He went to the most expensive private school in HQ. No way you can call that a deprived background.
You can't depict someone who went to an elite prep school free and then to Columbia and Harvard Law as deprived and overcoming that deprivation. I didn't go to any such school.
Maybe you weren't worthy of anything....like Barack was.
The point is only a very small percentage of our population has had the advantages Obama has.
I see.......in your view, getting help was a bad thing.
Not at all. Its something he ought to be grateful for. And its not accurate for his followers to claim he succeeded despite disadvantage.
And I bet your IQ is about the same as inoys.
1970 ACT score = 30. 97th percentile. IQ - have no idea.
The truth is Obama is a product of an elite and privileged background. The privilege didn't come from his parents having money so it may be a mystery as to where it came from. But the priviliege is undeniable.
Stupid is as stupid does!
I don't think Obama is stupid though that is what his campaign is suggesting:
Obama, however, was associated with the firm for more than nine years, his staff acknowledged Sunday in an e-mail response to questions submitted March 14 by the Sun-Times. They didn't say what deals he worked on -- or how much work he did.
"The senator, relatively inexperienced in this kind of work, was assigned to tasks appropriate for a junior lawyer,'' according to an e-mail from Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs. "These tasks would have included reviewing documents, collecting corporate organizational documents, and drafting corporate resolutions.''
Get that? Obama worked for Rezko's law firm for 9 years - his entire legal career, got hundreds of thousands of campaign contributions raised by Rezko over those years, had been offered a job as a developer by Rezko while he was still in Harvard Law school ... but Obama did only 5 hours of work on Rezko deals in that 9 years. And the explanation for that non-involvment in Rezko's legal work is that Obama was too inexperienced a lawyer to handle Rezko's business for all those years - including years he served as a state senator. He was just a "junior lawyer" the whole time who shuffled papers, "reviewed" documents (For what? Typos?) - drafted standard corporate boilerplate resolutions, yadda yadda. In order to separate Obama from Rezko's dealings, Obama's advocates have to insist Obama spent his entire legal career as a paper-shuffling junior lawyer!
In fact, Gibbs wrote, "Senator Obama does not remember having conversations with Tony Rezko about properties that he owned or any specific issues related to those properties.''
While the poor people in the community Obama was supposedly selflessly working on behalf of were shivering in Rezko's sub-standard housing, Obama never said word one to his pal Tony about it. You'd think a "community organizer" would notice a half dozen boarded up buildings in his district that his law firm had gotten government money for Rezko to develop. If so, he never brought them up to his pal Tony. Nor his boss at his law firm, Allison Davis, who left law to get into the housing development business as a partner with Rezko and later a nephew of Mayor Daley. Not even when Obama took Rezko along on his house-hunting trip in 2006. Believable? Gee, how many of us would take a guy with a reputation as a failed developer along on a house hunting trip? If you wouldn't, you must be less of a bone-head than Obama.
Rezko and Mahru had no construction experience when they created Rezmar in 1989 to rehabilitate apartments for the poor under the Daley administration. Between 1989 and 1998, Rezmar made deals to rehab 30 buildings, a total of 1,025 apartments. The last 15 buildings involved Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland during Obama's time with the firm.
Rezko and Mahru also managed the buildings, which were supposed to provide homes for poor people for 30 years. Every one of the projects ran into trouble:
• Seventeen buildings -- many beset with code violations, including a lack of heat -- ended up in foreclosure.
• Six buildings are currently boarded up.
• Hundreds of the apartments are vacant, in need of major repairs.
• Taxpayers have been stuck with millions in unpaid loans.
• At least a dozen times, the city of Chicago sued Rezmar for failure to heat buildings.
Amazing that a "community organizer" and an employee of Rezko's law firm would not know anything about this. But that's the story. Obama was a dope - thought he was working on behalf of the poor all the while he was really working for a corrupt slumlord who was victimizing both the poor and the taxpayers. That's what Obama has to maintain. Cause if Obama knew what was going on and kept his mouth shut and went along with it - he's corrupt too, a protege of, employee of, and a political fixer for crooks and grafters.
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The next year, Obama joined Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, a 12-lawyer firm that specialized in helping develop low-income housing. The firm's top partner, Allison S. Davis, was, and is, a member of the Chicago Plan Commission, appointed by Mayor Daley. Davis was also a friend of Rezko. Davis and Rezko would eventually go into business together, developing homes.
Another firm partner, Judson Miner, ran the city Law Department under Mayor Harold Washington, one of Obama's political idols.
Talk about a politically connected law firm!
Asked what Rezko cases Obama worked on, Miner told the Sun-Times, "We'll put together a list of the cases he worked on involving Rezko/Rezmar in the next day or two.''
That was March 13. He never provided the information.
Shouldn't the voters know what Obama spent his time doing in Chicago before electing him to the Presidency? Especially given the grafters he surrounded himself with worked for.
While at the law firm, Obama spent much of his time working on issues that would help improve conditions in poor neighborhoods, according to his first book, Dreams from My Father, published in 1996.
"In my legal practice, I work mostly with churches and community groups, men and women who quietly build grocery stores and health clinics in the inner city, and housing for the poor,'' Obama wrote in the book.
Oh, how noble! You believed you were doing mission work for the poor, Saint Barry. And you had no idea the people around you and paying your salary were unscrupulous slumlords and grafters, you innocent naif, you. You never realized those boarded up buildings in your district were ones your firm had helped get government money for.
Three community groups represented by Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland were partners with Rezmar in the troubled housing deals.
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At the time, Rezmar had been in business for six years and had become one of City Hall's favored developers of low-income housing, managing 600 apartments in 15 buildings it rehabbed with government funding. Teaming now with community development groups, Rezmar rehabbed another 15 buildings, with 400 apartments, between 1995 and 1998. Each deal involved a mix of public and private financing -- loans from the city or state, federal low-income-housing tax credits and bank loans.
By the time Rezmar started working with those community groups, at least two of its earlier buildings were falling into disrepair -- including the Englewood apartment building at 7000 S. Sangamon where the tenants were without heat for five weeks.
The tenants there had no heat from Dec. 27, 1996, until at least Feb. 3, 1997, when the city of Chicago sued to turn the heat on. The case was settled later that month with a $100 fine.
It was during that time that the area's new state senator, Barack Obama, got a $1,000 campaign donation from Rezmar. The date: Jan. 14, 1997.
Obama works on Rezmar deals
Obama spent the next eight years serving in the Illinois Senate and continued to work for the Davis law firm.
Through its partnerships, Rezmar remained a client of the firm, according to ethics statements Obama filed while a state senator.
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