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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:41 PM
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Clinton donor named in Rezko trial/criminal indictment
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 01:46 PM by Divernan
Rezko has a tie with one of Clinton's biggest donors.
The inhouse atty. of a corporation headed by Clinton's big ($180,000) donor, IPA, is identified as "Individual H" in the Illnois criminal indictment of Rezko. This atty. is also a Clinton donor. Here's the link & the info.


www.reversespin.com/?m=200709
From a letter sent to HRC:
 The company’s attorney, Myron “Mike” Cherry, also a contributor of yours(Clinton's), has been identified in published reports as “Individual H” in the Illinois criminal indictment of businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Cherry has acknowledged in published reports that he was the conduit for some of the IPA campaign contributions.
(The whole letter follows.)

Hillary Clinton for President
4420 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA. 22203

Dear Senator Clinton:
We, the undersigned small business owners from across the country are deeply offended that you continue to accept campaign contributions from top officials of a business consulting company, International Profit Associates (IPA), Buffalo Grove, IL., that defrauded us. As we struggle in federal court via a civil racketeering lawsuit to recover the thousands of dollars this company took from us illegally, you continue to use political donations that might have come directly from our pockets.

We also are appalled because you accepted the money amid dark clouds of fraud allegations, a criminal past by the company’s founder, and one of the largest sexual harassment lawsuits ever filed by the federal government.

We are trying to fight back against this company and you, Senator Clinton, are enabling it. We ask that you immediately donate to charity the more than $150,000 the New York Times says you’ve accepted from IPA’s top officials, a figure that includes a ride on IPA’s corporate jet and a donation from a high school age son of an IPA official.

Surely, now, in the wake of the Norman Hsu scandal, your political staff will turn up the background we’ve known about for some time, including:

 IPA is being sued by the federal government’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for widespread sexual harassment. In a New York Times article May 7, 2006 titled, “Rubbing Shoulders with Trouble, and Presidents,” EEOC lawyer Diane Smason called the allegations “probably the most egregious” ever filed by the agency’s Chicago office. She said the investigation found that “sex harassment is the standard operating procedure for this company.” That case is pending in U.S. District Court.

 The Illinois Attorney General’s office has acknowledged publicly that it is investigating IPA for alleged fraud.

 The Better Business Bureau says IPA has an “unsatisfactory record” based on reoccurring complaints that total 427 in the last three years. The BBB has issued “alerts” in various states to warn businesses that IPA was soliciting work there.

 The company founder, John Burgess, is a convicted criminal, according to numerous published reports. He was convicted of attempted grand larceny and of soliciting a 16-year-old prostitute, those reports state. He was disbarred as a lawyer in New York state in July 1987 for “failing to answer charges which involved perjury, larceny, a conviction for patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, possession of drugs and engaging in a pattern over a six-year period of lies and deceit,” according to The Lawyers Fund for Client Protection of New York state. Burgess also is named as a key defendant in the sexual harassment lawsuit.

 The company’s attorney, Myron “Mike” Cherry, also a contributor of yours(Clinton's), has been identified in published reports as “Individual H” in the Illinois criminal indictment of businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Cherry has acknowledged in published reports that he was the conduit for some of the IPA campaign contributions.



 Already, politicians across the country have returned donations from IPA because of the company’s checkered past. Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager are among those who have returned contributions from IPA.

We have made our fraud allegations in a federal racketeering lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

Mrs. Clinton, we see from published reports that you have identified yourself as a champion for women’s rights and an advocate for small business owners. We cannot fathom, in light of those self-labels, how you could possibly accept campaign contributions from a company accused by the federal government of sexually harassing scores of women and one that has left behind a long trail of fraud complaints from small business owners. Do you believe the 114 women who were allegedly sexually harassed at IPA are not telling the truth about that harassment? Do you believe the Better Business Bureau is wrong? Do you think the state Attorney General is unjustified in her investigation of IPA?

