false 3548409 1596985666 9781596985667 121 47 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3548409.The_Case_Against_Barack_Obama_The_Unlikely_Rise_and_Unexamined_Agenda_of_the_Media_s_Favorite_Candidate 1500962 David Freddoso 123 47 5 1 false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 04:34:33 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 04:46:17 -0700 2008 Here is an example of what is wrong in the US:
"Michelle Obama's employer, University of Chicago Hospitals, raised her pay from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005, two months after her husband became a US Senator. Barack Obama would later request a $1 million federal earmark for the hospital." I'm not suggesting that there was a deal worked out, but you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. There is something wrong here. Most of the examples of corruption in the book were much worse, but it all turns my stomach.
We need change, but with Barack, it will be more of the good old boy system--but you will be paying higher taxes. Everyone works so hard for their paycheck just for it to end up in someone's pocket that plays the system.]]>