Rezko Ready to Sing?

The Sun-Times is hinting toward the possibility that former Chicago slum lord, convicted felon and political ally of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Chicago) and Senator Barack Obama (D-Chicago) Tony Rezko may finally be ready to tell federal prosecutors what he knows about the dirty inner workings of the Chicago Machine.

At this point, all we have to go on is speculation, since no announcement has been made by the Feds. What we do know is that Rezko’s sentencing has been put on hold, which indicates that he may be (and probably is) talking. The other great unknown is how much damaging information Rezko may have on either Obama or Blagojevich. Earlier this year, Rezko wrote a two page letter to U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve claiming that he had not been party to any illegal activities involving either the Governor or the Senator.

Was Rezko merely covering for his pals, or does he really lack the kind of air tight, rock solid knowledge that could torpedo King Rod and the False Messiah? One must wonder.

If Rezko does have anything of value to share, there’s no time like the present. With less than a month to go before the election, time is running out. As for Blagojevich, his reign of terror has gone on long enough. It’s time for Tony to sing so the Feds can take out the trash.

There’s a Moral in this Story

Here’s a Tribune story out of suburban Chicagoland that very nicely illustrates the difference between the Republicans (McCain) and the democrats (Obama) in this year’s presidential election. Of course, the story itself has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. It’s about baseball. But if you swap out “Cubs Couple” for McCain/Palin and “Sox Couple” for Obama/Biden, you’ll get the point.

Like the Cubs Couple, the the McCain campaign seems quite content to poke and prod and just hope for the best, while Obama and the Democrats, like the Sox Couple, go in for the kill. Sad, but true.

That, and the story’s just a classic chapter in the ongoing history of the Cubs vs. Sox rivalry. Do not ever tell me that Yankees vs. Red Sox is the best rivalry in baseball. It’s easily a distant but deserving third behind Cubs vs. White Sox and Cubs vs. Cardinals. 

Here’s the link. Enjoy!

Photo credit: Chicago Tribune

The Organized Community

From the Chicago Sun-Times comes yet one more tragic example of Chicago style change we can live without. Literally.

An accidental hand brush between two men on a South Side CTA bus Sunday night led to the shooting death of a 17-year-old Chicago high school student.

And why did this have to happen?

Wilcox said the argument between the two men started because one man accidentally touched the hand of the other as he was getting off the bus.

There was a short exchange of threats, and she thought one displayed a handgun on the bus, Wilcox said. The other man then got [off] the bus and took out his own gun, firing back through the back door where the cousins were sitting.

There should be no question that the type of people responsible for creating and enabling what Chicago has become have no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. Is Barack Obama responsible for this terrible event? Certainly not.

In fact, it could be argued that this is exactly the kind of thing he was working against. That having been said, the needless, gang-related violence and bloodshed in Chicago has gotten progressively worse, not better.

The formerly safe, clean and upstanding All-American blue collar neighborhoods of the Southwest Side that my parents and grandparents called home for years have morphed into filthy, crime ridden, bullet hole riddled hell holes during my lifetime. Sad to say, I would never dream of moving back to a city that was once a jewel of the Midwest.  If his experience as a Chicago community organizer is Barack Obama’s primary qualification for the presidency, I’m honestly not that impressed.

Don’t Tread On Me, Barack

Every major poll now indicates that we are heading towards a Barack Obama victory in November, if not an all out landslide. So what? The polls are skewed (dare I say rigged) and the media outlets who conduct and publicize them are blatantly in bed with the Obama camp. At this point, any presidential poll conducted by most of the major polling organization or any of the major newspapers and TV networks, should be viewed with the same level of skepticism as a Pravda article proclaiming the greatness of Stalin. Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad. Yet. But this is as close as we’ve ever come to that on American soil.

Between now and election day on November 4, the singular focus of the mainstream media will be to trash John McCain and Sarah Palin, while shilling for the Chosen One in every possible way at every possible opportunity. Just like in 2000 when the press prematurely called Florida for Al Gore, their is a concerted effort afoot to discourage Republican turn out, particularly in the key battle ground states. Now they’re calling the whole enchilada for Obama, a full month ahead of the fact. Remember also that massive voter fraud will likely play an important role, thanks in part to Acorn and the like. We are witnessing Chicago style politics on a national scale, and this is no time for Republicans and conservatives to whither and concede.