We believe this is our concern because the campaign contributions you continue to accept came from the money that we believe was taken from us illegally. We do not believe you should continue to further your political career with such tainted cash.

We are not singling you out in this request. We plan to make the same request to other public officials who continue to accept and hold IPA-related campaign contributions. We wrote you first because you are running for President and certainly should be setting an example for other politicians.

Sincerely,
Amari Company, Inc., Amherst, NH.
Amazing Productions, Inc., Tamarac, FL.
Precision Painting and Decorating, Inc., Elmhurst, IL.
All About Construction, Inc., Fort Myers, FL.
Capital Removal, Gold River, CA.
BBQ Island, LLC., Gilbert, AZ.
Compsolution VA, Inc., Richmond, VA.
JRP Construction, LLC., Yuma, AZ.
Evco Commercial Construction, Corp., Lake Elsinore, CA.
Gunnison Metal Shop, Inc., Gunnison, CA.
Captains Select Seafood, Minneapolis, MN.
MSI Redimix Inc., Mesquite, CA.
Joseph E. Clouse, Inc., Lehigh Acres, FL.
Kyles Discount Stuff, McPherson, KS.
Dames Air, LLC., Warrenton, MO.
Home Theater Design Group, Carrollton, TX.
Gigs Inc., Tewksbury, MA.
Cool Access LLC., Mesquite, TX.
Philipsburg Electric & Supply, Inc., Philipsburg, PA.
Gilbert-American Companies, Rockwall, TX.
Hinsdale Sales and Rental, Inc., Hinsdale, NH.
Hitech Fire Detection, Inc., Houston, TX.


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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:41 PM
Response to Original message
1. ha ha
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blocker Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. Is anybody surprised?
Shes the dirtiest player in the game!
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:45 PM
Response to Reply #4
10. You're saying the Rezko thing is dirty and anyone assoiated with it is dirty...including Obama.
that's fair.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:52 PM
Response to Reply #10
21. But Obama is not linked with the criminal charges against Rezko.
The residential deal with Rezko was not a criminal transaction.

On the other hand, the CEO of Clinton's mega-donor, IPA, is a convicted felon and sex offender. But AFTER those convictions, Clinton had him hold two fund raisers for her, from which she got over $180,000, and traveled with the scum in his corporate jet.
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ObamaWinsWH09 Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:36 AM
Response to Reply #21
94. True
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:42 AM
Response to Reply #21
96. Obama's situation is very bad....friends with a known crook
for years....Obama and Michelle were friends with the Rezkos

it stinks

it's a case of possible influence peddling

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WDIM Donating Member (267 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:59 AM
Response to Reply #96
102. Peter Paul (Clintons friends with a "known crook"....)
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #10
26. I'm not sure if O and Hill are dirty or not, as far as I know, But I hope the press checks it out,
Fox discusses it, and the Wa Po, The LA times, NYT, NBC, CBS, NBC, ABC all do major reporting on it.

The voters have a right to know before we vote.

I vote June 3rd so there's plenty of time to hear all sides of the story, everyday. all day.

i look forward to finding out if Resko is tied up with corruption and the Clintons, and if Obama is corrupt as well. They aren't, as far as I know.

But as a voter who counts and hasn't been heard yet, it's important to me.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:44 PM
Response to Reply #1
8. just more shit that the right can use against Hillary should she win
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:44 PM
Response to Reply #8
48. But that's old stuff....there is plenty new stuff!

What You Won't Find in the Clinton Museum & Library: http://prorev.com/missingclinton.htm

Clinton's '35 years of change' omits most of her career: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/26377.html

How Hillary Clinton Betrayed the Children's Defense Fund for Political Gain: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/034

The New Clinton scandals that haven't been explored to date
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=076fd56f-4aca-4683-a9d1-3c55d748946e&k=60222

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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:44 AM
Response to Reply #48
97. those are all right wing links....they're not legitmate news links, they're bogus
Edited on Thu Mar-06-08 05:44 AM by amborin
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:01 AM
Response to Reply #97
109. You people are realy naive if you don't think McCain and his
people are not sitting in wait to start trashing away on Hillary for all past and present scandals.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:43 PM
Response to Original message
2. Well... I know all the Rezko fanatics will be very happy to see this...
because we all know they want justice to be done!
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maseman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:43 PM
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3. Uh oh
So Obama is not named in the indictment but one of Hill's big supporters is?

