March 4, 2008 Obama hires Starbucks lawyer to fight Hillary/ to keep Hillary from advertising!

[indimuse]

The LOWEST of LOW! Obama acts like a loser sues to win seats....and a fraud...he is NO politics of new....!


http://www.illinoistimes.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3015


Brand Obama can’t take competition, hires Starbucks lawyer to fight Hillary…March 4, 2008
Well. Talk about funny. I’ve always thought that Obama had some connection to Starbucks the brand, and now it turns out he has a lawyer that has worked for them, trying to keep Hillary from being able to advertise. What a cheap shot he is, isn’t he? Looks like he can’t stand any competition!

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/obama_backers_complain_to_fec.html

First he comes off telling everyone he was against the war and blames Hillary Clinton. Well, a lot of us are against the war, but you know what? In retrospect what was our country supposed to do, Barack Obama? Where were you the day 9/11 happened? Well?

The point is, what is your stance now, like say on this company Blackwater. Actually, you sound a little war mongering to me, and the whole world is looking at you right now. You keep waffling on your stances don’t you?

http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/obamas-blackwater-problem/2565/

Or wait! There’s this from the Washington Times on you! What? You got money this way?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080222/NATION/853452725

Shouldn’t the FEC really be investigating YOU? In a deeper way? Because who is monitoring you and what you are doing in the web right now? Is anyone in Washington on top of you?

Maybe your campaign manager should read this piece from the Star Tribune, because your brand is wearing pretty thin.

http://www.startribune.com/business/16136902.html

Here’s Boston Now on his Starbuck’s lawyer:

“A member of the Perkins Cole corporate law firm’s executive committee, Robert Bauer, is the Obama Campaign’s lawyer in 2008. Yet, ironically, the law firm of the Obama Campaign’s lawyer represented the special corporate interests of Starbucks and a dozen retailers in 2003 “in a class action for alleged false advertising and consumer fraud,” according to the Perkins Cole law firm’s web site at www.perkinscoie.com “

http://www.bostonnow.com/blogs/oldmole/2008/02/18/obama-campaign-lawyer039s-firm-represented-starbucks

More on all of this from the fabulous Los Angeles Times here:

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/816965/26552658

“Last week after the Clinton group announced its plan to launch TV ads on …

… Friday, the Obama campaign convened a news conference and threatened legal action. Obama attorney Robert Bauer warned that the pro-Clinton group would be violating federal law by airing the spots because donations to the planned effort would be unlimited.

The legal action could include criminal penalties, the attorney warned, and could be a “life-changing” experience for the consultants and any donors.

Apparently the threats worked and the Clinton people and donors blinked. Plus, trends in recent polls in both states have seemed rather ominous for the New York senator.“

So, check this out from www.huliq.com

http://www.huliq.com/52388/obama-follow-money-campaign-donors. Who’s this Auchi guy?

http://amerpundit.com/2008/02/26/rezko-obama-and-auchi/

And what does he have to do with Rezko? I expect we’ll be finding out pretty soon, huh. In the meantime America is watching you Brand Obama. For somebody who is constantly saying how ethical they are? Are you? The New York Times is watching, thank god.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30donate.html

“After months of denouncing the influence of special-interest money in politics, Senator Barack Obama is nonetheless entering a critical phase of the presidential campaign benefiting from millions of dollars being spent outside campaign finance rules.

Mr. Obama has repudiated a California group, Vote Hope, that is working on his behalf. But it has pressed on and, along with a sister organization called PowerPac.org, is planning to spend up to $4 million promoting him in California and conducting voter registration drives aimed at blacks in 11 Southern states. “

More on you and your brand from Fortune…don’t

[anonymous171]

1. Is he a dirty fighter or a little greenhorn?

Can we make up our minds already?

[SoFlaJet]

9. I see The Monster has handed out the marching orders

and talking points to the walking dead zombie cult-I think what pisses me off the MOST about The Monster's campaign is they think we're fucking stupid and can't see through this bullshit.

