Monthly Archives: August 2008

The Case Against Barack Obama, Dan Shomon, Robert Blackwell, David Freddoso, Killerspin, Illinois State Grants, Legal retainer, Money Laundering, LA Times article

One of the least reported aspects of Obama’s past and his ties to
corruption and dubious business associations is the Robert Blackwell
“legal retainer” in conjunction with Dan Shomon. The LA Times broke
this story back in April 2008. They referred to Dan Shomon as an
Obama campaign aide. This blog, Citizen Wells, dug deeper into the
role of Dan Shomon. Dan Shomon was actually Obama’s Campaign Manager
at one time and he was also  a lobbyist. Dan Shomon’s name is at
the top of an announcement of Robert Blackwell being on Governor
Rod Blagojevich’s team. Blagojevich was named often during the Tony
Rezko trial and has been the subject of a recall attempt in Illinois.
Robert Blackwell contacted this blog shortly after we presented
our article in April 2008.

David Freddoso has written a new book, “The Case Against Barack Obama.
Freddoso, to his credit, writes about the Dan Shomon connection. He
does not cover Shomon as well as this blog so we recommend that you
search on Shomon here and learn more. Here are some exerpts from
“The Case Against Barack Obama”:
“Perhaps the most surprising story about Barack obama and money is one that no one talks about at all.  It involves ping-pong.  it is the story of how state Senator Obama was paid more than $100,000 for legal work, then helped his client’s company get $320,000 in taxpayer grants. 
For some reason, only the Los Angeles Times has examined the story of Robert Blackwell Jr. and the government grants he received after he invested in Barack Obama.

Obama writes in The Audacity of Hope that after his failed congressional run in 2000, he was “more or less broke.”  His family would make $240,000 that year, but they had large debts, and he had just loaned his losing campaign $9,500 and maxed out his credit card.  To keep his family afloat, he writes, he went back after the election to his law firm, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which he had neglected throughout 2000 (he received no income from the firm that year).  He planned to do some legal work to supplement his modest $58,000 salary as a state senator.

In 2001, while serving as a state senator, Obama would earn $98,158 from his law practice.  Of that money, $80,000 came from a single client – Electronic Knowledge Interchange (EKI)-which had put him on a $8,000 monthly retainer.  This lasted fourteen months and netted Obama $112,000.  The company was owned by one Robert Blackwell Jr., a friend of Obama’s since about 1995.

Months after Obama received his final payment from EKI, he wrote a request on Illinois Senate letterhead and sent it to state officials for a $50,000 tourism grant to a company named Killerspin. This company was also owned by Blackwell.

Killerspin runs ping-pong tournaments and sells ping-pong gear.  After Obama’s original request, Killerspin received a $20,000 grant for a ping-pong tournament.  Over the next three years, Obama’s aide Dan Shoman-who was working for the senator part-time and part-time for Blackwell-would help Killerspin get a $200,000 state grant for its 2003 tournament and a $100,000 state grant for its 2004 tournament, for a total of $320,000.

So Blackwell’s company paid Senator Obama a large sum of money.  Blackwell’s other company received almost three times as much in state grants, with help from Obama and his aide.

The Times reports that Obama, in his required legal financial disclosures, buried his six-figure financial conflict of interest amid a list of hundreds of other clients represented by his law firm.  He did not mention that the majority of his 2001 income came from EKI-nor was he required to do so under Illinois law.  Moreover, the Times piece notes:

The business arrived at an especially fortuitious time because, as the law firm’s senior partner, Judson Miner, put it, “it was a very dry period here,” meaning that the ebb and flow of cases left little work for Obama and cash was tight.”

This corruption connection is listed on the Petition to Impeach, expel Senator Obama:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Truth Fights Back, John Kerry, Obama, communist visits, Aiding and abetting the enemy, Abuse of power, Logan Act

“I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgement, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty, and trust–all absolute tenets of command.”

REAR ADMIRAL ROY F. HOFFMAN, USN (RETIRED)

Commander of the Swift Boats in Vietnam, 1968-1969

John Kerry meddling in foreign affairs (from “Unfit for Command):
“About one year earlier, two young Americans had also come to
Paris, presumably for their honeymoon: John Kerry, a young, clean
shaven Navy war veteran, accompanied by his new wife, the former
Julia Thorne, who could trace her lineage back to George Washington.
But honeymooning was not John Kerry’s only reason for traveling to
Paris. Kerry’s presidential campaign has now acknowledged that he
“talked privately with a leading Communist representative” there.

For decades, this meeting had been only a rumor. The rumor
stemmed from a comment Kerry made in the less publicized question
and answer segment of his April 22, 1971, testimony before the
Fulbright Committee: “I have been to Paris. I have talked with both
delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government.””

From the Petition to Impeach Senator Obama. Meddling in the affairs of Kenya and abuse of power:

Whereas: As a US Senator, Barack Obama violated the stated intention of
his 2006 Official Government Visa to Africa by publicly propagandizing
for his cousin, Railla Odinga against the US democratic ally of Kenya.
Whereas the stated “mission” of Senator Obama’s Official Visa, according
to the Kenya Office of Public Communications, was to “nurture relations
between the Continent and the United States” he, instead, made public
protest before Kenya citizens to rally against their leadership,
invoking a need for “Change!” and accusing this US allied nation of
“corruption.” In Official Protest of Mr. Obama’s passport abuse and
misconduct, Kenya’s government cited his “extremely disturbing
statements on issues which it is clear, he was very poorly informed, and
on which he chose to lecture the Government and the people of Kenya on
how to manage our country.” Whereas, furthermore, there is no public
record of any sanctions or reprimand by the US Congress of Senator
Obama’s passport violation or campaigning on foreign soil against a US
ally, history has since recorded the broadspread destruction of Kenya’s
economy and large scale loss of life as a result of the violence
instigated by Odinga’s ODM campaign there.”

View the complaint from the Kenyan Government here:

 http://www.communication.go.ke/media.asp?id=284

Note that what was once considered to be a rumor about Kerry’s trip turned out to be true.

To John Kerry and the Truth Fights Back site.

The response from the Kenyan Government to Obama’s 2006 visit is not a rumor or a smear. It is what we commonly refer to as a fact.

John Kerry, do you have a response to these facts?

View and sign the petition to Impeach Senator Obama:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Truthfightsback.com, Obama lies, Doublespeak, Questions equal Smears, John Kerry, Citizen Wells challenges, Kerry and Obama, Will not silence us

“I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgement, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty, and trust–all absolute tenets of command.”

REAR ADMIRAL ROY F. HOFFMAN, USN (RETIRED)

Commander of the Swift Boats in Vietnam, 1968-1969

John Kerry Lie (from “Unfit for Command):

“Even more significant, Kerry’s account of the “Bo De massacre” is a breathtaking lie. In “Tour”, Kerry presents the first Swift incident on the Bo De as a “massacre” of Swiftees with seventeen wounded caused by incompetence of all commanders whom he chose to blame rather than the vagaries of war or the enemy. Kerry’s fabrication comes even though he was not there. Joe Ponder was there as a Swiftee on the mission in question. Today, still badly disabled and on crutches from the incident, Ponder says, “There were only three persons wounded–not seventeen as Kerry states– and I was the first.””

More Obama lies:

Obama was an Indonesian citizen.

Obama’s official religion was Islam.

Obama at one time was a practicing Muslim.

His official name was Barry Soetoro.

Has Obama officially changed his name from Barry Soetoro to Barack Obama?

View and sign the petition to Impeach Senator Obama:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Orwell Diaries, George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm, Thought Police, Doublespeak, orwelldiaries.wordpress.com

I recently came across an interesting blog, Orwell Diaries. The site chronicles George Orwell’s diary entries 70 years ago to the date. George Orwell is one of my favorite writers and I quote his book “1984” regularly. Orwell’s vision of a society where all the information available is controlled and history rewritten, resonates with many today. The Barack Obama Campaign is the living embodiment of “1984.” George Orwell also wrote “Animal Farm”, a satire of Soviet socialism.