Very intereting.

I bet Rezko will now be a "non-issue" and a "move-on nothing to see here" type issue with the HC supporters.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:43 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. Yup.
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 01:44 PM by redqueen
It won't matter... like all of the state's Obama's won... yet her expected wins are huge black eyes for his campaign.

*sigh*
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:44 PM
Response to Original message
6. Whoops.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:44 PM
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7. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip - is the floodgate opening? nt
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:44 PM
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9. Whoopsie!
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:45 PM
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11. Obama supporters, USE this and don't get distracted by stupid flamebait. FOCUS
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:45 PM
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12. Aside from this "development".....
Hillary will have to answer the 40 million dollar question....

We wouldn't want to be surprised during the GE, now we we? :shrug:



see here for the details: http://thememlingindex.com/hillary_clinton_net_worth-wealth.html


It time to dig down.
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blocker Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. Wow 2006 was a great year for them!
Theses saudis are good for them!
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #12
15. That graph is....stunning
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #15
31. And all of those bucks didn't come from writing "books" either.....
and let's not get started on the Library and the Foundation.

Let's train Hillary, so that she could "withstand" the attacks that would come from the GOP side during the GE.....just like her supporters advised Obama supporters.


This of course doesn't count Bill's portion!

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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:48 AM
Response to Reply #31
98. just lies and smears fabricated by some bogus web sites with zero credibility or accuracy
pure garbage crap made up and fraudulent
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:51 AM
Response to Reply #15
100. stunningly bogus, non sensical, just garbage republican smears of Hillary
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indimuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #12
42. we we?
:rofl:
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:38 PM
Response to Reply #12
71. Yeah, it's not just the 2007 returns we want to see - it's that 2006, $35 million one.
And I bet they made a ton more than $35 million in 2007, having access to those very high return investments/funds where you need $one to $three million up front to get in the door. I guesstimate they cleared at least $50 million in 2007. How does that make all her donors feel? The ones whose donations were so carelessly squandered?
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ObamaWinsWH09 Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 08:06 AM
Response to Reply #12
103. That is amazing...
Is this for real?
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:46 PM
Response to Original message
13. LOL! K and R
:popcorn:


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blocker Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #13
17. lol your right bring on the popcorn!
rezkogate anybody!
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RBInMaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:47 PM
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16. Send it to the Obama camp. They need to use this !!
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:48 PM
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18. Ah, I am so not surprised!
HA!



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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:50 PM
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19. Please K & R this today!
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:51 PM
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20. A HILLARY DONOR...come back when it is Hillary herself n/t
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:52 PM
Response to Reply #20
22. And rezko donated to both Bill and Obama's campaign...
come back when you guys have some proof of wrongdoing.



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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #20
28. Read the information. She took mega bucks from this guy's employer
and this guy was involved in funneling the donations. And the employer/CEO was convicted - well, here it is again. The guy named in the Rezko indictment was an attorney acting on behalf of the company founder, John Burgess. Burgess is a convicted criminal, according to numerous published reports. He was convicted of attempted grand larceny and of soliciting a 16-year-old prostitute, those reports state. He was disbarred as a lawyer in New York state in July 1987 for “failing to answer charges which involved perjury, larceny, a conviction for patronizing a 16-year-old prostitute, possession of drugs and engaging in a pattern over a six-year period of lies and deceit,” according to The Lawyers Fund for Client Protection of New York state. Burgess also is named as a key defendant in the sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #28
34. show a legitimate website for this
But I will TELL YOU ONE THING.
IF there was ANYTHING like this TRUE about Clinton--it would be on non-stop on the news channels...not exclusively on some obscure RW rag website. The anchors were absolutely apoplectic about the elections yesterday. This would brighten their day.
What a pathetic pathetic hit piece.

