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To: stockman_scott who wrote (77147)	3/15/2008 8:29:23 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

As Ted Kennedy said at the high tech lynching of Clarance Thomas. "It's not the preponderance of the evidence but the seriousness of the crime" and you libs bought that line

To: stockman_scott who wrote (77147)	3/15/2008 8:31:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Money Trail Also, according to the Times, there was more cash coming from Mr. Auchi to Mr. Rezko: another $11 million in September 2005, two months before Mr. Rezko and other “Illinois government officials" wrote letters to the State Department attempting unsuccessfully to gain another visit by Mr. Auchi to Chicago. And then in 2007 came the two most troubling Mr. Auchi cash transfers so far, $3.49 million in April, and another $200,000 in July, both passed to Mr. Rezko via a Beirut bank in a manner surreptitious enough for the Federal re-arrest of the accused Mr. Rezko. Puzzlingly, Mr. Auchi, a man with a reputation as a modest penny-pincher, is said to have transferred in all up to $27.9 million by June of 2007 into the hands of a man whom he first heard of in 2003 and who is now without means of income and with limited prospects. In sum, Mr. Obama shook hands with a shadowy billionaire who is suspect of making it possible for Mr. Rezko to perform duties that won him the title of "fixer," by the Chicago media. Mr. Auchi's cash in Mr. Rezko's hands may have fixed Mr. Obama's estate in 2005. Mr. Auchi's cash in Mr Rezko's hands may have built the suspect's defense case or sustained it in 2007, a case to refute the government's sweeping charges, brought by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of the North District of Illinois, of graft in high places in Illinois politics. And Mr. Auchi's cash in Mr. Rezko's hands could have led, in the U.S. court's opinion as of January 28, 2008, to Mr. Rezko fixing his problem by flight from prosecution to Middle Eastern countries without extradition treaties with the United States. At this point, if there was an easy explanation for Mr. Obama's handshake and what questions it raises about the candidate's past associations and arrangements, the Obama campaign would already have issued it widely. Mr. Auchi is as high a profile Iraqi-born entrepreneur as may exist, a man who has enjoyed the hand-shakes of U.S. presidents over many years, though not recently, and not right now with the Rezko trial beginning March 3. The next step is to await the not easy explanation, a tale that will prove most fertile in the coming presidential election. humanevents.com