Interesting reads . . .

Been prepping for a murder trial so I don't have time to put my own thoughts together.  But I stumbled across this Ulsterman guy . . .and it's either a GREAT yarn . . . or we're in deeper shit with this commie in the White House than I thought.

Hillie the C has more balls than 100 Barry Soetoros.

White House Insider On Obama: President Losing It

Published by Ulsterman on September 7, 2010 in Opinions

A longtime Washington D.C. insider, and former advisor to the Obama election campaign and transition team, speaks out on an administration in crisis, and a president increasingly withdrawn from the job of President.

2008 gave America an incredibly charismatic candidate for President of the United States.  Speech after speech showed a candidate with increasing momentum as primary race after primary race concluded.  And then came the nomination, more speeches, culminating in an election night victory.

According to the person sitting across from me, those were incredibly exciting times, even for one who had been a participant with three previous presidential hopefuls. Barack Obama appeared to move from one city to the next effortlessly, gaining confidence and motivation with each campaign stop.  He was remarkable to watch.  He took the script, elevated it with his oration, left the crowds screaming for more, and then would do it all over again, time after time after time.  On the campaign trail, Obama is a machine.

When I asked this insider if the media gave candidate Obama an assist throughout his campaign, it elicits a sly smile.  Sure – we definitely had people in the media on our side.  Absolutely.  We went so far as to give them specific ideas for coverage.  The ones who took that advice from the campaign were granted better access, and Obama was the biggest story in 2008, so yeah, that gave us a lot of leverage.

 Could Obama have succeeded without the media’s help?  Yeah, I think so.  As I said, on the campaign trail he is very-very good.  The opposition didn’t have near the energy, or the celebrity attraction that Obama brings.  Plus, the country was burned out after eight years of Bush.  We knew that going in.  We knew that if we won the Democrat nomination, we were likely going to cruise our way to the White House – and that is exactly what we did.”

But after Obama was sworn in, things began to change?  Almost immediately.  Obama loved to campaign.  He clearly didn’t like the work of being President though, and that attitude was felt by the entire White House staff within weeks after the inauguration.  Obama the tireless, hard working candidate became a very tepid personality to us.  And the few news stories that did come out against him were the only things he seemed to care about.  He absolutely obsesses over Fox News.  For being so successful, Barack Obama is incredibly thin-skinned.  He takes everything very personally.

And you state he despises Joe Biden?  Oh yeah.  That is very well known in the White House.  Obama chose Biden for one reason – to have an older white guy with some international policy credentials.  Period.  If Biden has all of this international experience that Obama found so valuable, why has he buried him under the pile of crap that became the stimulus bill?  What does Joe Biden know about budgets and economics?  Not much – but Obama didn’t care.  Give Joe a job and get him the hell out of my hair – that pretty much sums up the president’s feelings toward Joe Biden.

What about Hillary Clinton?  Obama is scared to death of Hillary.  He doesn’t trust her – obsesses over her almost as much as he does Fox News.  He respects her though, which might be why he fears her so much as well.  He talks the game, but when it comes down to it, she has played the game on a far tougher level than he has, and Obama knows that.

How about Bill Clinton?  I never heard Obama say anything about Bill Clinton personally, though I was told he has cracked a few jokes about the former president since getting into the White House.  I have heard that Bill Clinton does not like Barack Obama.  That really started when Obama played the race card against him during the primary campaign.  Apparently Clinton was apoplectic over that and still hasn’t gotten over it.  If there is one thing I have learned in this town – don’t make an enemy of Bill Clinton.

So if Obama doesn’t appear interested in the job of president, what does he do day after day?  Well, he takes his meetings just like any other president would, though even then, he seems to lack a certain focus and on a few occasions, actually leaves with the directive that be given a summary of the meeting at a later date. I hear he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television – ESPN mainly.  I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get excited about a conversation, turn it to sports.  That gets him interested.  You start talking about Congress, or some policy, and he just kinda turns off.  It’s really very strange.  I mean, we were all led to believe that this guy was some kind of intellectual giant, right?  Ivy League and all that.  Well, that is not what I saw.  Barack Obama doesn’t have a whole lot of intellectual curiosity.  When he is off script, he is what I call a real “slow talker”.  Lots of ummms, and lots of time in between answers where you can almost see the little wheel in his head turning very slowly.  I am not going to say the president is a dumb man, because he is not, but yeah, there was a definite letdown when you actually hear him talking without the script.

That sounds like you are calling Obama stupid to me.  No – I am not going to call him stupid.  He just doesn’t strike me as particularly smart.  Bill Clinton is a smart guy – he would run intellectual circles around Barack Obama.  And Bill Clinton loved the politics of being president. Obama seems to think he shouldn’t have to be bothered, which has created a considerable amount of conflict among his staff.