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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:27 PM
Response to Reply #28
37. Obama recieved $4000 but only returned half of it.
... in 2006, Sen. Barack Obama received $4,000 in campaign donations from a senior IPA official and his wife. Obama quickly returned $2,000 from the senior IPA official, campaign records show. But the campaign has held onto the matching $2,000 donation from the IPA official’s wife, the Obama campaign confirms.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:42 PM
Response to Reply #37
46. Maybe it would be "sexist" to tell the woman who she could donate to?
But, I do hope the Obama campaign returns the other $2,000. Maybe as soon as HRC returns that $180,000?
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:50 PM
Response to Reply #37
53. zOMG Obama in $2000 campaign finance scandal!!!111!
Lemme see, Clinton's campaign has $150,000 from this donor but Obama' campaign is up $2000? Clearly, it's time for Obama to drop out NOW!! ROFLMAO!
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:53 PM
Response to Original message
23. Best not to post from RW sites.
There's plenty to find elsewhere.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:55 PM
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24. As I just said in another post...it doesn't matter what source you use
if it blackens Clinton, it is your friend.
Look what is on the front page of the link you provided:

Soros+Gore=A New World odor
Posted on 09.26.07 by dancurry @ 6:48 pm

A monster tax increase based on George Soros-inspired propaganda-science? Guess again, Democrats.

Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Al Gore, global warming, liberals

Filed under: National politics and Mainstream media

A little bit about the website:
Reverse Spin allows a former newspaper reporter, editor, government spokesman and long ago JFK Democrat turned Republican strategist to explain the weird and twisted things that are written and said every day...in Illinois...and across the country.


What a fucking rag. But you guys are so desperate that you are willing to believe anything.
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:58 PM
Response to Reply #24
29. Just like what you guys have been spinning on Obama and Rezko?
If it blackens Obama it's your friend?

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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:00 PM
Response to Reply #24
30. Forewarned is forarmed. This gives her a chance to refute this/return donations/
stop flying in that company's private jet, letting them hold fundraisers for her - so I did her a favor to make this public NOW, instead of letting that bad ole' right wing site hit her with it in October. Aren't the Clinton supporters always prattling on about electability? I'd say this could impact her electability.

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #30
32. come back when you have a LEGITIMATE source
You have NOTHING that proves ANYTHING.
It is an unsubstantiated "memo" on a suspect website.
Surely you can do better than this?
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #32
33. Oh...don't worry. We don't need to come back,
cause we haven't left this issue yet.

And just like Hillary Supporters were relentless in bringing up Rezko's name over and over again at this site.......you ain't seen nothing yet.

Hillary and her supporters wanted Obama vetted? So be it.

Now, it's y'all's turn.

We also will need to vet that 35 years, including the 10 months working for the Children's defense Fund vs. the years that she was on the Walmart Board, etc....

Dirty politics is a blood sport afterall, and you can't expect us to play clean, when Hillary is knee deep in mud.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:30 PM
Response to Reply #32
38. Is the NEW YORK TIMES legitimate enough for you, kiddo!?!?!?!
The article I linked to, in turn linked to theMay 7, 2006 New York Times. I hadn't bothered to look at but I AM SO GLAD I DID ! ! ! . Cause looky, looky ! ! !boys and girls. The Clinton donor named in the Resko indictment, introduced Bill Clinton to the convicted, disbarred IPA CEO at a "fund-raising event" that Mr. Cherry (named in Rezko indictment) held at Mr. Cherry's home WAY BACK IN 2000.

