you neglected to cite my piece.

Tips and comments are very welcome!

Thank you for the link.  I have been swamped with changing NoQuarter's blog to a new server, and have hardly had a chance to read any diaries.  Why don't you tell me what's key in your diary that needs to be added. Thanks!

when a candidate with little experience runs on being the most electable, it's harder to understand these problems in his past, whether or not he's actually guilty of anything. I feel personally fooled by him, he lied to Democrats when he claimed to have the 'right' experience. I hope this gets picked up before the February primaries and not after he may be our candidate.  

Has Rezko been audtied?

What happened to the federal, (and state?) money intended for low income housing?

Webster Hubbell
Webster Lee Hubbell (born 1949), known as Webster L. Hubbell and Webb Hubbell, was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a lawyer in Pulaski County before serving as Mayor of Little Rock from 1979 until he resigned in 1981. He was appointed by Bill Clinton as chief justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. When Clinton became President, Hubbell was appointed as associate attorney general; he was generally considered the third most powerful person in the Justice Department. His wife is Suzanna "Suzy" Hubbell.

In December 1994, Hubbell pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges in connection with his handling of billing at the Rose Law Firm, a firm with partners that once included Hillary Clinton and Vince Foster. Hubbell admitted he had defrauded former clients and former partners out of $482,410.83. On June 28, 1995, Judge George Howard sentenced Hubbell to 21 months' imprisonment.[1]

[edit] Rose Law Firm billing records and resignation

In January 1993, Hubbell's former partners at the Rose Law Firm discovered what appeared to be irregularities in Hubbell's bills to clients. The Independent Counsel later found that Hubbell had billed clients for services he never performed, and that he failed to report that income on his tax returns. Shortly after Independent Counsel Robert Fiske opened a criminal probe into the matter, Hubbell resigned as associate attorney general on March 14, 1994.[1]

The day before Hubbell announced his resignation, there was a meeting of senior White House officials, including President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chief of Staff Mack McLarty. At the meeting, McLarty told Hillary Clinton that White House employees would "be supportive" of Hubbell. During the sixteen months after Hubbell's resignation, he received seventeen employment contracts from supporters of President Clinton. He received approximately $450,010 in consulting fees from those contracts, but did not report all of that income on his tax returns.[1]

It's not old news and the Clinton campaign has done nothing to distance themselves from him...

Hillary Clinton's Money Man
Chris Korge has raised millions for the Clintons. His past raises questions.
By Francisco Alvarado
Published: January 24, 2008

A snippet...

Korge, who declined to comment on the record for this story, has a long history of controversy. Though never charged with a crime, he has been at the center of four questionable deals at Miami International Airport that have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. One of them spawned a criminal investigation.

I read somewhere today or yesterday that she was guest of honor at some fashion show organized by this guy. I'm inclined not to believe it since it defies belief but is there any substance in this story? Anyone know.  

i am glad the chicago sun-times reproduced the photograph i posted in my fact check on rezko, which i wrote immediately after the debate.

Reproductions of other Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune front pages can be found in the diary I wrote on Sunday. I believe I was the first to alert online audiences of these front pages.

Yes, Obama's brats are a scream.  

They loathe the Clintons, much as the MSM has for fifteen years--why, they ask, don't the Democrats reject them?  

Why, they are sleaze!  Why, they are corrupt!  Why, there are all these sexual allegations!

As if the 1990s had never taken place.  

As if a near decade of investigating every aspect of their personal and professional lives, with a Right Wing zealot like Ken Starr at the helm were not enough.

As if the impeachment of the only elected United States President (Andrew Johnson was not elected) were not enough.

As if talking heads shouting into cameras and hurling anti-Clinton invective for fifteen years--the gang from Russert to Matthews to Williams to Hiffington--were not enough.

As if corronnating an unvetted, three-year Senate novice with Oprah Winfrey megamillions, big endorsements, and the entire news media fawning over him for thirteen months were not enough.

As if cooking opinion polls before New Hampshire and playing race cards in South Carolina were not enough.

And making a skewered Iowa caucus with tens of thousands of bused-in and well paid for Obama minions were somehow more representative than actual Democratic primary voters themselves.

As if 238,000 Michigan Hillary Clinton voters didn't matter at all.  Or the Florida hundreds of thousands destined to vote for her shouldn't matter at all.

As if a Nevada 51-45% somehow pointed to an Obama delegate victory.

Yes, the MSM has done it all for Obama.  He is the honey of the GOP, many an "indie," many a Democratic outsider.

The only thing he doesn't have--and shall never have, is the base of the Democratic Party itself.

Those persons do not abandon their true and glorious past, from FDR's New Deal to JFK's New Frontier to LBJ's Great Society--and to the Clinton years of comparative peace and prosperity.

Yes, Obama has bought into the Reagan line; the senile actor had it right--everyone else had it wrong.

Now, if only Obama were running as someone other than a Democrat.

Because, as it is, whatever the results of the South Carolina primary (now THERE is something which is now truly meaningless), after Florida, and certainly after Super Tuesday, we bedrock Democrats are taking back our party.

The Obama minions can find themselves a party of their own.

Amazing how MyDD has become a hangout for fans of the party establishment.  What started as a Deaniac hangout, and last time I came around here, it seemed  that Edwards was the golden boy. Now either Hillary's folks have discovered the place or the JE folks have seen the  light shone by the party elders.  In either case, Ron Paul's supporters have nothing on you all. I guess the lessons of going with the party establishment's safe choice (Humphrey, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, & Kerry) will go unlearned forever. Our only two successful candidates since LBJ have been the anti-insiders who had appeal beyond the base. So now it looks like we'll have another base-only campaign. I'll vote D in the general like I always do, and we'll lose, like we usually do. Sigh.

this article is sleaze.

you are as bad as the swift boaters, and should be ashamed.

You know, I've followed your diaries here and, as someone without a specific horse in this race, I can't understand why you have so much bile stored up against Obama in particular.  Many of the same types of criticisms could be leveled just as accurately, or inaccurately, against Edwards or Clinton.  Yet, you singlemindedly have set out to attack Obama.  From whence cometh the bile?

In the intro to the book "The Political Brain," the author discusses how partisans were essentially INCAPABLE of seeing actual fault in their preferred candidate.  They were able to rationalize away any inconsistencies between their idealized view of their candidate and the candidate's actual positions.  I think that's what is going on here, and in other hit pieces done in reference to the other candidates.  You all apparently don't realize that we will be running against a Republican in 2008.

I didn't care about this kind of bullshit when the Clintons did it, why should I give a shit now?