So how bad are things at the White House these days?  I don’t know about right now, because I have not been there in over a month.  But I still hear things, and I know what it was like when I left.  It’s not good.  As bad as it might look to voters based on what they do know, it’s much worse.  The infighting is off the charts.  You got a Chief of Staff who despises cabinet members, advisors who despise the Chief of Staff, a President and First Lady having their own issues…

Come again – what about the First Lady?  (The insider takes a deep breath) Ok, look, just like any other marriage, folks have issues.  The Obamas are no different, except of course they are very high profile.  I was told they were having issues before the campaign, and they have even more issues now.  Maybe that is why Obama seems so detached – not so much the stress of the White House, but the stress of personal issues.  I can certainly relate to that kind of situation.

Care to clarify some more on the Obama marriage?  No.  That is all I will say about that.  Don’t ask again.

Ok, back to President Obama then.  In just a few words, how would you describe him these days?  Like I said, it’s been a while since I was last at the White House, but I don’t have a problem saying that the president is losing it. I don’t mean he is like losing his mind.  I mean to say that he is losing whatever spark he had during the campaign.  When you take away the crowds, Obama gets noticeably smaller.  He shrinks up inside of himself.  He just doesn’t seem to have the confidence to do the job of President, and it’s getting worse and worse.  Case in point – just a few days before I left, I saw first hand the President of the United States yelling at a member of his staff.  He was yelling like a spoiled child.  And then he pouted for several moments after.  I wish I was kidding, or exaggerating, but I am not.  The President of the United States threw a temper tantrum.  The jobs reports are always setting him off, and he is getting increasingly conspiratorial over the unemployment numbers.  I never heard it myself, but was told that Obama thinks the banking system is out to get him now.  That they and the big industries are making him pay for trying to regulate them more.  That is the frame of mind the President is in these days.  And you know what?  Maybe he is right, who knows?

Will Obama run again in 2012?  I don’t know. That subject was never brought up again after 2008, at least not around me.  If he does, I think it would have more to do with allowing him another year and a half of campaigning again.  He just loves it so much.  He really needs the crowds, the cheering, the support of the people.

Can he win in 2012?  Oh – absolutely.  Who else campaigns as well as Barack Obama? Nobody.  What politician is more loved and supported by the media?  Nobody.  I don’t see the Republicans offering up a candidate as powerful as Obama. I mean Sarah Palin? Really? Obama would defeat her by a 20 point landslide!  Romney?  The Republicans will enjoy these midterm elections, but 2012 is Obama’s year if he chooses to run again.   As a president, Obama has many flaws, but as a candidate, he is near flawless.

But would another four years of an Obama presidency be the best thing for America?  (Long pause)  Now that is a much more interesting question right there, and a question I think more and more Democrat Party insiders are asking themselves these days, myself included.  I am going to come right out and say it – No.  Obama is not up to the job of being president.  He simply doesn’t seem to care about the work involved.  You want to know what?  Obama is lazy.  He really is. And it is getting worse and worse.  Would another four years of Obama be the best thing for America? No it would not.  What this country needs is a president who is focused on the job more than on themselves.  Obama is not that individual.  I actually hope he doesn’t run again.  Looking back, as much fun as the campaign in 2008 was, Hillary Clinton should have been the nominee.  Hillary was ready to be president.  Obama was not ready.  He had never lost a campaign.  Everything was handed to him.  He doesn’t really understand the idea of work – real, hard, get your heart and soul into it work.  And frankly, that is very disappointing to a whole lot of us…

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Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden

White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden
by Ulsterman in Issues, May 3, 2011

"What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound."

Note:  This update comes some 24 hours after our longtime Washington D.C. Insider first outlined shocking details of an Obama administration having been “overruled” by senior military and intelligence officials leading up to the successful attack against terrorist Osama Bin Laden.  What follows is further clarification of Insider’s insights surrounding that event.

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Q: You stated that President Obama was “overruled” by military/intelligence officials regarding the decision to send in military specialists into the Osama Bin Laden compound.  Was that accurate?

A: I was told – in these exact terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama)  I have since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant, as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.”  There appears NOT to have been an outright overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there was no specific position from the president to do so.  President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.


