Posted on 06/27/2008 1:26:08 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
For sure. And he's counting on the hope that his DUh supporters (and a few RINOs) will hear the inspiration in his speeches, not his actual words. He's selling us 'hope'. But unlike some visionaries selling us hope with plans (MLK, JFK come to mind), what backs it up?
LOL, I never made that connection. I guess I should say, like a wet bar of soap, slippery, hard to grasp. But then those same brilliant minds will point out what they think is my ‘obvious’ white reference, and voila, another faux pas. I’m lol and a little aghast thinking that DU trolls are peeping to each other about the ‘racism’ over here.
Yessir! Change.......change his buddies and contributors can believe in.
A little change here, a little change there. Pretty soon you're talking real money.........
Ch-ching! LOL, some people will buy anything. And - well, if he's good enough for Oprah....
It's how they win. By lying, knowing that most Republicans suffer from “white guilt”.
That, and political correctness has been shoved down their throats for so long, while their GOP Reps have sold them out time and time again, most are afraid to put up a fight
But not me.
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Well Oprah calls him “The One” so it must be! :o)
You obviously haven't had a lobamaty.
It’s the Chicago way .. huge Obama investigative article PING!
Gov. Patrick to give illegal immigrants free tuition to Massachusetts colleges
This is worth repeating.
I thought we had to “change” before we could believe in “hope”. I never seem to understand these things.
Well socialist pacifism in the housing business! Can you imagine the Dow when The Messiah wins? Will small businesses love his regs? The zombies who vote for him will never ,never understand why this guy would ruin our free enterprise system . They will vote for him and then find out even more job losses , business failures, and the housing market will still be in the tank. Americans who do not understand Eco. 101, our history, our Constitution will actually be electing the guy who will undermine the whole shebang and they will swoon with HOPE.
You and me both brother.
The zombies who vote for him will never ,never understand why this guy would ruin our free enterprise system .
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Yes, to say nothing of our liberties and freedoms, the socialization of the SCOTUS, and the burning of our Constitution....how stupid can people be???
Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko all served on Obama’s campaign finance committee when he won a seat in the US Senate in 2004.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
As a result, some people in Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods are torn between a natural inclination to support Obama and a concern about his relationships with the developers they hold responsible for Chicago’s affordable housing failures. Some housing advocates worry that Obama has not learned from those failures.
“I’m not against Barack Obama,” said Willie J.R. Fleming, an organizer with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and a former public housing resident. “What I am against is some of the people around him.”
Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.”
Thanks geo.
This is a most curious statement. Why should it be that a company that rehabilitates apartments should also have the expertise to "manage" the apartments, whatever that means. Does Rezko's company "manage" all those apartments on the North Side and keep their occupants from destroying their dwellings?
ML/NJ
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