The Blood Money of Barack Obama’s Money Men
By SusanUnPC on June 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM in Allison Davis, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Cullen Davis, Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, Woods Fund
A little boy is dead because Barack’s key fundraisers cared more about profit than a safe environment for children. While his mother watched him to be sure he was safe, Curtis Cooper, a three-year-old boy riding his tricycle, was crushed to death by a heavy iron fence that suddenly fell over on top of him at a housing project run by Obama contributor Cullen Davis — whose family received huge government subsidies as well as a $1,000,000 grant for the properties from the Woods Fund’s board, whose members included Barack Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.
CBS2 reports (via NoQuarterUSA channel):
CBS2 Chicago also reports:
Curtis’ aunt Lisa Springfield said, “It just crushed him all up, his whole face.”
According to witnesses, five or six men rushed to the boy to try to pry the heavy fence off of him. An hour later he was pronounced dead at Children’s Memorial Hospital.
Cullen Davis, the son of Obama’s first boss and major benefactor Allison Davis, is a beneficiary of Obama’s prominent effort to privatize the management of public housing in Chicago. As Un coup de des wrote here yesterday in “Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slumlord Patron,” the privatization of this housing — while highly profitable for investors like Cullen Davis, Allison Davis, and the now-convicted Tony Rezko — has left residents with chronic plumbing failures that led to sewage throughout units and backing up into kitchen sinks, “collapsed roofs and fire damage,” rampant rodent infestation, vacant units, and the displacement of thousands of low-income residents because the buildings are either uninhabitable or have been destroyed in order to “gentrify” neighborhoods.
Furious neighbors reacted last night, reports the Chicago Tribune:
A 3-year-old boy was crushed to death Friday evening by a large, rusted steel gate at the Cabrini-Green housing complex, prompting a crowd to gather and hurl accusations of mismanagement at property managers.
“How many accidents happen over here because of failed inspections,” screamed Willie J.R. Fleming, a resident and a director with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing. “There’s no accountability, there’s no oversight of this.”
Barack Obama and Mayor Daley backed the privatization schemes and personally interceded to ensure that THEIR cronies made money off the privatization. Here’s how DEEPLY INVOLVED Barack Obama is in these schemes that contributed to little Curtis Cooper’s death, via the Boston Globe’s “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy“:
- “As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers.”
- “As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies.”
- “And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.”
An outrageous example of the privatization profiteers is Tony Rezko. Reports the Boston Globe’s superb investigative report (a must-read in full):
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.
You’ll note that on his Web site describing his business, Obama donor Cullen Davis, the owner of the property at which little Curtis Cooper died, touts that his company offers “visionary and strategic leadership to Urban Property Advisors (UPA) plus a number of companies and ventures impacting change in urban environments.”
Apparently, Mr. Davis’s “vision” doesn’t include close inspection of old, rusting heavy iron gates. From CBS2 Chicago:
As for Regional Property Advisers, the firm which has been inspecting this CHA property for the past two years, it contended that due diligence was exercised.
Spokesman Ronald O’Neil said, “We visually check the property on a regular basis and I can tell you that in this particular instance, there’s a gate that has a chain on it and it has been chained up and it did not fall over.”
That’s of small comfort for Curtis’ family. They expressed skepticism over that explanation.
“They didn’t do anything to that one. I guess they thought because it wouldn’t move. The gate wouldn’t move, so I guess it was rusting out, that’s why it wouldn’t move. Then all of a sudden, he touched it and the whole dang gate fell on him,” Springfield said.
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For more on the powerful who have managed to privatize and profit from these low-income housing projects, read:
- Un coup de des’s “Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slumlord Patron,” and
- the Boston Globe’s “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy“
Note: Un coup de des plans a series of reports on this privatization scheme that enriched Barack Obama’s allies and benefactors but left Chicago’s poor in disgusting, uninhabitable or dangerous housing.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON SAYS OBAMA CAN KISS MY ASS!!!
Wow did I hear that right?
read the whole story:
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/default.aspx
Ha!
WJC does not owe the plastic jesus anything.
0buma must learn the toes you step on going up will be attached to the feet kicking your ass on the way back down!
OMG that is just too funny. And boy does BHO need to finally be taught some lessons.
Finally! A politician with the guts to say what we are all saying. I admire his tenacity in not bowing down to The Obama; but then we knew he had the guts to face anyone, anywhere, anytime, from the way he did his job for We the People back in the 90s.
There’s an old saying, be nice to the people you pass on the way up, you’re going to see them again on your way down.
