Obamauchi: Oil For Food

Courtesy of Nadhmi Auchi indirectly financing Obama's home purchase, the Oil-for-Food Connection is spilling out as a consequence of the Rezko trial. Why am I not surprised Obama is soft on dictators. Coupled with the FARC "endorsement" Obama has inspired some loathsome allegiances. But then he has forged a few of his own.

Kind of creeps you out, doesn't it.

P.S. Detail from the Oil for Food story:

Saddam used Oil for Food fraud to channel millions of dollars to heads of state, activists, terrorists, and journalists--many of whom returned the favor by backing Saddam in 2003 when the US finally invaded.

In 2003 Auchi was convicted in France for receiving about $100 million in illegal commissions as part of a scandal involving the French oil giant Elf Aquitane. The UK Guardian wrote:

"(Elf was) the biggest fraud inquiry in Europe since the Second World War. Elf became a private bank for its executives who spent £200 million on political favours, mistresses, jewellery, fine art, villas and apartments."

UPDATE: Gauzy stuff from NY Times columnist Roger Cohen in Kenya, the end of his journey for the key to the Oracle. Cohen met with Obama's older half-sister Auma, "The Obamas of the World":

It is his ability to bridge universes that is central to his appeal — particularly to Americans under 40, a post-baby-boom generation that has intuited how interconnected the globe has become and thirsts for a new American lexicon, a new approach to a transformed world.

Ah yes, clearly Barack can bridge universes of course, but what kind of real transformation?

UPDATE: Sun Times: Did Rezko find jobs for Obama staffers? John Kass, Chicago's premier political columnist in the Tribune writes a primer (also video) on the Chicago Way for the MSM to understand Rezko and Barack Obama's origins here, in the muck of Chicago and Cook County.