Obama: “The buck never got here.”
May 19th, 2008 at 08:07pm Leo Pusateri
Read this story on Obama’s tendencies to blame the help for all his woes. Here’s but a snippet:
In a March 2008 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times to answer questions about Tony Rezko, Obama was asked about the fact that Obama had told the newspaper in November 2006 that he had never been asked to do anything to advance Rezko’s business interests. But the Sun-Times had subsequently learned about a October 28, 1998 letter Obama wrote to city and state housing officials on behalf of a housing project for seniors that Rezko was working on.
The letter, Obama said, “was essentially a form letter of the sort that I did all time. And that I wasn’t, by the way, aware of.”
A reporter asked: You weren’t aware that he was associated with the project?
Responded Obama: “I wasn’t even aware that we wrote the letter. The answer that I gave at the time was accurate as far as I knew…This was one of many form letters, or letters of recommendation we would send out constantly for all sorts of projects. And my understanding is that our letter was just one of many. And I wasn’t a decision maker in any of this process.”
The Sun-Times also pointed out that in November 2006 Obama estimated that Rezko had raised somewhere between $50,000 and $60,000 for him during his political career.
But since that answer, Obama has given back almost $160,000 in Rezko-related contributions.
“The original estimate was based on, I asked my staff to find what monies they attributed to Rezko, and this was the figure given to me,” Obama said.
Blaming others for your own misfortunes, gaffes and mis-steps will only get you so far. For the better part of a year, Barack Obama was held above criticism by the larger media, and was thought to be the democratic “pure as the wind-driven snow” golden child. But the more the truth about the “real Obama” comes out, the more the electorate will realize that the “golden child” they thought they were getting was in reality nothing but costume jewelry.
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1. neocon | May 19th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
You know for a man, and/or candidate who claims to be the great uniter, I am still not seeing it. I heard again today of another womans group that has stated they will vote for McCain if Hillary is not the candidate. He’s losing them and Reagan Democrats. Not good.
This is a can’t miss year for the Democrats……….and they’re blowing it.
2. LiberalNitemare | May 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I have got to get me a staff.
Life is so much easier when you have a ready made person or persons to blame for all those little things that go wrong.
Little things like forgetting how much money was donated to your campaign by a criminel, and forgetting when you wrote a letter on the behalf of a criminel.
3. ViralNexus | May 19th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I would also mention forgetting how to spell criminal- you could definitely blame that on someone. I like how you guys keep going on and on about how the Dems are steadily loosing there advantage. The fall of the GOP seats has already begun with three of the most heavily fortified republican congressional seats being easily stolen by Democrats. Then you have one of your own senators saying that if the Republican brand was dog food it would be removed from the shelves. I don’t like any of these candidates but I can assure you that not even on a cold day in hell will John McCain be our next president. Barrack Hussein Obama could come out and say that I am a Muslim Communist anti-American extremist (the one that you people keep trying to portray him as) and he would still be easily elected. So “another” womens group will not vote for Obama- so what? Besides I’m sure it works the same way as it does on the GOP side. They say that they will not vote for a particular candidate i.e Rush for McCain but in the end they will vote by party affiliation. In any case you guys are going to make this an entertaining 6 months.
4. neocon | May 19th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Viral,
It goes directly to the core of who Obama says he is. He is campaigning as the uniter, the candidate for all of America, yet he’s just as polarizing as any other candidate. He can’t even unite his own party.
Doesn’t that just seem a little hollow to you? You’re prepared to vote for anyone with a pulse as long as it has the D next to the name, right? No matter how inexperienced they are. This is a can’t miss year for the Dems, but they are blowing it.
5. ViralNexus | May 19th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Honestly I probably won’t vote for either of the candidates but instead write in Ron Paul or vote for Nader. You assume I would only vote for someone with a D next to there name yet you darn well know that you will be voting for McCain purely for the ‘R’ next to his. FmrMarine hates McCain, Mark use to adamently swear he would never vote for McCain- I think even you had those same inclinations and yet all of you will vote for him because of party affiliation. If people really believed in this democratic process we have they would vote for who they believe in and not because of the contention that they just can’t allow the other guy to win. It’s quite pathetic actually. I also find it quite funny that you guys made up this “great uniter” label for Obama so you could use it against him when it is McCain that is trying desperately to appeal to EVERYONE. Who is the last GOP contender for POTUS that you can remember that visited impoverished black neighborhoods, talked about global climate change, and complete government transperancy? And now he is talking about putting a time table on Iraq, 5 years max, much sooner than the 13 years Hilary once talked about. But he’s your canddiate not mine.
6. LiberalNitemare | May 20th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Sorry for the spelling erors Viral, one of my staffers was supposed to spel check this for me.
7. Greg-O | May 20th, 2008 at 7:03 am
ViralNexus wrote, “The fall of the GOP seats has already begun with three of the most heavily fortified republican congressional seats being easily stolen by Democrats.”
Perhaps you are unaware that at least two of those Democrats, here in Louisiana and neighboring Mississippi, ran on pro-life, pro-gun, anti-tax platforms. Not exactly the same platform as Mr. Obama, or Mrs. Clinton, or Mrs. Pelosi for that matter.
Though I would be surprised if the GOP does well in Congressional elections this November, as there are still many “RINO” types on the ballot, I think it bodes well that these newly-minted Democrats have shown the “conservative brand” still wins.
Obama is completely unimpressive to me, such as how he dismissed Kentucky to Clinton because of the close proximity of Arkansas. Hello? Illinois shares a state border with Kentucky. Illinois and Kentucky have tax reciprocity laws for residents who work across state lines. Assuredly, in his time in the Illinois state legislature, Obama would have noticed such laws, particularly tax laws?
8. Cavalor Epthith, Esquire, D.S.V.J. | May 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am
7. Greg-O | May 20th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Ideological and electoral proximity. In plain English, there are too many white non college grads there for me to waste my time. It was code like the code in Kathleen Parker’s article about being “full blooded American.”
In the long run Oregon wins it for Obama and the editorial decisions on endorsements can begin.
9. Joel | May 20th, 2008 at 9:03 am
My Senator, Obama, is still trying to figure out how many states we have. Where each is located will not be until next year. So he probably doesn’t know that Kentucky is located close to his state.
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11. Joel | May 20th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Oh by the way BOB did learn from the best, Dick Daley, I ordered the runways destroyed but I didn’t drive the dozes so it’s not my fault. And the Honorable Rod Blagojevich. And Toni Rezko was the go between.
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