To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (146026 ) 11/6/2008 5:17:47 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (4) | Respond to Obama just a paper shuffling "junior lawyer" his entire legal career, his campaign claims. On the campaign trail, he criticized Bush for taking Arabic translators from Afghanistan, not knowing it wasn't an Arabic speaking country. Obama thought it was perfectly normal that a $37K a year govt worker whose husband had filed bankruptcy, Rita Rezko, would show up at his house closing with a $500K loan to buy part of the yard next to his house. Obama told America Jeremiah Wright's church wasn't "particularly controversial". Obama never spoke with his slumlord backer, Tony Rezko, about the abysmal conditions in his buildings in Obama's district. For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side. But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building. "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.' "Senator Obama does not remember having conversations with Tony Rezko about properties that he owned or any specific issues related to those properties.' suntimes.com
