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Federal prosecutors moved Monday to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets.

The filing asks for a postponement while prosecutors and defense attorneys “engage in discussions that could affect their sentencing postures.”

Speculation has simmered for weeks that the key fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama was whispering what he knows about corruption in Illinois government to federal prosecutors in hopes of getting a lighter sentence.

Rezko raised more than $1 million for Blagojevich’s campaign fund and was one of the governor’s key advisers. He was frequently by the governor’s side in the early days of his administration and could be in a position to shed considerable light on federal investigations into patronage hiring and a host of other issues involving Blagojevich.

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Here it is, the Dems and the Lib press trying to hide till after the election what might do great damage to Obama.

Funny one of the things the lib congress is doing right now is trying to make Bush look bad in the wake of his firing of all AG’s. The only one close to being anything out of the ordinary involves one AG who would not prosecute a Lib prior to an election in New Mexico.

He wanted to try to keep it quiet till after Kerry Bush. Now they are doing the same thing. Only its working for the libs.

There is so much bs in the life of Obama that should be in public. I just don’t see how even the Lib MSN can refuse to pick it up.

You know there are lots of things that are stupid in this world. To many to list. But one of the dumbest things I’ve seen lately is when the Libs attacking Palin on experience.

I mean seriously, there are always things a would be prez or vice prez can be hit on. And that’s on both sides. But is it smart, to call the kettle black, when you are a kettle? Shouldn’t you worry about sweeping your own porch first, or at least find a complaint that can’t boomerang?

Is it just me, or do I smell the acrid odor of fear in the air?

Barack Obama’s former pastor has been cavorting with another man’s wife,

Elizabeth Payne, 37, said she had a steamy sexual affair with the controversial, racially divisive man of the cloth while she was an executive assistant at a church headed by a popular Wright protégé.

At the time, she was secretary to the Rev. Frederick Haynes III, a longtime Wright disciple.

“Liz was by Rev. Wright’s side day and night during those days,” a church source said.

“It’s all true,” said Payne, adding that she has filed a wrongful-dismissal claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to get her job back.

In an ironic twist, Wright last night spoke at an East Orange, NJ, church revival on the subject of “unexpected problems.”

Wright has been married to his second wife, Ramah, for more than 20 years.

The preacher reportedly wooed Ramah away from her first husband in the 1980s, when the couple came to marriage counseling at Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

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Adulterous relationship with a woman at one of his Racist Afrocentric spin offs, woos away the wife of a man who came to him to try to save his marriage. He’s not so racially divisive when it comes to his women. Maybe this champion of the poor, this exposer of the great White conspiracy to keep down minorities, wanted to take her to his new $1.6 million, home. A home bought with money swindled and laundered through his place of employment. (I just can’t bring myself to say church.)

This is the man who Obama claimed as his spiritual adviser.  Obama, like his mentor is just another lying liberal. Like his adviser, he is just scamming for personal gain.

This story has been known a long time and it takes a rag like the post to tell it. Want to bet on it making the national news?

 I know how hard the modern media works to denigrate everything positive about America. But all to often I am still surprised while surfing or whatever.

I was looking at what old TV series, might be newly released on DVD. I regularly look to see if, “Father Knows Best” is out. I’m pretty sure it never will be, as the title is so politically incorrect. But I still look, and hope, as it is one of my all time favorites.

As usual it has not been released, but I kind of strayed off subject, and started looking at other movies or TV shows Robert Young had stared in. One movie was called, “The Canterville Ghost.” As I said everything American is always bashed in the gerneral media, but still I was bothered, when I read the Synopsis of the movie.

  American GIs are billeted in a historic English castle, where they soon fall foul of a resident spook determined to scare them away. Retelling of Oscar Wilde’s comedy transposed to a World War Two setting, which may be dated by its patriotic flag-waving, but boasts a delightful performance from Charles Laughton  in the title role. Margaret O’Brien and Robert Young also star

Despite, the out of date, old fashioned, patriotic flag-waving, it’s still a delightful performance. Well, one part of the definition of dated is correct as applied to America and patriotic flag waving, and that is the word nostalgic, meaning, “a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.” Father Knows Best, accurretly depicted a happy time. I know that all families were not as shown in the series. There always has been, and no matter what, there will always be bad parents, bad lives, bad situations for children and families. But Father Knows Best, and most other programming from that time gave positive examples for Father’s and Mother’s. It showed how a family should be.  

