How do you guys find time to blog on Dailykos as well?  I posted there for a couple of months, but that place was not to my liking, so I decided on here.  I read there sometimes, and also vote when a poll interests me, but I would not have the time to do both discussion-wise.  I see some people blogging all over the place, on 4, 5 different blogs, all the time.  A lot to keep track of, to be sure.

I know how icebergslim and the user for whom icebergslim serves as a sockpuppet operate.  she has a history of engaging and then banning users she and her cadre dislike.  

i would not worry, as she is irrelevant.  and she does work for the obama campaign.  in fact, she attended camp obama.  

lonnette, did you know hillary is 44?  

No, and one cannot reason with user for whom icebergslim is a sockpuppet.

I bit it. But she egged me on. I accept the banning.

The article to which I link augments research already conducted by the Chicago Sun-Times.  And to be frank, I think it is mighty disingenuous of you to claim the article states nothing, for it states a lot.  Indeed, how else does one explains Obama's decision to allow a the son of a Rezko associate to serve as an Intern in DC?  

Obama on the land deal with Rezko

The article discusses Obama's ties with Rezko since the 1990s.  

This article offers more details on the joint purchase of land and a house

This article discusses his ties to Rezko since the late 1980s.  It also discusses how neither Obama nor the law firm at which he worked would disclose documents to the Sun-Times.

Obama's ex-boss is a Rezko partner

here are some quotes from an editorial in April I read in the Sun-Times that are particularly damaging:

"Kudos to the Chicago aldermen who are asking some of the same questions we had in response to a Sun-Times investigation published earlier this week: Why did the city and state continue to provide loans, grants and tax credits to projects that involved Tony Rezko when the city at the same time was suing his company in Housing Court for basics such as no heat? Why didn't the city shut off the spigot as soon as his buildings ran into problems? Didn't one city department know what another department was doing?"

"The investigation by reporter Tim Novak found that Rezko's development company, Rezmar Corp., got more than $100 million in government and private loans between 1989 and 1998 to renovate 30 apartment buildings for poor people. The projects quickly ran into trouble, and Rezmar was sued repeatedly by the city. Yet the city continued making deal after deal with Rezmar, which was paid nearly $7 million in development fees on the projects."

"Another is presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, who received more than $50,000 from the same sources between 1998 and 2004. Obama already has been forced to answer questions about a real estate deal between him and Rezko, a longtime friend, contributor and fund-raiser. In addition to that connection, Novak reported this week that Obama did previously undisclosed legal work for some of Rezko's housing development projects. He insists it was only five hours of work and that he was unaware of problems at the projects, even though 11 of them were in the state Senate district he used to represent. There's nothing illegal about the work, but his efforts to dodge Novak's questions about it make it appear as if he has something to hide."

And there are stories in the sidebars of the Sun-Times's articles.

Anyone can perform a Google search, and one realizes that obama has a long history with Rezko, who received state funds while Obama was in the Senate for his various properties.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/35382 9,CST-NWS-rez23.article

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/35379 7,CST-NWS-rezdavis23.http://www.mydd.com /comments/2007/12/14/211213/33/149/post# here
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Ethical questions surround Obama's  shady real estate deal and relationship with indicted political fundraiser and Arab-American activist  Tony Rezko, who befriended Obama during his Harvard days.

Obama bought a $1,650,000 Georgian revival mansion at a gigantic discounted price, some $300,000 less than the asking price.  The same day, Rezko's wife bought the adjoining lot, paying the full $625,000 asking price.

The Rezko lot wasn't accessible from the public street.  However, it abuts Obama's property and  provided a private preserve that adds to its ambience.  Obama  bought the a secton of the Rezko property for $104,500 -- $520,500 less than Rezko's wife paid for it.

Did Tony Rezko and his wife subsidize the purchase of Obama's opulent home?

Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.

At any rate, this is pretty good for a guy earning $165,200 per and who once ran his credit cards up so high that the credit card company denied him access to further use of his card.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/pol itics/14rezko.html?ex=1182484800&en= 354deb68b6c69cfe&ei=5099&partner =TOPIXNEWS

And when Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, bought a house in 2005, Mr. Rezko stepped in again. Even though his finances were deteriorating, Mr. Rezko arranged for his wife to buy an adjacent lot, and she later sold the Obamas a 10-foot-wide strip of land that expanded their yard.

The land sale occurred after it had been reported that Mr. Rezko was under federal investigation. That awkward fact prompted Mr. Obama, who has cast himself as largely free from the normal influences of politics, to express regret over what he called his own bad judgment.

"Senator Obama is a very intelligent man, and everyone by then was very familiar with who Tony Rezko was," said Cindi Canary, executive director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a nonpartisan research group. "So it was a little stunning that so late in the game Senator Obama would still have such close involvement with Rezko."

While it is not clear what Mr. Rezko got from the relationship, he liked to display his alliances with politicians, including Mr. Obama.

In one instance, when he was running for the Senate, Mr. Obama stopped by to shake hands while Mr. Rezko, an immigrant from Syria, was entertaining Middle Eastern bankers considering an investment in one of his projects.

[Years earlier, as a state legislator, Mr. Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting efforts by Mr. Rezko and a partner to build apartments for the elderly with $14 million in government money, The Chicago Sun-Times reported in its June 13 editions.

isnt my job to keep you informed

id spend an hour and youd just blow it off

sorry, no.