This is a very disturbing rumor that has been floating around for at least one week or more.  Initially it was limited to fringe media and the story has now made its way to MSM and was reported today on CNN.

I am an Obama supporter, who initially was a fan of Hillary Clinton who has waited for years to see her run for president.  Hillary and Bill turned out to be very untrustworthy, immoral individuals and lost my support late in 2007.  I am sorry to say that the Clintons are TOXIC.  The Clintons have spent months trying to destroy Obama.

ANY close association with Hillary Clinton will be a death nail for Obama.  Billary dug deep into their bag of tricks to destroy Obama and he owes them nothing.  If he merges campaigns with Clinton, she will take credit for getting him elected.  If Obama uses my hard earned money to retire a debt that Clinton recklessly ran up, I will never give another dime to the Obama campaign.  Bill and Hillary Clinton earned more than $100 million, let them pay their own campaign debts.  Or, better yet, let all of the die-hard Hillary supporters pony up the money for debts.  Remember, all of the millions of supporters she claims to have, all of proclimations that “the people have spoken,” all of the millions who have given her the “lead” which she can always seem to manufacture.

Screw Hillary Clinton, screw Bill Clinton, Screw Chelsy Clinton, all of her supposed 15 million voters/supporters, and her supposed high priced advisors.  Why on God’s earth would I or anyone who has given hard earned money to the Obama campaign in any way shape or form pay hillary clinto back or retire the debts that she owes to those who have orchestrated a campaign strategy against Obama that is worse than anything ever perpetrated by the idiot, right wing fanatic, Karl Rove.

Right now as I type this, Hillary Clinton continues to spend her campaign into debt.  I will not pay for such arrogance or ignorance.  In fact, if Obama gives a single cent to Clinton, I will ask for my donations to be refunded in protest.

THIS would be a ship-sinking strategic error.

Any association with Hillary Clinton will be a death nail for Obama.  Billary dug deep into their bag of tricks to destroy Obama and he owes them nothing.  If he merges with Clinton, she will take credit for getting him elected.  If Obama uses my hard earned money to retire a debt that Clinton recklessly ran up, I will never give another dime to Obama.

I am of the mind that Reverend Wright’s recent “performances” were detestable.  I also believe that had the Rev. could have used his spotlight to totally elevate the tenor and focus of the current discussions of race and patriotism.  Instead, just as sure as the establishment “played” him, he didn’t miss a bit “floor showin’” and acting out like a 5 year old who commandeers the Holiday performance.

What a goon the Rev. Wright was, in front of the world.  He basically traded 30 years of goodwill for a mainline shot to his ego.  In addition, he will certainly be written into history as the fool who did or tried to derail the first viable african american presidential candidate in history.  This is certainly not the legacy that I would want to leave to my ancestors.  Additionally, his antics on stage made it clear to those in the know that he is a member of the Q Dogs, an historical African American fraternity.  The problem is that this fraternity, which claims amongst it membership very prominent African American Men, was lowered to the level of a circus troop.

Let’s be real about this Rev. Wright issue is something that every american has a right and duty to be concerned about.

The degree to which we have examined the Rev. Wright issue, ad nauseum, should be the degree to which we examine everyting about each of the presidential candidates, and any elected official, for that fact.

Billary Clinton has a history (decades long) of lies, deceipt, recklessness, pandering, and doing anything that is required to be elected to public office and to deflect negative publicity.

We as americans know that business as usual does not work in the favor of the average american.  what on earth could barack obama do in a four year term as president that could approach the horrific bush/cheney presidency?  Really?  This is the time to take responsibility, be responsible, excercise the rights that we are always bitching about being taken away from us, and allow someone who appears to be a once in a lifetime candidate put his money where his mouth is?

Doesn’t it seem odd that numerous politicians have defected from the clintons.  these are politicians whose lifetime of succecess, political standing, economic wellbeing, and political futures rely on the clintons?

Anyway, i say the best way to paringy fair taxes, reverse the effects of corporate welfare, bringing our soilders home from Iraq, preventing the war in Iraq, and giving ownership of this country back to the people, then vote your logical mind and not your emotional, political, racist, or gender biased perspective(s).

