[Former Proud Canadian]

Obama used taxpayer money to enrich his friends while seeming to help the poor. I’m shocked.

[Baynative]

The purpose of a community organizer street agitator is not to improve the lives of the people rallied to support them. But, in fact it is to improve the life, lifestyle and bank account of the agitator.

look at the Lavish lifestyles of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangle and so many more compared to who or whom they have claimed to help.

But the successes of the Obamas of the world are never questioned by the liberal masses in the street who gather the petitions and volunteer for countless "charitable" efforts because they are satisfied to worship their 'royals' from afar.

[SkyDancer]

[CincyRichieRich]

Our side is either too stupid or weak to use this in an ad...or they actually want Obama to win (a la McCain).

[vaudine]

This is old old news, but probably new to a lot of people who were never told this by the main slime media. There was an article on the huge city housing block built with tax money and millions from a trust Obama and his pal who was a former weatherman terrorist, Wm. Ayers, inveigled (they were just neighbors, you know). Half of the project was unlivable just 10 years after it was built because of shoddy work and no maintenance.

The cherry on top of this pile was Valerie Jerritt, whose firm contracted the building of this monstrosity and evidently enriched herself, family and friends.

The article was in a magazine, I believe. It showed pictures, named names and quoted statements of dwellers and former tenants about how bad it was. Looked 50 years old after only 10.

Where was the press? Well, you know they were all too busy and excited about the historic possibility and electric twitches up their legs and the wonderful crease in the Obamasiah's pants to actually do any vetting. Just one more reason in the lists of thousands of why I loathe the media.

vaudine

[usconservative]

If you think that picture looks bad, I invite you to ride the commuter train with me through that neighborhood as I commute to work in Chicago every day.

It's literally a WAR ZONE. Makes Beirut look downright glamorous by comparison. (I'm NOT kidding.)

[Wings-n-Wind]

[greeneyes]

Reminds me of the St. Louis housing project that had to be imploded. One winter all the pipes burst and ice was every where. Rats were all over the place. Well I won’t go on and on, but it basically became inhabitable.

[TigersEye]

Surprisingly The Boston Globe did a story on 0bama's destruction of Chicago neighborhoods in June of 2008 but no one paid any attention to it.

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Mr. Community Organizer did wonders with Federal money for low-cost housing.

Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy

"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."

Explosive Video, Fannie Mae CEO calling Obama and the Dems the "Family" and "Conscience" of Fannie Mae

July 17, '08

Fannie, Freddie spent millions on lobbying

Raines, the company's former chief financial officer, Timothy Howard, and former controller Leanne Spencer were accused in a civil lawsuit of manipulating earnings over a six-year period at Fannie. Raines was appointed by Clinton, after serving as White House budget director under Clinton.

Raines' predecessor, former Fannie Mae chief James Johnson, is a prominent Democrat who was an adviser to 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and was selected by Obama to help vet his vice presidential prospects. But controversy over favorable loan deals he obtained with Countrywide Financial Corp., a bank seriously damaged by the mortgage meltdown decline, prompted him to abruptly resign that post in June.

From April '08

Former Fannie chief agrees to $24.7 million settlement

WASHINGTON — Former Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines and two other top executives have agreed to a $31.4 million settlement with the government announced Friday over their roles in a 2004 accounting scandal.

Raines, former Fannie chief financial officer Timothy Howard and former controller Leanne Spencer were accused in a civil lawsuit in December 2006 with manipulating earnings over a six-year period at the company, the largest U.S. financer and guarantor of home mortgages.

Raines, a prominent Washington figure who was President Clinton's budget director, is relinquishing company stock options, proceeds from stock sales and other benefits. His part of the settlement is worth $24.7 million,

Tough Decision Coming August 28th '08

"Two members of Mr. Obama's political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae."