Obama is campaigning for Rod Blagojevich in 2002

[Nanerbeet]

I figured I'd post this because it doesn't look many people have seen it. People need to see this.


Its important when watching this video to know Rod Blagojevich succeeded Rahm Emanual, Obama's advisor and chief of staff, in his congressional seat and is widely speculated to be "Advisor 1" in the senate seat scandal. In this video, Obama is campaigning for Rad Blagojevich.


This scandal goes much much deeper than the MSM would lead you to believe.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRAiszuq-o

[Nanerbeet]

I've done some research on the Obama-Blagojevich-Rezko connection, thought I'd share some interesting facts:



• Antoin "Tony" Rezko's conviction bolstered federal efforts to delve deeper in myriad investigations into Blagojevich, his family and key members of his political team on pay-to-play allegations involving contracts, jobs and fundraising.


• Just hours after the federal jury's verdict, Blagojevich said that he still considered Rezko "a friend" for whom he felt "deeply sad," but that he respected the jury's decision. He then quickly tried to downplay the verdict as a distraction from the problems of Illinois taxpayers that he needed to address.


• Rezko was a key supporter and donor throughout Mr. Obama's political career, with the Illinois Democrat estimating that Rezko raised $250,000 for his various political campaigns. The two were friends who talked frequently about politics and occasionally dined together with their wives


• In about 2000 or 2001, "[it was observed] that Rezko was close to ROD BLAGOJEVICH and was very involved in fund raising for ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s campaign, including overseeing Ata’s own fund raising efforts on behalf of ROD BLAGOJEVICH"


• in or about 2002 there were "several conversations with Rezko regarding the possibility of a high level appointment for Ata in state government should ROD BLAGOJEVICH be elected."


• "In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority"


• In this 2002 interview, Barack Obama is campaigning for Rod Blagojevich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRAiszuq-o


Is it really a stretch of the immagination to think Obama's appointment was coincidental and not at all a payoff or "reward" for his work done in the Blagojevich campaign? Only if your a coincidence theorist!!!


• "A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he (Obama) and Rezko's wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood -- a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million -- $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko's wife paid full price -- $625,000 (testimony in the Rezko case indicated the appraisel has been modified and should have been no more than $500,000) -- for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko's wife $104,500 for a strip of her land. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it "boneheaded" because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.


• “Rezko paid the asking price on the same day Obama paid $300,000 less than the asking price to the same seller for his adjacent mansion,” he said. “This begs the question of payoff, bribe, kickback.”


• In a wrongful-termination complaint filed last month in the Circuit Court of Cook County, [real estate specialist Kenneth Conner] said his appraisal of the Rezko property, held in Rita Malki Rezko's name, was replaced with a higher one and was fired when he questioned the document.


• Associated Press Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko was convicted June 16 on felony counts of fraud, money laundering, and aiding and abetting a bribery scheme involving kickbacks from companies wanting to do business with the state.


• Suspicious real estate transactions are known to be vehicles for money laundering.


• Obama's advisor and chief of staff, Rahm Emanual, is widely speculated to be "Advisor 1" in the 76 page criminal complaint filed against Blagojevich. Advisor 1 is trying to secure Obama's vacated senate seat for Senate Candiate 1, Valerie Jarrett.


• "Jarrett is one of Senator Obama's longest serving advisors and "closest campaign aide[s] – an insider widely tapped for a top position in an Obama administration."


• According to Rahm Emanuel, he, Barack Obama, Blagojevich's campaign co-chair David Wilhelm, and another Blagojevich staffer "were the top strategists of Blagojevich's 2002 gubernatorial victory"



And to top it all off,


• Rahm Emanuel succeeded Rod Blagojevich in Congress.