V. Obama’s Heart of Darkness: Rezko, Auchi, Alsammarae, and Chicago Graft 213FDR had saved their otherwise doomed system in 1933, the Wall Street oligarchs so hated and
resented the yoke of constitutional government that they were determined never again to allow a
real president to occupy the White House and exercise the actual powers prescribed by the U.S.
Constitution. From now, they vowed, only puppet presidents, mere marionettes obedient to the
dictates of Wall Street, would be permitted. The first step in reestablishing this Potemkin
presidency was to make sure that the Democratic Party’s 1944 vice presidential candidate would not
be Henry Wallace, a competent and capable representative of the basic philosophy of the New Deal
who might well have been capable of continuing the full constitutional presidency which Roosevelt
had been able to restore. Instead, the ruling class through various operatives demanded that Senator
Harry Truman of Missouri occupy the second place on the Democratic ticket. Truman had been an
artillery captain in World War I, had attempted to make a career of haberdashery, but had failed.
Truman had been attached himself to the corrupt political machine of boss Tom Pendergast, which
dominated Democratic party politics in Kansas City, Missouri. As a loyal cog in the corrupt Kansas
City machine, just as Obama has been a loyal cog in the filthy Chicago party apparat, Truman soon
found himself up to his neck in the then prevalent forms of graft and corruption. In 1925, thanks to
boss Pendergast, Truman was elected as a county judge. In 1933, again with Pendergast’s blessing,
Truman was named Missouri’s director for the Federal Re-Employment program, a sub-set of the
Civil Works Administration (CWA), at the request of FDR’s patronage boss Postmaster General
James Farley as payback to Pendergast for delivering the Kansas City vote to Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the 1932 presidential election. Truman then became boss Pendergast’s handpicked candidate for
the US Senate in 1934. But in 1939, Pendergast was indicted for income tax evasion involving a
bribe. Pendergast was released after serving 15 months in prison at the nearby United States
Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and died in 1945. Truman showed more loyalty towards boss
Pendergast than Obama has shown towards Rezko and Wright: as Vice President, Truman attended
Pendergast’s funeral a few days after being sworn in, and just a few weeks before Truman
succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as President.
It is safe to say that Truman always remained aware of the definite possibility that he too might
be sent to the penitentiary at Leavenworth because of his participation in the same corrupt activities
which had brought down his friend boss Pendergast. The ruling elite desired a president with a
built-in detonator of this type: Truman, after all, was inheriting the presidency at the peak of its
powers, bequeathed to him by FDR. What Wall Street oligarch could be sure under these
circumstances that Truman would follow orders in the way that, say, Coolidge had? Accordingly it
was necessary to deploy a sword of Damocles over Truman said in the form of a perpetually
pending indictment in the Pendergast Kansas City corruption scandal. Naturally, the ruling elite
had other means of manipulating little Harry. In foreign policy, he was dominated by the right-
wing Democrat and anti-Roosevelt renegade Dean Acheson, and adept depth of one of the lesser
Yale secret societies. Working closely with Acheson was soon W. Averell Harriman of Skull and
Bones and the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank in Wall Street, which also featured the
presence of Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the current tenant of the White House. Acheson and
Harriman successfully dominated Truman’s options in the arena of world politics. In domestic
policy, a committee of Wall Street operatives chaired by Clark Clifford, himself something of a
Harriman man, was able to manipulate Truman in ways he was not even aware of, as Clifford has
boasted in his memoirs. Generally, Truman’s handlers were able to manipulate him most easily
through his periodic rage fits, which gave the White House palace guard an opportunity to direct the
puppet president’s hatred against some target of their choosing. But beneath all this, and
underpinning the entire edifice of control of the sitting president by forces above and behind the
Oval Office, there always remained the specter that Truman could be indicted for some dirty