DARK SKIES BLOG

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.

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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

UPDATE 11/21/2008: Fox News has also backtracked and now says that a Hillary nomination is “expected”…stay tuned!

Per FoxNews.com, Hillary has accepted the position of Secretary of State!

These guys just don’t play well with others (excerpt from AP)…

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

Al-Zawahri also called Obama—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”

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Update 5/19/2011, Obama says that Israel must return to 1967 borders.

It didn’t take Obama long to show where he stands with regard to Israel.

He has a great plan. Israel should just capitulate to Muslim demands…and, for its part, the Muslim world will agree not to destroy Israel. Why didn’t someone think of this before? Now all we need is a seven year treaty which includes the rebuilding of the Temple.

Excerpt from today’s Times UK…

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Scary stuff!

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UPDATE: Story now picked up by WND’s Aaron Klein, Hamas: We met Obama advisers

Per Israel Today (excerpt)…

In an interview with London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Hamas spokesman Ahmad Yousef said that Obama’s advisors traveled to the Gaza Strip to meet with the group’s leadership months ago when he was still campaigning for the presidency.

Said Yousef: “We first made contact on the Internet and then met with some of them here in the Gaza Strip. They advised us not to reveal this information lest it influence the elections or become manipulated by [Republican candidate John] McCain’s campaign.”

This was just reported by DrudgeReport.com.

What President Bush should know is that the junior senator is nothing but a figurehead…he has to share info with his advisors so they can tell him what to do.

Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.

“Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel,” a top Bush source warned.

“BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY,” splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting “people familiar with the discussion.”

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Read the rest at the Drudge Report…