Exactly who is running Obama's campaign? Let's take a peek....

[jlake]

Penny Pritzker is Obama's campaign finance manager.

Multi Billionaire. Responsible for the Subprime Mortgage crisis. CONTROLS one of the main credit bureaus in the US.

"Penny Pritzker is an American billionaire (net worth $2.8 billion USD), the granddaughter of Abram Nicholas Pritzker and the niece of Jay Pritzker. She is the Founder/Chairman/CEO of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a luxury senior living communites spread throughtout the United States.

She is ranked 135th on the 2007 Forbes list of richest Americans. She has sat on Harvard's Board of Overseers since 2002, and is active in numerous philanthropic and civic endeavors, including Chicago's Millennium Park. She has also developed a Chicago skyscraper, been president of commercial and residential real estate firms, and served as chairman for a major credit-reporting company. Currently, she is the national finance chairwoman of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

On Febraury 20, 2008, Flashpoints Radio produced an investigative report segment into how Penny Pritzker, the 2008 campaign finance chairman for Barack Obama, was a key mover and shaker in creating the current predatory lending (aka. sub-prime) crisis. According to bank scandal investigative reporter Tim Anderson, Superior Bank, FSB of Hinsdale, Illinois, which was owned by the Pritzker family and overseen by Penny Pritzker until closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named Receiver. Superior Bank developed the original mortgage securitation package, putting mortgages into a bond and then selling the bond. Along with Merrill Lynch and their accountants at Ernst & Young LLP began the process of turning the American Dream into the American Nightmare for millions of low and middle income Americans."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Pritzker & http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/11/CDNP.html

So one of the wealthiest people in the world, who helped *create* the subprime mortgage crisis is his campaign finance manager.
Yes, he is a man of the people who shuns big money.

GET REAL!

[Dawgs]

1. Jealous?

[Redstone]

38. Ooh. that's a HARD reply. And a perfect one.

Redstone

[jlake]

56. Siding with Billionaire robber barons....there you go!

[Redstone]

60. As you wish. Consider me properly humbled.

Redstone

[greguganus]

70. Where were all the "one-liners" you said Hillary would throw at Obama in the debate?n/t

I remember you saying, "You'll see". Guess she didn't get your list. :shrug:

[jlake]

89. She nailed the one about the pillow.

[hogwyld]

119. Oh yeah, that made her look/sound presidential

NOT!

[peaches2003]

124. You didn't hear the boos from the audience?

And the criticism all day today? She cannot deliver a one-liner written for her to say. Doesn't have the timing nor the sense of humor to get away with it.

[jlake]

133. Yeah, the Obamabots are typically loutish like that.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

136. "a grassroots campaign versus a big money campaign."

The Contrast in Donors - "..a grassroots campaign versus a big money campaign."

Follow the Money–2008 Presidential Campaign Finance, February Edition

Ralph Brauer at The Strange Death of Liberal America.

[Labors of Hercules]

116. If I could get a Multibillionaire to manage my campaign finances...

I'd jump all over it in a heartbeat.

And how ludicrous is it to say any one person is "Responsible for the Subprime Mortgage crisis"? :wtf: Somebody needs to take their reality pill.

[earth mom]

50. ROFLMAO! Obama is a DINO rethuglican-who in the HELL would be jealous of that?

Not only that but he's buddies with a slum lord!

Your post is ridiculous & sickening at the same time!

:rofl: + :puke:

[jlake]

134. No, if I seeked big money influence I would be a Republican

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Who's running Clinton's campaign?

Some sort of former FEMA executive?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Heckofa job, Marky.

What a fuckin' genius he is... :rofl:

This would be Mark Penn, the guy who's taken millions from the Clinton campaign to run it right into the ditch. The guy who's been the PR flack for Union Carbide and Blackwater. He isn't poor, folks.

[jlake]

9. Yes, because we should all value the super rich more than average folks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Mark Penn is average folk?

Now I've heard everything.

[jlake]

15. Compared to Penny - abso-fucking-lutely.

She owns the Hyatt Hotels, Carnival cruise lines, TransUnion and banks and mortgage companies....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. But she doesn't pimp for Blackwater and Phillip Morris.

