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Snaked By An Obama Insider

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

There is now further evidence that Barack Obama aligns himself closely with those who caused America’s financial meltdown.

The meltdown is rooted in government-forced loans to people who did not qualify for the credit.

Enter Barack Obama’s Finance Chairwoman Penny Pritzker:

The candidate has even lauded Ms. Pritzker’s business practices as a model for an Obama administration.

“He knows the Pritzker family. He knows what happened in Illinois. He knows that Superior Bank was one of the first to securitize subprime mortgages,” Mr. Courtney said. “He talks about change and helping people find a better way of life, but he has distanced himself from the fact that Superior helped ignite the nation’s subprime crisis and that Penny Pritzker and her family walked away from it and us.”

Read it all here.

So this is the kind of “change” Barack Obama plans to bring to our country:

Mr. Courtney went to his Hinsdale, Ill., branch the Monday after the bank closed in 2001 and stood in line with hundreds of other concerned depositors. He said he’ll never forget overhearing a bank employee tell “one kindly old gentleman, maybe in his 80s, that the coffee and rolls were free but that was about all he was going to get from the bank.”

“The old man just sat down on the curb and cried. It was heartbreaking,” Mr. Courtney said. “They ran their bank like a sleazy car lot and left us holding the bag.”

More crooks in office, is the change Obama will bring.

The Huckabee Logan Presidency Gives Cause For Concern

Monday, December 10th, 2007

POSITIVES:

- Sees both sides of an issue
- Publicly religious
- Teachable
- Kind to everyone

NEGATIVES:

- Takes both sides of an issue
- Politically religious
- Untrustworthy
- Kind to criminals

The whole Huckster controversy is enough to make one feel conflicted. Even though he is already being called the “Howard Dean” of 2008, and is getting clobbered in the press for various critical flip flops, I am the last one to want to take anything away from Huckabee after all he has accomplished in his life and the example he has set.

By losing goodness knows how many pounds he showed Americans it is possible to get a fresh start with one’s health simply by changing habits and hitting the jogging path.

Huckabee before and after

Huckabee’s a personable fellow, a compelling, self-effacing public speaker, not afraid to wear his religiosity on his sleeve, and by all accounts a decent man. He’s an accomplished bass guitar player – certainly a cool skill to list on any prospective president’s resume.

Huckabee Logan bass guitar

As the Arkansas Times recently pointed out, he is “the immigrants’ friend” who makes John McCain “look like a nativist.” (Read all of that article, by the way).

This issue is where the problem arises with regard to Huckabee. The leader of a national advocacy organization said last week in an e-mail that, on the illegal immigration issue, Huckabee is “a carbon copy of President Bush.” Prominent opponents of illegal immigration call Huckabee a “disaster”:

“Every time there was any enforcement in his state, he took the side of the illegal aliens.”

To his detractors Huckabee has said, simply, “I drink a different kind of Jesus juice.”

Fair enough, I say: It’s a free country for Jesus juice drinkers of all persuasions. I take mine the way I like it – neat – and the Huckster should have the same options.

This forthrightness has earned him serious hits from GOP primary opponents and also from political leaders in his own state.

UPDATE: Much more, here.

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