Illinois Govenor Who Suspends State Business With B of A Taken Into Federal Custody , page 16

Originally posted by precociousmonkey

Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by mybigunit

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MYbig it is not the bank thing, Blago has been under investigation and connected to Rezko, Obama's pal.

I have been watching and following this for quite a while

And that s not all Michelle Obama has been fingered in this conspiracy as well.

www.noquarterusa.net...

Not a surprise ,I knew her connection months ago.

Why now?

Why after the election?

reply to post by BlackOps719

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Exactly! If you read the FBI transcript, The Governor says that if Obama
doesn't give him/his wife a plumb job, he will retaliate by naming
Jesse Jackson, Jr. to fill Obama's empty Senate seat. Jesse Jackson
senior was filmed on FOX news (during a break) stating in an animated
manner that he would like to cut off Obama's private parts. Naming
Jesse Jackson's son, Jesse junior, to fill the seat would be the ultimate
slap in the face to President Obama.

Listen to Chicago Talk Radio for an earful!
www.wlsam.com...

-cwm

WOW!!! ABC isn't buying Obama's version either

But there remain questions about how Blagojevich knew that Mr. Obama was not willing to give him anything in exchange for the Senate seat -- with whom was Blagojevich speaking? Did that person report the governor to the authorities?

Do follow the link and read the whole article - it's another bombshell of info

reply to post by carewemust

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The bad blood there has been obvious and has been documented.


Jessie is washed up, he is all but irrelavant now. What better way to get Jackson Sr. back than to politically destroy his son's hope of ever serving in any facet of government.

Politicians don't attack physically, they hit you below the belt and destroy your name forever.

Wasnt hard to put 2 and 2 together.

reply to post by mybigunit

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The tone of this post makes me give up. The slogan of ATS is "deny ignorance." The sig of the person who posted this is "Don't be a sheeple." And yet, even the poster commits a classic non sequitur.

If people are going to hold this jackass up as a folk hero because he took a stand the day before the hammer fell on him, I give up. Live in fear and ignorance, everyone. It's what "they" want. If this makes you fear B of A, you'll ignore that Blago was selling a Senatorial seat. Not just a senator taking money this time, but people like Jesse Jackson Jr. offering $500k-$1m USD for a public office.

I'll give some folks a little slack if they're not from Illinois, and haven't been following the ongoing Blago saga. But for you to make an argument based on that is another logical fallacy: argumentum ad ignorantiam, or argument from ignorance. It's of the same class as, but a little more complicated than, "I don't believe that evolution is real, therefore it's not real." More like: "I don't know anything about Blagojevich's past record, but I do know he was arrested a day after he said Illinois would never do business with Bank of America, therefore he was arrested for standing up to the Bank of America."

Argumentum ad ignorantiam is an argument based on IGNORANCE! DENY IGNORANCE!!! At the very least, look at his budget cuts; they're almost always in districts of representatives he doesn't like. Since I work in the newspaper business, it really burned my hash that he attempted to get the members of the Chicago Tribune staff who were openly critical of him fired.

Google is your friend. Even Illinois Democrats scratch their heads over his methods and motives.

I mean, the guy tried getting campaign funds in exchange for the state fulfilling its financial obligations. He tried to stiff a children's hospital that way. The TV show Prison Break was filmed in the Joliet prison, which was vacant because he attempted to balance the budget by shutting down state parks and shutting down prisons--including one which wasn't even constructed yet--but despite that, and despite a lack of funding to cover Medicaid expenses and even cover the State Police's gasoline vouchers(!) he was going to raise taxes for a universal healthcare plan. He can't pay his current state employees, is cutting employees left and right, but he's going to take a stand against B of A because they won't extend credit to some Chicago factory so they can make payroll?

Any Libertarians wish to comment on this? Here you have a State government official threaten to use the state's business ties to force a bank to lend more money to a debt-ridden company that will likely shut down next month. Where are the people righteously indignant against government introducing inefficiency through government intervention?

And is no one aware of the political tool known as an empty threat? He issues 'em all the time.

A folk hero he isn't. An asshole, maybe, but not a folk hero. He's damn lucky it was the Feds and not a lynch mob. His approval rating is about half that of Bush's.

Details from Rod Blagojevich's 74-page affadavit

Having said that, I've been waiting for the Blago/Rezko thing to blow up in Obama's face. I'm only surprised it didn't happen during the election.


[edit on 10-12-2008 by regeya]

[edit on 10-12-2008 by regeya]

reply to post by redhatty

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It's amazing How quick the President elect can back peddle isnt it? How long do you think it took him to get to everybody and get their story straight before coming to the press and saying "I have no Idea what you are talking about, I havent spoken to that man for years"

Originally posted by redhatty
WOW!!! ABC isn't buying Obama's version either

But there remain questions about how Blagojevich knew that Mr. Obama was not willing to give him anything in exchange for the Senate seat -- with whom was Blagojevich speaking? Did that person report the governor to the authorities?

Do follow the link and read the whole article - it's another bombshell of info

WOW,

You know there are just so many times you can say I didn't know, and suddenly people wise up.

reply to post by regeya

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Thank you for enlightening, I had no Idea what happened with the BOA issue I just learned about this, this morning (Texas) I usually get my news from morning talk radio and what I can dig up on the internet.

reply to post by Stormdancer777

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But my BIG question is WHY??? WHY wait until AFTER the election to look deeply into this man's (and his wife's) past. How much more effective the MSM would have, could have been to look into this BEFORE the Election!

At least people who were SCREAMING OUT about Obama's "alleged" involvement in/connections to Illinois corruption are being justified, even though they were scorned just a few weeks ago.

reply to post by Stormdancer777

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well we might find out what that number is, but I dont think it will be this year. truth of the matter is there are to many peole who love the idea of the first black president and dont understand competancy has to go along with the job as well.

reply to post by redhatty

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people looked they just chose to look the other way once they found out.

Sorry I feel a little melancholy,

Rev Wright Damned her,

We the people deserve better.

whether black or white, rich or poor, democrat or republican, God Bless us once more, we are in a mess.

www.youtube.com...

Originally posted by poet1b

The only evidence I have seen that the gov is acutally guilty are quotes from supposedly private conversations, that shouldn't have been broadcast to the public, which could mean a great many things, being touted as proof of crime, which it is not.

They are quotes from Federal Wiretaps that were legally installed during the investigation of Blago. Come on, now, they come from the criminal indictment

You all may or may not have noticed that past news articles are mysteriously vanishing off the net.. Many of us are having to go to Blogs to get information that was ONCE in online news papers... Here is a VERY interesting one..read all the way down..

Obama bribes Blagojevich to appoint his pick for Senate seat in Illinois

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