Obama is the biggest crook, wacko Liberal in America.
This thug needs to resign.


Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:20 PM

By: Newsmax Staff

As an Illinois state Senator, Barack Obama received more than $100,000 from a company owned by an entrepreneur whom Obama helped to obtain a state grant.

Robert Blackwell Jr., a contributor to Obama’s campaigns, began paying Obama an $8,000-a-month retainer in early 2001 to provide legal advice to his technology firm, Electronic Knowledge Interchange.

At the time, Obama had recently completed his unsuccessful campaign for Congress, and had numerous debts and a law practice he had neglected for a year while campaigning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Obama had been so strapped for cash that his credit card was initially rejected when he tried to rent a car at the 2000 Democratic convention, Obama disclosed in his book “The Audacity of Hope.”

The monthly payments from EKI supplemented Obama’s $58,000-a-year part-time state Senate salary, and eventually totaled $112,000.

“A few months after he received his final payment from EKI, Obama sent a request on state Senate letterhead urging Illinois officials to provide a $50,000 tourism promotion grant to another Blackwell company, Killerspin,” the Times story disclosed.

Killerspin runs table tennis tournaments around the country and sells its line of equipment and apparel, along with DVD recordings of the tournaments.

The day after Obama wrote his letter urging that Killerspin receive the grant, Blackwell contributed $1,000 to Obama’s Senate campaign.

Killerspin eventually received $320,000 in state grants between 2002 and 2004 to subsidize its competitions.

Blackwell is credited on Obama’s Web site with committing to raise $100,000 to $200,000 for Obama’s presidential campaign.

According to the Times, Obama did not specify on disclosure forms for 2001 and 2002 that EKI provided him with most of his private-sector compensation.

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Times that Obama did nothing wrong in acting on Blackwell’s behalf for a “worthy project” developed by a constituent.

David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political advisor, was more vehement in his statement: “Any implication that Sen. Obama would risk an ethical breach in order to secure a small grant for a ping pong tournament is nuts.”

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Bitter, typical, nuts it's nice to that the vernacular of his campaign is somewhat consistent if nothing else is.

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Um, not that I'm exactly thrilled with this move on Obama's part, but none of this seems to be all that crooked or, for that matter, liberal.

Anyone running for office gladhands the people who help them get there, sometimes unfairly, it's basically our whole political process.

Are you trying to suggest that giving a kickback to someone who sells table-tennis is MORE morally reprehensible than awarding no-bid contracts to corporations you used to work for?

Come on.

So much for "Change"....

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

*rolls eyes* I'm not saying the message of his campain is something I'm behind or that I Think he's incorruptable. I'm just disagreeing with the basic assertion of this post that he is literally the most liberal and literally the most corrupt based on this one tiny thing.

Right...He spends 20 years in a Black Racist Idiots "Church", and just now says he can't be part of it.

At least not during the Election. The piece of racist shit is his "Mentor".

Perhaps, Obamas lying to us?

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

Coward. No answer.

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

ONE tiny thing?... That's funny.

Rarely do I agree w/ wow, but on this he is correct.

Obama has raised the bar for himself, proclaiming to the great savior of politics. He should, at the very least, live up to the very standard he has created.

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It's funny I've never heard of Obama in any way implying he's the savior of politics. He's stated that we...as in the American people are the ones who can make the difference. It seems in your blind hatred you often times miss the obvious. Like for example the idea that OUR government is for us.

The only thing ironically I've seen come out of Hillary is that this is just about her not us.

McCain is just well about to constantly pass out from age.

I'm afraid your priorities are all about ego reaction & not much really about this nation. No man is the savior of this nation. We through giving a fuck & doing something about it may be the savior of this nation. The only consistent message Obama has state is WE....WE are the change.

Why is that so hard to grasp?

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Hmmm.
Ya got all that from one little sentence did ya?.... Well, this article should make your head explode.

RealClearPolitics - Articles - Obama the Savior

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Elect Palin; Because America needs a spanking!
Barak Obama - Half honkey - all donkey
"It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes"- Joseph Stalin