Reverend Wright is a distraction!  Listen, people.  Do you really think that the opinion of someone you have never heard of, who is NOT running for public office really matters?  I do not.  he clinton campaign is full of lies.  Think about this:  Why would someone (billary clinton) who claims to be the strongest, most electable candidate spend all of her media time talking, not about herself, but about why the other guy, obama, is not electable?  REALLY NOW!  This is a ridiculous strategy and an insult to those of us who use our brains!

Take a look at this article and and also read the articles and commentary that you will find on these sites:

www.opednews.com

www.huffingtonpost.com

www.democracyinaction.org

www.democracynow.org

There are lots of other sites out there too.  Please, spend as much time online reading about this election, as you do searching for the best shopping deal on a digital camera or new television.

Get engaged, people!

Wright And Ridiculous

By Sebastian Mallaby

Monday, May 5, 2008; Page A17

Of all the strange features of this presidential race, the tarnishing of Barack Obama has got to be the most ridiculous. First Obama was accused of anti-religious elitism. Then he was accused of identifying with the underclass anger of his spiritual mentor. Excuse me, but which is it? Am I supposed to believe that Obama is a supercilious elitist or a menacing ghetto radical? Is he contemptuous of religion or too close to a religious leader? Obama’s critics don’t bother to say. Meanwhile, real character issues go relatively unheeded.

Start with Obama’s turbulent preacher. Yes, Jeremiah Wright says some disgraceful things. But can anyone explain how that changes Obama’s qualities as a candidate? Is anyone suggesting that an Obama administration would view AIDS as a government plot to kill African Americans? Or that it would govern from the perspective that the United States is a terrorist nation? Obviously an Obama administration would do no such thing. Which makes the storm over the preacher an absurd digression.

The Wright affair tells us that Obama bonded with someone whose political views are sometimes toxic. But as a young man trying to make sense of his mixed heritage, Obama looked to Wright for spiritual guidance, not political tutorials; as a community organizer, Obama focused on Wright’s admirable social work, not his resentment of the white establishment. Indeed, Obama’s own views on race and politics were diametrically opposed to those of his pastor. This is the candidate who campaigned for as long as possible as though race were irrelevant — as though the tantalizing prospect that the United States might elect its first black president were merely incidental. A few months ago, there were those who suggested that Obama was not black enough. Now he is too black? This is preposterous.

If Obama clearly does not share Wright’s views, of what precisely is he guilty? Of befriending someone with repugnant opinions? Anyone who condemns Obama on that basis should examine his own circumstances. Real human beings present one another with complex social choices: The dependable work buddy may be unfaithful to his wife; the salt-of-the-earth neighbor may despise Hispanic immigrants. How many Obama critics have themselves been friendly with someone with misguided views? What about Bill Clinton, who counted the one-time segregationist William Fulbright among his mentors?

George W. Bush has taught us that “you are with us or you are against us” is not a good basis for a foreign policy, and the same is true of much human endeavor. It would be impossible for people to join a political party if they had to agree with everything it stood for. It would be impossible for liberal Catholics to worship if they had to storm out of the church the moment they disagreed with something uttered from the pulpit. As a matter of political tactics, Obama should have avoided tying himself to Wright. But, rather refreshingly, Obama is not one of those politicians who obsessed about his presidential viability from the moment he entered college.

Which brings us to that other attack on Obama: that his comment about blue-collar voters “clinging” to guns and religion makes him an elitist. The remark may have been untactful, as Obama himself said. But what did it tell us about Obama’s fitness to be president? Would he use his power to discriminate against churchgoers? His own churchgoing suggests not. Would he control guns? One hopes so. And is he really an elitist snob? After Harvard Law School, Obama could have pursued a career that involved contact only with hypereducated brainiacs like him. But by working as a community organizer and in state politics, he chose a life that put him among ordinary folk. The elitist label is ridiculous.

The real character issue, in this campaign as in others, comes down to one thing: Does a candidate have the guts to espouse positions that are not politically expedient? Here there are serious questions about Obama, who pledges to pull out of Iraq no matter what, and who promises both to increase spending and not to raise taxes on anybody making less than $200,000 to $250,000 a year, ensuring the perpetuation of crippling federal deficits. For that matter, there are serious questions about Hillary Clinton, who proposes an irresponsible gas-tax holiday, and about John McCain, who couples gas pandering with a flip-flop on the Bush tax cuts, which he once (correctly) viewed as unaffordable. But these genuine character issues have been shunted aside by the spectacle of Obama’s falling-out with his preacher.