Here is an exerpt from the about page of the blog:

“The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

Orwell’s ‘domestic’ diaries begin on 9th August 1938/2008; his ‘political’ diaries (which are further categorised as ‘Morocco’, ‘Pre-war’ and ‘Wartime’) begin on 7th September 1938/2008.

The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them. Where there are original spelling errors, they are indicated by a ° following the offending word.”

Visit the blog here:

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

Truth Fights Back, John Kerry, Obama, truthfightsback.com, replacing smears, lies and distortions with intellectual honesty and an aim for truth, Kerry and Obama lies, Jerome Corsi, The Obama Nation

Audacity. A word that fits both John Kerry and Barack Obama. Jerome Corsi, PHD, has written a book, “The Obama Nation,” about the real Obama. Mr. Corsi also wrote “Unfit for Command” about the real John Kerry. Both books are well documented and expose both of these liars for what they are. Both John Kerry and Barack Obama are accusing anyone that questions them of being invloved in smear campaigns. Here is the fisrt blog post from Kerry’s new site, Truth Fights Back:

Welcome to TruthFightsBack.com

Posted by Web Team on July 21st 2008 at 8:18 PM

Welcome to TruthFightsBack.com. We’re all about replacing smears, lies and distortions with intellectual honesty and an aim for truth.

Politics is filled with disagreements and disputes. This is not a problem. However, in recent years, the rightwing in this country has perfected a style of politics – a method of smearing – that now has its own name: swiftboating.

This website is the product of Campaign For Our Country, the leadership PAC of John Kerry. No one knows better than Senator Kerry the methods and effects of this style of politics, and it’s that knowledge that has led us to start this effort to try to combat that style wherever we find it, to try to fight back against it. I, for one, am under no illusions that we can “end” this style of politics, but by empowering activists to work against it, we can greatly weaken.

Hopefully, we weaken it so much that it will hurt those who smear more than it will hurt their targets.

But, notice I mentioned “by empowering activists” … because this site absolutely needs you. Those of us who have studied and paid attention to smears know that a campaign, or a centralized “debunking” effort, can not win against smears. Only an army of activists, all pushing for the truth in their own lives and to the people in their own social networks, can be truly effective.

I’ll be laying out in the rest of the week the tools and layout of this site that makes it all work. But for now, the floor is open. What do you think we should do to fight back with the truth? Google Ads? Volunteer actions? House parties? What?”

Anyone that has followed the Obama Campaign and their orchestrated attacks on anyone that questions Obama, will see through this Orwellian Doublespeak. Just like the Obama  Campaign, Fight the Smears site, this new Kerry project ratchets up the attacks against concerned Americans searching for the truth about Obama. Just as in “1984” by George Orwell, they rewrite history.

The attacks against Jerome Corsi have increased just as they did with Larry Sinclair and recently Jon Voight. Mr Voight questioned Obama’s credentials and leftist leanings. Soon after Jon Voight and his family were attacked.

Do we want a repeat of Nazi Germany?

Fellow bloggers, concerned Americans, we cannot sit idly by and let the Obama Camp in cahoots with John Kerry silence Americans and distort the truth. I urge you to join me and fight these evil attempts with fact filled articles to repudiate the lies and smears from Obama and Kerry.

Citizen Wells

Please visit the Petition to Impeach Senator Obama site:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Truthfightsback.com, John Kerry, Obama, Truth Fights Back, More Obama lies, More Kerry lies, Citizen Wells reveals Kerry lies, Bloggers, Fight back

John Kerry, who has about the least amount of credibility of anyone who has ever run for office, has started a new website, TruthFightsBack.com. Here is the statement from the Kerry site:

“Please give to support truthfightsback.com!