I was correct in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper.  The primary opposition to this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was enough to create uncertainty within President Obama.  Obama would meet with various components of the pro-invasion faction, almost always with Jarrett present, and then often fail to indicate his position.  This situation continued for some time, though the division between Jarrett/Obama and the rest intensified more recently, most notably from Hillary Clinton.  She was livid over the president’s failure to act, and her office began a campaign of anonymous leaks to the media indicating such.  As for Jarrett, her concern rested on two primary fronts.  One, that the military action could fail and harm the president’s already weakened standing with both the American public and the world.  Second, that the attack would be viewed as an act of aggression against Muslims, and further destabilize conditions in the Middle East. 

Q: What changed the president’s position and enabled the attack against Osama Bin Laden to proceed?

A:  Nothing changed with the president’s opinion – he continued to avoid having one.  Every time military and intelligence officials appeared to make progress in forming a position, Jarrett would intervene and the stalling would begin again.  Hillary started the ball really rolling as far as pressuring Obama began, but it was Panetta and Petraeus who ultimately pushed Obama to finally act – sort of.  Panetta was receiving significant reports from both his direct CIA sources, as well as Petraeus-originating Intel.  Petraeus was threatening to act on his own via a bombing attack.  Panetta reported back to the president that a bombing of the compound would result in successful killing of Osama Bin Laden, and little risk to American lives.  Initially, as he had done before, the president indicated a willingness to act.  But once again, Jarrett intervened, convincing the president that innocent Pakistani lives could be lost in such a bombing attack, and Obama would be left attempting to explain Panetta’s failed policy.  Again Obama hesitated – this time openly delaying further meetings to discuss the issue with Panetta.  A brief meeting was held at this time with other officials, including Secretary Gates and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Gates, like Panetta, was unable to push the president to act.  It was at this time that Gates indicated to certain Pentagon officials that he may resign earlier than originally indicated – he was that frustrated.  Both Panetta and Clinton convinced him to stay on and see the operation through.

What happened from there is what was described by me as a “masterful manipulation” by Leon Panetta.  Panetta indicated to Obama that leaks regarding knowledge of Osama Bin Laden’s location were certain to get out sooner rather than later, and action must be taken by the administration or the public backlash to the president’s inaction would be “…significant to the point of political debilitation.”  It was at that time that Obama stated an on-ground campaign would be far more acceptable to him than a bombing raid.  This was intended as a stalling tactic, and it had originated from Jarrett.  Such a campaign would take both time, and present a far greater risk of failure.  The president had been instructed by Jarrett to inform Mr., Panetta that he would have sole discretion to act against the Osama Bin Laden compound.  Jarrett believed this would further delay Panetta from acting, as the responsibility for failure would then fall almost entirely on him.  What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound.  Basically, the whole damn operation was already ready to go – including the specific team support Intel necessary to engage the enemy within hours of being given notice.  Panetta then made plans to proceed with an on-ground assault. This information reached either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates first (likely via military contacts directly associated with the impending mission) who then informed the other.  Those two then met with Panetta, who informed each of them he had been given the authority by the president to proceed with a mission if the opportunity presented itself.  Both Gates and Clinton warned Panetta of the implications of that authority – namely he was possibly being made into a scapegoat.  Panetta admitted that possibility, but felt the opportunity to get Bin Laden outweighed that risk.  During that meeting, Hillary Clinton was first to pledge her full support for Panetta, indicating she would defend him if necessary.  Similar support was then followed by Gates.  The following day, and with Panetta’s permission, Clinton met in private with Bill Daley and urged him to get the president’s full and open approval of the Panetta plan.  Daley agreed such approval would be of great benefit to the action, and instructed Clinton to delay proceeding until he had secured that approval.  Daley contacted Clinton within hours of their meeting indicating Jarrett refused to allow the president to give that approval.  Daley then informed Clinton that he too would fully support Panetta in his actions, even if it meant disclosing the president’s indecision to the American public should that action fail to produce a successful conclusion.  Clinton took that message back to Panetta and the CIA director initiated the 48 hour engagement order.  At this point, the President of the United States was not informed of the engagement order – it did not originate from him, and for several hours after the order had been given and the special ops forces were preparing for action into Pakistan from their position in Afghanistan, Daley successfully kept Obama and Jarrett insulated from that order.

