PrintAugust 8, 2009
Other People's Money
Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and CroniesBy Michelle MalkinRegnery Publishing Inc., 2009289 pp, plus 75 pages of supporting end notesThose of us paying attention before the election found it difficult to reconcile Barack Obama's oft repeated promises that he would run a completely transparent, honest, post-partisan administration, one that was not beholden to lobbyists or any other special interest groups, with his actual past practices and associations. A guy whose bestest buddies included his own opportunistic wife, Chicago consigliere Valerie Jarrett, pit bull and money man Rahm Emanuel, unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, and the entire Daley political machine didn't seem likely to abandon that modus operandi just because he switched to a larger venue.Immediately after Obama's inauguration, the doom-and-gloom contingent started seeing their worst fears realized. Even the most minimal due diligence revealed that those people he wanted...(Read Full Article)