This effort to beat back rightwing smears and have an election based on reality and truth is completely in your hands. From the reporting and debunking of smears to the spreading of the truth, we are depending on you. And to make it all work, we need your financial support, both to develop the website further and to put more resources behind spreading the truth.

This is a project of John Kerry’s Campaign For Our Country, so please contribute to Campaign For Our Country to support truthfightsback.com!”

Jerome Corsi, PHD, has written a new book, “The Obama Nation.” Mr. Corsi, who coauthored “Unfit for Command,” a book about the reputation of John Kerry and the many lies he told, has exposed Obama for the deceitful fraud he is as well as his ties to corruption and left wing extremists. Anyone who has questioned Obama has received personal attacks and Jerome Corsi is no exception.

I have a copy of “Unfit for Command” as well as “The Obama Nation.” On the introduction page of “Unfit for Command” is the following quote. It speaks volumes about John Kerry and his credibility:

“I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgement, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty, and trust–all absolute tenets of command.”

REAR ADMIRAL ROY F. HOFFMAN, USN (RETIRED)

Commander of the Swift Boats in Vietnam, 1968-1969

                     Call sign “Latch”

I and other concerned citizens are not going to let the Obama camp, in league with John Kerry, attack Jerome Corsi or anyone else for revealing the truth about Obama.

Citizen Wells

Visit the Petition to Impeach, expel Senator Obama site:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Colin Powell endorses Obama, If so he is an idiot, Does Powell have his head in the sand

There is a breaking story that Colin Powell will endorse Obama. It is hard to believe and if true, Colin Powell is an idiot.

We expected more from Colin Powell. Obviously Powell has not spent the time to learn about the real Barack Obama. Colin Powell has failed his country. Colin Powell, what is your motivation in using such poor judgement?

Larry Sinclair, National Enquirer, Obama, Donald Young, John Edwards, National Enquirer embarasses MSM, Larry Sinclair talking to National Enquirer

The National Enquirer is doing the job that the mainstream media
has failed to do. The National Enquirer broke the story in December
of 2007 of John Edwards having an affair with Rielle Hunter. No one
took the National Enquirer seriously. Finally, Fox news confirmed
the story months later and still the MSM has mostly downplayed the
story.

On March 17, 2008, the National Enquirer ran a story about Larry
Sinclair and his allegations of a drug and sex encounter with
Barack Obama in November 1999 as well as Larry Sinclair’s contact
with murdered TUCC choir director, Donald Young. When the Enquirer
story came out in March 2008, once again the story was not taken
seriously by many. Well, we have heard from reliable sources that
Larry Sinclair has been talking extensively to the National
Enquirer again. Perhaps after the great job of exposing John Edwards,
the Enquirer will get the attention of more Americans.

Here is a recent post from Larry Sinclair:

“Friday, August 8, 2008
WILL THE ENQUIRER BREAK SINCLAIR/OBAMA AFFAIR

 

The National Enquirer, the paper that all the Obama supporters portray

as having no journalistic integrity, teaches the MSM a lesson in

reporting with the Edwards/Hunter Story.

Will the National Enquirer be the media organization that BREAKS the

truth about Barack Obama and Larry Sinclair?

After all wasn’t NBC and MSNBC the ones calling the Enquirer “trash”?

Hey Chris and Keith, how does it feel to have to wipe that crap off

your faces?

Another question the Enquirer might want to ask Edwards. Did Barack

Obama and the Obama campaign extort the Edwards endorsement of Barack

Obama?

Barack you are next! Its just a matter of time.
Posted by Larry Sinclair, 5:40 PM, Permalink”   
Read more from Larry Sinclair here:

http://larrysinclair0926.com

Read and sign the Petition to Impeach Senator Obama here:

http://obamaimpeachment.org

Obama Nation, 1998 US Embassy bombing in Kenya, August 7 2008, Anniversary speech Raila Odinga, Islamic, Leftist, Marxist, Libya ties, Qaddafi, Obama 2006, Jerome Corsi

August 7, 2008, was the tenth anniversary of the US Embassy bombing
in Kenya by Al-Qaeda operatives. Raila Odinga, the leftist, marxist
leaning cousin of Barack Obama spoke at the ceremony commemorating
the US Embassy attack. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is believed to be the
mastermind of the first Al-Qaida attack on a US target.

