AN EARMARK WHICH PART-TIME STATE SENATOR OBAMA GAVE TO A BUDDY WAS STOLEN - AND THE STATE AG IS INVESTIGATING...

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports the Illinois attorney general is investigating a $100K government grant tied to Obama:

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.

I'm sure the Washington Post and New York Times will devote as much time to this story as they did to Gov. Palin's per diems and her involvement with the Wasilla public library.

• THIS IS HOW OBAMA RAN THE CHICAGO ANNENBERG CHALLENGE, TOO.
• AND THE MSM CARES NOT ONE WHIT.
• 'CAUSE THEY'RE IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA.

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