Hussein Earmarked $1 Million For Chicago Hospital Where Wife Is VP
Dude…it is just a matter of time, and the media, no matter how enamored with him they may be at this time, will have to utterly devour him because if there’s one thing that sells more newspapers than a Messiah-Like Political Phenom…
…that would be the tremendous crashing down of a Messiah-Like Political Phenom because he built his house on dirty sand.
Here’s a University of Chicago Hospita;l Announcement on their website in 2005:
Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
Michelle Obama’s hospital: On Senator’s Wish-List
by Mike Dorning
Among the pork-barrel spending requests Barack Obama has made since arriving in the U.S. Senate is $1 million for the hospital where his wife worked at the time and $8 million for weapons technology made by a big defense contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.
Obama released on Thursday a list of all his requests for earmarked federal spending in 2005 and 2006. He already had released a list of spending requests made in 2007.
In among them was a request for $1 million in federal funding in 2006 for a new pavilion at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where his wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president at the time. The request was not ultimately included when Congress passed spending legislation that year, according to the Obama campaign.
That same year, Obama requested $8 million in funding for “High Explosive Air Burst Technology” made by General Dynamics, a military contractor with close ties to a major fundraiser.
Obama’s Illinois Finance Chairman, billionaire James S. Crown, a longtime Obama supporter who has raised at least $200,000 for his presidential campaign, is a director of General Dynamics, and his family has a large investment in the company. The request ultimately resulted in $1.3 million in funding for the project.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said the senator did not discuss the requests with either his wife or Crown. Vietors also said that Michelle Obama never lobbied for her employer and noted that the University of Chicago hospitals is the largest Medicaid provider in Chicago.
After Obama released his earmark requests, his campaign challenged rival Hillary Clinton to do the same.
“Bringing real change requires changing the way we do business in Washington,” Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs said in a press release e-mailed to reporters with the list. “If Senator Clinton will not agree to join Senator Obama in releasing her earmark requests, voters should ask why she doesn’t believe they have the right to know she wants to spend their tax dollars.”
But Clinton spokesman Phillipe Reines noted that any funding requests she made were subjected to scrutiny by other members of Congress and that projects that successfully were incorporated in legislation are disclosed.
“Senator Clinton is proud of the investments in New York that she has secured as Senator,” Reines said. “All of her requests have been considered as part of the legislative process and were subject to debate and accountability. She has made public the funding she has helped to secure and will make public the requests she submits this year.”
From an article at The Swamp by Mike Dorning.
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Hussein is the typical corrupt politican, his Pastor and his Man Child bride are racists.
His Rockstar staus is all going to turn to a sweet, steamy pile of shit for him just like Amy Crackhouse.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pmCuba Goodin Jr with a wig!
March 14th, 2008 at 5:25 pmSit back and watch the Dems destroy each other! The Clinton attack machine is on full throttle! Time for Hussein to ask her why the Clintons take so much money from the arab oil interests. This is going to be enjoyable!
March 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pmIt will be interesting to see if the press actually go after obama in the end, the almighty dollar says yes, but we’ll see….
and oooooooooooooooo shit. Birddog thats dead on.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
March 14th, 2008 at 8:27 pm“University of Chicago hospitals is the largest Medicaid provider in Chicago.”
Your tax dollars at work, suga’!
March 15th, 2008 at 7:30 am