This insulation ended at some point with an abort order that I believe originated from Valerie Jarrett’s office, and was then followed up by President Obama. This abort order was later explained as a delay due to weather conditions, but the actual conditions at that time would have been acceptable for the mission.  A storm system had been in the area earlier, but was no longer an issue.  Check the data yourself to confirm.  Jarrett, having been caught off guard, was now scrambling to determine who had initiated the plan.  She was furious, repeating the acronym “CoC” and saying it was not being followed.  This is where Bill Daley intervened directly.  The particulars of that intervention are not clear to me beyond knowing he did meet with Jarrett in his office and following that meeting, Valerie Jarrett was not seen in the West Wing for some time, and apparently no longer offered up any resistance to the Osama Bin Laden mission.  What did follow from there was one or more brief meetings between Bill Daley, Hillary Clinton, a representative from Robert Gates’ office, a representative from Leon Panetta’s office, and a representative from Jim Clapper’s office.  I have to assume that these meetings were in essence, detailing the move to proceed with the operation against the Osama Bin Laden compound.  I have been told by more than one source that Leon Panetta was directing the operation with both his own CIA operatives, as well as direct contacts with military – both entities were reporting to Panetta only at this point, and not the President of the United States.  There was not going to be another delay as had happened 24 hour earlier.  The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated.  President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission.  Upon his arrival there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and a high ranking member of the military.  When Obama emerged from the briefing, he was described as looking “very confused and uncertain.”  The president was then placed in the situation room where several of the players in this event had already been watching the operation unfold.  Another interesting tidbit regarding this is that the Vice President was already “up to speed” on the operation.  A source indicated they believe Hillary Clinton had personally made certain the Vice President was made aware of that day’s events before the president was.  The now famous photo released shows the particulars of that of that room and its occupants.  What that photo does not communicate directly is that the military personnel present in that room during the operation unfolding, deferred to either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates.  The president’s role was minimal, including their acknowledging of his presence in the room.

At the conclusion of the mission, after it had been repeatedly confirmed a success, President Obama was once again briefed behind closed doors.  The only ones who went in that room besides the president were Bill Daley. John Brennan, and a third individual whose identity remains unknown to me.  When leaving this briefing, the president came out of it “…much more confident. Much more certain of himself.”  He was also carrying papers in his hand that quite possibly was the address to the nation given later that evening on the Bin Laden mission.  The president did not have those papers with him prior to that briefing. The president then returned to the war room, where by this time, Leon Panetta had personally arrived and was receiving congratulations from all who were present.

In my initial communication to you of these events I described what unfolded as a temporary Coup initiated by high ranking intelligence and military officials. I stand by that term.  These figures worked around the uncertainty of President Obama and the repeated resistance of Valerie Jarrett.  If they had not been willing to do so, I am certain Osama Bin Laden would still be alive today.  There will be no punishment to those who acted outside the authority of the president’s office.  The president cannot afford to admit such a fact.  What will be most interesting from here is to now see what becomes of Valerie Jarrett.  One source indicated she is threatening resignation.  I find that unlikely given my strong belief she needs the protection afforded her by the Oval Office and its immense powers to delay and eventually terminate investigations back in Chicago, but we shall see.

And here's the latest part. Again, an interesting read.

White House Insider: Eric Holder Is Gonna Fall

Published by Ulsterman on May 9, 2011 in US Politics

The second half of our April 28th interview with our longtime D.C. Insider.

Note:  This is the second part of a two part communication with our D.C. Insider.  The first part was titled Obama’s West Wing Civil War.  Just prior to the second part being published, the events surrounding the death of Osama Bin Laden broke, including Insider’s explosive behind the scenes details of a quasi operational coup within the administration. The details contained in this update were understandably delayed from publication due to the Osama Bin Laden news.  It is a somewhat lengthy read – but informative.
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…He called out the real Valerie Jarrett inside the White House.  He showed the staff who she really is.  And he is still there standing.  That message will not be lost to those in and around the West Wing.  It’s a pretty damn remarkable turn of events.  I probably ain’t doing it justice in my telling of it, but it’s huge. Rahm was pushed out like a dog.  Bill Daley is still holding strong.

Don’t think Jarrett is giving up though.  That lady will fight back.  Bet on it.  Obama is gonna be on the road campaigning 24/7 in the coming months, leaving Jarrett and Daley to square off in creating policy.  Those two are gonna be at each other’s throats.  My money’s on Bill Daley.  If he can help send Jarrett packing, he will be doing this country a huge favor.  Huge.

Q:  Can you repeat what you told me before – how Richard Daley stepping down and Bill Daley coming to the White House, and then Rahm Emanuel becoming Chicago’s Mayer.  How all of that relates back directly to Valerie Jarrett and Barack Obama.  You connected those dots better than anyone else I’ve heard from, but you didn’t want to publish it before.  Can we share that now?  What you said regarding that?

