Barack Obama: "This is not the ___Larry_Walsh_&_Matt_Ryan___ that I knew" (FBI raid)

The Obama Bus got all fired up, two soft thuds were heard, and then typing was heard from the campaign's teleprompter office as this was typed in: "This not the Larry Walsh and Matt Ryan that I knew" (link):

The FBI on Wednesday raided the county offices of a former Illinois state senator who is a poker-playing buddy of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

According to Chicago authorities, the FBI visited the offices in Joliet, Ill., of Will County executive Larry Walsh, a longtime friend of Mr. Obama's, and his chief of staff Matt Ryan.

Mr. Walsh, who served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, was endorsed by Mr. Obama in his county executive election bid. With the support of some of Mr. Obama's U.S. Senate volunteers, he easily defeated incumbent Republican Joseph Mikan...

Posted to Politics at October 2, 2008 10:33 PM

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• New York Times: if the "nativists" weren't really "anti-immigration", they'd support massive immigration
• Barack Obama: "This is not the ___Larry_Walsh_&_Matt_Ryan___ that I knew" (FBI raid)
• Sarah Palin/Joe Biden vice presidential debate live coverage 10/2/08
• Bob Menendez, Teddy Kennedy still trying to hamper immigration enforcement (S.3594)
• Pew: enforcement, economy caused fewer illegal aliens to enter U.S. in 2007
• Pro-life, pro-Obama: Douglas Kmiec says abortion foes should vote for Barack Obama
• ICE: Houston, Phoenix blocking immigration enforcement against gangs
• Colorado Democracy Alliance/Jared Polis to "educate the idiots"
• Open Letter: How to Defeat Barack Obama
• Barack Obama: millions in very questionable campaign contributions
• VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill: in the tank for Barack Obama? (didn't tell CPB, plays race card)
• Barack Obama supports community college for illegal aliens (North Carolina, "good citizens")
• Are you scared of Barack Obama's followers yet? (kids singing video)
• FactCheck recompresses, removes EXIF data from Obama birth certificate photos
• CBP chief Ralph Basham downplays Iranian sleeper cells in U.S.
• 1150+ arrested in SoCal immigration fugitive sweeps
• Sarah Palin rape kit smear: chronology (Mary Pemberton/AP, DailyKos, Americablog, Eric Croft, Obama campaign)
• GOP official removed for telling something that's true to a good extent (McCain)
• UCLA professor Stephen Bainbridge deletes comments showing how he was wrong
• Stephen Bainbridge, Matt Yglesias embarrass themselves in support of illegal immigration (minorities, bailout)