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This is getting interesting.

According to a Federal informant (Robert Cooley, a former criminal defense lawyer in Chicago in the late 80’s whose testimony for federal prosecutors in Chicago resulted in dozens of mob convictions), before Blagojevich got into politics he was a bookmaker on the North Side who regularly paid the Chicago mob to operate.

From ABC Local–Chicago…

“I predicted five years ago when he ran the first time that he was a hands on person who would be selling every position in the state of Illinois and that it exactly what happened,” said Cooley.

Cooley, who secretly recorded conversations in a Counselor’s Row restaurant near City Hall which brought down the first ward leadership, contends Illinois corruption is unstoppable.

This idea is an embarrassing nonstarter for the Obama camp because it fails to address the use of proxies by Iran. But, reading between the lines, it appears the crux of this story is Obama’s reversal of his stand that Iran’s pursuit of nukes is “unacceptable.” To quote Sarkozy (said to Israel back in October, but still applicable today)…”Obama’s stand on Iran is “utterly immature…”

Here is an excerpt and link to the story at Fox News…

President-elect Barack Obama will offer Israel a strategic pact designed to fend off any nuclear attack on the Jewish state by Iran, an Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday.

Haaretz, quoting an unnamed source, said the Obama administration would pledge under the proposed “nuclear umbrella” to respond to any Iranian strike on Israel with a “devastating U.S. nuclear response.”

Granting Israel a nuclear guarantee would essentially suggest the U.S. is willing to come to terms with a nuclear Iran, the paper reported.

The application for stay addressed to Justice Thomas and referred to the Court is denied.

Here is the link to the Supreme Court pdf

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Even though it isn’t a U.S. news source, it is gratifying to see that at least one of the MSM has the guts to report on this story. The Guardian UK ran the following headline today (on the home page of its web site)

Court to consider Obama’s citizenship

Potential supreme court lawsuit is just the tip of the iceberg of efforts seeking to derail election win

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RELATED POST 12/4/2008: Birth Certificate Update–Obama Vs. Constitution (60 Sec. TV Ad–Video Embed)

There is a huge amount of confusion as to what the Constitution says about the “natural born citizenship” requirement to serve as President and there seems to be just as much confusion as to why such a requirement is important.

Frank Salvato, in today’s New Media Journal, does a good job of explaining why the Founders and Framers saw fit to include this requirement in our constitution and why it still matters. Here is an excerpt (emphasis added)…

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UPDATE Monday 12/8/2008 10:20 am: Supreme Court denies Donofrio Case Stay (Obama Birth Certificate)

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UPDATE 11/22/2008: WSJ has backtracked and now says that Geithner is “likely” nominee for Treasury. Stay tuned!

This per WSJ.

At close of the day, the DJIA was up 494.

Here’s an interesting background piece on Geithner…

Geithner at Treasury? A Look Back in His Own Words