A:  I won’t allow you to publish it.  I WANT you to publish it.  And I want to qualify that by explaining to you that I am running without fear now.  I am not alone here.  This has become much bigger than me, or the group of us that were working prior to the Midterms  We are in every good hands now, and this thing has a real possibility of seeing the kind of outcome I thought impossible just a few months ago.  And don’t get hung up on people believing or not believing what we are discussing here.  That is not the point of this.  As I told you some time ago, the real motivation of this operation is letting those know who are watching that we are also watching, and that no amount of effort on their part is going to fully prevent the truth from getting out there. And I am being absolutely honest with you when I say that at no other time since we began this have I been so confident in our eventual success.

Now getting back to your question about Richard Daley stepping down, Rahm stepping in, and Bill Daley’s entrance into the Obama administration, it is foolish for anyone to not think all of that is no connected to something far greater than simply political repositioning.  You have already reported on the Jarrett-Richard Daley connection, so no need for me to get you up to speed on that.  What you might not know is that Richard Daley had something of a falling out with Jarrett, and by default, the Obama’s prior to Obama becoming a U.S. Senator.  Now when it comes to Chicago politics, the Daley machine owns all of it.  Everything.  This includes information – every kind of information, on anyone of political importance in and around Chicago.  When Obama went “national” as a Senator, Jarrett’s influence went national right along with it, right.  By then she was the primary guide for Barack Obama’s political career. Every decision went to her, through her, and ultimately had to be approved by her.  Obama did nothing without her approval.  This has largely continued to this day in the White House, though as I just indicated, Bill Daley is fighting to alter that arrangement.  So what happens when the great keeper of Chicago secrets, Richard Daley, announces he is stepping down?  A huge power vacuum that sent the Obama White House into panic mode.  Daley had a working agreement with Obama and Jarrett to keep a lid on the “unsavory” details related to each of them.  Details stemming from years working among the most powerful and corrupt forces in Chicago politics, including Daley himself.  And while many dislike the man that is Richard Daley, none will dispute that when a deal is made, he holds to it.  And he has held to his deal with Jarrett and Obama.  Almost every avenue investigated against those two has been effectively shut down in Chicago. With Daley’s departure as mayor, that will no longer be so easily accomplished, and the figure now in control of that apparatus is none other than disgruntled former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.  

Q:  I have been told by others that Rahm’s voyage back to Chicago was coordinated by the Jarrett White House to continue keeping those secrets you speak of under wraps.  That seems like a very strong possibility to me.  You are stating that is not the case?

A:  Not only is that not the case, but it is among the single greatest concerns currently being dealt with by Jarrett and White House operations.  That is to say, keeping an eye on Rahm Emanuel in Chicago.  That scenario you lay out, the idea that Jarrett sent Rahm back to Chicago, is a superficial ruse by Jarrett meant to keep the donors and their concerns minimized.  Nobody wants to make a substantial investment on a horse with a bad leg. I have detailed to you the conflicts between Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett.  Money and resources were spent against Rahm’s campaign by the Obama people.  Rahm then received support, very important support, from two powerful allies.  One was political machine of outgoing mayor Richard Daley.  The other was from Bill Clinton. But I am not quite prepared to relate the Clinton connections as they relate to Chicago because that may compromise what is still underway.

And then of course you have Richard Daley’s brother Bill being placed within the Obama West Wing as new Chief of Staff.  That decision was not Jarrett’s. I have told you that already. There is a trap being built around both Jarrett and Obama and they certainly are aware of that now.  Once we get Holder out of the DOJ, the cracks will really begin to appear.  The DOJ is holding off every significant inroad against Jarrett and Obama at the moment.  But that situation is temporary.  Holder is going to find himself in some very serious legal trouble shortly.  He may survive it, but I would consider that outcome likely.  He cut off the NBP case.  Held it off long enough to do so.  Ok then.  We have moved on to the next scenario and this time we have much greater help in pushing this one through.

Q:  And then back to Chicago?

A:  And then back to Chicago, yes.  As I have always said.  The big difference now are these two theatres are working almost simultaneously, so once the first wall is breached, the second should fall far faster than we were initially thinking.

Q:  Wall?

A:  Sorry, speaking figuratively there.  Sort of.  Mean to say that once one event happens, which will be Holder related the protection coming out of Chicago will likely collapse much faster as well.  Dominoes might have been a better term to use.

Q:  What part does the Blago trial play in all of this?

A:  The Blago trial is a very big Domino.  The forces being used against him are a very big wall.  He will cut a deal.  Some kind of deal.  No doubt about that.  The trial itself and its outcome are not the critical component to all of this.  It’s important, but it won’t decide the outcome one way or the other.  Ask yourself this though.  Those tapes. The Blago tapes of his phone conversations that the Feds are using to try and convict.  Why was that taping cut short? Or were they?  The spin was that the Feds moved in to charge Blago, maybe a bit early, right?  They exposed the operation before they had enough to easily convict, right?  Why did they do that?  Or did they?

