According To Liberals, ALL Former Murderers And Convicted Felons Deserve a Second Chance, But ONLY If They're Liberal

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The Obama Pardon You Should Be Mad About: Oscar Lopez Rivera

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Barack Obama and Bill Ayers

Barack Obama's education and house were paid for with money obtained from
questionable sources?

Claim: Barack Obama had an acquaintanceship with Bill Ayers, a former
domestic terrorist.

Status: True.

Origins: William (Bill) Ayers was one of the founders of the Weather
Underground, a radical leftist organization formed in 1969 by a group of
University of Chicago students who split with the campus-run Students for
a Democratic Society (SDS) organization because they disagreed with the
SDS?s peaceful protest tactics against the Vietnam War. From 1970 until
1974, the

Weather Underground carried out violent actions against the government,
including bombings at NYPD headquarters, the U.S. Capitol building, the
Pentagon and a San Francisco police station, while Ayers (and his wife,
fellow Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn) went into hiding to
evade the FBI.

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Top Ten Convicted Felons and Shady Characters in Barack Obama's Life

1. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich: Sentenced to 14 years in
prison for political corruption.

NBC Chicago:

President Barack Obama?s chief of staff, then a congressman in Illinois,
apparently attempted to trade favors with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich while he was in office, according to newly disclosed e-mails
obtained by The Associated Press.

Emanuel agreed to sign a letter to the Chicago Tribune supporting
Blagojevich in the face of a scathing editorial by the newspaper that
ridiculed the governor for self-promotion. Within hours, Emanuel?s own
staff asked for a favor of its own: The release of a delayed $2 million
grant to a school in his district.

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2. Tony Rezko: Sentenced to 10 and a half years for corruption and
kickbacks.

Politico:

Rezko raised money for Obama when he ran for Illinois senator, but not
during his presidential campaign, the AP noted.

Obama also involved Rezko in a house deal after he was elected to the U.S.
Senate, a move he later called ?a boneheaded mistake,? according to a 2008
report in ABC News.

Obama wanted to purchase a home that the seller had a specific condition
on: the adjacent empty lot to the house had to be purchased at the same
time, ABC News reported. In the house deal, Rezko?s wife paid the full
asking price for that parcel, $625,000.

Obama shelled out $300,000 under the house?s asking price, paying $1.65
million, according to ABC News. Obama then purchased a part of Rezko?s lot
for $104,500.

?It was a mistake to have been engaged with him at all in this or any
other personal business dealing that would allow him, or anyone else, to
believe he had done me a favor,? Obama told the Sun-Times at the time.

Obama said his connection to Rezko was ?above board and legal.?

Rezko and others connected to him gave Obama?s 2004 Senate campaign more
than $120,000, ABC News reported.

ABC News:

While Rezko?s wife paid the full asking price for the land, Obama paid
$300,000 under the asking price for the house. The house sold for
$1,650,000 and the price Rezko?s wife paid for the land was $625,000.

Obama denies there was anything unusual about the price disparity. He says
the price on the house was dropped because it had been on the market for
some time but that the price for the adjacent land remained high because
there was another offer.

Obama then expanded his property by buying a strip of the Rezko land for
$104,500, which the senator maintains was a fair market price.

Obama later told the Chicago Sun-Times, ?It was a mistake to have been
engaged with him at all in this or any other personal business dealing
that would allow him, or anyone else, to believe he had done me a favor.?

Obama had known Rezko long before the house deal, calling him a ?friend.?

An ABC News review of campaign records shows Rezko, and people connected
to him, contributed more than $120,000 to Obama?s 2004 campaign for the
U.S. Senate, much of it at a time when Rezko was the target of an FBI
investigation.

It?s important to keep in mind that this was dutiful reporting from the
media. Any attempts to turn this into the Bain-style narrative it deserved
and still deserves to be has always been blunted by the media. This is the
shadiest land deal involving a politician in my lifetime, and Obama got
away with it legally and politically.

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3. Courtney Dupree: Democratic fundraiser convicted of bank fraud.

Daily News:

Dupree, who attended the elite Wharton School of Business, was a rainmaker
in Democratic circles.

In 2008, Dupree hosted a $1,000-a-ticket fund-raiser for Barack Obama at
his Broad St. apartment that was attended by top aide Valerie Jarrett.

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4. Willie Shepherd: Obama bundler plead guilty to assault.

Denver Post:

On Tuesday, Shepherd was sentenced to 12 months of supervised probation,
according to state court documents.

Shepherd, the former finance co-chairman of the Democratic National
Convention host committee, was originally charged with negligent child
abuse and third-degree assault that knowingly caused injury ? a class one
misdemeanor. Those charges were dismissed and Shepherd pleaded guilty to
the class two misdemeanor.

Denver Post:

Shepherd, 44, the former finance co-chairman of the Democratic National
Convention host committee and $100,000-plus bundler for Barack Obama?s
2008 presidential campaign, pleaded not guilty to the charges last month
at a Denver court hearing.

Denver police on Sept. 13 were called to Shepherd?s house by his wife,
Sarah Trainor-Shepherd, who said she had been the victim of domestic
violence, according to the arrest affidavit.

The court document says police officers noticed a red mark on her brow and
bruises on her face and arm, but Trainor-Shepherd then told police she did
not want to press charges.

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5. John Corzine: Top Obama fundraiser currently under FBI investigation.
Obama?s ?Wall Street guy.?