She's rich but not so slimy rich as that slug Penn.

[jlake]

26. Um.... She has almost 3 BILLION Dollars - made in large part from predatory loans.

not representing people making the loans - FROM MAKING THEM HERSELF.

[Yurovsky]

37. At least she didn't vote for the war... n/m

n/m

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

142. Ah, more satire from jlake. n/t

[Window]

46. ROTFL!

FEMA

:rofl: :rofl:

[donheld]

63. "Who's running Clinton's campaign?" Lucy and Ethel

[Tesha]

138. No kidding!

[maddiejoan]

3. I believe her friends call her

Penny Daahhhhhhhling.

[x-g.o.p.er]

5. She's a damn site better than Mark Penn so far

Who's probably not a pauper, either.

And do the people who got themselves in over their heads by buying a house they knew they probably couldn't afford bear any of the burden in this freakin' mess, or is it all the fault of the banks and lending companies?

[jlake]

6. That talking points makes you sound like you should drop the "x" from your name.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Hmm.

So people who attack the strategists of Democratic candidates are GOPers? Is that what you're trying to say?

[jlake]

18. People who think that everyone who is involved in a subprime loan is to blame

are usually not Democrats.
That is siding with corporations over common folks.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. Oh my.

Well thanks, at least, for confessing.

I think I may have to bookmark that response.

[rodeodance]

30. yes. they are. AND recall the FEDS pumped B$$ into banks--

[x-g.o.p.er]

33. No, it's siding with being responsible

and being accountable, and being a decent frickin' citizen.

The people that intentionally got in over their heads because they gambled that their mortgages wouldn't go up were fools, and those of us that pay our bills and don't bite off more than we can chew will pay for their foolishness.

The value of my home has dropped, and housing sales are in the tank because of this subprime mess. I'm in the military, so if I get orders and have to move, the chance of me being able to sell my house to break even is pretty low, meaning I'll have to either sell my house for a big loss, spend money to give to a realty agency to oversee the house and find renters that won't trash the home, or leave the house vacant and move into another home at my next duty station and have a mortgage AND a rent or mortgage payment there, as well.

[apocalypsehow]

36. That post is one of the dumbest things I've ever read on the internet.

n/t

[Cant trust em]

45. that really says something

posts like that are so concerned with not sounding like a republican that they'd sacrifice reality.

[x-g.o.p.er]

16. So personal resonsibility

doesn't play a factor here?

Look, some people genuinely got screwed. But a lot of people bit off more than they could chew, and the lending companies let them. There's plenty of blame to go around, and it's not all at the hands of the mortgage companies.

[Alexander]

25. Like you're one to talk. You said you'll vote for McCain.

Thankfully we only have to endure another week of your bullshit.

[emilyg]

28. Hee-Hee.

[Binka]

80. Oh Jesus Such Erudition

You might have to look that word up Emily as you sound pretty dense.

[jlake]

83. What's this - another elitist latte liberal?

[Binka]

92. Oh yes I am just a latte drinking Prius driving ELITE

I'm a fucking single mother with a six year old asshole. I am about as common as they come. I don't do latte's fucktard I have Folgers while I drive my kid to school and work 9 hours a day. So fuck off. The fact that I am educated and understand vocabulary does not make me some sort of "elitist" and the very fact that you would respond with RW BULLSHIT is very telling. Get lost ass carrot.

[jlake]

95. You're mocking someone that you perceive to be less educated than you.

[Binka]

97. So Fucking What She Is LESS Educated. Her Arguments Like Yours Are Fucking Stupid.

Got another point sport?

[jlake]

103. Good God. You're going on ignore too.

[Binka]

99. Before I put you on ignore because you are tedious, boring, trite, and just fucking off your rocker

I was not mocking. I was pointing out the obvious. Big dif.

[Cant trust em]

29. This is why we keep losing elections

We can't ignore that sometimes personal responsibility is a factor. When the GOP talks about it I roll my eyes, but if a Dem talks about it I know what they mean.