Q:  What do you mean “Or did they?”

A:  What if the Feds actually didn’t stop the investigation too early?  What if those tapes have all they needed to easily convict Blago and more?  A federal investigation is normally a very slow and deliberate process, but in this one, it came out very quickly, charges were filed, and then soon after, concerns about possibly having stopped the taping of the Blago phone conversations too early started to be disseminated by the media.  The media was simply regurgitating what was being forwarded to them via the Feds, at least those few involved with the Blago case.  Why would Federal prosecutors start putting out a view that they may have stopped recording Blago’s conversations too early even before the trial was underway?  Why do that?


Q:  I have no idea.  They are admitting incompetence?  Trying to get ahead of a story of then possibly losing the trial?

A: That’s what they want you to think.  I’ll say it again.  What if they actually had not stopped the recording of the conversations too early?  What if those tapes have information directly tying the Obama administration to the charges being levied against Blago?  What if both Valerie Jarrett and Barack Obama were complicit in the alleged crime and those tapes prove it?  And what if one of the primary tasks of Eric Holder was to squash any and all investigations within the Department of Justice that would make that connection?  What if Federal prosecutors were working under extreme pressure to withhold any and all evidence directly linking Valerie Jarrett and the president to the investigation?  And what if, once Eric Holder was forced to resign, the dynamics of the political firewall were essentially destroyed?  This entire administration is then under the assault of the truth.  And the questions won’t stop at the Blago related material.  And it won’t stop at Holder’s Department of Justice workings.  And it won’t stop at those actions taken since Barack Obama became President of the United States.  Those questions, and the eventual answers, will go back to Chicago, back to both Obama and Jarrett.  That is, if we ultimately successful with what we are attempting to pull off.  You have seen an uptick in the some negative press related to the Obama administration.  If things are going well for us, you should note an even greater increase in such coverage over the next month or so.  Some very powerful hands are now pushing this rock up the hill.  It’s a long, steep climb, but it’s getting done, which is a hell of lot more than I could say not so long ago.

Q:  Is Trump helping with this?  Donald Trump – is he playing a part?  You starting pushing him as a possible candidate and initially I thought you were crazy to do so, but I have to admit that soon after he was making a huge move in the polls and is now enemy #1 among the media.  Are you connected to the Trump phenomena in any way?

A:  Not exactly.  I was simply aware he was going to make noise and given his celebrity, and resources, considered him at the time the most viable threat to Obama politically.  And frankly, I feel comfortably saying I was proven right.  Donald Trump forced the birther issue onto the mainstream, and because of that, Valerie Jarrett knew they had to release a birth certificate to nullify the momentum that issue was creating.

Q:  Why do you say it like that?  You say “a birth certificate” instead of the birth certificate.  I have learned nothing you say is without a reason – so what’s the reason for that specific choice of words?

A: Let’s move on from that subject for now.  I won’t go there at the moment, ok?  But I will talk Trump.  Why I was pushing him…

 Q:  Ok – but does that mean you’re not pushing him anymore?



A: Not necessarily.  I am open to anyone and anything that will help to put a political end to the Obama White House.  Donald Trump…look at how he is being attacked now.  That is proof positive he is considered a serious threat.  I would support a Trump campaign.  Absolutely.  I would support a Hillary Clinton campaign.  Most certainly.  God how I wish she was willing to make that kind of move.  The fact is though, at this point…at this time, I am willing to work for anyone who can defeat Obama.  And I am.  When I speak of we – when I let you know I’m not the only one involved in trying to secure at the very least a real choice for 2012 – we aren’t all Democrats.  There are Republicans involved.  There are business leaders now involved – some of them who like me, strongly supported the president back in 2008 but have since been shocked and dismayed to see just how inept and dangerous he is to this country…(Long pause) There is something I have wanted to reveal to you but always pulled back because I was never quite certain of it’s a basis in reality.  It was a rumor, or even a rumor of a rumor back in 2008 that at the time I laughed off as stupid conspiracy bullshit.  Ironically the kind of description a lot of people probably label your publishing of our little talks as.  Remember when I told you about the “McCain the campaign” strategy that the Democrats, working in conjunction with certain media figures, pulled off during the Republican primaries?  How we actually worked to make John McCain the nominee?

Q: Yes.  What about it?

A:  That was only half the equation.  At least that’s how it was presented to me.  I know about the “McCain the campaign” strategy first hand. I played a bigger role in that than I originally revealed to you.  But the other part…that’s not my world.  I don’t know if what I was told was legit or just…at the time it was crazy.  But then…damned if it didn’t happen.  Thing is, for it to happen would have taken help by Republicans at the time.

