Perhaps Hillary hasn't "Jumped on this issue," because BIll Clinton and Robert Ruben, of Wall Street are the originators of "speculative investments" in the Financial Markets in the first place.

These anti-capitalists rants and posts make me nostalgic for my college years. But in the present day they seem wildly unfair and certainly do a disservice to the fine corporate and charitable work of Penny Pritzker and her family. Is this what happens when a successful woman enters public service? Apparently it's all about scorched earth campaigning -- trying to drive good people out of the process -- and not the truth. No wonder so many Americans are turned off by politics.

The fact is, Penny Pritzker left her position as chairman of the board of Superior Bank 14 YEARS AGO, and years before there were any questions about the work of its managers and auditors. The Pritzker family lost millions by investing in the bank. The roughly 1,400 bank customers who had more than $100,000 in deposits are substantially whole.

The activities of Superior Bank in the mid-90's have no bearing whatsoever on current mortgage and lending conditions affecting the US economy. This is old news being manipulated by people who have agendas. The Pritzker family has done more to help Chicago than any family I know. They shouldn't be driven out of politics by the shock and awe tactics of mean-spirited and mostly anonymous bloggers.

As a former investigative reporter in Chicago, I"d say these old stories were thinly reported and agenda-driven back in 2001 ¦ and carry even less weight in 2008.

I am not surprised - he is a politician- just like Hillary. Maybe now people will look at the two candidates side by side on the issues. The Hard Way for Hillary supporters www.politicalamnesia.blogspot.com

I'm disillusioned with both candidates that we have. On today's Democracy Now!, Jeremy Scahill did an illuminating and saddening/maddening piece on the reality of Obama and Clinton's position on Iraq troop withdrawl. Neither candidate has any intention of un-occupying Iraq and both candidates have no intentions of changing anything regarding the under construction 5000+-staffed embassy complex in bagdad. Both candidates take contributionsfrom the mercenary industry, and while they both talk of bringing some of the troops home, both candidates will be leaving 23,000 there, and using mercinaries like Blackwater extensively.

Sorry, folks. Its the same old song. Are you going to insist on dancing to it?

Before all you Hillary boosters start crowing too loudly, notice that She is being supported by the other half of the same criminal family--no high recommendation, that!

It is so strange that you all still feel compelled to support your candidate and tear away at each other. Are you all that blind, or small minded? 200+ posts here, 5,000 on the democratic debate, another 2,500 at the Clinton attack on Obama blog, and you all have accomplished exactly, what?

Nothing. Nothing.

You've traded reality tv for HuffPo and the blogosphere and convinced yourself you are making a difference, when all you are doing is pouring sand from one hand into the other and back again. Your candidates don't matter, and your opinions, even less. This is all a diversion. And you fall for it every time. Your government does not exist. Your Constitution is a memory, and your "rights" are just a joke to the real people who run this country, like the Pritzkers, Mellons, Rockefellers, Morgans and Stanleys, and all the rest you know by heart. You have lost your country, and your vote in November will not return it to you.

And you can get angry, skewer me with that rapier like wit and insight that has so impressed me on blogs like this one before, and tell me all you are doing; working the phones, walking the precincts, stuffing those envelopes, writing those congressmen and letters to the editor!

And I will still tell you that that is not enough. That you are putting your faith in the hands of people who can not be trusted, when you should be taking the future into your own hands and doing what it takes to restore this Country. And if you don't know what I mean, then there really is no hope.

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And Hillary voted For an unnecessary war and still defends it. That sense of entitlement reaching out to Americans all over the world saying to them, "what, I can't hear you, I'm too busy" in the her most not Hillaryous fashion.

"Owned", as in past-tense. Never mind that Hillary's close economic advisor, Robert Rubin, runs Citicorp, the largest subprime loaner in the world.

So now that Obama is not the Messiah, and just a lowly 'ol lying sleezy politician, his supporters are saying "it's okay, he's forgiven, he's just like any other politician and has to do these things to get ahaed."

YOU ARE ALL HYPOCRITES.

You completely denigrate, smear, taunt and lambast Hillary Clinton for being a "sleezy politician" while Obama was supposively "above it all" ... and yet when he is found out to be what he really is - which is a SHAM - you say "oh, it's okay."

IGNORANT HYPOCRITES.

Well, well another politician's campaign higher up is associated with something shady. My, oh my and here we thought Obama would walk on water. Folks, he's a politician! Politicians get to the top by selling their _ _ _ _ _ (you fill in the blanks) not because they are blessed with good luck! Hillary is a politician, McCain's a politician. They all got here by selling something to someone. Kind of sad isn't it?

Sub-prime lenders are not all lying crooks. In fact if you look at it from the standpoint of someone who actually read their loan agreement, purchased a house that they could afford that would have been unable to purchase otherwise.

We shouldn't demonize an entire industry.

I have said before, if Obama is the nominee then he goes into the general election with two states less than the republican nominee to begin with. Obama will automatically lose both Florida and Michigan because he has already deprived the voters in those primarys of their rights to have their ballots qualified and counted. He can not possibily win without those two states. They would vote for Clinton (they already have), but will not vote for Obama. At the beginning Obama said he could get Clintons votes but she could not get his votes. Florida and Michigan will prove just how wrong BO is on that point.

There is little difference between Hillary and Barrack as far as being centrist politicians
except that Hillary is far closer to the MIC and there is some HOPE that Barrack might
put an end to BushCo's stupid, greedy and evil Crusade for Muslim Oil, sooner than her.

The sound you hear is the thunder of the footsteps as Obama supporters circle the wagons. Like Fox viewers who thought three years into the war, Hussein STILL had a hand in 9-11, Obama supporters just don't want to hear this crap. You will not be able to convince them their deliverer has a negative.
I'm telling you folks as sure as the sun comes up in the morning, you're going to get your heart broken with this fella but go ahead and take the risk. You'll find out by mid summer when the vetting process is in full swing that your new crush who says all the right things to make your heart flutter leaves the toilet seat up just like the rest of them.

Along with Bank of America, Citicorp, Washington Mutual, Countrywide, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers.... or virtually any and every financial entity in America. So now Obama need to be canonized to run? Get a life!

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This is nothing. The man that owned and made billions of dollars at Ameriquest --the worst of the worse--- is the US Ambassador to Belgium. Dont lay this crap on the Democrats when this guy should be in jail and is being paid with taxpayer money after running one of the worst companies ever ever ever in the sub prime world.