We may not play dirty like the Democrats, but we can certainly stand and fight. There is still time, and anything is still possible. Only now are Obama’s many seedy connections coming to light, and only recently have McCain/Palin and the Republicans begun to stake the Democrats to the financial mess that they surely created. Do not think for a minute that if the shoe was on the other foot, and all the conventional wisdom pointed to an Obama defeat, that the Obama people would just lay down and take it.

Here in Illinois, we have been languishing under the oppressive rule of the Chicago Machine for decades. Our taxes are among the highest in the nation and the business climate is anything but hospitable. Last year, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich pushed for a so-called gross receipts tax that would have cost thousands of blue collar and white collar jobs.  Crooked “pay to play” politics and dirty money are the unofficial rule of law. And unlike forty-eight other states in the Union, we are required to carry a state-issued firearms owner identification (FOID) card just to exercise the limited Second Amendment rights that we are allowed to enjoy. There is no concealed carry in Illinois. And yet, despite all of the anti-gun legislation and activism here in Illinois, Chicago is a virtual war zone. But we do have All Kids and other costly forays into socialized medicine. Moreover, there is no viable two party system in Illinois, meaning that we have a Democrat monopoly on power. Top office holders are selected from within by the party elites, and paraded around on TV at election time, as if the electorate had a say in the matter.

The bottom line is this: We still have a month left to fight, and this may be our one last chance to save America from Obama, Daley, Madigan, Blagojevich, Ayers, and the forces of Chicago.

Kass on Obama: The Chicago Way

John Kass, one of the few really good newspaper columnists still out there, has a great column in today’s Chicago Tribune, highlighting the political cesspool that spawned the One. Go check it out.

The Downright Mean Sarah Palin and the Affirmative Action (Would-Be) President

If Barack Obama wins the presidency in November, he will be America’s first affirmative action president. Grossly unqualified, dangerously radical and completely unvetted by an adoring news media, Obama will have ascended to the highest, most powerful office in the world, carried on the willing backs of squishy mainstream liberals and dedicated hard line communists hoping for change. It is probably safe to say that if Obama did in fact look like “all the other presidents” on our money, that he would have been laughed off the national stage a very long time ago. Cases in point: Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, both of whom are just as far to the ideological left and yet significantly more experienced politically.

Still, Obama’s wife Michelle apparently believes that the US is a “downright mean” country, and Obama himself is never afraid to throw out the always-useful race card. After all, it’s something he assuredly learned to do well during his days as an Acorn-affiliated Chicago community agitator, a significant chapter of his carefully guarded past… A past which includes long term friendships and affiliations with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers and Franklin Raines, to name four.

Aside from the Democrats’ culpability in the housing market collapse and the subsequent financial meltdown, no single weapon of truth is more valuable in the fight against the Obama campaign than a fair and open assessment of his close allies – the very people who the “change agent” with the “judgement to lead” has surrounded himself with and sought counsel from. For months, the McCain campaign has failed to capitalize on Obama’s shady ties. So when Sarah Palin recently touched on Obama’s connection to unrepentent domestic terrorist Ayers, it didn’t take the mainstream media very long to scream racism.

Why? Because Palin had this to say…

“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country,”

The Associated Press, in an article linked on Drudge, countered with…

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

and went on to say…

Her reference to Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were “pals” or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.

Huh… What? I am missing something or did the AP just validate Palin? I don’t know too many people who host parties for people that they don’t really know or care too much about. And what race has to do with any of this is beyond me. Is Ayers not white? Is Ayers now the first person in America to be awarded victimhood status based on the fact that he is a white male? Was it somehow wrong of Palin to call Obama out for hanging around with a treasonous anti-America criminal, just because Obama is black?

But let’s not forget the infamous Jeremiah Wright situation. For twenty years, the Obamas attended Wright’s church, sat in the pews and soaked in the violent rantings of a blatant racist. But that’s okay. Palin mentioning a legitimate connection between Obama and an unrepentant domestic terrorist who once attacked the US Capitol Building, the Pentagon and New York City  police officers… Now that’s just plain racist.