[LakeSamish706]

7. Instead of spending your time dumping on Obama, why don't you spend your time...

attempting to pick your sagging candidate up? The pain won't last much longer (only another week and it will be all over) so just take a few pain killers and sit back.

[Cant trust em]

14. because it's much more fun to be destructive

than constructive. I'm amazed that after this gruelingly long season people still have the desire to post the same crap they've been posting since before Iowa. Seems like there isn't any creative insight anymore.

[blogslut]

8. Mark Penn = Clinton/Charlie Black = McCain

Both work for Burson-Marsteller. Nuff said.

[Johnny__Motown]

11. Maybe Hillary should have hired him instead of her incompetent cronies

[MadBadger]

13. David Axelrod.

Kicking ass so far.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. And Hillary has Mark 'Blackwater' Penn.

Whose PR firm has also undertaken anti-union campaigns, and represents Countrywide Financial, which, with its exploitative and predatory lending practises, is a major player in the subprime lending fiasco. You don't really want to play this game. You'll lose. You should give up; you probably don't realise how badly you''re embarassing yourself.

[jlake]

23. Without Penny, Countrywide would have never happened.

[babylonsister]

34. And without Penn, Hillary 'might' be winning. nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. That just isn't true;

mortgages have been used as a basis for securities for decades. It didn't start with Superior Bank. You obviously a) don't actually know what you're talking about and b) are to lazy to do any research to attempt to verify your claims.

From Wikipedia (sourced partly from a Federal Reserve publication, the 'Asset Securitization Comptroller's Handbook', and partly from Deutsch Bank info):

"Asset securitization began with the structured financing of mortgage pools in the 1970s. For decades before that, banks were essentially portfolio lenders; they held loans until they matured or were paid off. These loans were funded principally by deposits, and sometimes by debt, which was a direct obligation of the bank (rather than a claim on specific assets). But after World War II, depository institutions simply could not keep pace with the rising demand for housing credit. Banks, as well as other financial intermediaries sensing a market opportunity, sought ways of increasing the sources of mortgage funding. To attract investors, investment bankers eventually developed an investment vehicle that isolated defined mortgage pools, segmented the credit risk, and structured the cash flows from the underlying loans. Although it took several years to develop efficient mortgage securitization structures, loan originators quickly realized the process was readily transferable to other types of loans as well."<4>

In February 1970, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development created the transaction using a mortgage-backed security. The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae) sold securities backed by a portfolio of mortgage loans. <10>

[babylonsister]

19. Yea, she's an unaccomplished anchor around his neck, all right~

where are your sour grapes coming from this evening? Could it be because she's been so successful at what she does?



http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/01/sweet_blog_scoop_penny_pritzke.html

Penny Pritzker named Obama national finance chair.

Sweet blog scoop.

Billionaire business mogul Penny Pritzker will be the national finance chairman of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Pritzker, a major Democratic donor and fundraiser, whose family founded Hyatt Hotels, heads up the massive fundraising effort Obama is launching to bankroll what may be one of the most expensive Democratic primary campaigns ever.

Obama's first major fundraiser of his quest for the White House will be on Feb. 11 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.


In the all important money primary, Obama is facing off with Hillary Clinton, who has an extensive national network of donors as well as the starpower of President Clinton to help her raise millions of dollars of campaign cash.

Pritzker was on the finance committee for Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign.

A member of one of Chicago’s wealthiest families, Pritzker is founder, chairman and CEO of Classic Residence by Hyatt.

She is also Vice Chairman of the Chicago Public Education Fund, a founding member of the Board of Young Women’s Leadership Charter School.

Pritzker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Real Estate Roundtable, the Urban Land Institute, the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Young Presidents' Organization, and the Chicago Network. She is a life trustee and former Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.

Pritzker earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University.

Pritzker was named one of Forbes most powerful women in 2005.

The Obama national campaign headquarters will be in Chicago.

[Blue-Jay]

21. The Pritzker family is very well-known for their philanthropy.

[jlake]

24. Most billionaires do. That doesn't lessen the fact that they have made their fortune

by harming the middle and lower classes.