[CyberPieHole]

10. But what does Barack Hussein Obama have to say about it?

[cali]

44. People who use Obama's middle name as you do

either do it to provoke or they're showing their true bigoted selves, or both. It's that simple.

[Window]

41. Talk about the "Silly Season in Politics." Damn these Hillary supporters are desperate!

Hit pieces and bullshit. Period.

[anamandujano]

17. The greener you are, the dirtier you fight.

[anonymous171]

21. What does that say about Clinton then?

[stray cat]

2. Our country was not suppose to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9-11

What else could we do - how about invade Canada! I think I need another Latte.

[indimuse]

4. what does 911 have to do with this post??

answer!

[stray cat]

See your quote taken from your post below - didn't you write the post?

First he comes off telling everyone he was against the war and blames Hillary Clinton. Well, a lot of us are against the war, but you know what? In retrospect what was our country supposed to do, Barack Obama? Where were you the day 9/11 happened? Well?

[Beacool]

49. I don't know where Obama was, but I was in the North Tower

and don't blame any Democrat who voted for the IWR. I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for disregarding their concerns and attacking Iraq 5 months later. As far as Obama conveniently bringing up the issue when he was in no position to vote on the matter, I consider it as slimy as his votes to fund the war without saying a peep against them until he decided that he was going to run in 2008. As always, the esteemed senator from IL does not take any risks but panders to those who can get him ahead.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. 7th written line of the OP.

:shrug:

[ellacott]

3. What does 9/11 have to do with Iraq?

[indimuse]

6. starbucks... 911 I get it!

idiots are out again!

[ellacott]

20. No I don't get it

Was he at Starbucks on 9/11?

Idiots are ones who can't make a cogent post.

[splat]

5. He's going to throw lattes at her?

[leftofcool]

7. There is a lot more coming out about this Obama guy

like why was he really against the war.........just wait on it. It's coming.

[indimuse]

11. he has connections with an Iraqi Billionaire!!!

and more...OH,...he's electable...NOT!

[zabet]

8. He is no stranger to

using legal maneuvers to win
elections. Like having opponents
petitions declared invalid so he
could run un-opposed.
He is NOT the different type of
politician he claims to be.

[CyberPieHole]

13. Chicago Politician says everything about Obama.

"Hope & Change":eyes:

[ellacott]

25. People in Chigago are hopeless?

[indimuse]

14. you're right!

I've posted many articles about this for months....Obamatrolls don't care!

[cali]

45. you've posted incoherent drooling right wing idiocy for months

as a true little hillzombie does. You deserve a little pat on the head, hillzombie.

[goclark]

15. Right ~ he is from Chicago after all

People that live in Glass Latte's should not throw stones.

[zabet]

27. Glass Latte's?

:rofl:

I drink Folgers and
drive a Chevy truck
even though my income
bracket dictates me to
be a limo-lib. I live
in a 76 year old house,
it has withstood storms
like Hazel, I doubt a
little rock chunking would
hurt it.

[goclark]

46. She is the one that calls his supporters Latte Drinkers

and I've never had a latte in my life.

[classykaren]

47. and she is from Boca Raton fla I think she has had a few lattes nt

[frazzled]

12. Your links make no sense

The first one, for example, leads to a discussion of Obama's "blackness," from 2004.

I can't make heads or tails of anything you're trying to say here. Where's the beef?

[Patsy Stone]

18. There is none

It's a Googled laundry list of cold leftovers.

[indimuse]

30. try these from yesterday! :)

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/27/look-before-you-leap-obamas-mobbed-up-allies/


Look Before You Leap: Obama’s Mobbed-Up Allies
By SusanUnPC on January 27, 2008 at 3:43 PM in Alexi Giannoulias, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Tony Rezko

UPDATE x2: They’re thick as thieves … “$$$: State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias was last spotted trying to set up a Saturday morning basketball game in Las Vegas

so Barack Obama could loosen up on primary day .” — From Mike Sneed’s column at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 18, 2008

UPDATE: At the end of this story, I’ve added an update showing the connection between the indicted Tony Rezko, who goes on trial Feb. 25 before Patrick Fitzgerald

and his U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago, and Alexi Giannoulias.

