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Anger rules the mean streets that set Barack Obama on road to power
The Times ^ | 1/16/2008 | Tom Baldwin in Chicago

Posted on 01/15/2009 9:52:11 PM PST by bruinbirdman

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1 posted on 01/15/2009 9:52:12 PM PST by bruinbirdman
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By the end of his first (and only) term, we will be lucky if as a nation we are in any better shape than he left Altgeld Gardens.


2 posted on 01/15/2009 9:54:59 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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It sure would be interesting to talk to those ladies that “mothered” him when he was there.


3 posted on 01/15/2009 9:57:27 PM PST by Hanna548 (s)
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Altgeld Gardens, Haiti, Africa....honestly, what is the difference? All just a complete mess......


4 posted on 01/15/2009 9:59:08 PM PST by There You Go Again
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To: bruinbirdman
"Those who remember him say that he made little impact."
5 posted on 01/15/2009 10:02:39 PM PST by spunkets
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This guy is a complete phony. He had a hand in turfing out loads of residents from the worst Chicago housing projects. They were shipped to various downstate towns and have wreaked havoc on their new towns. The crime rate has skyrocketed in the small town where I graduated high school. Please, God, don’t let him do to our country what he did to the small towns across Illinois.


6 posted on 01/15/2009 10:04:29 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: There You Go Again

I think a lot of this comes from a victim mentality, and that’s what community organizers do, they foster that us against them attitude that makes common purpose and effort almost impossible.

I remember a disagreement I had with my daughter’s American History teacher in high school. She was a PhD from Berkeley and taught the “America is a festering pile of crap” doctrine to these kids. I pulled her out after she refused to consider that there were virtues here which needed to be addressed in order to let these kids see that the nation was worth working to improve.


7 posted on 01/15/2009 10:06:48 PM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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Obama saw an opportunity to get what he wanted on the backs of these people. In all his time in Congress; I bet this was the last place he was thinking about except maybe to exploit them.


8 posted on 01/15/2009 10:07:16 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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Not the usual worshipful MSM article? Watch out Times reporters! Obama don't cotton to no criticism.

"Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me."

9 posted on 01/15/2009 10:08:37 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Did 0bama bring hope and change to Altgeld Gardens?
10 posted on 01/15/2009 10:11:15 PM PST by smokingfrog (Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public.)
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"Those who remember him say that he made little impact."

Yet, they all voted for him.

yitbos

11 posted on 01/15/2009 10:12:36 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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A turd is still a turd, even when polished.


12 posted on 01/15/2009 10:22:46 PM PST by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: bruinbirdman; Beckwith; LucyT; SatinDoll; F15Eagle; george76; forkinsocket; ExTexasRedhead
Where was this article during the September and October run ups to the election?

Is the MSM beginning to awaken to the monster they have created?

13 posted on 01/15/2009 10:26:32 PM PST by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, ( member NRA)
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Who has the article on Obama, when ‘working’ at the gardens, got a few million dollars to make a nice park there for the folk - the money went somewhere, no one knows where - but there ain't no park...
14 posted on 01/15/2009 10:29:33 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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Thanks, Candor7.

Ping to mojitojoe.


15 posted on 01/15/2009 10:34:30 PM PST by LucyT ("Sleep is for people who can't handle caffeine." ...Slings and Arrows)
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The President-elect has said that he learnt more from the locals when working in the Chicago projects than they learnt from him.

Obama is arguably the most successful con artist in all of human history. He had to learn his craft and hone his skills somewhere. Apparently the Chicago projects were a big part of that education...

16 posted on 01/15/2009 10:57:09 PM PST by Zeppo
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"Apparently the Chicago projects were a big part of that education... "

More like Ayers, Farakhan, Alinski, and Emanuel.

yitbos

17 posted on 01/15/2009 11:05:01 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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Obama did nothing. Ever.
He is an expert at re-arranging the pencils on his desk.

He got to be the President of the prestigious Harvard Law Review - and once in, never wrote a single article. He just re-arranged the pencils on his big fancy desk.

He got to be a lecturer in law, and worked in Academia, but again, never published a single thing - in 8 years. He did, however, re-arrange the pencils on his desk.

He was a “Community Organizer” who was to fix urban violence in Chicago. In 2008, more Americans were killed by gunfire in Chicago than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. He must have been busy re-arranging the pencils on his desk...

He was elected to Senator and yet again, did not do a thing but re-arrange the pencils on his desk.

Now, he used his broad experience to become elected President and is already creating new offices for himself, like the Office of the President Elect - a place of solace and comfort with a big chair and desk and a lot of nice pencils to re-arrange.

God help us.


18 posted on 01/15/2009 11:41:49 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: originalbuckeye

Lot of money and crime in asbestos abatement. Wonder who got the contract to spend the federal money?


19 posted on 01/16/2009 2:53:47 AM PST by Leisler (It is always said it is for the children. (Not your children..others...somewhere)
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A great percentage of the people who voted for Obama are people who devoutly believe that whoever is in the White House determines their success or failure in life. What will they say four or eight years from now if their pathetic lives remain unchanged as the day The Great Spreader took office? Which is highly likely. Will they be disbelievers in the idea of Big Government Is Great, or will they engage in paranoid fantasies about Obama’s work being sabotaged? My guess in the latter. Anyone who believes a particular poltitican makes or breaks their personal lives will believe anything.


20 posted on 01/16/2009 3:37:16 AM PST by driftless2
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