[Blue-Jay]

32. Wrong again.

Look up Jay Pritzker. He started it all, and it wasn't by harming the middle and lower classes. Or you could just keep spouting desperate nonsense.

[tabatha]

48. It seems as though her brother (Jay?) is working for HRC.

[earth mom]

51. That is COLD COMFORT to those who have lost their homes!

Your post is a total :wtf: moment!

[Mojambo]

27. Nothing there that makes me shudder nearly as much as Mark Penn. n/t

[jlake]

31. Is Mark Penn responsible for 5 million American families losing their homes and

an eventual 22 trillion in charges that WILL be passed on to the US Government and taxpayers?

[WilliamPitt]

39. Well, judging from the quality of content revealed in all your other posts ever

I think the smart money's on "One dude didn't do this whole thing on his own."

Call it a mortal lock.

[x-g.o.p.er]

41. ROFL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[x-g.o.p.er]

40. Your view is heinously ignorant

Again, those 5 million heads of the households had nothing to do with it? They just got suckered in by "the man", and then got royally screwed?

[dysfunctional press]

98. 22 trillion??? whose ass did you pull that number out of?

:shrug:

[WilliamPitt]

35. "Responsible for the Subprime Mortgage crisis"

One guy?

Damn. I'll have what he's having. Make it a double.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. I have no doubt Ms. Pritzker was personally responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis.

And she did it single-handedly, probably while cackling evilly and saying something like, "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" Or maybe she ties fair maidens to the railroad tracks while twirling her moustache. And cackling evilly.

[dysfunctional press]

100. that must be how she really got to be a billionaire- all those commissions...

on those 5 million loan applicants that she personally wrote bad paper on.

[ginantonic40]

121. Especially since this banks trouble occured in 2001

and was shortly thereafter sold. Has the sub-prime mortgage crisis really been brewing since 2001!?

[jlake]

58. It's a woman - but yes, she was instrumental in it.

[zulchzulu]

111. I'd have somebody on my campaign if they were THAT powerful

To game the entire international banking and mortgage industry all by themselves in a den in the Hamptons is indeed impressive.

Hell, let's get him a gig at the CIA!

[jlake]

112. Um, there is no doubt they are already involved in the CIA.

That is the whole point - the entire Military Industrial complex is behind Obama.

[zulchzulu]

115. Your tinfoil hat is a little smushed on the side

[jeffrey_X]

122. I laughed at that one as well.

wow.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

42. Moses Mercado Lobbyist with Ogilvy Government Relations : Monsanto, Carlyle Group, United Health....

Lobbyist with Ogilvy Government Relations who is registered to represent several dozen big-name clients, including the National Rifle Association, the Carlyle Group, the Blackstone Group, Monsanto, Pfizer Inc., United Health Group, Sempra Energy and Constellation Energy.

[Freida5]

43. No wonder BO does not talk much about the subprime crisis.

[jackson_dem]

94. And he does have a much weaker plan than Edwards and a weaker one than Hillary

$182 million strong for Barack!

[ProSense]

49. Is she indicted? Hsu was! What about the people running Hillary's campaign?

Clinton Response to Disgraced Fundraiser's Donations Sets New Standard for Political Campaigns

During the campaign-finance investigation, plenty of sleazy fundraising practices (of both Democrats and Republicans) were probed by House and Senate committees. Williams, for her part, became ensnared in an episode involving Johnny Chung, a Taiwan-born businessman and prominent contributor to the Democratic National Committee. A frequent White House visitor, Chung often hung out in the First Lady's office staring—literally—at pictures of Hillary Clinton. Williams' assistant, Evan Ryan, testified that that the First Lady's staff found Chung's visits "disturbing." But Williams told Senate investigators that because Chung was a "contributor," she instructed her office to treat him with respect, like "any other irritable jerk who would show up."

