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How Barack Obama Struck Fund-raising Gold -- New York Magazine
How Barack Obama Struck Fund-raising Gold -- New York Magazine
T he investment banker Robert Wolf first met Barack Obama one afternoon in December in a midtown conference room. Obama was in town to deliver a speech at a charity dinner for children in poverty at the Mandarin Oriental—but also to pursue another, less high-minded, but more momentous, objective: to begin the process of attempting to pick Hillary Clinton's pocket. The conference room belonged ...
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The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund
Michelle Malkin — ... for Obama’s Illinois Senate campaign. Soros and family personally chipped in $60,000. In April 2007, Obama was back in New York for a deep-pocketed Manhattan fund-raising soiree, with Soros lurking in his shadow (yes, that’s him behind Obama grasping onto the stairs). [image] No doubt with Soros’s approbation (if not advice from the hands-on “progressive” activist or his advisors), Obama ...

Democrats Really Wanted To Go There?
A Blog For All — ... moment, and yet it boomerangs right back at Obama because it raises questions over how exactly Obama did manage to buy that mansion in Chicago and what exactly were his ties with Tony Rezko. The Democrats thought they could paint McCain as the rich and out of touch Republican (Rethuglican as the leftists usually post online), but who exactly has the million dollar mansion? That would be Sen. Barack Obama. Right. Who exactly is rubbing shoulders with the ultra rich ultra leftist George Soros ? Obama. Who has made it a habit of rubbing shoulders with Hollywood types who have ...

Crony Communism
Six Meat Buffet — ... president and CEO of the TIAA-CREF retirement fund How’s that retirement fund working out?  Another Harvard egghead who happened to be Urkel’s crony Transition Economic Advisory Board and Trustee of the whackadoo Carnegie Endowment for Dictators with the Ketchup Lady.  Alger Hiss not available for comment. Robert Wolf, chairman and CEO of the financial services firm UBS Group Americas Investment banker scumbag / Urkel fundraising bundler David F. ...

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