The Obama-Wright “revelations” are really a revelation about our political culture: About its failure to distinguish the important from the trivial and about the inevitability that the race card will eventually be played against a black candidate. If the once formidable Obama campaign is knocked off course by these “revelations” in tomorrow’s primaries, it will be a travesty.

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Let’s be clear, Candy Crowley of CNN, telling voters whatever they want to hear is not a campaign strategy and is not in any way an honest appeal to voters! With each passing day, I am coming to believe that Candy Crowley is quite dense and does not articulate an original thought or perform any independent analysis of her stories.

Candy Crowley is the epitome of a talking head who simply reads cue cards. OK, Candy, let me break it down for you, Hillary Clinton is a lier and tells voters what they want to hear. She will do anything, now that her campaign is broke, to gain (FREE) media visibility and play into the short sited inclinations of voters. Candy Crowley is yet another “gigantic” name on my ever-growing list of media/entertainment talking heads who does not have the professional capacity to be unbiased in her “reporting.” Funny, I used to like Candy Crowley, until her coverage of the obama/clinton battle began to nauseate me.

It is OK and completely understandable for everyone to have a favorite candidate. But when you are commonly accepted as a newscaster, it is incumbent upon you to refrain from letting your personal opinion tarnish the news that you are supposed to be reporting.

Back to Clinton lacking voter appeal. It is almost unanimously agreed upon by leading economists that the “gas tax holiday,” the ridiculous idea first proposed by john boy “imp” mccain, is a very bad idea. Of course, Hillary jumped on mccain’s bandwagon and endorsed the idea. Despite all of her whining about having so much experience, I am still not clear as to what original ideas she has proposed.

I have suggested in several previous posts that Hillary Clinton is more akin to right wing republicans than any democrat i have seen in recent decades. In fact, it was even said during one of tonight’s broadcasts of of discussion between national politcal pundits that the gas tax holiday may be the single worst proposed policy idea put forth during the entire campaign.

Where exactly can Hillary’s “testicular fortitude” be found? It certainly is not present in her campaign nor in her integrity. What America needs the least at this low point in our country’s history is someone who wants to serve out Bush’s third term and will do anything to accomplish that goal.

Let’s be clear, Hillary “you’re a bitch” clinton. You are the very last person I can think of right now who has the integrity to be America’s next president. pandering to voters, scratching the scab from our nation’s racist woulds and teasing voters with poposals and ideas that will never be enacted or supported by legistaters is disingeneous, to say the least. The reality is that voters have a short memory and even if Billary is elected in the general, she is not likely to make good on any of her promises.

Come on Hillary. If anyone should know when it is time to leave the party it is you. You remind me of the fat girl in high school who slept around. being the school slut made her feel good about herself and she was happy to get any attention, even bad attention. you are the slut of the democratic party and you will do anything to get attention for yourself, even if you infect the entire democratic party with aids. after all, you are operating from the perspective that you have nothing to lose. since you are already at the bottom of the barrel, you can only go up.

It is a well known fact that hillary clinton cannot win a national election, even against john boy imp mccain. so, why are hillary clinton and bill clinton willing to throw the election back to the republicans? i can tell you for certain, if hillary clinton wins the nomination, i will not vote, period. i am sure that there are many who feel the same.

Come on, people!  If there was really anything of merit to the claim that Obama is a Farrakan supporter, it would have surfaced long before now.  Obama has already stated that he “reject[s] and denounce[es] Farrakan” in totality.  I find a few things odd in the discussion of this issue:

1.  Obama never formally or informally accepted any support of any kind from Farrakan.  A public statement of endorsement by an extremist figure is beyond control by Obama.

