Penny Pritzker: Another Friend of Barry We Should Be Concerned About

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 6th at 10:13 AM  | 

Barack Obama is attacking John McCain today over the Keating 5, a little remembered scandal from the eighties, after which McCain repented and went on to fight to reform Congress. Meanwhile Barack Obama has another member of the Keating 5, John Glenn, out campaigning for him. But this is bigger than just John Glenn. Obama claims McCain can’t be trusted because the Keating 5 had | Read More »

Obama’s Crooks and Cronies a/k/a His Economic Policy Team

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 28th at 02:53 PM  | 

Today Barack Obama met with his economic policy advisers. Let’s review who they are. First, there is St. Robert Rubin. The media prefers us to remember Rubin as the savior of the economy; such a good Secretary of the Treasury, Bush wanted a Democrat and found Hank Paulson. They don’t like to talk about this. Yeah, that’s right, Robert Rubin has his hands in Citigroup, | Read More »

Pure as the driven snow, except when they are not

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 21st at 05:23 AM  | 

How can this be? I thought only Republicans had these entanglements. How inconvenient. Billionaire Penny Pritzker helped run Hinsdale, Ill.-based Superior [Bank], overseeing her family’s 50% ownership stake. She now serves as Barack Obama’s national campaign-finance chairwoman, which means her banking past could prove to be an embarrassment to her — and perhaps to the campaign. Naturally, the Obama campaign says Ms. Pritzker has done | Read More »