Bookworm on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Crime and punishment
Yes, I think it is Obama’s buddy who has been found guilty on multiple criminal charges:
A federal jury has found a prominent political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty of 16 of 24 counts in his Illinois corruption trial.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko was accused of scheming to get bribes from businesses [...]
Bookworm on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Charles Johnson, at LGF, working off the top of his head, put together a list of Obama’s troublesome associations:
* Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years.
* Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada.
* Unrepentant Weather Underground [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
On the liberal side of the American political world, one of the lingering horrors of the McCarthy era is “guilt by association.” Certainly that was the lesson I, a young liberal, took away from teachings about that era. As I learned it, it wasn’t that the HUAC hearings were aimed at discovering genuine [...]
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