That Bill Clinton… what a class act he is! Such respect he brings to the U.S. presidency, even today. “Kiss my ass,” indeed.
This, coming from a nobama-zombie whose leader raised the middle finger in the middle of a debate with a woman. You got to be kidding about bringing up class!
I hear Mrs. Clinton can get rough with her language also.
Mercy. America just dodged a bullet.
LOL, Are you kidding me? We don’t want no swearin in the WH. Will Obama be bringing his crack pipe to the WH? You are a plethora of useless information. Just the fact that you happen to have the link of the Clintons calling someone names is rather pathetic. Feel free to add this comment to your web page. When you are done with that go get some fresh air, mow a lawn or something.
I’d rather hear “rough language” from her than watch Obama’s obscene rap performance; or do you think only undercover black men understand Obama’s little act?
(Let you in on a little secret; foreign leaders understand enough to be insulted by it, too.)
Yes, it’s much less obscene to accept large campaign donations from a man whose negligence and greed led to the death of a small boy.
Obama, as well as all the others you list, have accepted large campaign donations from convicted felons. They’ve all given the money back, or donated the money to charity, when they’ve subsequently discovered who they were taking money from.
My only point is that there’s generally a presumption made by fair-minded people that the politicians in question didn’t initially recognize the evil.
Except with Obama. For some people, with Obama, the presumption is guilty until proven innocent. He’s expected by some to counter every passing allegation with evidence proving what he didn’t do. When he can’t prove the negative, the allegation is added to his list of presumed sins.
Making that observation doesn’t mean I unquestioning believe he’s done no wrong. I doubt if there’s a politician in office who’s done no wrong. Or a single voter, for that matter.
Obama knew going in who these people were. Anyone who lives in Chicago is well aware of these people. So your finding out LATER story doesn’t wash. He gives the money back when WE find out. Not when HE finds out. Big difference. Also none of the other people campaign on the “new kind of politics” that Obama does. Don’t make statements if you don’t want to be held accountable. You see now that’s exactly the old Washington politics that I am against. However when it comes to corruption Obama seems to be in his element.
Exactly right. How many times does james have to hear “that’s not the man, woman, child or dog I knew” before he gets a clue that Obama’s just lying. These crooks know what they are getting when they open their checkbooks. After getting them all the government money their little slumlording hearts desire, Obama doesn’t ever bother to check on whether they are living up to their obligations in maintaining the buildings because he doesn’t care about that — he just doesn’t want the money to stop coming.
Besides, is it not a little late after he used all that money to become a senator.
You take a bribe, then you go to a restaurant and have a nice meal and when you are caught, you vomit and expect that as a compensation for the bribe? WTF?
I am sure he wishes that he could pay back the 175K or whatever, after he has now raised millions. And also pay the previous owner of his house the money that he should have paid and not rezko.
It doesn’t work that way.
Oh, so supporting racism with tens of thousand of dollars is ok from Obama.
But foul mouth accusations and your delicate sensibilities are all upset?
LOL…good to know.
Susan,
Stellar reseatch and excellent presentation.
A real meaty and indepth article - my absolute favorite kind. Resourcing outstanding.
There must be more waiting to explode. Look at the number of trolls~
Not only did you hit the nail on the head - you must have somehow lit the fuse for the rest of whatever is going to explode.
yes and I hear she punked out that punk ass well you know my brother what comes next. I wonder if you are a real black man not many real black folks on here just idiots pretending to be black. I would rather have the cussing in the white house rather then cracksmoking baby selling and lord whatever else the Obamas participate in. Michelle is one ugly cow. Man she cannot even run her own house how is she going to run the White house. I wonder how she feels when she hears such rude statements. I wonder if she thinks its ok to hate someone due to her race as she has done with Hillary. Well Michelle this Country is going to give your husband a sound ass whipping and I will celebrate this great victory thankful that the disaster called an Obama presidency was averted.
Well, when John McCain wins the Presidency in November, we will have dodged a BOMB in Barack Obama.
I think a lot of them refuse to move on from the Lewinsky scandal precisely because Hillary did.
Considering that’s the only thing they got. Funny how blind they are to bisexual coke head, thug, misogynist, racist Obama.
Throwing mud at the Clintons is the only thing the Obamabutts have at this point. They’re just trying to distract us from the more important story — Obama’s criminal associates just caused the death of a young, innocent black child. All Obama and his thugs care about is the money. I wonder how his AA supporters feel now that they see what resulted from Obama getting a huge amount of government money for one of his white slumlord cronies.
I’ll tell you what they think-just like the white thugs, they don’t care. They want a black man for President they don’t care what a pathetic loser, fraud and thug he is.
