V. Obama’s Heart of Darkness: Rezko, Auchi, Alsammarae, and Chicago Graft 199ABC News first posted a link to photos showing Auchi meeting with Blagojevich on the site,
“Middle East Online.” The description under a picture of Auchi and Blagojevich, still
accessible on the internet a month ago, stated: “Governor of the State of Illinois, Mr Rod
Blagojevich hosted an official reception in honour of Mr Auchi.” Another picture, taken in the
Chicago office of the President of the Illinois State Senate bears the title: “Illinois State Senate
President Mr Emile Jones Jr. meets Mr Auchi.” (Pringle, op-ednews.com)
Jones is of course another of Obama’s friends and patrons, and a key wheel horse of the Illinois
Combine.
But there are other accounts, very embarrassing for Obama as a proponent of clean government,
that place him among those present at the 2004 Rezko-Auchi bash, with Obama leading the well-
heeled guests in drinking to Auchi’s health and long life:
...on April 16, 2008, Sun-Times columnist, Michael Sneed, reported that Obama had even made
toasts at Rezko’s party, and wrote: “Dem presidential contender Barack Obama’s handlers may
be telling the press Obama has NO “recollection” of a 2004 party at influence peddler Tony
Rezko’s Wilmette house, but a top Sneed source claims Obama not only gave Rezko’s guest of
honor, Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi, a big welcome... but he made a few toasts!”^80 In an
April 26, 2008, interview with the Chicago Tribune reporter, John McCormick, Obama did not
deny that he and Michelle were at the party but said he did not recall being there, stating: “I
have to say that I just don’t recall it. I mean this has been, I guess, four years ago. My
understanding, through his lawyer, Mr. Auchi doesn’t recall meeting me and you know, I can’t
speak for other people’s recollections.” (Evelyn Pringle, opednews.com)
This is another example of Obama’s technique of rhetorical evasion under the guise of disarming
frankness.
On February 25, 2005, a report by Charles Smith for NewsMax said, “Newly released
documents from the Bush administration show that a former member of Saddam Hussein’s inner
circle has resurfaced inside the new Iraqi government, bringing charges of corruption, bribery and
bid-rigging.” “As a result,” he wrote, “millions of U.S. aid dollars and billions in Iraqi government
funds have disappeared in an ongoing scandal that is poised to engulf Baghdad and Washington.” :
US SENATOR PETER FITZGERALD: “THE BIPARTISAN ILLINOIS COMBINE”
Perhaps the most authoritative confirmation of the existence of the Illinois bipartisan Combine
from former US Senator Peter Fitzgerald of the GOP, an elected official who for some reason did
not completely fit in with the prevailing general agreement to loot the citizens. Senator Fitzgerald
categorically affirmed the existence of such an ongoing criminal conspiracy, in which Obama is
unavoidably implicated:
Journalist John Kass asked US Senator, Peter Fitzgerald, “what do you call that connection that
Stuart Levine describes from the witness stand [in the Rezko trial], you know that arrangement
across party lines, with politically powerful men leveraging government to make money —
what do you call it?” “The Illinois Combine,” he said. “The bipartisan Illinois political
combine.” “And all these guys being mentioned, they’re part of it,” he told Kass. “In the final
analysis,” the Senator said, “The Combine’s allegiance is not to a party, but to their
pocketbooks.” “They’re about making money off the taxpayers,” he added. According to Kass,
“the Rezko trial is part of the U.S. Justice Department’s attack on The Combine.” (Evelyn
Pringle, opednews.com)