Letters to the Editor
Stellaa
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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Shopping/buying
[Read the article: Did somebody say "recession"?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Throw money at a quick short fix when we need real job creation and FDR style rebuilding our infrastructure that will create real good paying American jobs that will help the economy more than throwing some money so that people can buy some crap at Target and give Wall Street another false V curve. How disgusting.
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Obama's community organizing fairy tale.
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Chicago Tribune Article: January 22, 2008
"The Sun-Times reported that Rezko donated to Obama at the same time residents were without heat at one of the troubled properties operated by Rezko's firm, Rezmar Corp. The firm received taxpayer help to rehab about 30 buildings, including 11 in Obama's state legislative district on the South Side.
"Obama said in the interview Monday that he was unaware of the scope of properties owned by Rezmar or the problems surrounding them. He said none of the affected residents personally sought his help and that aides at his state Senate district office did not recall any inquiries. Still, he said it was "possible" that during his tenure in the legislature that a constituent may have written or called his office "saying, 'We're in a building, and we're unhappy with the service here.'"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0704230648apr24,1,671186.story?ctrack=3&cset=true
I have worked in community work and affordable housing for over thirty years. Senator Obama yesterday in the debate said that he walked the "neighborhood" and talked to people-- there is no way anyone who walks and knows a neighborhood would not do not know about a "slum lord". Especially if he was taking money to that extent. You mean he never went to see this guys buildings if they were in the community he worked for? This guy had some 30 buildings that went into foreclosure after rehabing them milking them and then letting them go into disrepair. We are talking about people not having heat in Chicago. By the time authorities find out about these kind of landlords everyone "in the community" knows, where was Obama? Going to fundraisers and I think not talking to the community.
Obama says he workd for 5 hours, but he got over $160,000 over time in donations. He also got some sweetheart deal for his house purchase. He knew this guy before he went to law school, the guy offered him a job, and instead Obama took the job with the law firm that did his real estate deals. His deals were joint partnerships with community groups.
If he did not know, he was a lousy organizer and should not be talking about his work in the community. I see it every day, people using neighborhoods as career opportunities, not talking, not seeing, not questioning. My god, how can people find this opportunist inspiring?
This is not a small error, this is big. He is twisting and lying about it and I assure you the Republicans will use it to the full extent. Guess who the US attorney is: Fitzgerald.
After watching the Reno Gazette interview I thought to myself I would not have hired the guy as an entry level organizer, now this story confirms my gut feelings. When you are an organizer and if you care for the community you don't take sides with a guy like Rezko. You have to serve somebody, and it's not that kind of people.
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Silence on Rezko
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I truly don't get why people don't delve into this issue. Maybe the Dems don't want to injur him so they can have him on the ticket. But, man this stinks.
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Obama and Wallmart
[Read the article: The knives come out in South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, what a common person finds on the internet with just a Google search:
“Politicians who care more about their careers than their constituents go along to get elected...It’s a game that never ends, but every American knows – it’s time to end the game.” If Obama was anything like the social justice “progressive” and union-supporter his often myopic, so-called left-liberal supporters and campaign narrative claim, his endorsement would have gone easily and quickly to Dowell. It would have been a no-brainer. The choice was very clear, and he sided with capitalist power against labor. Fortunately for Obama, perhaps, Dowell won the run-off.
For what it’s worth, Obama’s wife Michelle received $51,200 in 2006 for attending a few board meetings of TreeHouse Foods, a giant firm that relied heavily on its close business relationship with Wal-Mart (Sweet 2007a). (The granting of high-pay/do-little board posts to the spouses of politicians is a longstanding tool of the “old,” corporate-dominated politics that Senator Obama claims to reject [see Lewis 1996]). Mrs. Obama resigned from this position in the summer of 2007, citing “increased demands on her time” in connection with her husband’s campaign. The deeper reality was that she needed to cut her politically damaging ties to a notoriously anti-labor company that her husband attacked in speeches to please popular audiences concerned about the growing chasm between the rich and poor in the U.S.
Obama’s Tillman endorsement is a small story, perhaps, but its part of a much larger record (3) suggesting rather strongly that Obama is just another in a long line of corporate-Democratic politicians who make “populist and peace-stressing promises and gestures” they are certain to “betray instantly on the assumption of power” (Herman 2007).
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=13635
C'mon press do your work, there are no saints or saviours.
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How low can it go?
[Read the article: Bernanke presses the panic button]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Curious, what do they want? Free money?