WHY I WILL NEVER SUPPORT OBAMA: THE STORY OF OBAMA AND HIS SLUMLORD PATRON

Barack Obama is proud of his work as a community organizer on Chicago's south side. Which makes it even more appalling that his political career has been bankrolled by the misery of the poor.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, tenants shivered without heat for five weeks in a slum building during the brutal Chicago winter of 1997. The slums were in a government subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side in Senator Barack Obama's district. That same week, the company responsible for the slum gave $1000 to the campaign of Barack Obama.

Over the next 10 years, the slumlord - whose portfolio of 30 buildings included 17 buildings in foreclosure, 6 buildings vacant and boarded up, and hundreds of apartments vacant and in need of major repairs -- raised millions of dollars for Mr. Obama as his slum empire grew in Senator Obama's Illinois district. The slumlord and his companies were represented by Mr. Obama's small law firm, and he has never produced his records of the work he did for the guy, despite his repeated promises. And Obama wrote letters urging the government to lend even more money to this sleazebag, even as other departments in the government were suing the guy for his slumlord violations.

The slumlord is Antoin Rezko, currently on trial in Federal Court on Racketeering charges for basically paying off every public official in the State of Illinois. Check out the latest trial doings at Rezkowatch.

Mr. Rezko was not just "some guy" who slipped under Obama's campaign radar because his money was pooled with hundreds of others. Antoin Rezko is Barack Obama's political godfather. He has known him for 17 years. At crucial points in his career Mr. Obama spoke to Rezko on a daily basis, and Mr. Obama still to this day considers him a friend.

But don't take my word for it: This is old news in Chicago. You can read the Chicago Tribune story , "Obama and his Slumlord Patron."