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Obama Campaign Finance Chairman Playing Footsie With Ahmadinejad


Penny Pritzker, the Obama campaign finance chairman, is one of the 12 grandchildren of Chicago patriarch, Abraham N. Pritzker. She is a Harvard-trained attorney and was selected by her late uncle to oversee the family’s vast portfolio of investments which include the Marmon Group industrial conglomerate and the Hyatt hotel chain. She is also a former member of the board of the failed Superior Bank Savings & Loan implicated in irresponsible subprime mortgage lending during the 1990s and after the Pritzkers’ bank acquired a wholesale mortgage organization division, Alliance Funding, at the end of 1992, Penny Prtizker primary responsibility was to concentrate on subprime lending, primarily for home mortgages, but for a brief period on subprime auto lending as well. Essentially, Penny Pritzker and the family bank played a central role in innovating “Mortgage Backed Securities,” which are now the focus of the current financial crisis and the real estate melt down. This might have some bearing on why Barack Obama has avoided discussing the significant role that financially irresponsible bank board members, such as his own campaign finance chairman, played in the creation of the subprime mortgage foreclosure financial calamity that the American taxpayers will soon be shouldered with.

As if that were not sufficient cause for embarrassment, Thursday night, Penny Pritzker hosted a gala, celebrity studded, reception for the crazed Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the family owned New York Hyatt hotel. The Iranian popinjay was warmly welcomed by the former Democratic Indiana congressman, John Brademas and the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad. In June 2007, CAIR was named as the “unindicted co-conspirator” in a criminal Conspiracy to fund the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, and several former CAIR officials have been convicted or deported after being charged with fraud, embargo violations, and aiding terrorist training in the Middle East.

Ahmadinejad’s address to those attending the event began with an invocation of the 12th imam; similar to the way he began his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday when he added the comment that he hoped his actions “would hasten the Imam’s return.” Ahmadinejad who is a member of the Mahdivist cult of Shia Islam believes that the 12th imam will return to earth after a period of worldwide conflagration, mass destruction, famine, and starvation and many see his invocation of the 12th imam as his way of revealing his intention to provoke a world war that would make this 12th imam’s return to earth possible.

The remainder of Ahmadinejad’s speech was taken up with hostile verbiage aimed at Israel, which he refers to as “a dried, rotten tree that will collapse with a single storm,” and his condemnation of the United States, concerning which he stated, “American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road.”

The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, criticized the scheduled reception for Ahmadinejad during the State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide Conference held in Washington, D.C., on September 23. The former ambassador said that he would never support a ban against anyone speaking at the U.N. but he did not feel that Ahmadinejad should be allowed to speak elsewhere in the United States. Holbrook cited his reasons as being, “Not because I’m afraid his words will influence anyone who hears them, but because he uses these forums to legitimize himself in Iran.”

By giving intensely hostile Islamic fundamentalists like Ahmadinejad a pulpit from which to spread their twisted fanatical beliefs and hostile comments about Israel and the United States, we are increasing their credibility and political power in the Middle East and risking further the further destabilization of the region at a time when the progress we have made their is still fragile and there is no possible way to control how the Iranian media spins Ahmadinejad’s American reception to it’s Middle Eastern audience.

Iran is a country where giant banners proclaiming, “Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world,” in English and Farsi hang from the Iranian government buildings in Tehran and similar banners decorate the Iranian Shahab-3 missiles when they are paraded through the streets of Tehran. Ahmadinejad, who is the primary spokesman for the Iranian government has never exercised discretion in calling for the complete and total annihilation of the nation of Israel which also happens to be America’s number one loyal friend and ally. The Iranian media can be expected to portray Ahmadinejad’s reception at the New York Hyatt hotel as an event that was sponsored by a growing segment of U.S. society dismayed by their government’s hostility to the peace loving Muslim people of Iran.

Barack Obama has made negotiations with Ahmadinejad a cornerstone of his foreign policy approach and the Democratic candidate has stated on numerous occasions that he will meet with the Iranian official to negotiate a sweeping security agreement with his regime with no preconditions and this may explain why Barack Obama’s campaign finance chairman would set up a reception for the Iranian president and give him a U.S. forum from which to launch his criticism of Israel and the United States.

If this is a preview of Obama’s foreign policy position with respect to the terrorist sponsoring nation of Iran, the nation of Israel has good cause for concern, however, they should not be the only concerned party because a U.S. President who is willing to naively dabble with a fanatical Islamic tyrant like Ahmadinejad is a president who has no concept of “national security,” and that can only spell disaster for the United States and the American people.


 

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