the biggest differnce between Hsu and Rezko is that Hsu was a contributor and that's it and no one knew about his past. Rezko was not only a contributor but a close patron of Obama's and a well known slum lord about to be indicted when they had a real estate deal together. The idea that Huffington Post has this headline that one of her chairs took $7,500 from him is so far from his relationship with Rezko it's ridiculous.

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When Obama becomes the Dem nominee, the Reich wing slime machine will kick into gear.

They will have a field day with this Rezko stuff.

Did you see in the article that Rezko is Syrian!! And that he worked with a foundation to spread Islam.

Not to mention the squalid buildings that Rezko build for Chicago's poor blacks, and that at the time when Obama was friendly with Rezko, Rezko used a black business as a front to get minority loans and contracts.


Perhaps Obama had nothing to do with any of that, but that will NOT MATTER to the neo-cons.

Get ready for some serious swift boating.
Obama better get out in front of this stuff...

Norman Hsu reportedly raised well over $1 million for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign by eliciting donations from others and giving generously from his own pockets. Questions have been raised in the last few days about many big contributions from Hsu's contributors, which appeared incommensurate with the modest incomes of the individuals and families who gave them.

Could it be that Norman Hsu is a bagman for a former staff sergeant of the Hong Kong police dept; Chan Tse-Chiu aka Eddie Chan? Mr Chan left Hong Kong in the early 70s during an investigation of corruption. Chan was said to have made millions from illegal activities by then. He arrived in N.Y. in 1975, opened a jade & antique store, & rapidly acquired a funeral parlor & interests in a number of other enterprises; including the title of vice chairman of the United Orient Bank In NY. He engaged the services of Michael Nussbaum, a NY political consultant & was introduced to senators & congressmen. He was called Fast Eddie by the police for his swift ascent to the national presidency of On Leong Chinese Merchants Association ... alas Eddie had to make a quick exit out of the US for... lets just say personal reasons. Of course the Senate investigation into asian organized crime didnt factor in to his departure.. (Tong Bosses don't exist)

Looks like Chan Tse-Chiu wont be getting the same courtesy that Marc Rich got from Billary... Unless of course Billary regains the White House. Eddie is no fool.. I'm sure he directed Norman to spread the money around just in case... To all available potentially helpful politicians.

My point?? Be very careful when throwing these types of allegations around... it'll come back and bite ya

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5643329

Clinton Co-Chair Took Checks From Rezko And Kept Them

The media loves sensationalizing trivial stories into big stories for as long as it benefits Obama.

You have to come out of hiding and publicly endorse your candidate Obama. Don't be biased in secret.

At least NYT has the balls to endorse Hillary but continues to be fair and balance in covering the news and allowing other contributors to endorse Obama without prejudice. HuPo on the other hand, clearly is for Obama but refuses to admit they are manipulating headlines to favor Obama. You put trivial non-event stories as headlines when it mentions Obama.

BTW, both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times, who have investigated Rezko's dealings, endorsed Obama.

Nobody's perfect. But those who live in glass houses definitely shouldn't throw stones.

BARACK OBAMA:

TONY REZKO
Slumlord indicted on federal corruption charges.

HILLARY CLINTON:

JOSE CARBRERA
Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign returned $22,000 in "soft money" to a businesswoman linked to a drug smuggler in Havana. Carbrea is serving a 19-year federal prison sentence in Florida.

JOHNNY CHUNG
Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung plead guilty to election law violations after fund-raising for the Clintons in 1996.

JOHN HUANG
In 1994, Huang quit the Indonesia-based Lippo Group and went to work for the Clinton Commerce Department. While at Commerce, Huang visited the White House, was briefed by the CIA, viewed intelligence reports...and made 281 calls to Lippo banks. In 1999, Huang was sentenced for campaign finance violations.