On December 19, 1994 the DNC received a $40,000 donation from Chung, and the next day he was allowed to bring a delegation of Chinese businessmen to the White House residence for a holiday reception, where Chung and the gang had their pictures taken with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Several months later, Chung asked Hillary Clinton's office for help on several fronts. He wanted a photo with Hillary, a tour of the premises, lunch in the White House mess, and an invitation to bring another delegation of Chinese business associates to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to attend the President's weekly radio address. Ryan, Williams' assistant, testified that she had told her boss about these requests and informed Williams that Chung intended to make a contribution to the Democratic Party. According to Ryan, Williams instructed her to help Chung and mentioned that perhaps the Democratic Party could use a donation from Chung to pay the White House money it was owed by the party. (The DNC, like other organizations, had to pay for expenses related to events it held at the White House.)

Chung's request was granted, and on March 9, 1995, he and his business pals were escorted by Ryan to the White House for lunch, given a private tour, and were taken to the Map Room for a photo op with the First Lady. Afterwards, Chung handed Williams a donation to the DNC, this time for $50,000. That weekend, he and his business associates attended the President's radio address.

A key issue was whether Williams and the First Lady's office had traded favors at the White House for campaign cash. In testimony before the Senate governmental affairs committee, Williams denied she had asked for the donation and said there had been no quid pro quo. She insisted that Chung had essentially shoved an unsolicited check into her hand and that she immediately dropped it in her outbox for forwarding to the DNC—without even looking at the amount. She said that it was not unusual for Hillary Clinton's office to receive unsolicited contributions for the Democratic Party in the mail and that her aides routinely sent them on to the DNC. Chung told a different story, claiming Williams and Ryan had requested the donation.

Overall, Chung contributed $366,000 to the DNC between 1994 and 1996 (and eventually there were questions about whether this was his own money or whether he was fronting for other sources, including the Chinese government). It was pretty obvious at the time that he was looking to impress his business associates with the access those gifts won him. And that was a central part of the Clinton fundraising scandal: the selling (or renting) of access to whomever would donate big bucks to the DNC. Those who did so could brag to friends, clients, and business connections that they were well-wired into the Clinton White House—and perhaps that helped them grease their own business deals. This sort of quasi-scam was not a Democratic or Clintonian sin. But the Clinton White House did perfect the art. (It is illegal to solicit or receive political contributions in government offices, but it was not clear if taking a check and placing it in an outbox—as Williams said she did with Chung's donation—was a violation of the law.) In 1997, the DNC returned Chung's contributions.

In testimony before the Senate government affairs committee—then chaired by Republican Fred Thompson—Williams downplayed the Chung episode. But on a few key points Ryan, her assistant, contradicted her. Years later, it's not unreasonable to look at the record and conclude that Williams was part of a shifty system in which the Clinton White House would hand out favors (maybe just small ones) for anyone brandishing a check—and that she might have stepped over the line in following this standard operating procedure.

link

Are the Clintons going to rent out the White House again?

[Lerkfish]

52. hey, at least they're doing a good job, which is more than I can say for clinton's campaign.

Clinton's meltdown is probably the worst run democratic campaign since Dukakis.

[jlake]

62. Wow.

[Lerkfish]

64. yup, wake up and smell the reality, you can "wow" all you want.

the fact is, the clinton campaign is being badly run -- in a way I feel sorry for her, but she did choose these people so she bears the ultimate responsibility.

[Nailzberg]

53. You do realize her brother JB Pritzker is on board for Clinton?

You may not want to slime the Pritzker family.

[Forkboy]

55. uh oh.

[jlake]

59. Her brother was not involved in the subprime scandal. but thanks for playing.

[Nailzberg]

65. The bank was owned by the Pritzker Family trust. JB and Penny's money come from the same place.

They are two of the wealthiest democrats around, having donated millions and held numerous fundraisers for Democratic candidates. Penny has given to the Clinton's in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2006.

[jlake]

90. You do understand that she took an active role in divising the plans.... you should being the

expert that you are.
And donating to campaigns is different than operating them.

[stillcool]

54. No, David Axelrod is Obama's campaign manager....

Penny Pritzker is Obama's Finance Manager Do you know who Hillary Clinton's "finance manager" is.?

