Too many working people still remember the impact of "Reaganomics" on their lives, which was entirely for the worse. Indeed, among broad sections of the working class he was the most hated president since Herbert Hoover. Even taking into account the support for Reaganism among significant sections of the middle class and more affluent layers of workers, the overwhelming popularity attributed to Reagan was largely of a synthetic character, a myth concocted by the media to endow the policies of his administration with an aura of public approval that they lacked in reality. ...

Though Reagan has departed this world, the accomplishments of his administration live on and are observable everywhere: in the staggering growth of social inequality in the United States, in the grotesque concentration of wealth in the hands of a small segment of American society, in the shocking decline of literacy and the general level of culture, in the utter putrefaction of the institutions of American democracy, and, finally, in the murderous eruption of American militarism.

That is the legacy of Reaganism.

If you talk to people in a neighborhood, if you pay attention and if you are a community organizer or someone who cares for the community  I cannot believe that you would not know of a slum lord's reputation. This guy had over 20 buildings that went into foreclosure.   By the time the cities, feds and or other authorities find out, everyone in the community knows.   It's no secret when buildings are milked and run to the ground by sleazy landlords.

Obama says he worked only  for 5 hours on some minor real estate transaction involving the non profit subsidiary of the Apostolic Church, Rev Brazier, a big player in Chicago community politics.  Yet it appears that  his relationship with the community and the developer was before the job with the law firm.   So, before Harvard, when Obama was an organizer, walking and being in the community he would have and should have heard about this guys missmanegement of his properties.  

 Yet he got over 160,000 in donations from  Riezk who by the way is a Syrian.  My oh my, lets not get that out in the General Election.   He also got some strange deal for his house purchase.

Obama  claims that he was a community  organizer. Folks, there is no way a credible organizor would not have known the guy was a slum lord.  If you walk the neighborhood, if you talk to people, you hear of how people manage their buildings.  This is really dirty stuff.  I know the field well.  Remember Fitzgerald is the US Attorney on this case.  This is Chicago politics where the community gets screwed, and I hate to say it we used to call this thing poverty pimps.  This could blow up, really big.  

However, the Obama campaign has successfully diverted the issue into talk about Reagan. Their reaction was "but Clinton said positive things about Reagan too!". Yes, she did, but that was NOT her point.

And now even articles on MSNBC talk all about his Reagan quotes. But that was specifically not what the Clinton campaign was talking about.