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Video: Did Michelle Obama start a patient-dumping program?
While Barack Obama presses for health-care reform, Sean Hannity looks at his wife’s efforts to reform medical care at the University of Chicago Medical Center as its vice-president. In a lengthy segment on last night’s show, Hannity reports on the Urban Health Initiative, a program ostensibly intended to provide the kind of change in health care that President Obama says his program will...
Obama rapped on urban problems
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH
President Obama got his start as a community organizer in Roseland, but a few dozen residents gathered there Saturday gave the new commander-in-chief a failing grade for not doing enough to tackle urban problems during his first 100 days in office.
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Obama ‘urban czar’ campaign donations raise eyebrows
Buildings sprang up as donations rained down on Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion
By Benjamin Lesser and Greg B. Smith
The man who is President Obama's newly minted urban czar pocketed thousands of dollars in campaign cash from city developers whose projects he approved or funded with taxpayers' money, a Daily News probe found.
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Barack Obama Sought HUD grant for donor’s project
By Jim McElhatton
WASHINGTON TIMES – Sen. Barack Obama, who vows to change Washington by trimming wasteful spending and disclosing special-interest requests, wrote the Bush administration last year to seek a multimillion-dollar federal grant for a Chicago housing project that is behind schedule and whose development team includes a longtime political supporter.
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Jackson Incident Revives Some Blacks’ Concerns About Obama
By Perry Bacon Jr.
WASHINGTON POST – The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson's criticism of Barack Obama — if not the crude way he expressed it — touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator 's pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community.
Jackson, an Obama supporter, spent much of yesterday...