2.  Where is the outrage and continual harping of the media regarding the racist statement that was made by the mexican immigrant who is a “high ranking” clinton supporter in texas.  I think that we can all agree that if that so called spokesperson for the mexican immigrant community in texas is willing to make such an obviously strong and racist statement in public, on national television, that she is certainly using the ‘N’ bomb and much stronger and offensive language when the cameras are not rolling.  Hillary clinton did not unequivocally reject this woman’s support and that of the voters that she represents.

3.   Where is the outrage for the racist rants that are spewed every day by the conservatives and right wing republicans, most of which is based in race baitng?  Bill, the O’Reilley, the asshole, can rant about lynching Michelle Obama and there is a deafening silence from the established media, most of which is controlled by the jews, if I may add.  of course, senator obama cannot speak to the issue, lest he be dragged into a ‘no win’ discussion on race and made to acknowledge publically that he is concerned about the state of black america.  of course, hillary can whine about women, and bill clinton can tell lies about his being the first black president, but god forbid if obama talks about being a black man in america.

4.  Why is the voice of the catholic community being silenced in their outrage to the recent endorsement of john boy imp mccain  by the conservative, religious racist, with whom he stood shoulder to elbow (mccain is a dwarf, remember) when accepting the endorsement.

5.  Why hasn’t john boy imp mccain rejected and denounced the conservative radio retards who on a daily basis speak and stoke racism on the airwaves of america?  I will tell you why, it’s because he will do anything to get their political support.

6.  Why are jews so fucking whiny?  Of course, antisemitism is wrong and unacceptable but no more wrong and unacceptable than ANY AND ALL racial hatred.  So, i suppose that i will be “outraged” about any of the shit you care about and when jews are the target of racism, when the jews themselves are outraged about all hatred targeting all races.  Jews, stop whining and spend the same amount of energy denouncing all racism, not just when it is directed toward poor, rich jews.  after all, last I checked, jews are the ones giving the green light to most of the racist, polluted garbage that goes out on the television and radio airwaves, not including the trash that comes out of hollywood to the movie screens across america.

7.  why is obama’s church an issue in his campaign?  i would imagine that it is not uncommon for a church to be subject to an IRS investigation.  is that obama’s fault or problem?  how does that impact obama’s integrity or qualifications to be president?  if that is the case, then potential for a breach of national security is very high given that john boy imp mccain’s wife is an admitted drug addict.  she claims to be drug free, but only her doctor knows.  i am not even going to get into her lame ass excuse about becoming addicted to pain killers as a result of a back injury she suffered.  yeah, right.  rich, white bitches are always using that lame excuse for their drug addictions, rather than taking responsibility for their weakness and actions by just admitting that they liked getting high and became addicted in the process of liking to get high on a regular basis.

8.  why isn’t the democratic leadership taking back room meetings with hillary clinton and preventing her from ongoing attempts to destroy obama?  it seems to me that someone with 35 years of experience would much rather spend their time and limited financial resources reinforcing that experience in the minds of the voters, rather than constantly trying to tear-down the opponent.  i simply can’t get it out of my mind that hillary clinton is all talk, or should i say all bark.  what are hillary clinton’s accomplishments again?

