FOB used to stand for Friends of Bill, referring to the relationships Bill Clinton kept.  As time passed during Bill’s terms as president, the fawning media found it harder to continue covering for Bill’s past misdeeds and corrupt cronies.  Eventually all the scandalous individuals who surrounded the Clinton’s became known was Friends of Bill.

I guess we could begin using that acronym again for Barack Obama.  I could also use FOO’ as in “Mamma didn’t raise no FOO’” or Friends of Obama – but the liberals would probably cry RAAAAAAcist.  However, my mother did in fact raise me to be ethical so,  I wouldn’t be a friend of Obama.

One of Obama’s mentors, supporters, and contributors is being investigated for his associations with Rezko and for other corruption charges in the city of Chicago; Allison Davis.

Another “Friend of Barack” is under increased scrutiny these days, but only a mere handful of media reports have linked Obama with Allison Davis. Once upon a time, Davis, Obama and Rezko were as thick as thieves. Davis and Rezko relied upon their friend and politically ally, Barack, to promote their plans to redevelop dilapidated slums into affordable housing for low income residents of the former legislative district represented by State Senator Obama. Tax dollars were misspent and pocketed by the developers, while the minority tenants continued to live in substandard apartments. Obama managed to bob and weave throughout the primaries as he ducked the malfeasance allegations and the issue was ignored in the general election. For his part, Davis dismissed the numerous building code violations by blaming the impoverished  tenants for their own misfortunes.

More recently,  Mayor Richard M. Daley has been place on the defensive by the simmering city pension fund scandal. While the members of the complicit media focus their short attention spans on the mayor’s nephew, Robert Vanecko, less has been said about Vanecko’s wily business partner, Allison Davis. This an angle that needs to be more examined closely.

Davis has developed relationships that have made him wealthy as a consummate political insider without ever having held elected office. He  helped promote Obama long before he became a member of the state legislature. Along with his law partners, Davis gave Obama his first position as an attorney at a politically connected firm. Obama never developed much of a courtroom reputation as a practicing attorney, but like his Columbia and Harvard degrees, the legal position that he briefly occupied was important to him solely as a resume credential. Like the disgraced Rod Blagojevich, Obama seems to have spent much of his career gathering a succession of prominent job titles without producing any significant accomplishments while in office. Blagojevich’s eventual fall coincided with his election to an executive position. It is easier to be a backbencher in the legislature than to be a do nothing executive. Obama still has time left to prove his mettle.

I believe the media, this time around, is willing to cover up more than they did for Bill Clinton – mostly to be on the side of “history.”  But there will come a day when Obama and the media will have to answer for their corruption and the company they keep.

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