A hero doesn’t have to be a person, it can be a TV show. Today we have, “Homer Simpson”, and “Desperate Housewives,” for examples for men and women to follow. If you have paid any attention to the ad’s, for upcoming new programming you know it’s going to be worse next season. Thanks Lib’s, I guess in my nostalgia, I’m dated also.    

We’ve got plenty of energy in America. What we don’t have are statesmen willing to let the free market here capture it, process it and sell it.

Instead of wisely utilizing our abundant energy, America has been strangled by various federal government bureaucracies, untold reams of burdensome government regulations and counterproductive policies, corrupt environmental special interest groups, and professional politicians who will bend whichever way the prevailing political winds blow.

These are the reasons America hasn’t built a new oil refinery or new nuclear reactor in thirty or so years. Instead, as billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens accurately stated the other day, we are transferring hundreds of billions of our national treasury to other nations. Even to our enemies. Truly bizarre.

Call me crazy, but I thought the goal of America was to be independent. It’s time to call a spade a spade. We are energy slaves to lesser countries. They own us. And unless we resurrect that unstoppable, mighty spirit of rugged independent individualism of our forefathers and throw off the energy shackles, these nations can permanently cripple, if not kill, our economy. The situation is that grave.

I’m not concerned whatsoever that America doesn’t have vast reserves of ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and intellectual capital that could make us energy independent. My concern is that we have become so reliant and dependent on Fedzilla (aka the US government) to solve all of our problems that we will once again rely on the bureaucratic blob in DC to solve this problem, too. That could be a career ending injury.  more

Some of you might have seen this e-mail going around in various re-incarnations. Read on and decide for your self if fact or fiction.

Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this was not “newsworthy” enough for the media to comment about. Can either of the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? … Just a question for each of us to seek an answer, and not a statement.

Every word about McCain and his sons are true and can be verified.

But truth or fiction, snopes and other sources say Obama’s words in this e-mail are false or fail to mention the Obama part at all.

Here is what Obama actually said in his book with the critical parts highlighted by me, and one addition made in brackets;

“Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, [Muslims] for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

Every one can make their own decision, and his words were condensed to the essentials and slightly modified in the e-mail, but to me it looks like the quote about Obama in the chain e-mail is true. Dead on the money.

Whatever you believe about what Obama said and what his intent was, it is fact that one of McCain’s son’s has served in Anbar Iraq, and another may soon serve. He more than most alive today can tell you about the brutality of war. He and one of his sons have served in a real and dirty shooting war and another may soon follow. His other son much older also served his country. Only one has not served.

You can bet your booties Obama’s daughters will never serve.

And one more thing. Wesly Clark, your a freaking traitorus idiot. Not worthy of the sacrificies made by present and past American servicemen. Here’s hoping you join Ted Kennedy on his very short trip to hell.

Read the history of a real man Clark your little more than a POS compared to him.

Vietnam

In June of 1967, McCain (by then a lieutenant commander) set out for Vietnam from Norfolk, Virginia aboard the USS Forrestal. The carrier was in the Gulf of Tonkin on July 29, its crew preparing for the second launch of the fifth day of striking enemy targets in North Vietnam, when one of its own bombs detonated on deck. McCain narrowly escaped the resulting conflagration that killed 132 crewmen, with two others missing and presumed dead, and injured 62 more. It was one of the worst military accidents of the war.

A little less than three months later, on October 26, McCain was making his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when his plane was hit by an antiaircraft missile. Forced to eject, breaking both arms and a leg in the process, he landed in a lake near Hanoi and was captured. He spent the next five and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) at the sarcastically nicknamed “Hanoi Hilton.”

Injured and ill, McCain was denied medical assistance until his captors learned that he was an admiral’s son, and even then treatment was rudimentary. His father’s position also prompted the North Vietnamese to offer him early release in June of 1968. McCain refused, as the U.S. Military Code of Conduct required that prisoners accept release on a first in/first out basis, and there were more than 100 POWs ahead of him. His refusal resulted in a round of torture that included knocking his teeth out, hanging him by his broken arms, and beating him almost around the clock for a week. Although the abuse never succeeded in convincing McCain to accept early release, he did break down and sign a confession that he was a “black criminal” and an “air pirate.” The shame of the confession led McCain to contemplate suicide at the time, and stayed with him years after the fact. “The only thing I can say is that the code says you will resist to the best of your ability,” he told Pierce in 1998. “But I failed myself. I failed my fellow prisoners. I failed my family, and I failed my country. Is there anybody else?” Most did not judge McCain as harshly as he judged himself; many, indeed, found his ongoing determination to remain in prison heroic. He was finally released on March 14, 1973, and returned home with a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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