WEBSTER HUBBELL
In 1994, Webster Hubbell was convicted of tax evasion and mail fraud involving the theft of nearly a half million dollars from his partners at the Rose firm. Hubbell then met with former partner Hillary Clinton and shortly after the Hong Kong Bank, jointly owned by Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, sent $100,000 to Hubbell.

NORMAN HSU
Hsu bundled more than $100,000 for Hillary Clinton. Confronted with the possibility that Hsu might be running an illicit investment scheme, the campaign returned $850,000 from 260 donors.

JIM MCDOUGAL
On April 14, 1997, McDougal was convicted of eighteen felony counts of fraud and conspiracy charges in the Clinton Whitewater scandal.

SUSAN MCDOUGAL
McDougal went to prison on four counts of fraud and conspiracy relating to the Whitewater scandal. McDougal received a Presidential pardon from Clinton.

PETER PAUL
Paul, a thrice-convicted felon, helped organize and finance a gala Hollywood fund-raiser for HRC in August 2000.

KEITH RANIERE
Top associates of NXIVM group donated $29,900 to Clinton's presidential campaign. Raniere previously ran a $30 million marketing business that imploded after federal agencies in 23 states alleged it was an illegal pyramid scheme.

BILL CLINTON
The second president in US history to be impeached. Clinton was also fined and suspended from practicing law for failing to testify truthfully.

Just as they did with the Exelon/Yucca Mountain topic, Hillary's campaign has done everything they possibly can to imply Obama's guilt by association to Rezko, despite the absolute FACT that both major newspapers in Chicago, having done two year's worth of digging, could find nothing illegal in the few dealings between the two.

Maybe this will finally shut them up for good.

What has this got to do with Hillary Clinton. Senator Obama has to take credit for Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, not anyone else!This is From the Los Angeles Times:

Longtime patron may be a problem for Obama

By Dan Morain and Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
January 23, 2008

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rezko23jan23,0,6946018.story?coll=la-home-center

"A review by the Los Angeles Times shows that Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, a businessman long active in Chicago politics, played a deeper role in Obama's political and financial biography than the candidate has acknowledged."

This story has nothing to do with Hillary's campaign.

The story gives the impression the money was given to Hillary's campaign when in fact there is no link.

The timeline here is 2001-2003.

What if I write a story with the title:

"Obama endorser allowed girl to drown and did not report it for 10 hours"

This is the fascism that is causing all the problems with Free Enterprise not being Free of Influence , so that Competition can bring about real quality and demand a price that's driven by Quality as the focus of origin of product demand . What we have here by this type of practice in Material Origination , is a Conflict of why the material is being originated into a market , and this is pure Fascism , and the Clintons are eyeball deep in Corporate favoritism , which is fascism 101 . Look it up and tell me that a Government Official and a Independent Enterpriser working together is not a form of pure fascism . And we wonder why our markets won't stabilize . The time for Real Change is here , Barack Obama is that Change .
Thanks and have a Great day in the Free Enterprising USA .

An ex-president Clinton, a mining deal and a big donor

Huge Kazakh deal follows financier"s trip with Clinton, precedes donation http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22926743
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

WHOA! Clinton double talk and deception?! I didn't see that coming!

This is such a ridiculous article. The real point for Americans to consider is that Obama is selling a whole lotta message about "change" and "ethics" and "reform."

Yet, he knew what the problems were with this guy and still got involved on a highly personal matter with him.

He needs to either back away from the ethics rhetoric or be called to answer more fully.

If anyone expects that their candidate (or any candidate) can get to this level of politics without forging relationships with crooked, dirty individuals...i have some lovely beach front property in Montana to sell you.

And if a Clinton supporter thinks that they have any room to talk about the shady associations of another candidate with crooked, dirty money connections...well, you're too stupid to even take advantage of with shady property deals; its not right to take advantage of the disabled.

"Clinton Co-Chair Took Checks From Rezko."
When?
Whilst Antoin "Tony" Rezko was under Federal Investigation in 2005?
Before or after?

This is totally different from Barack Obama's case.

Some maturity would be quite helpful.