Read the whole article to get the juicy details of the close relationship between Bill and the IPA CEO ever since, including moneys promised to Clinton's "foundation" which never made it to NOLA relief as promised. Now you make sure you check this out. There's just a super duper color photo of Bill with the convicted, disbarred, currently charged with sexual harassment by 103 female employees, IPA CEO. Please someone with better computer skills than me, post that picture on this thread.

www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/07company.html

Myron M. Cherry, a Chicago lawyer who represents I.P.A. in several legal matters, said that he believed Mr. Burgess first met Mr. Clinton at a fund-raising event that Mr. Cherry held at his home in 2000.

Mr. Cherry, who raises money for many Democrats and helped arrange at least some of the I.P.A. contributions to Mrs. Clinton, said Mr. Burgess's background was irrelevant to determining whether to accept his money or services.

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:45 PM
Response to Reply #38
49. 2006???
Anything current bucko?
Or just throwing spitballs at the ceiling to see what sticks?
Pathetic.
:rofl:
I just took a "brief" look at his "writings"...seems he has a hardon for anything Clinton.
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #49
50. ROFL
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 02:48 PM by yourguide
It's a HUGE NYTimes article about the donor, their connections to HRC, and I think the legal filings in the Rezko trial in Chicago speak for themselves.

REZKO CLINTON REZKO CLINTON REZKO CLINTON




:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:



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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:54 PM
Response to Reply #50
55. How far back did Obama buy his house? I believe that was before 2006.
Maybe you're just tired and overexcited. You don't seem to be making any cogent points.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:52 PM
Response to Reply #49
54. So New Orleans is old news to you too? Get over yourself.
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 02:53 PM by Divernan
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #54
61. You are so full of yourself
NOLA isn't old news.
This, however, is.
Like I said...you are shining a very bright light on yourself.
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:02 PM
Response to Reply #61
63. ROFL
rezko clinton is current news if one of her donors in indicted along with him.


rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton


:rofl::rofl::rofl::
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:04 PM
Response to Reply #61
65. I'm trained to research, and enjoy doing it. & ARE YOU THREATENING ME?
What does "shining a very bright light on yourself" imply?

And don't bother with your ususal "don't be thin-skinned. . . too sensitive. . . yadda, yadda,yadda"
replies.

Because, speaking as an attorney, I read that phrase as threatening - along the lines of "we'll be watching you."
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:02 PM
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62. And I thiiiiink that HRC's vaunted 35 yrs. of experienc largely predates 2006 also!
This was part of her experience! And Bill thanked the disbarred, convicted CEO "for being SUCH GOOD FRIENDS TO HILLARY AND ME."
From the same 2006 NYT article,

I.P.A. did not limit itself to paying speaking fees. In 2000, the company and its executives contributed $400,000 to the national Democratic Party and $50,000 to Mrs. Clinton's Senate campaign. Since then, employees of the firm and their spouses have contributed an additional $107,000 to the Clinton campaign. Company officials have also given about $30,000 to the national Republican Party in recent years.

For their support of the Democrats in 2000, Mr. Burgess and his wife, Dana, were rewarded in September of that year with an invitation to a state dinner at the White House for the prime minister of India. When Mr. Clinton appeared at I.P.A.'s banquet in December 2001, he thanked the Burgesses "for being such good friends to Hillary and to me" and praised I.P.A.'s work with small businesses.

"The small and medium-size businesses that you helped to flourish fueled America's economic growth," Mr. Clinton said.

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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:50 AM
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99. all those lies and smears against Hillary are from bogus right wing web sites, no ny times article..
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hey560 Donating Member (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:55 PM
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25. PWNED
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bleowheels Donating Member (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 01:56 PM
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27. Well, well, well, whattya know. Seems Hillary's hand is in the cookie jar.
I think thou doth protesth too much.
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:10 PM
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35. what was that about "Chicago Politics"
this is a whole hell of alot more than getting a deal on a parcel of land adjacent
to your home.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:24 PM
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36. Why isn't this locked yet mods?
Since when do we ALLOW RW websites as sources?
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:34 PM
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39. Because now we have the NEW YORK TIMES AS A LINK
Edited on Wed Mar-05-08 02:47 PM by Divernan
The article I linked to, in turn linked to theMay 7, 2006 New York Times. I hadn't bothered to look at but I AM SO GLAD I DID ! ! ! . Cause looky, looky ! ! !boys and girls. The Clinton donor named in the Resko indictment, introduced Bill Clinton to the convicted, disbarred IPA CEO at a "fund-raising event" that Mr. Cherry (named in Rezko indictment) held at Mr. Cherry's home WAY BACK IN 2000.