Consider the following:

“According to the F.B.I., Mr. Fazul headed the Kenya cell of Al Qaeda, the terror network founded by Osama bin Laden, an exiled Saudi businessman. It says Mr. Fazul rented the room where the bomb was assembled and drove the white pickup that guided it to the embassy.”

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE1DD1F38F935A35753C1A96E958260
“The bombings on Aug. 7, 1998, were the first major al-Qaida attack on U.S. targets. The alleged mastermind, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, has been on the run for years; he apparently escaped a police raid on the Kenyan coast last weekend.”

“On Thursday, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Mohammed’s recent escape shows the country remains at risk.”

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5531401

“We must leave no stone unturned in fighting the scourge of terrorism. But at the same time, unless we provide just solutions to political crises such as those in the Middle East, new extremists will continue  be created.”

“This weekend, police on the Kenyan coast said they narrowly missed catching one of them, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, after he slipped back over the border for medical treatment in Malindi.”

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L7107743.htm
What does Odinga mean by “just solutions”?

Fazul Mohammed has been seen in Kenya for many years. Is he receiving tips from someone in government?

The NY Times has a series of articles about Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.
Read more here:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/fazul_abdullah_mohammed/index.html
 

The Petition to Impeach Senator Obama site has an addendum that
addresses Obama’s ties to Kenya and Raila Odinga as well as Obama’s
visit to Kenya in 2006. This is from the petition:

Whereas: As a US Senator, Barack Obama violated the stated intention of
his 2006 Official Government Visa to Africa by publicly propagandizing
for his cousin, Railla Odinga against the US democratic ally of Kenya.
Whereas the stated “mission” of Senator Obama’s Official Visa, according
to the Kenya Office of Public Communications, was to “nurture relations
between the Continent and the United States” he, instead, made public
protest before Kenya citizens to rally against their leadership,
invoking a need for “Change!” and accusing this US allied nation of
“corruption.” In Official Protest of Mr. Obama’s passport abuse and
misconduct, Kenya’s government cited his “extremely disturbing
statements on issues which it is clear, he was very poorly informed, and
on which he chose to lecture the Government and the people of Kenya on
how to manage our country.” Whereas, furthermore, there is no public
record of any sanctions or reprimand by the US Congress of Senator
Obama’s passport violation or campaigning on foreign soil against a US
ally, history has since recorded the broadspread destruction of Kenya’s
economy and large scale loss of life as a result of the violence
instigated by Odinga’s ODM campaign there.

Apparently Obama lied about his intentions for the visit to Kenya, campaigned for his leftist, marxist, Islamic leaning cousin, Raila
Odinga and meddled in the internal affairs of Kenya. Here is the
official response from the Government of Kenya:

http://www.communication.go.ke/media.asp?id=284

Jerome Corsi, PHD from Harvard, has written a new book about Obama,
“The Obama Nation.” Mr. Corsi devotes much of his book to exposing
the real Obama, his liberal left wing agenda and involvement in
politics in Kenya. Here are some exerpts from the book:

“He too recalled Barry coming to the prayer room wearing a sarong. He
told Poskota that Obama was “quite religious in Islam, but after
marrying Michelle, he changed his religion.””
“Researching thoroughly the many news investigative reports done on
Obama’s Muslim background by the mainstream media in 2007, we even
find confirmation there from Obama’s sister that he was Muslim in
Indonesia. “My whole family was Muslim,” Maya Soetoro-Ng told the
New York times when interviewed about her early days in Indonesia.
“Most of the people I knew were Muslim.””

