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Rezko cash triple what Obama says
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 6-27-07 | CHRIS FUSCO AND TIM NOVAK

Posted on 01/20/2008 6:55:28 AM PST by toddlintown

During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

But seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times his "best estimate" was that Rezko raised "between $50,000 and $60,000" during Obama's political career.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: obama; rezko
The jig is up!
1 posted on 01/20/2008 6:55:29 AM PST by toddlintown
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To: toddlintown

Maybe Obama just has a problem with math, give the Guy a break


2 posted on 01/20/2008 6:57:34 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: toddlintown

The Clintons are hard at work. I hope Hussein fights back. Let the mud fly!!


4 posted on 01/20/2008 6:59:24 AM PST by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: al baby

Math is HARD!!


5 posted on 01/20/2008 7:02:20 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: toddlintown

them numbers ain’t wight! /s


6 posted on 01/20/2008 7:25:53 AM PST by Cinnamon
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To: Baynative
“the Chicago Sun-Times has found.” - that they are supporting Hillary.<<<

You got it!!...Those illegal FBI files are still coming in handy...Hell..168K is chump change to the Clintoons...Hillary scammed almost that much in 1 day of trading pork belly futures.....Not to mention all the other scams they've pulled through the yrs... Should be interesting to see who's actually running the "plantation"

7 posted on 01/20/2008 7:29:20 AM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: toddlintown

“The jig is up!”

Um probably not the best phrase to use in a PC America.

Why do I smell Clinton written all over this scandal?


8 posted on 01/20/2008 7:31:25 AM PST by DaiHuy (I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American. (George Carlin)
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To: toddlintown
Is that the same memory that got him through Harvard, and allowed him to document truthfully his drug usage as a yute?

From what I can remember, the memory is the second thing to go, and I forget what goes first.

9 posted on 01/20/2008 7:34:47 AM PST by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: M-cubed
A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declined to comment.

Scooter Libby says this smear / leak / innuendo smells of Clinton Inc.

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10 posted on 01/20/2008 7:43:16 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: toddlintown
Obama has Rezko.

The Toons have Chung, Huang, Trie, Hsu...

Gee, the Toons make Obama look like a piker. When are the Toons being indicted....?

11 posted on 01/20/2008 7:47:45 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: toddlintown

Old news.


12 posted on 01/20/2008 8:00:44 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: al baby
Maybe Obama just has a problem with math, give the Guy a break

Maybe he learned his math from Louis Farrakhan's Million Man Math Made EasyTM

13 posted on 01/20/2008 8:15:13 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: jim35
The Clintons are hard at work. I hope Hussein fights back. Let the mud fly!!

I hope Obama has kneecap insurance.

14 posted on 01/20/2008 8:16:28 AM PST by poindexter
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To: DaiHuy
“The jig is up!”

Um probably not the best phrase to use in a PC America.

What's wrong with fishing?

15 posted on 01/20/2008 8:18:01 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: DaiHuy

“Um probably not the best phrase to use in a PC America.”

I’m not a PC person, especially when the future of my country’s involved.


16 posted on 01/20/2008 8:34:09 AM PST by toddlintown (Build More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: toddlintown
Yo dog!!!


17 posted on 01/20/2008 9:49:00 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (10mm. When 9 just ain't enough.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Man, that dog be stylin’


18 posted on 01/20/2008 10:29:21 AM PST by toddlintown (Build More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: grey_whiskers

Only place I ever heard “jig” as the equivalent of the n-word is in the 30’s-styled Eddie Murphy/Richard Pryor gangster flick “Harlem Nights.”

If it wasn’t for the beautiful anti-racist civil-rights people lambasting blacks who’ve left the plantation, the younger generation would never know all those racist insults of yesteryear. Where else does one hear such epithets as “lawn-jockey,” “handkerchief-head,” “house-n****r,” and so on nowadays but from the mouths of the annointed?


19 posted on 01/20/2008 1:51:03 PM PST by sinanju
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