I think all you Obamabots need to understand that BILL CLINTON was THE ONLY successful DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT in the last 40 years. The problem with the DEMS now is they are run by far leftys, like Donna Brazile, Coward Dean and Nancy Pelosi, they picked the most radical DEM they could find. These people set the primaries up for Obama’s advantage, in three States had both a DEMOCRATIC Primary and caucus, they gave the Delegates based on the caucuses instead of the more DEMOCRATIC primary.
Hurray for Bill Clinton! It’s about time someone told Obama what to do with his arrogant, lying carcass. Clinton has done more for the disadvantaged in this country and around the world than Obama ever would. To Obama, the little people are simply there to be used and discarded as he sees fit.
Agree. He has no obligation whatsoever to support someone who trashed him the way Obama did.
He’d be a fool to do so, even if Obama has a “conversation” with him.
Let’s see, on the one hand Bill Clinton says “kiss my ass.” On the other hand, one of Obama’s criminal buddies, by failing to maintain a building that he was able to purchase with our tax money, has caused the death of a young black child. And which one of these are you expressing outrage over? You Obamabutts are as scummy as your Messiah.
How come the crooks who get rich off Obama are always white? Does this make Obama a racist?
The people who get rich off Obama are not always “white”. Valerie Jarrett has done very well for herself (see Boston Globe article).
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They are using him. Soon as they don’t need him, off you go to the dump. Hope you like it there bo. It’s your future.
Ugh. Talk about toxic waste.
How many innocent children have had to live in unsafe and substandard housing because politics is about $$ and power, not people…
Remember what BO said to Rendell? Something like: “We don’t need the people, just the checks.”
Hmm, how truer a statement about BO’s character can you get? This is one time I find him being honest about what he is really about, $$, $$ and more $$.
I guess he could “brush his shoulder off” or give him the sneaky bird, like Obama did to Hillary. Or maybe he could act like Michelle, she has been such a great example of class in the last few months. “Scratch his eyes out”?
Yes, I know Obots think that rolling over and wagging your tail like a submossive dog is how a class act behaves, but in real America, standing up for yourself and those ideals you have stood up for decades is class. And I’ve been saying for weeks, Bill CLinton needs to channel his inner Cheney. He’s not running for anything. And he needs to force Obama ro apologize. If Obama was a man, he would not need to be told that attacking the only two term President in 50 years was not a good move.
I meant two term Democratic President.
Not to mention that Bill was also the last legitimately elected President.
And the last to receive a beej from a White House intern. And the last to get disbarred for perjury. Ahh… good times…
Pull your head out of your ass ….
Larry Sinclair (Michelle is going to pissed)
Show me the semen stains and I’ll join your crusade!
We don’t want you in our “crusade.” We have more sense than to equate a blow job with the senseless and needless death of a young boy.
He swallows.
^ Now that’s funny. (In a sad, sad way. Lady, you’re gonna be so miserable for the next eight years. It’s a doggone shame.)
BOBO swallows and it’s really not all that funny. BOBO… on the down low.
Why would that bull-dyke be pissed?
They have seperate rooms
“Bull-dyke”?
Uh-uh, don’t go there, sista-girl!
Unnamed source……yeah right.
Sadly, Bill is speaking from painful experience as the primary reason Obama is even where he is today is because of those that Clinton angered during the 1990’s. I fully support Bill’s position and am grateful that he is the one member of the party who really has nothing to lose by speaking the truth.
valsthewoman — I love it — Good for the Bigdawg. Bill Clinton was the First Black President AA’s loved him and Obama destroyed that — Clinton will never forget. I believe that Hillary is giving Obama her tacit support because she was threatened that if she didn’t — the Party would put a primary challenger against her. If it was me I would say to the Democratic Party screw you. I’ll become an Independent which is what I did. But Hillary has to do what she feels is right.
By your estimation Hillary is a disengenuos coward. Afraid to stand up for what she believes in. Admittedly it’s not just you who believes this. It’s the prevailing feeling here at Repub central. It’s funny how you all heap upon Hill and Bill all that is good, then in the same breathe you excuse her cowardice, her lack of integrity as something “she had to do”. What a farce.
McBush: are you retarded?
and btw this is not an open thread
I think it goes without saying that he is “mentally challenged.”
1. Look at his screen name.
2. He supports Obama as blindly as he possibly can.
Enough said.
Just skip McBush. Nobody even reads his posts anymore.
He’s irrelevant.
LMFAO. I’ll bet you actually believe the drivel you post here.