From the Chicago Tribune in its story, “Critics: Obama endorsements counter calls for clean government“: “In the 2006 Democratic primary, for example, Obama

endorsed first-time candidate Alexi Giannoulias for state treasurer despite reports about loans Giannoulias’ family-owned Broadway Bank made to crime figures.

Records show Giannoulias and his family had given more than $10,000 to Obama’s campaign, which banked at Broadway.”
presidential campaign, aiming for $100,000.]

That’s Barack Obama endorsing “granny grifter” Alexi Giannoulias, who got elected as Illinois’ state treasurer with the hands-on support of Barack Obama. Besides

his mob ties, Giannoulias “was involved in an alleged mortgage fraud five years ago against an 83-year-old woman.”



http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/27/look-before-you-leap-obamas-mobbed-up-allies/ :::rest of story and more links :::>>>>
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::>> http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2008/01/kennedy-obama-and-rezko-or-slimey-and.html
:::>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/nov/16/iraq.politicalcolumnists
::::>> http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/03/a-rezko-jesse-j.html
:::>>> http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/135894/26874108


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Obama-->Rezko-->Auchi-->Saddam Hussein & Muammar al-Gadaffi
EXCUSE ME:

Obama got his money from Rezko who got his 3.5 million from Auchi:

Where's the media?

-Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi-born billionaire who was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Prime minister (president) Abdul Karim Qasim

and stood trial in 1959. (Auchi gave fellow Baath Party members machine guns from his home for Saddam Hussein.)

-Auchi protected secret money for Saddam Hussein AND Muammar al-Gadaffi.

(Remember, Obama's Trinity church Pastor Wright went with Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan in 1993 to visit Libyan socialist leader Gadaffi.)

-Auchi also financially backed Saddam Hussein's plan for a pipeline from Iraq to Saudi Arabia.

-Rezko was also a business partner with Nation of Islam Founder's son: Jabir Herbert Muhammad.

Why isn't the media talking about all of Barack Obama's scary friends who have ties to the worst people in history?

*Don't forget William (Bill) Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn of the Weather Underground.

*Obama's cousin Raila Odinga who just became co-President of Kenya this week (after 1,000 people were killed) whom Obama is said to be close to...who signed a

secret pact with Muslim jihadists who were to ethnically cleanse people?

And why does Raila Odinga use Obama's exact same campaign slogan: CHANGE....Vote for CHANGE: Look at his website:

http://www.raila07.com/



MY dish to you::::::enjoy!

[frazzled]

48. I don't read whacked out bloggers

None of these things are even written in full sentences. They're just hate posts.

[redstate_democrat]

16. deranged

People are really getting worked up over something that is already decided. Obama has already mathematically won this nomination. One day soon you will come to understand this.

[indimuse]

19. do you REALLY believe that?

ha...lol..

[splat]

24. The superdelegates are the failsafe; Iraqi billionaire could sink him, if true

[ZombieHorde]

23. What is wrong with Starbucks? nt

[splat]

28. Too expensive, for one

[ZombieHorde]

33. If they were too expensive they would go out of business.

Unless you mean for your budget, as they are for mine.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. What does 9/11 have to do with Iraq?

This is your quote:

First he comes off telling everyone he was against the war and blames Hillary Clinton. Well, a lot of us are against the war, but you know what? In retrospect what was our country supposed to do, Barack Obama? Where were you the day 9/11 happened? Well?

Got an answer?

[AZBlue]

29. Why are you connecting 9/11 and Iraq???!?!?!

First he comes off telling everyone he was against the war and blames Hillary Clinton. Well, a lot of us are against the war, but you know what? In retrospect what was our country supposed to do, Barack Obama? Where were you the day 9/11 happened? Well?

I couldn't stomach going beyond that in your post.
:puke:

[blm]

31. LOwest of low - Clintons DEEP-SIXING the BCCI report honest Dems worked 5 1/2 yrs to unravel

just so Clintons could fulfill their obligations to Jackson Stephens who GROOMED their political careers to protect BushInc and all the powerplayers involved in BCCI's agenda.

[yourguide]

32. ROFL

this is the biggest mess of a post I have ever seen!


good work, if you're crazy. If you're sane you might want to try again.

[Beacool]

34. What did you expect from someone who's a product of the Chicago Southside machine.

His mantra of hope and change is all smoke and mirrors. He's no different than anyone else who rose thanks to the Daley machine. I'm from NJ and Chicago tops even us when it comes to political corruption, it's the place where for decades the dead voted.



:eyes:

[indimuse]

35. want more links...?

I have links....big ones little ones...all shapes and sizes....links for everyone!

[stillcool]

36. From the last link....

January 30...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30donate.html
Mr. Obama’s campaign says it has taken pains to discourage these efforts on its behalf, and in fact the campaign has no recourse in controlling them. “We do not think people should be donating to 527s,” said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman. “We would rather have them involved in our campaign. It is our hope that anyone who supports Obama does so directly through his campaign and not through these outside groups.”

Mr. Obama has lined up support from unions representing plumbers and pipefitters, as well as hospitality and garment workers. One union, Unite Here, plans to mobilize its 450,000 members through direct mail advertisements, phone banks and door-to-door visits in Super Tuesday states. It will also continue efforts, begun in Nevada, to run pro-Obama television and radio spots, many in Spanish and aimed at voters in California. The plumbers’ and pipefitters’ union, which has 340,000 members, said it was working with the Obama campaign to get out its membership and was encouraging members to donate time as Obama campaign volunteers.

Unlike 527s, unions can coordinate some activities with campaigns, and spending by their political action committees must be reported to federal regulators.

he two California groups supporting Mr. Obama, Vote Hope, which is a 527, and PowerPac.org, which is a nonprofit group, are both creations of Steve Phillips, a longtime social activist and lawyer who founded PowerPac.org five years ago.

“We have a chance to make an impact,” Mr. Phillips said. “There are not the resources within the Obama campaign to organize. You need a dedicated organization with a dedicated revenue stream.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/politics/30donate.html

[stillcool]

37. and the Lawyer for the Obama Campaign...

works for the firm that represents Starbucks. Horrors!!!!!

[stillcool]

38. another of your links...

The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) has found that Mrs. Clinton has accepted more than $750,000 from lobbyists so far during the presidential campaign, while Mr. Obama took more than $85,000.

Massie Ritsch, a spokesman for the center, said the group's figures include donations from family members of federal lobbyists as well as contributions from state and municipal lobbyists. He also said the Obama campaign has a good track record of returning money from current federal lobbyists once they learn of the contributions.

"The money goes right back out the door," he said.

The records show that partners at Covington & Burling LLP had given the Obama campaign more than $25,000 in contributions last year, including $10,650 since October.

Covington & Burling lawyer Eric Holder, a former top deputy in the Justice Department and U.S. attorney for the District, gave $4,600 to Mr. Obama. An adviser for the campaign, he was registered as a lobbyist in 2003 but does not currently lobby, records show.

[stillcool]

39. Hey...but thanks for this one!

Obama backers complain to FEC over Clinton allies

By Jim Tankersley

A group of Barack Obama supporters in Ohio have filed a formal complaint to the Federal Elections Commission, asking the nation's top campaign finance regulators to investigate and potentially shut down - and prosecute - an outside group that has pledged to run advertisements boosting Hillary Clinton in Ohio and Texas.

As Mark Naymik reported in the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio, earlier today, a Cleveland lawyer and Obama backer (who was a failed candidate for Ohio attorney general in 2006) named Subodh Chandra filed the complaint on behalf of three low-income Ohioan Obama supporters. The complaint alleges the pro-Clinton American Leadership Project, which is organized as a so-called "527" group that is set up to advocate on political issues, violates campaign finance laws because the only issue it appears to advocate is ... Hillary Clinton's election.

