"'There is zero legacy from when Obama was here,' says Phillip Jackson, director of the Black Star Project, a community group dedicated to eliminating the academic-achievement gap. Jackson, like other local leaders, is reluctant to criticize Obama, however. 'I won’t minimize what Obama was doing then,' he says."
Heather Mac Donald, giving us "Chicago’s Real Crime Story" - and a picture of the president's role in it - which hasn't really been investigated, except in the
City Journal.
"The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can't afford to live anywhere else.
But it's not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing."
Binyamin Appelbaum, showing us the "Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy" - and a picture of the president's role in it - which was actually quite extensive, according to
The Boston Globe.
"I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday."
Saul Alinsky, the president's ruthless political godfather - in Alinsky's now-infamous book "
Rules For Radicals" - making a statement of purpose that would impress any
Amused Cynic.
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