Saturday, January 26, 2008A STUDY AND RELATIVE SLEAZE / OBAMA AND CLINTON

A STUDY IN RELATIVE SLEAZE

  [CRIMINAL CLINTONS VS. OBAMA]Barack Obama numbers one friend who was indicted on Federal corruption charges while Hillary Clinton numbers seventeen friends including her husband Bill Clinton who was only the second president to be impeached. Clinton also was fined and had his Arkansas and US Supreme Court bar licenses suspended for failing repeated requests by a judge to testify truthfully in the Paula Jones case: Allen L RolandHere’s the detailed scorecard of sleeze courtesy of the Progressive Review and Hillary wins decisively 17 to one .http://prorev.com/2008/01/so-you-want-to-talk-about-obamas-pals.htmlAllen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/01/26.html BARACK OBAMAVICTOR REZKOSlumlord indicted on federal corruption chargesHILLARY CLINTONSANDY BERGERIn April 2005, Berger plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington. According to the lead prosecutor in the case Berger only took copies of classified information and that no original material was destroyed, however there is notable controversy and speculation that he might have removed or destroyed originals of other unknown documents as well. - WikipediaJOSE CARBRERAHillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate campaign returned $22,000 in “soft money” to a businesswoman linked to a Democratic campaign contribution from a drug smuggler in Havana. The donation by Vivian Mannerud Verble was the largest single contribution received by Clinton’s soft-money committee. Verble, whose company runs charter flights between Cuba and Miami, also served as the fund-raising intermediary between Jorge Cabrera and the Democratic National Committee in 1995, according to congressional investigators. The probers reportedly learned that Cabrera cut a $20,000 check to the DNC from a bank account in which he also kept profits from his lucrative cocaine trade. The DNC eventually returned the money, while Cabrera pleaded guilty to importing 6,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States. He is serving a 19-year federal prison sentence in Florida . . . Although Verble was never charged with any criminal wrongdoing, she was at the center of one of the most embarrassing fund-raising scandals in the Clinton administration. - NY PostBILL CLINTONOnly the second president to be impeached. Clinton also was fined and had his Arkansas and US Supreme Court bar licenses suspended for failing repeated requests by a judge to testify trutfully in the Paula Jones caseJOHNNY CHUNGDemocratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has agreed to plead guilty to election law violations and cooperate in the ongoing Justice Department investigation into illegal campaign fund-raising in the 1996 elections. . . Chung became a major figure in the Democratic fund-raising scandal when it was learned he made almost 50 visits to the White House. During one visit, Chung gave first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s then-chief of staff, Maggie Williams, a $50,000 check for the Democratic National Committee. The check was delivered inside the White House. Two days later Chung was able to bring a group of Chinese businessmen to watch President Bill Clinton deliver a radio address in the Oval Office. They then had their picture taken with the president. The DNC returned more than $300,000 that Chung raised because of questions about the source of the money. - CNNVINA GUPTAThe frontrunner for the Democrats in the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, has been hit by a legal dispute in which one of her fundraisers is accused of trying to “ingratiate” himself with powerful friends at the expense of his company. The row has revived accusations of the influence peddling and favors for donors that marred Bill Clinton’s presidency in the 1990s. For years the Clintons flew on Vinod Gupta’s corporate plane, introduced him to world leaders - including Tony Blair - and received donations for their political campaigns and charitable foundations. They relaxed at his holiday home in Hawaii - next door to Pierce Brosnan, the former James Bond star - and jetted to Acapulco, the Mexican resort, while Gupta once spent the night as a favored guest in the Lincoln bedroom at the White House. . . The lawsuit, by company shareholders, accuses Gupta of squandering millions of dollars on his high-profile friends, including $900,000 worth of travel on the Clintons. - Times, UKJOHN HUANGIn 1994 John Huang quit the Lippo Group — with a golden parachute of around $800,000 — and went to work for the Commerce Department. Some believe the move is instigated by his friend, Hillary Clinton. The Indonesia-based Lippo Group was headed by Mochtar Riady, a central character in the Clinton scandals.
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown ordered a top secret clearance for Huang. While at Commerce, Huang visits the White House about 70 times, is briefed 37 times by the CIA, views about 500 intelligence reports, and makes 281 calls to Lippo banks. In 1999 Huang was sentenced for campaign finance violations.NORMAN HSUBy 2007, Hsu’s status within Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign had risen to the level where he was a “HillRaiser,” someone who had “bundled” more than $100,000 for her campaign, and to where he co-hosted a $1 million fundraiser at wealthy Democratic Party supporter Ron Burkle’s Beverly Hills estate, and in September, he was scheduled to co-host a major gala fundraising event featuring music legend Quincy Jones.. . . LA TIMES, 2007: Confronted with the possibility that disgraced fundraiser Norman Hsu might be running an illicit investment scheme, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign announced late Monday that it was returning $850,000 from 260 donors associated with Hsu. The amount is one of the largest ever returned by a single candidate, and the action marked a sharp turn for the Clinton campaign.WEBSTER HUBBELLIn 1994, Webster Hubbell is convicted of tax evasion and mail fraud involving the theft of nearly a half million dollars from his partners at the Rose firm and failing to pay nearly $150,000 in taxes. After quitting the Justice Department and before going to jail, Hubbell is a busy man. He meets with former partner Hillary Clinton and follows up by getting together with major scandal figures John Huang, James Riady, and Ng Lapseng. Riady and Huang go to the White House every day from June 21 to June 25, 1994 according to White House records. Hubbell had breakfast and lunch with Riady on June 23. Four days later — and one week after Hubbell’s meeting with Hillary — the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, jointly owed by Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, sends $100,000 to Hubbell.ABDUL REHMAN JINNAHA Pakistani immigrant is wanted by federal authorities on charges he channeled $30,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential war chest. The FBI is hunting Los Angeles businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, who vanished soon after his grand-jury indictment for violating federal election laws last