The Chicago Way

04 Jun 2012 20:46 #1 by otisptoadwater
Obama’s coterie of insiders is worth a closer look this time around.
By John Fund


President Obama walks with Eric Whitaker while golfing on Martha’s Vineyard.

Every president comes to Washington with a coterie of outside advisers, friends, and fixers they’ve picked up during the course of a career. Eventually one or more of them becomes controversial. Richard Nixon had Bebe Rebozo. Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy and Bert Lance. Ronald Reagan had Mike Deaver. Bill Clinton had many trailing after him — they became the menagerie implicated in Whitewater and Monicagate. But Barack Obama’s inner circle has almost completely escaped close scrutiny since he became president. That may be about to change, and the rich cast of characters making up Team Obama merits further attention.

A new biography of Obama by Edward Klein called The Amateur has rocketed to the No. 1 slot on the New York Times bestseller list. Among its explosive allegations is that after videos of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American sermons surfaced in the 2008 campaign, a close friend of Obama’s and a fellow member of Wright’s church named Eric Whitaker approached the reverend. In a taped interview with Klein, Wright said Whitaker offered him — via e-mail, through an intermediary — $150,000 to stop preaching and appearing in the media until after the election.

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04 Jun 2012 21:01 #2 by Reverend Revelant
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Otis... I just saw your Facebook page... you don't have any friends... can I be your friend?

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04 Jun 2012 21:52 #3 by otisptoadwater
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I quit Facebook a few years ago. I don't see the value in that interface and I don't want to post that much personal information there. That much said, feel free to PM me on this blog.

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Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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