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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070826/3obama_2.htm

Perhaps his most confrontational effort was to pressure city authorities to remove asbestos from the apartments in 1986. When the on-site manager didn’t take action, Obama nudged the residents into confronting city housing officials in two angry public meetings downtown. These generated “a victory of sorts,” Obama said later, as workers soon began sealing the asbestos in the buildings. But the project gradually ran out of steam and money. In fact, some tenants still have asbestos in their homes, according to current resident Linda Randle, 53, who worked with Obama in the ‘86 anti-asbestos campaign.

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Still? July 2008, 22 years later: Obama didn’t finish what he started.


133 posted on 07/01/2008 10:56:00 AM PDT by Son House ( BMT==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just say NO To Democrats!)
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To: Son House

He got his street creds. That’s all his time as community organizer was meant to do. It put his name on the lips of all the members of the Church of the Perpetually Aggrieved and Oppressed.


136 posted on 07/01/2008 10:59:30 AM PDT by Roccus (Tribal name; Vegetarian...Native American for "bad hunter")
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To: Son House

One more from;

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usobam025598601mar02,1,6933215,full.story

A few critics claim Obama, now 46, exaggerates his accomplishments, particularly in spearheading asbestos cleanup at a low-income housing project. He omits from his account of that fight a longtime community activist who many people say played a significant role.

And for all his emphasis on the value of grassroots organizing, Obama eventually decided he also needed a law degree to enact lasting change, attending Harvard University. Many associates also view his seven years in the marbled halls of the Illinois State Senate and three years in the U.S. Senate to be as formative as his three years in far South Side trenches.

Further blurring the picture are his descriptions of community organizing in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” in which he admits he disguises names, creates composite characters, switches some chronologies and uses “approximations” of dialogue.

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me Still asbestos?


139 posted on 07/01/2008 11:02:35 AM PDT by Son House ( BMT==> Babies, Military, Taxes: Just say NO To Democrats!)
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