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January 02, 2009

Hsu Obama

It looks like Norman Hsu not only backed Hillary he also backed the Most Corrupt President Elect Ever™. Gateway Pundit quotes from The Smoking Gun:

Before becoming a key fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, Hsu co-hosted a 2005 California fundraiser for Obama's political action committee and introduced the Illinois Democrat to Marc Gorenberg, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who later joined the Obama campaign's national finance committee. Prosecutors allege that Hsu directed his investors to donate money to specific candidates, and then reimbursed them in violation of federal campaign laws.

No wonder Hillary and Barry are thick as thieves. It appears that they have at least one thief in common.

I wonder how friendly Obama was with Roland Burris? It seems that Most Corrupt President Elect Ever™ was a Burris supporter at least while he had a chance to win the election for Illinois Governor in 2002.

The Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2008: "Obama and Blagojevich rarely interacted until Blagojevich ran for governor. Obama told his friends in Springfield that he was unimpressed by Blagojevich's resume, and he tried to lobby his friend Durbin to enter the race before deciding to support Roland Burris in the Democratic primary.

" 'When Blagojevich beat me, I told Barack to get on board with him,' Burris said. 'It was kind of like swallowing his pride a little bit, because he didn't really see that they had anything in common.'"

Obama also attended when Burris announced his candidacy for governor in 2001.

The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 24, 2001: "Burris finished a strong second in the four-way gubernatorial primary in 1998, and his base of support among African-Americans may be even more significant in a race likely to feature half-dozen candidates. Later in the day, Burris announced his candidacy on the porch of his South Side Chicago home, where about 250 supporters crowded underneath tents in his yard under a gray sky and steady rain.

"His campaign co-chairmen, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) cheered Burris. State Sens. Barak Obama, Donne Trotter and Ricky Hendon, and state Rep. Calvin Giles--all Democrats from Chicago--also attended."

And what does Burris have to do with Hsu? Nothing so far. But I'm keeping my eyes peeled. Given the way politics works in the Democrat party a connection is likely to turn up sooner or later.

The American people thought they were electing the first Black American President. And they were. Unfortunately no one told them he was a circus clown. And what is the purpose of a circus clown? Distraction. In other words: hold on to your wallet.

Cross Posted at Power and Control

posted by Simon on 01.02.09 at 02:18 AM

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Most Corrupt...

Partisan blogging at its best. Wildly sensational, unsupportable accusations uttered for no apparent reason except the hope that they might somehow stick.

Jeeze.

AemJeff · January 2, 2009 09:40 PM

Tony Rezko. Bent Rod Blago. Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Penny Pritzker. And now Norman Hsu.

Did I mention 20 years in Chicago politics?

But yeah. You are right. It is unsupportable. The man is as pure as driven snow.

M. Simon · January 3, 2009 12:53 AM

I didn't say he was pure. I don't think he's pure. I doubt that anybody who reaches this level in American politics is pure. Your rhetoric ("most corrupt") is over the top, and is unsupported by anything except innuendo.

AemJeff · January 3, 2009 04:37 AM

Degrees of corruption are always partly a judgement call, I don't think there are any hard and fast rules to determine where exactly someone fits on a corruption scale. Is Obama more corrupt than, say Nixon? That would at least partly be in the eye of the beholder. Much of his past associations and the area (Chicago) where he spent his formative political years certainly do give reasons for disquiet, however.

Joe Lammers · January 3, 2009 09:54 AM

Much of his past associations and the area (Chicago) where he spent his formative political years certainly do give reasons for disquiet, however.

Illustrating my point. Conclusions are drawn from weak, inferential evidence and then asserted as fact, often in in the strongest possible terms. If somebody has something substantial, then show us what you've got. Otherwise what's the point, except to smear?

AemJeff · January 3, 2009 10:13 AM

The Tony Rezko Hyde Park house deal.

As to the Most Corrupt President Elect Ever™. I don't recall a President elect ever having been involved in a number of corruption scandals. Usually they have to be in office for a while.

M. Simon · January 3, 2009 10:21 AM

This is what you consider prima facie evidence of corruption? (Most Corrupt!) That he dealt with Rezko at all was obviously not particularly brght, but this is an example of what I've already described: a weak, inferential case that doesn't merit your description.

AemJeff · January 3, 2009 12:43 PM

The comment system ate my link. I was trying to point to the following article on the Sun-Times site:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obama05.article

AemJeff · January 3, 2009 01:03 PM

Jeff,

Of course it was a mistake. The mistake grew out of Obama's long association with convicted political fixer Rezko.

The question now is: what other "mistakes" are we ignorant of?

Rezko is singing like a canary. Perhaps we will find out in time what those other "mistakes" were.

M. Simon · January 3, 2009 02:11 PM

Jeff,

Your link was improperly formatted - you left out the quote mark in href=" and after the url

I fixed it for you.

M. Simon · January 3, 2009 02:14 PM

Thanks for fixing the link. I agree, btw. Rezko's going to talk. When we get the details, who knows what we'll find out.

AemJeff · January 3, 2009 02:23 PM