Q:  Ok – get to it then.  What happened?  Or what were you told happened?

A:  The collapse.  The economic collapse in the fall of 2008.  Before that what was the biggest subject during the early parts of the campaign?  It wasn’t the economy, it was the war.  It was foreign policy.  Now I know this because I saw the internals from both sides.  That was the issue that had both camps, the McCain and the Obama teams, being told to work on.  That of course favored McCain, and those same internals were showing that to be the fact.  Barack Obama, like most other areas, had almost no experience in foreign policy, and the campaign team went through scenario after scenario trying to figure out how to minimize that situation.  Nothing worked.  Historically, if the voters are concerned about foreign policy, concerned about safety, law enforcement, military strength – who do they vote for?

Republicans.

A:  Exactly.  And that is what every internal was coming back to us with, and it had the higher ups in the campaign very concerned to the point of panic.  So…something had to be done.  The dynamic had to altered.

Q: Stop for a minute.  If foreign policy was the primary concern, why would the Democrats have helped secure McCain as the Republican nominee if that was his strength?  Wouldn’t that be a huge mistake?

A:  Great question. And you’re absolutely right – it was a terrible miscalculation by the Obama camp.  We thought the war would prove unpopular enough that McCain would get hammered on it.  He’s not a strong public speaker, and the campaign team was convinced that the Senator, – then Senator Obama, would be able to strike political gold on that.  It didn’t pan out.  The surge was working, McCain had the foreign policy credentials, and the Obama campaign was scrambling to redefine what the defining issue would be in November.  I was told there would be a change in the economy.  Not by chance.  A directed change in the economy.  And the first time I heard this, the primary battle between Clinton and Obama was still going strong.

Q:  How would that be possible?

A:  That’s what I said back then.  Having the media push McCain as the nominee – that I understood.  Both sides had initiated that kind of maneuvering before. But to alter the economy…that seemed…unlikely to me at the time.  But that is what they did. 

Q:  Who?

A;  Right.  Who?  It had to be somebody with a lot of influence in both political parties, because the Republicans in power at the time were the ones to get the ball moving in the direction the Obama people needed.  What I can say for certain is that big money – very big money, was rolling into the Obama campaign by then.  The investment had been made, and their boy needed to be the next president to get a full return on that investment, right?  It sounds crazy. Yeah – I know.  Believe me, I ignored the talk.  The rumors, and I just did my job.  But then it happened.  The market crashed, and overnight, the national dialogue turned almost entirely onto the economy.  Obama’s polling jumped.  McCain dropped and he never recovered.  Bear Stearns…that was – I believe that was intentional to favor either Hillary or Obama. I really do.  I don’t have verification of it…the people who could do that kind of thing live in a world far away from my own, but that is what I think, and even back then, the thought crossed my mind and stayed there.  And after Bear Stearns, after Obama was the nominee, we saw the collapse in the fall of 2008 – a classic October surprise.  There was nothing the McCain campaign could do to win that election.  Nothing – and we all knew it.  The economy had been made the defining issue of the election – just as I had earlier been told it would.

Q:  Hold on here…you are saying Republicans – people in the Republican Party, helped to elect Barack Obama?  That they were in on this plan?  That’s outrageous and seems very improbable.  Sorry, but this scenario you’re laying out…it’s crazy.

A:  Yeah – it is.  But why are you so willing to believe when Democrats are playing dirty politics, but not Republicans?  Open your eyes.  I was told they were going to make the economy the issue to decide the campaign.  Prior to the economic crash that seemed highly unlikely.  The economy was hurting, there were certainly some warning signs, but before September and October  2008, it didn’t look anywhere close to what eventually happened.

Do you remember Bear Stearns?  It was bailed out in the spring of 2008 – when the primary races were still going on.  Do you know who initiated that bailout?  There was involvement by the Bush administration of course – but who initiated the actual bailout?  Who directed it?

Q:  I don’t know.  Who?

A:  Don’t feel bad – most people couldn’t answer that question.  It’s that kind of ignorance that allows political operatives to keep spinning the machine around and around.  People tune out.  Most don’t really want to know the answers.

Q: So who initiated the bailout?

A:  Timothy Geithner – our current Secretary of the Treasury.  A guy who has mishandled his position at Treasury since day one…yet there he remains.

Q:  Geithner wasn’t Secretary of the Treasury in spring of 2008…that was—(interrupted)

A:  Right…he wasn’t Secretary of the Treasury in 2008.  He was Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve.  And it was in that position Timothy Geithner initiated the bailout of Bear Stearns – its cannibalization by rival JP Morgan, and the use of tens of billions in Federal Reserve funding to do so.  Geithner testified before a Senate committee shortly after the bailout and defended it as essential to saving the economy.  He stated that if the saving of Bear Stearns had not occurred, the stock market and housing prices would fall dramatically.

