Obama and Power
7th May 2012
Another oddity is that the neighborhood Barack and Michelle chose to buy their big house in is the neighborhood chosen by the friends of the friends of the people who assassinated Barack’s boyhood idol, Malcolm X. As he explained to the Chicago Tribune, he chose Tony Rezko to help him out with his buying his house because Tony knows all about real estate in that neighborhood. What the Tribune didn’t explain was that the reason Tony knows all about real estate there is because he was long the business manager for the inner circle of the Nation of Islam, and that’s where they live. That would kind of weird me out, but of course nobody has ever asked Obama about that.
May 7th, 2012 at 14:29
Six Degrees of Separation. If we go back far enough, we’ll probably find that Michelle Obama’s hairdresser once lived in the same apartment building as the cousin of the guy who washed the windows of the museum that houses Mussolini’s car. That would kind of weird me out–not the relationship, mind you, but that someone would waste the time and effort to ‘uncover’ it…