http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/749138,obama20web.article

Sun-Times Exclusive: Obama surfaces in Rekzo's federal corruption case
Source confirmed Obama is the unnamed "political candidate" referred
to in document which outlines case against Rezko
January 19, 2008
BY DAVE MCKINNEY, NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND TIM NOVAK Staff
Reporters

For the first time, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has
surfaced in the federal corrupton case against his longtime campaign
fund-raiser, Tony Rezko, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

The allegations against Rezko that involve Obama are contained in one
paragraph of a 78-page document filed last month in which prosecutors
outline their corruption and fraud case against Rezko, who was also a
key money man for Gov. Blagojevich and other politicians.

Rezko is set to go to trial Feb. 25. The revelation that Obama's name
could come up in court is a political headache he doesn't need as he
heads into a round of primaries that are likely to determine his
party's nomination for president.

Consider if you will...

A man who is an excellent, albeit unknown, cook wants to get a job with a
restaurant that would give him valuable experience for his resume. He finds
one right in his own neighborhood however it's a successful Vegetarian
restaurant with a large following. While he is very capable of creating
vegetarian quisine he has some excellent meat dishes he has created over the
years. Still, this restarurant would provide the opportunity for him to
prove his abilities; plus he already lives nearby.

So he applies for the job.

Now the questions...

Should he attempt to promote the other meat items he could prepare even
though he knows most of the people in the area wouldn't go for anything with
meat in it? Or should he limit his conversation and present only his
vegetarian items?

Which makes more sense?

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If the United States were the Imperialist conquering thugs most would have
you believe we are, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the Philippines, etc.
wouldn't be sovereign nations, they would be US territories.

Isn't this what the right-wing scum were condemning Al Gore for in
2000????

Look, you live with what the election rules are, even if they are affected
by acts of God.

Where are the right-wing hypocrites to condemn McCain??

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January 19, 2008
McCain looking to extend South Carolina poll hours
Posted: 04:05 PM ET

CONWAY, South Carolina (CNN)

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011908dntexmedina...

January 18, 2008

Judge dismisses charges against Texas Supreme Court justice

Associated Press

HOUSTON –

In a case some say reveals political backscratching at the courthouse,
a Texas Supreme Court justice saw his arson-related indictment thrown
out Friday at the request of a scandal-plagued, but fellow Republican,
prosecutor.

The move outraged the grand jury foreman, who threatened to reconvene
the panel and issue the charges again.

State District Judge Brian Rains dismissed the indictment handed up
Thursday against Justice David Medina and his wife related to a fire
last summer that burned down their suburban Houston house and damaged
a neighbor's.

The Medinas were in serious financial trouble.

The decision came a day after Harris County District Attorney Chuck
Rosenthal said evidence against the couple wasn't sufficient to
support the charges.

Amid thousands of "lost" White House emails are some reportedly involving
Bill Clinton & Al Gore
4/24/00 - As Independent Counsel Robert Ray issues at least one subpoena
involving the "lost" White House emails, Insight is told there could be
previously unknown private emails involving President Bill Clinton.

Insight has also learned that Ray is preparing other subpoenas (at least one
has been issued) to potential witnesses with direct knowledge of the overall
emails issue, including outside contractors and former White House
employees.

Moreover, separate subpoenas are in the works involving previously unknown
long distance telephone records that have never been turned over to any
investigating body. These records go back a number of years and show
virtually every international call ever made from the White House complex
and tens of thousands of domestic long distance calls, too.

Insight was the first to report in December 1998 the existence of the emails
and an operation called "Project X" to keep the existence of the electronic
communications secret, as well as the detailed long distance telephone
records. (See http://www.insightmag.com for more details.)

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to
develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That
is our bottom line."
President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998.

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We
want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998.

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal
here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest
security threat we face."
Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998.

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times
since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

On January 14, 2000 the DOW reached 11,722.98
it was below 4,000 when Clinton took office in January 1995.

Yesterday the DOW closed at 12,099.30

Prepare for the most furious spinning in media history.

Murdoch did not buy the Wall Street Journal on a whim, after all.

Among the periods of time for which the chart indicates e-mail is
missing is a five-day span starting on Jan. 29, 2004, when the White
House was dealing with the possibility of an election-year probe by
Congress into Iraq intelligence failures.

Not archived by the office of the vice president is e-mail for Jan.
29-31, 2004, according to chart information released by Waxman.

In addition, all e-mail from the White House Office in the Executive
Office of the President was listed as missing for one of those days.

The chart indicates that e-mail also was not archived by the White
House on the following Monday — Feb. 2, 2004 — the day President Bush
took a big step in averting what could have been a politically
troublesome congressional inquiry.

He ordered an independent investigation into intelligence failures in
Iraq.

The president conferred that day with former chief weapons inspector
David Kay, declaring, "I want to know all the facts."

From The Associated Press, 1/18/08:
http://www.startribune.com/nation/13895291.html

Ex-legislator in S. Dakota who raped foster daughters gets long prison
term

By CHET BROKAW , Associated Press

PIERRE, S.D. --

Former state Rep. Ted Klaudt has been sentenced to 44 years in prison
for raping two foster daughters by touching their breasts and genitals
in phony examinations he said would help them sell their reproductive
eggs.

Circuit Judge James W. Anderson of Pierre said Thursday that he
understood Klaudt, 49, had done many good things in his life but that
the former lawmaker appears to have no sympathy for his victims or to
understand that what he did was wrong.

Anderson sentenced Klaudt to 11 years on each of four second-degree
rape convictions with the sentences to be served consecutively.

The judge said Klaudt will be eligible for parole after serving half
that time; he could apply for parole in 22 years.

Apparently 12 of the Muslims held are immigrants to Spain from
Pakistan, two are from India.

The header is, of course, making fun of Canada's national and
socialist public TV network the
the CBC which in its campaign to promote political correctness, social
engineering multiculturalism has created the TV series "Little Mosque
On The Prairie".

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324010,00.html