“Obama needed a Christian church in order to succeed in Chicago
politics. He selected Trinity because it best matched his personal
and political feelings. Then he dumped the entire relationship when
it got in the way of his presidential ambitions.”

“Raila Odinga’s politics, like the politics of his father, Odinga Odinga,
are on the far left. Raila Odinga was educated at the Technical
University in Magdeburg in east Germany, where he graduated in 1970
with a degree in mechanical engineering. There he heard Fidel Castro
lecture and he named his first born son Fidel. On July 31, 1982, junior
military men of the Luo tribe in the Kenyan Air Force led a coup
against President Daniel arap Moi, but it failed. For his suspected
involvement in the coup, Raila Odinga was arrested, charged with
treason, and incarcerated without trial for nine years. He was released
in February 1988 and then rearrested in September 1988, this time for
involvement with the clandestine Kenya Revolutionary Movement and for
facilitating travel to Libya for Kenyans seeking to get military
training under Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.”

* Note * We have 3 people close to Obama with ties to Qaddafi and Libya. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan and Raila Odinga.

“Obama visited Kenya while President Kibaki was locked in a presidential
election contest with Raila Odinga. During his visit, the Kibaki
administration objected that Odinga was using Obama’s visit to win
votes. Obama’s repeated public appearances with Odinga and his almost
daily criticism of the Kibaki government added to the Kibaki
administration’s dismay at how the U.S. Senator conducted himself in
their country.”

“The Channel 2 news team also interviewed on camera Kenyan government
spokesman Alfred Mutua, who accused Obama of meddling inappropriately
in Kenyan presidential politics. Mutua said politely but pointedly
that “I think Obama has to look critically where he is receiving his
advice from. Just because somebody somewhere wants to run for
president, and he is using Senator Obama as his stooge, as his
puppet, to be able to get where he wants to get.””

“What appears documented by Kenyan newspaper and television news reports is that Raila Odinga, representing the Orange Democratic Movement, or ODM, and Sheikh Abdullah Abdi, the chairman of the National Muslim
Leaders Forum, or NAMLEF, signed an agreement on August 29, 2007.”

“In return, Odinga promised that within six months of becoming president
of Kenya he would “re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize
Shari’a as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim
declared regions.”

“Jonsson (NY Sun) sees the recent events in Kenya as signaling the
resurgence of Islam in Kenya, a process likely to sped up now that
Odinga has forced himself into a power sharing arrangement with Kibaki.
He argues we are witnessing the growth of a leftist/Marxist alliance
with Islam that is striving, under the banner of “Change”, to spread
the growth of Islamic states worldwide. Jonsson also sees a direct tie
between the “Change” themes of the Obama presidential campaign in the
United States and the senator’s support of Odinga’a Islamic goals in
East Africa. “Real Change for Africa” was perhaps not coincidentally
the theme of Raila Odinga’s 2007 presidential campaign.”

“By supporting Odinga, Senator Obama is also seen in Kenya as siding
with the extreme left wing of Kenyan politics, going back to the overt
communism of Odinga Odinga. Odinga’s current party, the Orange
Democratic Movement, or ODM, is a leftist-socialist political party
that stops short of being openly communist.”

“We have to ask whether Obama, by supporting Odinga openly in Kenya,
lent his name also to endorse Odinga’s leftist politics and Odinga’s
alliance with radical Muslims pushing Islam in Kenya.”

Jerome Corsi’s book, “The Obama Nation”, is a must read.

Voice your concern about senator Obama. Go to the Petition to Impeach, expel Senator Obama and let your voice be heard.

http://obamaimpeachment.org

To: US soldiers, Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Service people, Serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, everywhere, We Thank You

I understand that some of you read and follow this blog. We have a nephew, a sargeant in the Marines, serving in Iraq. No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the perception is of support from the American public, the solid, normal, hard working people of America support you and salute you. You are very much appreciated and loved. Many of us on the homefront are trying to maintain our country and democracy. We will not let you down.

God bless all of you.

God bless America.