What is really fun is looking at the early contributors to Obama’s campaigning career and not only would he get launched from Ayer’s place but one of the first contributors was: Rezko Foods.
Quite the opposite of his view of being ‘different’, Barack Obama is tightly supported by a number of PACs throughout his early campaigns, often running with very little more than just PAC money.
What is interesting is a few of the Rezko associated names from the DoJ list show up back in ’95 supporting Obama with contributions. A business associate of Rezko’s puts the first association between them in 1990 when Rezko offers Obama a job with his Rezmar group. Obama declines, but in the law practice he heads to will work on a number of cases for Rezko.
That entire set of people, beyond Ayers, continues to show up in various problematical ways. Aiman Alsammarae being one of them, and he has close ties to Rezko and multi-billionaire Nadhmi Auchi, who was a financial investor in Rezko and headed up one of the banks investigated in the Oil For Food scandal. Actually his bank, BNP, would merge with Paribas under the money of the Desmarais family in Canada which had holdings in Iraq’s oilfields under Saddam. So of course he was ‘against the war’ as the people behind him had financial interests in keeping things as they were. He would flip-flop when Alsammarae went to Iraq and become pro-war for a few months, right up to the point where Alsammarae was tried and convicted of banking fraud in Iraq for a contract there to build a power plant in Iraq. Alsammarae got busted out of jail and fled to the US and became a backer of Sen. Obama.
Fascinating the people who Sen. Obama gains in his circle of relationships. Ayers, Pfleger, Wright, Davis… I’m not surprised to see the official ties between Ayers and Obama go back to ’87 since it should take years to gain the trust of a terrorist and build ties to the Democratic Machine. Eight years is enough time to do that, get the necessary commercial ties to dodgy figures, work a bit with those folks on projects… because you don’t get to Ayer’s place by good luck, chance or happenstance.
