[Positive]

Don't know if exerpt is required but just in case...

Remember who this paper is...the Sun article isn't showing this morning...

This article gets richer as one reads more...

[Always Right]

Well, it matches the vacant lot in Obama’s head.

[jpl]

I’m still waiting for someone in the press to focus on the fact that Obama’s bagman Rezko was well connected with Saddam Hussein’s bagman Nadhmi Auchi, the primary oil-for-food money launderer.

[Red Badger]

Nothing to see here, folks, move along...........

[KingSnorky]

I never realized that being a community activist and a state senator paid so well. :)

[tioga]

Empty suit, vacant lot.......I am sensing a theme here.

[Always Right]

The Obamas bought the house in June 2005 for $1.65 million--some $300,000 less than the asking price--and secured a $1.32 million mortgage from Northern Trust. Rezko's wife, Rita, bought the adjoining lot the same day, paying the full $625,000

So a neophyte home owner negotiates 20% off the asking price during a hot real estate market where homes are typically selling for 97%+ of asking price, and the savvy real estate investor negotiates a deal for FULL price. Nothing to see here.

[willieroe]

...the Sun article isn't showing this morning

Not sure what you mean here....

[ncfool]

Will Tony sing to save his Bacon...............

[Dixie Yooper]

This lot could end up next to the Midwest White House...

[nicola_tesla]

Put a barn and some bulls on it - the result would be what Obambi says about this purchase.

[popdonnelly]

Shouldn’t the headline read, “Rezko owns Obama”?

[WilliamReading]

Obama pays his landscaper to mow and maintain Rezko’s 7,500-square-foot lot as well as his own property. After the 2006 Tribune story, Obama says he sent a bill to the subsequent owner for the work, but doesn’t recall how much it was.

“I confess that I didn’t look at it carefully. … I’m assuming a couple of thousand dollars. … We were probably paying a hundred to a couple of hundred dollars a month. I mean this is basically mowing a lawn and maybe trimming some brush. And, so, his half of it, I know that we actually got this reimbursed by the subsequent seller, or the subsequent owner. And so I can probably get you that figure. But I can’t imagine that it’s more than $1,000 or so.”

[popdonnelly]

This is not the vacant lot Barack knew.

[yobid]

If elected, Obama will be the Mayor Daley of America.

[HardStarboard]

A grand jury should be questioning Rezko about this deal while waving two alternative sentences for his recent conviction on 26 felony counts under his nose:

1] 25 years in the pen
2] 12.5 years in the pen

It's called negotiation!