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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (41307)	8/24/2008 1:18:09 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224718

Obama hurt the poor by working to get Rezko Federal money for housing projects while kids froze in the very same buildings because Rezko wouldn't heat them in the winter.

To: koan who wrote (41307)	8/24/2008 1:18:45 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

Do you mean like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi selflessly trying to save the planet from a hoax. Both of them have financial interests that have stoked their fervor in the sham global warming hysteria. East coast of the US is experiencing the coolest August on record. Did global warming take a holiday?

To: koan who wrote (41307)	8/24/2008 1:34:44 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224718

What about this post to you: To: koan who wrote (31089) 6/16/2008 1:37:01 PM From: Brumar89 4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 41319 "Barack Obama has a long history of working with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and governors of Illinois, including the current Governor Rod Blagojevich, in doling government funding for housing development in Chicago. His history is hardly a model of success, except for the hundred of millions in profits made by the chosen few slumlords." fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com Barack says he didn't know his law firms client, Rezko, was a SLUMLORD. He claims to have been a "junior lawyer" throughout his entire legal career: 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. He must have been a "community organizer" out of touch with the community! 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. suntimes.com