"The project's exclusive purpose (is) to support Senator Clinton's campaign through the funding and airing of sham issue ads," the complaint alleges -- and to allow "maxed-out" financial supporters to circumvent federal election rules and continue to help Clinton.

The complaint says the Leadership Project should have registered as a political committee and been subject to federal fundraising limits. It requests "an expedited civil investigation, fines, immediate injunctive relief to prevent irreparable tainting of the primaries and, if appropriate, a referral for criminal investigation."

The Obama campaign complained about the Leadership Project earlier this week but said it would leave any FEC complaints up to others.

Posted by Jim Tankersley on February 23, 2008 1:26 PM | Permalink

[Kittycat]

40. You're whining about 527's? Get lost.

Crybaby.

[Window]

42. LOL! You Hillary supporters are going to drive yourselves crazy/crazier.

For every hit piece on Senator Obama, there's 20 on Hillary. LOL!

[Vinca]

43. Does he get a deal on his lattes?

:rofl: Sorry, I'm not getting the outrage factor here. You can only cut and paste these stories so many times.

[Catherina]

50. Not even close. This is the LOWEST of the low

Financed by big, loyal, CLOSE Clinton supporter, friend, current campaign advisor and former Clinton official Roger Altman discussed in this thread


He's also involved in Larry Sinclair's vile bullshit Gay, Crack, Limousine story.



Shame on you and shame on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

[golddigger]

51. Shame on you for posting this shit...lol

[Catherina]

52. No. Shame on Hillary Clinton for having an Advisor who's publishing it

Thanks for giving me to opportunity to just do a CTRL+V.

Courtesy of Roger Altman, a Clinton Campaign Advisor, financial backer, former campaign manager, and former official in the Clinton White House.

Sat Mar-08-08: Clinton Supporter's Rag, the National Enquirer, Calls Obama a Terrorist

Sun Mar-09-08: GLOBE MAGAZINE: Accuses Sen Obama of Drug Use and affair

For Edwards people, he was also behind the story about John Edwards having a mistress

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4994361


KOS has been following this too Major HRC Backer Behind "Gay" Obama Smear UPDATE

SHAME ON YOU HILLARY CLINTON and SHAME on anyone who doesn't denounce this.

[indimuse]

54. while I certainly don't condone that..

Hillary has about ...20 years of this stuff in her face! I guess we'll chalk that up as experience... AND DON'T BLAME HILLARY!!!

[kikiek]

53. A Starbucks lawyer? Not exactly UNION friendly!

Emails reveal Starbucks spied on staff looking to establish union
Submitted by SWU on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 10:42pm.

By Stephen Foley in New York, The Independent

Published: 11 January 2008

Starbucks managers monitored internet chatrooms and eavesdropped on party conversations in a covert campaign to identify employees agitating for union representation at the coffee chain, internal emails reveal.

The correspondence has come to light after a long-running legal battle between the company and a union angry at being prevented from organising among Starbucks' 150,000-strong army of "baristas" and other employees.

The revelations come at a sensitive time, threatening to tarnish the chain's public image just as its pioneering chief executive, Howard Schultz, is trying to re-energise the company and attract customers back to its coffee shops.

read more
Starbucks Emails Describe Efforts to Stop Unionization
Submitted by SWU on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 10:21pm.

By KRIS MAHER, Wall Street Journal

January 9, 2008

A series of emails by Starbucks Corp. managers sheds light on the company's efforts to thwart union organizing among its baristas.

The emails, which are part of a labor-dispute proceeding in New York and were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, open a rare window onto the company's labor relations practices. Labor experts not involved with the case said the activity is not illegal. But the emails could prove embarrassing because they show managers using various methods to identify pro-union employees.

read more http://www.starbucksunion.org/node?from=5