Obama Announces Bill Richardson for Secretary of Commerce
• Team Obama: Richardson misled us
• Richardson: “Disappointed” and “hurt” by turn of events, but the real issue is people are losing their houses!
• new Commerce Sec…

As they say in politics , perception is reality.

If you have an objective and little or no ethical constraints you can move to your objective until the backlash counters your momentum.

CommentGuy on January 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM

Well said

And when your momentum is countered, you often retain a net gain.

p.s. your software is very useful. It takes art and science to plumb the net, especially as the major search engines have begun subverting search results

Quite obvious Obama does not adhere to rigorous vetting, as the playah played him.

Baxter Greene on January 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Everything but 6 and 10 is correct…

right2bright on January 5, 2009 at 10:43 AM

Thank you,I will make the corrections.

“According to federal law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, federal officials are also looking into CDR’s political and financial ties to ["Fast Eddie" Rendell of Pennsylvania], as well as to Democrat state and local officials in Illinois, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania.” By the way, this outfit also was involved in — I remember the original December story. This outfit was involved in some chicanery in Alabama, I think, as well. Now, Fast Eddie “Rendell placed Rubin on a political patronage commission in Pennsylvania, and Rubin was also given a seat on a Los Angeles City commission back in 2002… Rubin has also been a financial supporter of Rev. Al Sharpton.” Now, Rubin is David Rubin, who is heads of the CDR Financial Products company, which is at the center of the grand jury investigation of Bill Richardson.

“CDR also had close business ties to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, marketing and selling financial instruments created through low-income housing ‘lease to own’ programs across the country.” Folks, this is one giant cesspool, and it’s not just in Chicago. It is throughout the Democrat Party. The corruption is incredible. However, it is a mistake to bring this up. It will persuade nobody. The truth does not matter right now. This is an unfortunate distraction, and I am simply a small-minded partisan seeking to upset the most historically important presidential inauguration and administration in our nation’s history. None of this (ripping up paper), none of this is relevant, especially now that Richardson has taken himself out. He’s no longer up for commerce secretary.

This doesn’t matter. It never happened, it never existed. Obama is too big to fail. “[A]fter a number of embarrassing investigations into alleged IRS investigations into back-door deals related to municipal bond financing in Atlanta and other localities in the late 1990s, the firm’s name was changed …” This bunch has been manipulating the muni bond market doing a bunch of things raising money for these governors in some of these states, cities; you know, mayors and to, and it’s Democrat all the way down to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But, truth right now doesn’t matter especially if it gets in the way. (EIB)

Not really. Remember REDACTED and the “REDACTED”?

Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 4, 2009 at 5:17 PM

No. We don’t.

And neither should you.

[do i really need the sarc tag?]

If you have an objective and little or no ethical constraints you can move to your objective until the backlash counters your momentum.

Obvious to whom? Us, yes, but we don’t count. Until it becomes notably obvious to the fawning MSM, I don’t expect much to come of it. We will continue to cry out in the wilderness and be laughed at by the “elite”.

SKYFOX on January 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Ironically, the popular attitude that all politicians are crooks works to the benefit of the actual crooks. An apathetic public is not going to get worked up about any particular politician’s misdeeds until the media gets them riled up.

Besides the banal media bias in favor of Democrats we all take for granted these days, there’s also the media’s disposition in favor of Exciting Big-Government candidates who offer Hope and Change. The attitude toward someone like Obama will always be “ease up and give him a chance.” The media will never be equally excited about a limited-government candidate, even setting aside their personal dislike for most Republicans. That’s why you don’t hear a lot of hosannas to “change” and “bold new directions” when a Republican takes over from a Democrat. The media action line, and the attitude of the average Obama voter, is that we should set nasty little distractions like Richardson or Franken aside, and give The One a chance to lead the country. Such courtesy would never be extended to a Republican, who would be described as taking office in a “cloud of controversy”, or struggling under the “shadow hanging over his new administration.”

Because the Democrats promise to do exciting (and hideously expensive) new things with government, they will always be judged on their potential. On the other hand, conservative philosophy is seen by the media as “rolling back the clock” or standing in the way of progress, so they will always be judged by their biography, usually the worst parts. If no sufficiently bad biographical details are available, the media will invent them as needed, as Sarah Palin could readily testify.

Yet now is not qualified due to investigation and scandal for a Cabinet position?

Why isn’t this very question newsworthy?

Bonus question: How smart can the Obamamessiah’s team be when they let all of this stuff pass (perhaps they don’t……

kingsjester on January 5, 2009 at 1:53 PM

What I do is not magic.

I do research for other purposes in my personal life for investments.

I have many software tools that I use that many don’t even know exist.

Some originate for use with police departments and intelligence agencies and other are for statistical data mining and other purposes.

The problem to be dealt with is filtering down all the available information to distill it into a comprehensible format.

I have done the research and have the best state of the art and best of breed software to do the job at hand. Also my staff has modified some open source stuff to do specific functions.

I work with massive flows of data each day from around the world 24/7,which is the reason I have all the computer hardware at my disposal.

I have software that can take a pure text input and learn what it means in a near artificial intelligence sense but not quite.

It does it by translation of the base language if necessary to English and then doing sentence structure and grammatical analysis to determine the content of the text.

I do a lot of ‘text mining’ as well as ‘data mining’.

The software I use can read a 400 page document and summarize it into bullet points and an executive summary almost as well as a team of 20 or so researchers on a team.

It puts it into a narrative format that you would swear was a draft written by those researchers on the team but it is totally untouched by human interaction.

The software actually builds a neural network heuristic model and ‘learns’ from the more material it gets fed to analyze.

It can pick up name collisions and such but with just a couple of quick mouse clicks feedback it then makes an exception rule for future usage.

Some software packages already do this but mine also has a mash up arrangement that while doing this will build full social network diagrams, time frame stuff much more advanced than the old project Gantt Charts to show temporal relationships.

Degrees of separation and linkages become very important to draw conclusions from the data.

One you need the software assist to filter out the overload and duplication.

Two you need to know or know how to learn what data sources are available for access.

As my favorite early years school teacher so well said.

My job is not to teach you,but to teach you how to learn.

They also seem to have no compunction about calling Richardson a liar in public. I wonder how that will play politically with their base.

Meh, nothing at all. If anything, Richardson comes out worse for being an enemy of The One.

Baxter Greene on January 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Actually there is one issue in the Doug Ross list that is out of date.

A FOIA request went through for the Selective Service registration for Obama ….and it looks like someone may have ‘manufactured’ one.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/exclusive_did_n.html