Answer me this: Is Obama flipping or flopping today? You insiders should know.
Lack of integrity? Suuuuuuuuuuure. What Obama and his minions did in MI showed how much integrity he has!
Pucker up, troll!
Hillary and Bill have spent their lives not only talking the talk but walking the walk on civil rights and human rights.
I think for Hillary she will do what she must to be able to continue her work on issues. And if that means staying in the Senate well the issues are more important to her than her own needs.
Sorry if you just are too full of hate and can not see that.
I don’t hate Hill. But you condemn her with your own words. “she will do what she must” Your words not mine. That implies that she doesn’t mean what she says, she just says it to stay in power. These are the same criticisms you apply to Obama. However, when it’s Hillary, she’s somehow Heroic and altruistic in her personal ambitions. But hey this is your dream, your fairytale, you’ll write the story whatever way makes you feel good.
Bye now moron; you are either retarded or you need to go back to school and take Logic 101. Your reasoning is lacking and absurd.
Please. The expression “retarded” insults a class of Americans who cannot read here and speak up for themselves. Using any form of “retarded” is not in good taste. Please find a different word not associated with a disability.
Thanks!
It’s amazing what you Obamabutts choose to criticize people for. Hillary, unlike Obama, has never presented herself as the second coming of Christ or pretended not to be a politician.
Obama has used his political influence to obtain tax funds for one of his slumlord buddies whose grossly negligent maintenance of his property has now caused the death of a young black boy.
Which one of his slumlord buddies would Obama appoint Secretary of HUD if the crooks and thugs behind him succeed in getting him “selected” President?
Marcy you’re not doing a very good job of advocating for Hill. lol
Which is to imply that she never claimed that she wasn’t a liar, or flip flopper, or panderer. lol Hey I never said I wasn’t a crook so that makes it alright. lo lol
You, not I, are equating being a politician with being a “liar, flip flopper or panderer.” I can understand how you would think that since you are an Obamabutt, and The Messiah has practiced lying, flip flopping and pandering to a high degree never seen before in any country at any time.
However, while realists are not surprised when politicians turn around and work with a former opponent, there are some candidates so exceptionally and unequivocally unsuited to be President that not even the rather tepid endorsement of Hillary can get us to vote for him. And that is why in January, you will be referring to President McCain; and Obama will be back in the Senate crying in the cloakroom with his girl groupies Claire McCaskill and the other Lady Senators for Obama and contemplating the ruins of his (and hopefully also their) political career.
When she got busted on her Bosnia ego story and then questioned about it on the ABC debate, she handled it like I want my leaders to do. She owned it.
She apologized. She admitted it. And she took the jokes.
Obama does NOT do that.
You can’t say fairytale, that is a racist comment.
Apparently, calling Obama “unqualified” is now also racist.
Yeah right.
May we still call him “pathetic” like Michelle did?
McBush,
She has worked within the Democratic party for years. If she is an Independent she isn’t working within that system to support the change she has spent a lifetime on.
If by your estimation she should quit the party and run Independent to retain some version of credibility only you define as such. It seriously undermines her ability to run in the 50 states and excludes her from participating in the political debates. And is almost a guarantee that the MSM will ignore her as a Presidential candidate, as they have most Independents.
Not everyone cuts and runs when things don’t go their way. It is a sign of character for her to remain in her party and fight the good fight within the Democratic party and the Senate.
Once again, it is a weak argument easily negated by the reality of Presidential campaigns, the MSM, and retaining her power within the Democratic party and the Senate for the benefit of her state and others, when she returns.
And just to give an example of how pedantic your argument is. How often do you think Lieberman is invited to the Democratic strategy meetings now that he is an Independent? And that is your version of what Hillary should do, put herself outside the Democratic power structure? LOL
Maybe you better go back for reprogramming if that’s how you Obamabutts are describing Hillary’s support of Obama. Such gratitude.
What she really is doing is showing Obama how a person with class acts in the face of adversity. What he and you Obamabutts are showing us voters is the lack of integrity or decency which has been and continues to be the hallmark of him and his campaign.
Your wrong Marcy, you see contrary to the idiots here at NQ, I think Hill really MEANT what she said yesterday in her support for O. I believe that she wants him to win instead of McCain. All the nefarious motives on her part are attributed by you all here. YOU have condemned her not me. YOU have called her a liar not me. YOU have said that “she will do what she must” not me. YOU blaspheme your own goddess not me.
Hillary is not a goddess. If she was, she’d certainly be able to help you with your lack of comprehension.
