Hillary Clinton herself said that obozo was a slumlord. And Valerie Jarrett is execrable. I read about the whole sorry thing in detail in AmSpec a long time ago. Everybody ignored it or covered it up. Corruption doesn't matter in the least to way too many people in this country.
Kudos to datasuspect for this:
while gushing fountains of glurgesauce.

I'm a little shocked about Alternet. WTF?