘The Hillary Show’ with Howard Dean. It’s Hillarious!
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http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
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Susan
Sat 03/08/2008
HRC: Travelgate, Filegate, Pardongate, Troopergate, Whitewater, Cattle Futures, Ponzi schemer Norman Hsu, Chinese dishwashers Gennifer Flowers, Zoë Baird, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Impeachment to name a few.
Oh and death of Vince Foster????
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Grace
Sat 03/08/2008
The interesting part in all this is Jones, the Kingmaker, in the Illinois State Senate who yanked the most high-profile potential bills from other Illinois lawmakers and put Obama’s name on them.
And, Obama went along with the ruse – which is dishonest by any account. gw.
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