Anyone with a love for universal health care could never support someone with his terrible plan if it wasn’t for a sense of loyalty that you cannot comprehend.
You don’t have very good comprehension of subtle communication cues. I have a friend in Europe who has been out of the loop but saw the Unity show–he could tell without the background that it was a farce.
You’re entitled to your opinion. We’ve all got one and a belly button, too.
You’ll never convince me that Hillary Clinton wants Obama as president. That’s an opinion that makes me wonder about your ability to discern reality from fiction.
Good for you, Bushy. But then again, you judgment is somewhat suspect since you are supporting the unqualified, unelectable Obama for President.
And I am not attributing any nefarious motives to Hillary or calling her a liar or any of the other accusations you have made up from your own imagination. I simply believe that she is doing what she needs to do to continue to be able to adequately represent the citizens of New York in the Senate. Or maybe she’s just waiting for Obama’s campaign to completely shatter under the weight of corruption surrounding it. It really doesn’t matter; my opinion of her has not lessened because Obama and his patrons were successful in stealing the nomination.
But there are now for all practical purposes only two people left in the race, and I’m voting for the qualified one — John McCain.
She made a promise to work her heart out for the winner, and she will stand by her word.
Odd old-fashioned idea there..and one that I personally respect.
But I bet you will find her words quite well chosen.
She will yell, “Yes We Can.”
That’s about it.
She will use the opportunity to promote her own agendas and keep herself on the radar until the convention. Don’t expect her to say much about Obama except that she still considers herself a Democrat and supports the nominee.
Agreed. For my vote, both cheeks, at high noon in the Lincoln Memorial.
Take a look at this which reports on the whitewash of this story by the Chicago media. And why is the Cullen Davis-Obama connection not being brought up in the mainstream media? Has anybody seen any coverage of this?
Sorry, link was missing from above post. http://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/connect-the-dots-tony-rezko-allison-davis-barack-obama,1324/
This is a tragedy and there will probably be more like it. I have seen videos and photos of these hell holes that Rezko and his ilk, so many of whom were Obama’s early supporters, put up and then ran off with the money.
That little kids have to live like this when the money was supposed to be spent to help keep them in safe shelter is an outrage.
How could Obama let this happen? Did he ever even drive around his district to see what was going on? Did he ever check up on the items he voted for? Or did he just not care?
I have spent a lot of time in Chicago, and it isn’t that difficult to get around in–lots of traffic, but its doable!
tricia — Obama let it happen because the only people he cares about are those who write him checks. Anyone who votes for Obama will have to remember that Obama cares only about feathering his own nest.
Say what you will about George Bush not being a good business man. He only lost “money” for “wealthy oil investors,” and never left working and working poor Americans to live in hell holes.
I wish Obama and the rest of his corrupt entourage would have to live in the tenements they have neglected. And to think Obama calls himself a Christian and an advocate for the people. He is worse than pond scum!
I come from Chicago and let me tell you, never mind the rats, the roaches are so think in the projects, you can walk across the floor on them. When you turn on a light your wall all pick up and walk away. They are making fortunes off peoples having to live like that.
Obama was always running for the next office, so he never was much of a public servant. I am still stunned he got this far by doing so little. It is a shame!
Evelyn Pringle, in one of her articles, called him
That’s one of the most accurate descriptions I’ve seen.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_none_080328_barck_obama___the_wi.htm
More of this Rezko business and the profiteering off of poor folks has to come to the light of day. Obama should be ashamed of the blood money he collects from these folks.
Senator Obama does not care about poor black people. He’s only interested in profiting from the government contracts that abuse them.
I know! Maybe we can get Oprah to do a show about it. Surely this might be considered as important as “how to lose those last five pounds” or “how to get your closets in order with all those shoes in there.”
I have a 3 yr old grandson and if something like that happened to him I don’t know what I’d do. Greed and power seem to be far more important to those Chicago thugs and politicians responsible for that neglect. Obama may think he’s ‘far’ enough away that none of it sticks to him, much like Bush and Cheney think they’re not responsible for all the innocent Iraqis deaths, but most compassionate reasonable people know otherwise.
The DNC is in Chicago now. It will stick ….
If there is any justice, it will stick. But with the MSM in the tank for Obama, who knows? I can see the next Keith Obamaman’s special commentary — How Hillary Clinton killed a young black boy in a Chicago slum.
The only solution to the mess we’re in is for every voter to realize that if the MSM says it, the opposite is probably true (and then turn the bastards off — forever).
McCain ‘08. Hillary ‘12. Stephanie Tubbs Jones ‘20. Chelsea ‘28. Obama never.