Live Breathe and Die

Barack Obama friend and associate Antoin (Tony) Rezko was just found guilty on Wednesday by a federal jury of 16 counts, including fraud, money laundering and bribery.  The real estate developer has often been credited with raising the funds for Mr. Obama that helped propel his career.

Sen. Obama claimed in an interview that  “this isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew”.  Sen. Obama has had a 20 year relationship and friendship with Mr. Rezko. Obama made the same claim when the public learned of the anti-Americanism and racism that is deeply ingrained in Obama’s friend and mentor; Jeremiah Wright.

If it seems that there is a pattern here, there is. Barack Obama uses poor judgement in picking his friends and associates. What is worse, these friends may simply reflect the person that Obama actually is.  People with similar personality traits are often attracted to others like themselves.  Had Mr. Rezko been a Republican supporter and fundraiser, this story would be front page news on every paper in the country.

Worse yet, Mr. Rezko’s crimes have tied him indelibly to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a democrat. Mr. Rezko raised $1.4 million for Mr. Blagojevich and $250,000 for Barack Obama. There are several federal investigations ongoing of Mr. Blagojevich.

In addition to providing funding to Mr. Obama, Tony Rezko was involved in a scheme to divert teachers pension investments to firms that would provide kickbacks.  He was also able to push a health board into approving a new hospital so he could get a cut from the contractor’s bribe.  Rezko’s take- $3.9 million.

The irony of all this is the campaign waged by the Democrats in recent years to paint the Republican Party as having a ‘culture of corruption’. When real investigations occur and real evidence is presented though, it is the Democrats who operate in a true culture of bribes, kickbacks, questionable vote tampering and hidden money trails.

There is the friendship and association between Barack Obama and William Ayers also. This gets little press and is conveniently glossed over by the press.  William Ayers was a member of the radical domestic terrorist group; The Weather Underground.  Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician, remembers being at Mr. Ayers home with another Ayers friend, Barack Obama. He characterized the two as ‘friends’.

During the sixties, The Weather Underground was responsible for 25 bombings.  They were also responsible for the killing of a Brinks guard and two New York State Troopers during the robbery of a Brinks truck.  In 2001, William Ayers told the New York Times, “I don’t regret setting bombs; I feel we didn’t do enough”.

Barack Obama’s friendship with William Ayers has been seen on other occasions including when he complimented Ayers in a Chicago Tribune article in 1997.  Obama and Ayers served together for three years on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago.

More recently, Obama friend Father Michael Pfleger, has gained national attention with his anti-Hillary ranting’s.  During a debate on gun control in Chicago, Father Pfleger is quoted as saying, “we’re gonna snuff out legislators who are voting against our gun laws and we’re coming for you because we are not going to sit idly”. His threat to kill Illinois legislators has been swept under the rug by the national media.  This is another Obama friend.

Why would anyone with a conscious or a lick of common sense vote to put Barack Obama into the most powerful job in the world?  Good question. He has made decisions, based on his extreme ideology to associate himself with a confirmed racist, an unrepentant domestic terrorist, a convicted money launderer and briber and an anti-white political preacher violating the governments ban on political speech at the pulpit. By extension, Mr. Obama’s association with Rev. Pfleger hints at his approval of anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who is Pfleger’s close friend also.

When we elect a person to the highest position in the land, the least we expect is someone who uses good judgement in selecting their friends and associates. A lot can be learned about a person by the company they keep.