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Old 09-25-2008, 07:27 AM
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Default Obama Grant Being Probed ($100,000 of Pork for Garden that was never built)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdo...hdog25.article
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A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.

The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.

Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan -- a Democrat who is supporting Obama's presidential bid -- is investigating "whether this charitable organization properly used its charitable assets, including the state funds it received," Cara Smith, Madigan's deputy chief of staff, said Wednesday.
GARDEN TO NOWHERE!!!!!

The Dem AG will never do anything to obama in any way. There’s one paragraph in the story that is golden:

“Obama vowed to “work tirelessly” to raise $1.1 million to help Smith’s organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.”

Goes to show that obama’s word isn’t worth a whole lot unless he can benefit politically.
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A look into Obama's past dealings?

Who dared such a thing?

I hope they have life insurance.
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GARDEN TO NOWHERE!!!!!

The Dem AG will never do anything to obama in any way. There’s one paragraph in the story that is golden:

“Obama vowed to “work tirelessly” to raise $1.1 million to help Smith’s organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.”

Goes to show that obama’s word isn’t worth a whole lot unless he can benefit politically.
What was the numbers in pork that Mrs Palin accepted again? Oh yeah 256 million dollars in pork. Let me spell it out $256,000,000...OooooooOOooowee no that's alot of pork!
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“Obama vowed to “work tirelessly” to raise $1.1 million to help Smith’s organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.”

Goes to show that obama’s word isn’t worth a whole lot unless he can benefit politically.
Get ready people, "mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage" is what you can expect for America's future with the socialist Obama at the helm doing all in his power to reward failure and punish businesses in the interest of his cockamamy idea of "fairness".
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What was the numbers in pork that Mrs Palin accepted again? Oh yeah 256 million dollars in pork. Let me spell it out $256,000,000...OooooooOOooowee no that's alot of pork!
Probably Canadian Bacon since she's up near Canada, ya know.
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