Q: So?  You’re losing me here.  What does this have to do with the economy – the campaign, in 2008?

A:  It has everything to do with it.  I didn’t connect it all then, but I do now.  It’s been explained to me in terms I could understand, by someone who would certainly have been in the position to know.  Part of the “We” I refer to regarding defeating Obama in 2012.  Give me a chance here – I will do my best to explain my understanding of it.

So Timothy Geithner, as Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, with assistance from Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, and then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, himself the former head of Goldman Sachs.  The same Goldman Sachs that would later donate a million dollars to the Obama campaign and help elect him President of the United States.  These are investors we are talking about here – you understand what I’m saying, right?  And do you know who donated almost $800,000 to the Obama campaign?  JP Morgan – the same institution Timothy Geithner helped to acquire Bear Stearns at a rock bottom rate with an additional $30 billion dollar credit line via the Federal Reserve.  Are you keeping up now?



Q:  I’m with you – keep going.

A:  So we have Timothy Geithner and the Federal Reserve, acting in conjunction with some of the largest and most powerful financial institutions working to, if Geithner’s testimony at the time is to be believed, “saving the American economy.”  And these same financial institutions then begin to funnel millions in campaign contributions to the Obama campaign.   Then fast forward to the fall of 2008.  What happened then?

Q:  I don’t know.  Just keep talking and if I have a question I’ll let you know.

A:  Lehman Brothers.  In September of 2008, at a time when John McCain is still edging out Barack Obama many of the national polls, Lehman Brothers is allowed to collapse.  Unlike Bear Stearns, the Federal Reserve does not intervene.  Nor does Paulson from Treasury.  Lehman Brothers collapses, and the entire financial system freezes up.  The stock market tumbles, John McCain is caught flat footed, while the Obama campaign, its campaign messaging, appears as if was prepared ahead of time for the collapse.  McCain drops in the polls, Obama rises, and a man the country hardly knows anything about, is elected President of the United States.  And who is then made Secretary of the Treasury – none other than the same man who saved one financial institution, while ignoring another – an act that directly benefited the campaign of the man who would then place him in one of the most powerful and influential positions in the world.  And despite numerous blunders, Timothy Geithner remains in that position to this day.  Another keeper of secrets.

And what followed after that?  Billions and billions in funds to these financial institutions. Easy money policies.  Broad expansion of Federal Reserve powers.  One hand washed the other…

Q:  You make the Obama administration sound like big money Republicans.

A:  That’s a stupid thing to say.  Power doesn’t discriminate between one political party over the other.  I’ve seen that proven true so many times I can’t recall when it wasn’t a fact of my own life, such as it is. Big money deemed Obama was to be their candidate of choice because he was likely the most open to policies that would make them the greatest profit and enjoy the most influence. I also believe they thought him to be easily controlled.  They were partly right.  Barack Obama is easily controlled, but what they failed to recognize, is that Valerie Jarrett is not.  She has been molding Obama in her own political likeness for too long to allow others to alter the course she has set out for him.  That b-tch has been off the Democratic Party reservation since day one.  Day one!

Jarrett is Obama’s greatest weakness though.  His vulnerability.  Valerie Jarrett – she has burned so many bridges in the financial community.  So many in the business community.  Her Chicago version of government-business cooperation has not been well received outside of Chi-town.  And so, some of those former big money donors are seeking alternative political investment to Obama.  Not all of them – not yet. But some.  And the knowledge they have to what is going on inside the Obama White House is…impressive. 





First up is Eric Holder. He is gonna fall.  Watch for Holder news – it’s coming.  They are gonna fight hard to keep him in there.  He’s done a hell of a job keeping the lid on so much sh-t.  But that’s about to change.  I ain’t saying I trust Issa, but it’s been explained to me that he knows that he’s doing and it’s getting done.  So ok…I’ll see if that’s the case.  Then it’s on to 2012 with the information in hand that will be the result of Holder stepping down from the DOJ.  It’s gonna be a race to get it out there before the election, but we sure as hell are gonna try.  And even if Obama manages to get his re-election, we will cripple him politically…we will trip him up enough, that his second term will be nowhere near the threat to the country that this one has been.  And he may not be able to complete that second term.  The information that will be forced into the hands of the media, the people, the party leaders, the donors…the man thinks he’s under political pressure now?  Just wait.  They made a big mistake, and we got them.  We got them…