MSNBC:

Jon Corzine, now the center of an FBI investigation into the handling of
hundreds of millions of dollars invested in his securities firm, was one
of the leading Wall Street fundraisers for President Obama?s campaign and
suggested to investors that he might take a top administration post if the
president were re-elected.

His new legal troubles, sparked by the bankruptcy filing of his investment
firm, MF Global, could complicate the president?s efforts to raise money
from the financial community given Corzine?s central role in those
efforts.

A recent list of top ?bundlers? or elite fundraisers released by Obama?s
campaign listed Corzine in the highest category ? reporting that he had
raised more than $500,000 for the campaign. A substantial chunk of those
funds were collected at a $35,800 per ticket fundraiser that Corzine
hosted at his wife?s spacious Fifth Avenue apartment last April ? an event
that was touted at the time as part of a concerted effort by the
president?s campaign team to reach out to well-heeled Wall Street donors
who had been alienated by some of his policies and previous public
comments.

Star Ledger:

In a sign of his emerging role as a financial guru for Barack Obama, Gov.
Jon Corzine Sunday unveiled the latest piece of the presidential
candidate?s plan to curb soaring oil prices.

The governor touted an Obama proposal that marked the latest clash between
the Democrat and Republican opponent John McCain over energy policy, as
voters rank the economy as their biggest concern heading into the November
election.

In his plan, Obama calls for more regulation in oil markets by promising
to close the so-called ?Enron loophole? that exempts some energy trading
from federal oversight. The rollout also provided a showcase for Corzine,
the former Goldman Sachs CEO whom Obama referred to as ?our Wall Street
guy? at a meeting of Democratic governors in Chicago on Friday.

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6. Shervin Neman: Obama bundler currently under investigation for fraud.

Politico:

The Obama campaign will return the donations of an accused Ponzi schemer
who is facing an SEC investigation, a campaign official confirms.

?With 1.8 million donors thus far, we constantly review those
contributions for issues. In this particular case, we will be refunding
the contributions and have placed the funds in escrow until a trusteeship
or other appropriate place to return these funds is established given the
interests of the investors,? a campaign official told POLITICO.

Shervin Neman, a hedge fund manager in Los Angeles, stands accused by the
SEC of defrauding members of his California Persian-Jewish community, the
conservative Washington Free Beacon reports.

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7. Abake Assongba: Obama bundler under investigation for fraud.

Washington Post:

New Yorker Abake Assongba has pledged to help President Obama win
reelection, and as one of his 400 volunteer fundraisers, she has delivered
$50,000 to the cause.

But she is also trailed by some controversy, accused in court of
defrauding a businessman out of $657,000, impersonating a bank official
and dodging creditors.

Assongba disputes the allegations, but the mysteries around her personal
life highlight a challenge for Obama?s reelection effort and other
presidential campaigns. The astronomical cost of running for the White
House requires an army of bundlers, many of whom are strangers to the
campaign. And as candidates quickly learn, it is no small task to woo ?
and vet ? those citizen fundraisers.

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8. Alberto and Carlos Cardona: Obama bundlers with ties to a Mexican
fugitive accused of attempted assassinations.

Politico:

The Obama campaign will return more than $200,000 in campaign donations
from the American relatives of a fugitive Mexican businessman and casino
owner, a campaign official said Tuesday.

?On the basis of the questions that have been raised, we will return the
contributions from these individuals and from any other donors they
brought to the campaign,? said Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the campaign.

The fugitive, Juan Jose Rojas ?Pepe? Cardona, fled drug charges and other
legal troubles in Iowa in 1994 and rose to prominence as a wealthy Mexican
casino operator. State Department reports have also linked him as a
suspect in attempted assassinations of business rivals and illegal
political donations in Mexico.

According to a story first reported by The New York Times, Pepe Cardona?s
American brothers have suddenly emerged as major Democratic donors ?
raising and contributing up to $300,000 to the Obama campaign alone,
mostly from relatives. The donations put one brother, Alberto Rojas
Cardona, in the top bracket of Obama campaign volunteer fundraisers, known
as bundlers.

According to the Times, another brother, Carlos Cardona, has also been
approaching political figures ? including a former chairman of the Iowa
Democratic Party and a former governor of Iowa ? trying to seek a pardon
for his brother Pepe Cardona.

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9. Solyndra: First company to receive taxpayer backed loans from Obama.
Solyndra?s investors are Obama bundlers. The FBI raided Solyndra last
September.

Breitbart News:

The Obama Administration loaned over $500 million to Solyndra via an
accelerated process; later, of course, Solyndra went bankrupt and had to
fire 1,100 employees. Some of Solyndra?s biggest stakeholders were major
Obama donors ? George Kaiser, an Oklahoma billionaire, raised between
$50,000 and $100,000 in 2008; Steve Westly, an Obama bundler, was linked
with Solyndra; so was Steve Spinner, another Obama fundraiser, who pushed
the Administration to greenlight the loan, even while his wife?s law firm
was legally representing the company.

Bloomberg:

An FBI raid on Solyndra Inc., a solar-panel maker that failed after
receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Energy Department,
may signal the escalation of a probe into the Obama administration?s
clean- energy program.

Agents for Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman, who has
called the department?s clean-energy loan program lacking in ?transparency
and accountability,? joined in the search yesterday at the Fremont,
California, headquarters of Solyndra, which filed for bankruptcy
protection on Sept. 6.

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10. Bill Ayers: Unrepentant domestic terrorist. Early Obama backer. Fellow
board-member of the Woods Foundation. 4th of July pal.