Penny Pritzker is one of the most active of celebrated Chicago patriarch Abraham N. Pritzker's 12 living grandchildren. A Harvard-trained attorney, Pritzker, 46, was chosen by her late uncle Jay to help oversee the family's vast portfolio of investments, including the Hyatt hotel chain and the Marmon Group industrial conglomerate. The $16.4 billion fortune has since been slated for a carve-up and will eventually include IPOs or outright sales of various Pritzker companies and assets. For now, Penny focuses on real estate investments, developing senior living facilities under the Hyatt Classic Residence name and office properties through a venture with Chicago-based Higgins Development Partners. The 49-story Hyatt Center skyscraper in Chicago's Loop, which she pushed in 2002, opened on July 19, 2005.
—Stephane Fitch

http://www.observer.com/2007/obama-pritzkers-hillary-pritzkers?observer_most_read_tabs_tab=2


The warring (and incredibly wealthy) Pritzker family seems to have carried its feud into presidential politics.
Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama's national finance chair, is the niece of Jay Pritzker, whose death in 1999 sparked an ugly internecine inheritance battle over the Hyatt hotel chain and other enormous family assets.

A plan to pass control of the empire to Penny and two other relatives collapsed in 2001 when another wing of the family filed suit. A settlement was eventually reached, but apparently there are still plenty of grudges, which may explain the division of Pritzker names donating to Hillary Clinton and Obama.

Hillary has the support of the California Pritzkers, a branch that includes Penny's brother, Anthony N. Pritzker -- the director, and co-founder of the Pritzker Group. Jay Pritzker's son John A. Pritzker, who served in various executive positions within the Hyatt Corporation, and his wife Lisa Pritzker, a women's health advocate, are also with Hillary.

Obama has the Chicago Pritzkers behind him. There is Penny, of course, and also her cousin Thomas Pritzker, who, like her, was supposed to inherit the bulk of the family fortune before the lawsuits came. Thomas' wife, Margot, founder and president of WomenOnCall.org, and his mother, Marian, widow of Jay, also contributed to Obama. Karen Pritzker, who is from Chicago but just bought an apartment in Manhattan for $12.5 million, also gave to Obama.

David Axelrod
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Executive summary: Obama's chief political advisor
University: University of Chicago
Professor: Northwestern University

Chicago Tribune (1981-84)
Midwest Values PAC
Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
Friends of Hillary
Gore 2000
Misericordia
Obama for America
Special Olympics
Jewish Ancestry

Mark Penn


Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Executive summary: Hillary Clinton campaign strategist
High School: Horace Mann School for Boys, New York City, NY (1972)
University: Harvard University (1976)
Law School: Columbia University

Burson-Marsteller CEO (2005-)
Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates
Microsoft Consultant
The Harvard Crimson
Lithuanian Ancestry Paternal

http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-c...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Mark Penn's tangled corporate web: Clinton is a client; McCain is a client.
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 2/25/2008 10:18:00 AM ET ·
http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/mark-penns-tangled-corporate-web.html

As has been widely reported, Hillary Clinton's top guru, Mark Penn, is leading the charge within the Clinton campaign to go aggressively negative against Obama. Besides the fact that Penn is the architect responsible for Hillary's presidential aspirations going from "inevitable" to being on life support, he is reportedly obsessed with destroying Obama. While it is understandable that Clinton's top adviser wants his client to win at all costs, going massively negative against Obama (or Hillary for that matter) risks damaging our candidate in the fall election against McCain. Unfortunately, this is something another "client" would welcome. That client is named John McCain.

Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a DC public relations (PR) firm. Burson-Marsteller owns a subsidiary, BKSH. BKSH is run by Charlie Black. Black is a longtime Republican politico, and a top adviser for John McCain for President. And, as Think Progress notes, while Black is a volunteer on the McCain campaign, he views Mcain as his client and continues to take a paycheck from BKSH.

In the years of the Watergage scandal, Rove's career as a big-time political handler began with a motley crew of friends and associates. He was chairman of the College Republicans when George Herbert Walker Bush was chairman of the state Republican Party {sic -- actually the Republican National Committee} in 1973. He won the presidency of the College Republicans in a race against Terry Dolan. The late Lee Atwater, who later became famous as the political attack dog for the Reagan-Bush team, managed Rove's campaign. Dolan went on to become a Soft Money pioneer by helping form the National Conservative Political Action Committee, then died of AIDS in 1986 at age 36. Dolan's advisers in his loss to Rove were Charlie Black, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone. Those three were later instrumental in the success of Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign.