Read the whole article to get the juicy details of the close relationship between Bill and the IPA CEO ever since, including moneys promised to Clinton's "foundation" which never made it to NOLA relief as promised. Now you make sure you check this out. There's just a super duper color photo of Bill with the convicted, disbarred, currently charged with sexual harassment by 103 female employees, IPA CEO. Please someone with better computer skills than me, post that picture on this thread.

www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/07company.html

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:37 PM
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40. where? n/t
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:40 PM
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44. See my original link AND post 38 above.
"Ya know" - you would have been smarter to check out that NYT link in my original link yourself, cause the NYT article is much more damaging to your candidate, in part via her husband, than my original information. But thanks a bunch for motivating me!
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:50 PM
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52. It wasn't in your original link..you linked to an obscure RW rag
But I appreciate the light you have illuminated on yourself.

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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:08 PM
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67. No-o-o-o-o. What I said was that the NYT link was in my original link.
"check out that NYT link in my original link"

Really, you must be exhausted, because you don't comprehend that simple phrase. Have a nice nap. Maybe some milk & cookies.
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:43 PM
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47. Is the NY Times good enough for you?
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:38 PM
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41. And (from the NYT link): Clinton's donor rips off NOLA, using Clinton foundation.
"In one instance, Mr. Burgess seems to have garnered positive attention from his investment in politicians. Mr. Clinton's foundation publicized a pledge by I.P.A. last year to provide $10 million worth of free services to businesses damaged by natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina. The commitment raised the company's profile. Now, however, I.P.A. says that the pledge was "premature and unrealistic" because the storm damage drove away so many businesses that providing much consultation was impossible. "

From the NYT article linked above.

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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:50 PM
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51. Anybody got any comments re exploiting NOLA?
Some HRC booster gonna come here and say there were no businesses struggling to survive and in need of help?

Oh Yeah! You start investigating the Clintons and the sources of their wealth and campaign funds, and you better wear protective gear & thick boots. Cause you start lifting up rocks and there's all kinds of nasty critters hiding out of the light of day.
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Zachstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:57 PM
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59. It will be quite disgusting what will be exposed.
The closet has not been opened except by her in over 8 years. Whatever is in there will be rotten to high hell and will stick like no other.

Clinton's political future is about to be destroyed. The faster the better!
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:58 PM
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60. When good people do it they're survivng, not looting
this sort of thing is quite OK as long as it's respectable folk, you know what I mean? It's when those uppity types start acting above their station that they need to be put in their place - need I say more!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled innuendo ;-)
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:39 PM
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43. That's why she stopped pursuing this line of attack.
I was wondering.
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Medusa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 08:59 AM
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105. And the Hillbots aren't smart enough to get why
but they will. Oh they will. :rofl:
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:40 PM
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45. This is HUGH!!!!!!!1111
:rofl:
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Zachstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:55 PM
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56. Clinton's refusal to return the funds from some of these horrid donors will contribute to her downfa
Keep it up everyone! Expose her!
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:55 PM
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57. kicking
rezko clinton rezko clinton rezko clinton

:rofl:




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AnarchoFreeThinker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 02:55 PM
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58. here we go. tit for tat.
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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:03 PM
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64. worse. This is the opening of the fibber magee closet, Clinton's junk will fall out
all over the place.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:08 PM
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66. What goes around comes around, hillbots
and by hillbots I mean those specific people who have been parroting Rezco for weeks and how it'll bring Obama down. It's just sublime that the Clintons are more prominent in this trial at this point than Obama.
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bunnies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:10 PM
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68. wow. This could end up being worse for Hillary than Obama.
The combination of sexual harassment and fraud is quite the one two punch.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:16 PM
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69. Do read the lengthy NYT article - there's lots more that I haven't posted.
Oh, and please keep on K&R - keep this thread up there for the evening crowd.
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powergirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:30 PM
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70. Uh oh!
I guess they didn't vet that one.
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bunnies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:43 PM
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72. After reading the times piece... its even more damning than I could have imagined.
I almost cant even wrap my head around it all.

Im at a loss for words.
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DUyellow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:45 PM
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73. explain...
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:50 PM
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77. Click on the NYT link in post #39.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:45 PM
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74. There's enough there for about 10 "Shame on the Clintons" threads.
It will be revisited many times between now and the PA primary.
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Bread and Circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:46 PM
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75. Lots of ignored in this thread. Must be the fanatics are bringing everyone to justice!
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:48 PM
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76. LOL - I evidently have every one of them on "ignore"
I only use that for the really vitriolic ones.
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purji Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 03:51 PM
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78. kick
for the afternoon crowd.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 05:24 PM
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79. kick for the evening crowd.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 05:34 PM
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 05:34 PM
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81. Well isn't that special!
:rofl:
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:03 PM
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82. And Thy Name Is Karma!!
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truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:04 PM
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83. Oooops!!!
:rofl:

Someone remind her that it's always advisable not to crap where you eat...
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:08 PM
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84. Video of Clinton problems to come.......
Video Link -
Story entitled.... Rubbing Shoulders With Trouble, and Presidents

http://nytimes.feedroom.com/?fr_story=a15c80a4f43b9bfbd7de0fe87dffc3d84e8b16ca

Bill and his "friend", John R. Burgess, CEO of I.P.A. !
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 10:05 PM
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90. Thanks for posting the snap. A picture is worth a 1,000 criminal indictments.
nt
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AZBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:08 PM
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85. Ok, that's just plain DAMN FUNNY.
Considering how Clinton supporters have been howling "Rezko, Rezko" for weeks despite the fact that Obama did nothing wrong - but now Clinton's tied to it?

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 09:00 PM
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86. K & R
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 09:01 PM
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87. Oh, how fucking sweet!!!!!!
The BIG connection in the Rezko trial is HILLARY!!!! ROFPIMPLMAO!!! :rofl:
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kristopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 09:41 PM
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88. k&r
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 09:47 PM
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89. Kick it, Rec it. Bookmark it. We're just warming up, dear Hillary. n/t
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 10:09 PM
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91. Didn't Camp Clinton announce that they were sending someone to
Chicago to sit in on the Rezko trial hoping to scoop up some feces to fling at Obama? Looks like the real reason they sent someone was to see how damaging it will be for her! :rofl:
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 02:23 AM
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92. We need to get the links and the photos and send this to the undeclared super delegates.
This should give them pause about who they should cast their lot with.

And to the press. This needs to make it on to the TV, because the Rezko trial is happening now.

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WillYourVoteBCounted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 03:16 AM
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93. the chickens are coming home
to roost
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ObamaWinsWH09 Donating Member (11 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 08:37 AM
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104. where will they roost?
I don't want a chicken farm ;)
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amborin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 05:40 AM
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95. Obama's JUDGEMENT is SO BAD
he admitted his bad judgement
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yourguide Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:56 AM
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101. kick
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 09:09 AM
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106. K & R !!!
:kick:
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 09:18 AM
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107. K&R
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 10:53 AM
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108. This thread deserves MUCH more visibility and attention. KICK. n/t
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Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 11:04 AM
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110. K&R
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 03:33 PM
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111. Kickety Kick Kick
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 07:20 PM
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112. Kick !!!
:kick:
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 12:38 AM
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113. Kick !!!
:kick:
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