IF YOU DON'T GET IT

that Barack Obama is a corrupt influence peddler, you haven't been paying attention.  The private checks went into Obama's bank account, then the government checks started coming out of the State of Illinois treasury and into the bank account of Obama's sugar daddy.  As simple as that.  It's the Chicago way, and Obama was a quick study.  And if you've read his first book, you recognize that this also the world of corruption and influence which Obama experienced growing up in the third world, and which he came to appreciate again when "going home" to his father's Kenya.