Atwater joined the consulting firm of Black, Manafort and Stone after the '84 election. The firm later worked for the 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign. Two of Nixon's dirty tricksters also worked for Bush-Quayle: Frederick Malek, Bush's Republican National Committee rep, who had compiled lists of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of Nixon's investigation of a "Jewish Cabal;" and Dwight Chapin, who was jailed for lying to a grand jury about hiring Donald Sigretti to disrupt the 1972 Democratic primary campaign of Senator Edward Muskie. Chapin worked under Manafort in 1988. The firm's other clients included drug-connected Bahamian Prime Minister Oscar Pindling, Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and UNITA, the South African-supported Angolan rebel group led by CIA asset Jonas Savimbi
http://www.famoustexans.com/karlrove.htm

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[jlake]

57. If you read my OP, I used her correct title "campaign finance manager" But thanks for playing.

[stillcool]

75. Oh man....

I read this:

Exactly who is running Obama's campaign? Let's take a peek....

Oh yeah, I asked you who Hillary's finance manager was. You don't want to play anymore?

[jlake]

81. Yes, the finance manager is part of running the campaign.... but whatever you want to believe.

[stillcool]

82. No..You must have misunderstood...

I was asking you who Hillary's finance manager was?

[bridgit]

61. A little something from: Cornel West, regarding such matters...

Cornel West on Barack Obama

[jlake]

79. Thank you. Very informative!

:thumbsup:

[Orwellian_Ghost]

123. Quite useful and illuminating

Thanks

[sendero]

66. Who the fuck cares..

... loser boy?

[lojasmo]

67. I read the senate hearing transcript about the closing of the bank

She is not mentioned. You're voting for McCain anyway...fuck off.

[LibertyorDeath]

68. Listen are you listening do you hear it

It's the Obama Tsunami and there is nothing Hillary or anyone else can do about it!

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED !

Hillary is DONE!! So fucking done! the people financing her are leaving the HRC Titanic as I type

So bitch all you want & I've seen you doing a lot of that here but it will NOT CHANGE HISTORY

Hillary will not be Crowned Queen Deal With IT!!!!

[jlake]

69. Yes, because winning makes someone a good, honest person....

[Danger Mouse]

71. oh ignore, where are you hiding on me?

[Connie_Corleone]

72. Whoever they are, they're doing a damn good job!

[RiverStone]

73. jlake, when Hillary withdraws - I assume your 24/7 seek and destroy missions will stop?

Ya know, it may be time to start thinking about winning the GE. :think:

[GOTV]

74. Let's not n/t

[jlake]

87. Keep your head in the sand.

[GOTV]

107. Better than where YOUR head is n/t

[Political Heretic]

76. I was like WTF... how did spaming, professional obama smearer hit-man wannabe jlake get unignored?

Then I realized the ignore feature isn't working.

[whatchamacallit]

77. Dude, I'm a little worried about you. You've invested so much in this

I'm scared of what you might do when Obama wins the nomination. Start winding it down so it won't be such a shock to the system. Start letting go... start letting go... start letting go...

[jlake]

78. Thank you for your concern. I'll take note of it.

[mkultra]

84. i think youve earned the ignore award fromme

[jlake]

85. Glad to be aboard. If facts scare you that much there is no reason to interface.

[RoadRage]

86. I work for one of the Pritzkers Corporations...

A rather LARGE one, with over 100,000 employees.. you figure out which one. That same company is going very "green", and is one of the leaders in its industry with green inititives.

I can say that the Pritzkers are very involved in their local Chicago community, extremely charitible, and one of the largest/wealthiest DEMOCRATIC families in Chicago.

To say that Penny Pritzker single handedly created the subprime mortgage mess is hysterical.. no one has that kind of power. She has created a lot of money that has gone to charities and helped the poor people in Chicago. You left that part out of your article above. Perhaps that is the part about Penny that Obama seems to be tapping.

[jlake]

88. How did she "create" this money?

[RoadRage]

91. Create Which Money?

The money from her corporations? She inherited most if it, and has managed much of it on boards with many other people.

The charity money? She's raised it by using her name, influence & wealth to impact the people of Chicago.

What money exactly are you specifying?

[jlake]

93. The money you were talking about.

"She has created a lot of money that has gone to charities and helped the poor people in Chicago. You left that part out of your article above."

[RoadRage]

101. That would be the Charity money.

Perhaps the word created should be replaced with "raised". Sorry.. long night, and it's late.

[jackson_dem]

96. Obamites savaged Edwards over his hedge fund's NOLA investments that he didn't know about it

The hypocrisy is astounding in this thread but this is consistent with Axlerod's "movement for change"...

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

102. now thats plain ridiculous. Many Obama supporters WERE Edwards supporters n/t

[jackson_dem]

105. I don't consider then Obamites. Obamites=the true believers

[SammyWinstonJack]

140. How soon they forget or is it just plain old hypocrisy?

:evilgrin:

[sykalla2]

104. Obama has NO connections to special interests. He said so, and I believe him. STFU *NT*

[jlake]

106. Yeah, okay.....that's not a connection.

[not_too_L8]

110. Hey! you never answered stillcool's question

Who is Hillary's finance manager?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

108. K&R

Of course they are both heavily endowed by corporate America everyone who hasn't shut off their critical thinking skills knows this.

And of course the funders are waiting behind the curtain and will come callin' sans election time.

Thanks for the info.

[jlake]

109. That is true, but many seem to think that Obama is pure as freshly fallen snow

which is simply not the case.

[Emit]

113. This is all old news

DUer Arendt already brought all this up long ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4251696#4255286

[jlake]

114. Okay? Everything brought up about Hillary is old news too.... it's like it's 1998 all over.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

117. how about we get info someplace where you or I couldn't have written it first?

[jlake]

120. I don't write for forbes.com.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

129. of course you don't. all the hatchet material comes from Wiki, though, AS YOU KNOW.

[jlake]

135. No, it does not.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

139. your forbes link only accuses her of being rich. Wiki does the rest. AS YOU KNOW.

[mopinko]

118. hey professor cut and paste-

all of you hill shills ought to come to chicago and get to know us.
the pritzker family is full of democratic funders and fundraisers. if any of you knew jack shit about the chicago dmeocratic party, you would just shut the fuck up.

and just a little btw- miseracordia, which is listed in david axelrod's bio posted in this thread, is a stellar organization for mentally disabled adults. one of chicago's social service giants.

bashing people because the are rich, and because they are from chicago may sound like saying something. but it is not. it is slander of the premiere democratic city on the fucking planet.
sad, really sad.

[jlake]

125. Axelrod is a spooky dude....and Chicago gives me the willies.

[FrenchieCat]

126. You sound soooo foolish,

You must mean, you give Chicago the willies! :rofl:

[jlake]

127. Nope. All of those crooked folks make me uncomfortable. I have never been a dope fiend nor

on the take.

[FrenchieCat]

128. Well, by all means, lock yourself in and don't come out......

probably one of the best thing for you to do. Wouldn't want you getting "dirty" or nothing. You know. :eyes:

[jlake]

130. That's exactly why I am going to become a shut in if Obama is sworn in.

[Name removed]

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[jlake]

132. What an absurd accusation.

[adapa]

137. don't worry- ALL the dirt will come out in the General election & McCain will win

[not_too_L8]

141. That's a nasty thing to hope for!!... n/t

[Onlooker]

143. Obama's a more talented fraud than Hillary

Neither one of them is a saint, and some of the Obama supporters are embarrassing themselves by defending Obama's choice of Penny Pritzker. In their eyes Obama can do no wrong, and frankly it makes some of his supporters look like they are not thinking honestly. At any rate, just because Obama has some asses working for him doesn't mean he's any worse than Clinton. Further, Obama knows how to run a campaign and is a brilliant speaker, two things that a critical the marketing of the Democratic Party in November. Clinton's experience might cancel out Obama's brilliance, but her campaign sucks. She simply has less talented billionaires working for her.