May. Clinton’s camp has denied any knowledge of Jinnah’s scheme, which is also alleged to have funneled more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the political action committees of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. - NY PostDAN LASATER Dan Lasater, Arkansas bond don who was close to the Clintons, pleads guilty to cocaine distribution charges. The case also involvesdClinton step brother Roger, who testified against Lasater in a plea agreement. Both Lasater and Roger Clinton will serve brief prison terms. While Lasater is in prison his affairs were run by Patsy Thomasson, who later becomes a White House aide..JIM MCDOUGALOn April 14, 1997, McDougal was convicted of eighteen felony counts of fraud and conspiracy charges. The counts had to do with bad loans made by Madison in the late 1980s. As his savings and loan was federally-insured, the $68 million was paid by taxpayers. He joined with his wife, from whom he was later divorced, and the Clintons to borrow $203,000 to buy land in the Ozark Mountains for vacation homes. When the development failed, he attempted to cover the losses with S&L funds. McDougal was prosecuted for fraud in 1984 and hired the Mrs. Clinton’s Rose Law Firm to defend him. Questions remain in regard to Mrs. Clinton’s Rose Law Firm billing records on Madison Guaranty and how much work she actually did. McDougal also held a fundraiser that paid off Clinton’s then campaign debt of $50,000. McDougal died of a heart attack in federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. The circumstances of his death remain questionable: he was apparently denied access to his heart medication, and he was placed in solitary confinement without the medication.SUSAN MCDOUGAL[Susan McDougal] was convicted on May 28, 1996, and spent time in prison for four counts of fraud and conspiracy relating to the Whitewater scandal. She also spent 18 months in prison including 7 weeks in solitary confinement for civil contempt of court. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright sentenced her after McDougal refused to answer three questions from Whitewater prosecutors before the grand jury empaneled by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr to investigate the Whitewater deals. These questions included whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, particularly when he denied any knowledge of an illegal $300,000 loan. During that trial, the government’s star witness, Arkansas banker and former municipal judge David Hale, claimed that then-Governor Bill Clinton had discussed an illegal $300,000 loan with himself and McDougal. McDougal received a full Presidential pardon from outgoing President Bill Clinton in the final hours of his presidency in 2001.PETER PAULMrs. Clinton’s entanglement with a thrice-convicted felon named Peter Paul is proof of how long campaign-finance problems can haunt a public official. Mr. Paul became a problem for Mrs. Clinton when his criminal past became public shortly after he helped organize and finance a gala Hollywood fund-raiser for her in August 2000. Rather than drift away, Mr. Paul has been on the attack against Mrs. Clinton ever since. In a lawsuit in California state court that has been grinding along for years, Mr. Paul accuses Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton of deceiving him into spending well over $1 million on the fund-raiser for her Senate campaign. Mr. Paul contends the Clintons obtained the money by falsely promising that Mr. Clinton would become Mr. Paul’s business associate after leaving the White House in January 2001. Mr. Paul also maintains that Mrs. Clinton and her campaign violated federal election law in connection with the fund-raiser. The Clintons have denied any wrongdoing. Their attorney, David Kendall, says there was never any business arrangement discussed or contemplated between Mr. Paul and Mr. Clinton. - Wall Street JournalANTHONY PELLICANOA significant portion of the [Clinton's] Shadow Team’s operations were carried out by private investigators, among them: Terry Lenzner, founder and chairman of the powerful Washington, D.C., detective firm Investigative Group International; high-ticket San Francisco private eye Jack Palladino and his wife Sandra Sutherland; and Hollywood sleuth Anthony J. Pellicano. . . In the January 1992 issue of GQ magazine, Pellicano boasted of the dirty work he had performed for his clients, including blackmail and physical assault. He claimed to have beaten one of his client’s enemies with a baseball bat. “I’m an expert with a knife,” said Pellicano. “I can shred your face with a knife.” FBI agents raided Pellicano’s West Hollywood office on Nov. 22, 2002, and arrested him on federal weapons charges. In his office, they found gold, jewelry, and about $200,000 in cash - most of it bundled in $10,000 wrappers - thousands of pages of transcripts of illegal wiretaps; two handguns; and various explosive devices stored in safes, including two live hand grenades and a pile of C4 plastic explosive, complete with blasting cap and detonation cord. Worldnet DailyKEITH RANIEREA purported pyramid-scheme operator . . . has reinvented himself as the head of an upstate group accused of being a “cult” - and his devotees have pumped thousands into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential run. Executives and top associates of the Albany-based NXIVM group - along with their family members - donated $29,900 to Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to federal records. On March 14 and April 13, records show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton’s coffers from NXIVM, an executive and group-awareness training organization led by Brooklyn-born Keith Raniere, 47. . .In his previous incarnation, the Svengali-like Raniere ran a $30 million multilevel marketing business that imploded after federal agencies and regulators in 23 states alleged it was an illegal pyramid scheme. - NY POSTSAMUEL RIVERA Among the 11 public officials arrested in an F.B.I. corruption sting in New Jersey today was a leading Democratic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in that state, Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic. . . Mayor Rivera allegedly promised to deliver a majority of votes on the Passaic City Council to steer city insurance brokerage business to a dummy company set up by the F.B.I. - NT TIMESGARY WINNICKFounder and chair of later bankrupt Global Crossing helped Clinton campaign chair Terry McAuliffe make $18 million out of a $100,000 investment. Winnick also gave $1 million to the Clinton Library. The bankruptcy cost investors millions and costs thousands of employees their jobs. Two years before the crash, Winnick bought a $92 million house, by some estimates the most expensive in American history - including a payment of $66 million in cash.Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/01/26.html Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments , interviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com ) Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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ONLY THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY

The following is the lead-in to an article that appeared USAToday, this week:

DILLON, South Carolina (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton downplayed recent acrimony between her campaign and that of Barack Obama as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, suggested she may lose Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary because many black voters will side with Obama.

I find it curious that this argument of people voting along racial lines is only being raised as it relates to Obama’s campaign. If black people are going to vote along racial lines (and I am not saying this is NOT the case), then aren’t white people and mexican people (especially mexicans) doing it too. And hasn’t this really been the case all along? I am not surprised by this, only by the fact that, until now, white people, have come to realize and take exception to the fact that RACE COLORS EVERYTHING (NO PUN INTENDED)! (Bill and Hillary represent the views of all white people, right? Just as a single black person is oftentimes characterized as representing the views of the black race).

I know that they are part of the elite class but it is not possible that anyone who happily accepts the title of the “first black president” who is married to a white woman who claims to have been committed to blacks and their problems throughout her life (these are my words and not hers; I am simply trying to paraphrase a bucket load of bull shit into a couple of sentences, could not have been aware of the enormous racial divide in this country. In reality they are rednecks who have for years been pandering to black folks and the have-nots, in order to maintain elected positions.

Let’s not just limit this assumption that people make decisions in favor of their race to the President Obama/Hillary battle. In essence, what Bill is insinuating is that people favor those who are of the same racial make-up as themselves and disfavor those who are racially dissimilar to themselves. Hmmmm, definitely sounds like intellectual aptitude deserving of a Rhodes Scholarship.

So, let’s theorize about what the impact is likely to be due to this supposed tendency of people to let their decisions be overwhelmingly influenced by their race? Let’s look at the employment market? What about law enforcement? How about sentencing for criminal convictions? Then there is educational opportunities or a lack thereof. Oh, let’s not forget to consider access to healthcare and treatment and diagnosis of disease. And what about the media coverage of people of color versus others? Oops, did I imply that the very media that run these fucked up stories are biased against people of color?

Anyway, I yell “BULLSHIT” to all of these shenanigans. Bill and Hillary put a new layer of stench on an already funky pile of mile high shit!