Obama benefits from Clark's comments by Obama taking the High Road. Come on now, Obama came out so quick on Clark's comments it is funny. And what does Obama do, hey don't attack McCain and then he throws in a quick > like those who attached me. Obama is so fake but he is smart..........

such manipulation of friends and colleagues for personal gain is nothing new for obama......he even exaggerated the extremist nature of some of his schoolmates in his autobiographies to make himself look more tolerant and progressive.....

Friday, June 27, 2008
Barak Obama: Socialist Slumlord?
Grove Parc Plaza -- a possible testing ground for President Obama's future housing policies -- may argue strongly against this candidate's qualifications and judgment:

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...

The campaign did not respond to questions about whether Obama was aware of the problems with buildings in his district during his time as a state senator, nor did it comment on the roles played by people connected to the senator.

Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:

Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama's presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.

Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama's US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama's former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.

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.

One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.

Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.

UPDATE: Via Kaus, more on Valerie Jarrett.
Link posted by Steve Antler : 10:44 AM

This whole thing is a spin by the news taken out of context, to make a buck for these large Corp. News(?) organizations.

If the news wanted to be objective they would report the question that prompted the answer that Clark gave, period.

Who is the bad guy here? The news organization playing both candidates, and the people. It sells.

The laws that allow the press to own too much of the media market is one of the most dangerous positions our government has ever taken to suppress freedom of the press.

Obama is as sly as a fox

Sure miss Hillary Clinton. She would not be making these constant shifts in policies, etc.

tim, Just another example of Obama's track record of poor judgment if 20 years in Rev. Wright's church was not enough to convince anyone Obama does not have the experience or judgment to be President.

General Westly Clark is right, and better not back down. McSame is doing nothing good right now for our country. He and his friends should all be in Prison. We should also water-board them into the truth!

Using the press as the fall guy for Obama's surrogate, Clark obvious despicable comments about McCain makes no sense.

I don't recall John McCain ever saying that getting shot down qualifies him for being President.

Personally, I think Clark should be ashamed of himself for making these comments about Sen. McCain. Of course, if one looks at what really motivates Clark and has for years - not just B.O. - you really wouldn't be surprised. His agenda is very subversive. Read about him.

America was not founded to be a fascist state, where anything military is worshipped, and nothing military can be critcized. This country appears to be headed more in the direction of Germany of the 1930s with each passing day. No American is obligated to worship someone for their military "service." And just what benefit did I get from McCain's military "service," anyway? I stinking, unjustified, immoral political war and a great big recession afterwards - very much like the Iraq war. Our founding fathers didn't worship the military, and spoke very pointedly about keeping this country out of foreign wars and entanglements. General Clark, and anyone else, can say whatever they want about John McCain's qualifications. I do not worship McCain. I think he's basically a male prostitute - head and shoulders into the public trough for his entire life - and leaving his first wife to latch onto his second's wife inherited fortune. He never started a business, or created a product, or did anything creative or productive. A willing participant in a stupid, immoral war, lifelong federal employee, and a politician. In other words - a slime ball. Our military worshipping neo-fascists are the most un-American of all. Moreover, our bloated millitary is sucking this country dry, and is the biggest and ugliest example of unconstrained big government in the history of the world.

fake obama.

does anyone here think that clark knows more about so called hero mccain-----a lot of us older people do.

Obama is for defeat in Iraq and letting Al Qaeda and Iran declare victory and attack the US at will. Obama is against drilling for new oil and bringing gas prices down. Obama is for higher taxes and big government programs that will do nothing but line the pockets of his slum lord Rezco type buddies. Obama has no experience, poor judgment, waffles and makes a lot a gaffes. So what's to like

Good Job, Barracky! Get all the Military families, NRA members, automobile drivers and Evangelicals riled up and we can kiss your candidacy good-bye. Be against everything American then try to tell us you're a patriot. We're laughing out loud in the heartland!

Good Job, Barracky! Get all the Military families, NRA members, automobile drivers and Evangelicals riled up and we can kiss your candidacy good-bye. Be against everything American then try to tell us you're a patriot. We're laughing out loud in the heartland!

Wesley Clark is a murderer. All the insults the left has been hurling at Bush, should have been directed at Clinton and Clark for what they did. Bombing a European city ....a CITY, with justification that was fabricated.... and not a single leftist parade or rally. Not a single outburst at the Oscars, no documentaries, no free rock concerts...... Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, and all you leftists are full of crap!

This is one of those "Emperor's New Clothes" things where we have to pretend things are not what they are.

McCain would have been thrown out of the Naval Academy for his 100+ demerits every year if his father wasn't an Admiral.

And he, at the bottom of his class, bumped someone much more accomplished to be chosen as a pilot for the same reason.

The plane shot down over N.Vietnam was the 5th he had lost.

While in detention he, and other prisoners, refused to be released unless those captured before him were released first. That's very admirable, but is there a single man out of those 100's of captives who did otherwise?

So, we say how wonderful his service and sacrifice were when, in fact, if the really qualified midshipman he bumped from flight school had been in that position, there's a good chance he might not have lost his plane.

Hey Barack, When are you going to produce a VALID birth certificate? Why'd your camp put out a phoney document? What are you hiding Barack? When is the mainstream media going to report on this? What are they waiting for?

In February 2003, the Arizona Republican said "Absolutely not," when asked whether "military service inherently makes somebody better equipped to be commander-in-chief."

End of story!