Posted on 09/06/2008 5:22:54 AM PDT by igoramus08
The head of his former firm says he did good work. But not all of it was related to voting and civil rights...
In one instance, Obama defended a nonprofit corporation that owns low-income housing projects against a lawsuit in which a man alleged that he slipped and fell because of poor maintenance. Obama got the suit dismissed.
In another case, Obama appeared on behalf of a nonprofit corporation that provided healthcare for poor people. A woman who claimed income of less than $8,000 a year had sued Obama’s client to obtain a $336 payment for baby-sitting services; Obama’s client paid up, and the case was settled.
In 1994, Obama appeared in Cook County court on behalf of Woodlawn Preservation & Investment Corp., defending it against a suit by the city, which alleged that the company failed to provide heat for low-income tenants on the South Side during the winter.
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That’s 11 years, most of it during a four year period.
From what I’ve read, associates in reasonably-sized law firms would be expected to charge from 2000-2400 hours a year. You can’t bill every single hour, but they certainly try.
Smaller firms don’t do as well because they don’t have as many different client to throw the associates on.
Your statement is half-right, at best. In the case of the baby-sitter, Obama's client payed the $336 bill, and the case was settled.
In the injury claim case, Obama may actually have been right - the injured person may not have been entitled to damages because of the actual facts of the case, which may not have supported the poor maintenance assertion.
I'm not defending the exaulted one by any means. But I strongly believe that we must be very, very careful to fight this sleazebag with facts when possible, and pointed questioning when facts are unavailable. To get the facts wrong could potentially build up to a miniature version of the backlash we are seeing over the Palin smearing.
Let's not make Obambi's job of hiding his record any easier by giving him even a sniff of something he could label a "smear".
And I apologize for ranting at you alone - I'm kind of writing to everyone to remind them that the facts are on our side - we don't need to create any more to destroy the clown prince of hope-shazam.
Sorry. With the backlash that is building over the smearing of Palin by the Dems and the media (but I repeat myself), I personally think we must be doubly sure that nothing we allege can be taken as payment-in-kind. It wouldn’t be prudent in my mind to give the opposition ammunition to blunt their self-immolation, to throw together far too many long words in a single sentence! ;-P
Have a great day, FRiend.
Sorry. With the backlash that is building over the smearing of Palin by the Dems and the media (but I repeat myself), I personally think we must be doubly sure that nothing we allege can be taken as payment-in-kind. It wouldn’t be prudent in my mind to give the opposition ammunition to blunt their self-immolation, to throw together far too many long words in a single sentence! ;-P
Have a great day, FRiend.
I am not a psychologist nor did I take psychology courses
in college.
Can someone tell me what type of person honestly believes he is entitled to anything he wants regardless of his qualifications or experience. He appears to be a master manipulator, he acts like the victim of victims when caught in a lie, and; it is always someone else’s fault or he was unaware of anything or anyone who ever said or did anything wrong if it involves him?
I believe the words you are looking for are “immature”, “childish”, or “spoiled”. I didn’t take psychology, either, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn.
The Holiday Inn qualifies you more then I. Many years ago my wife’s daughter told her she was not street smart. My wife said-”I am smart enough to stay off the streets.”
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