Posted on 06/05/2008 9:15:14 AM PDT by STARWISE
Will Sen. Barack Obama declare that, if elected president, he would not pardon his fundraiser and personal real estate fairy, Tony Rezko, who was convicted Wednesday of multiple corruption charges in a Chicago federal court?
Obama is Mr. Reform, isn't he? And that's a legitimate question, isn't it?
The National Republican Party is making a big deal out of Rezko, with a snazzy new Barack-Rezko video, questioning Obama's judgment for buying that $1.6 million dream house, with the Rezkos purchasing the lot next door on the very same day in what looked like an old-fashioned back-scratching.
"On the day Barack Obama hoped to unite his party after wheezing over the finish line and claiming the Democratic nomination, a jury in his hometown of Chicago convicted his longtime friend and fundraiser Tony Rezko of multiple felonies," said Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan.
"This is further proof that Obama's high-flying rhetoric is just that, and in no way represents the kind of change our nation demands."
As most adults know but pretend otherwise, Obama is backed by the Daleys of Chicago, yet he's run a personality-cult campaign tied to the idea that he's the archangel of political reform. The national story line has been all about Camelot and Obama as the boy king, knighted by Ted Kennedy, a story too full of mist to be believed except by children. Yet finally, with the Rezko verdict, the focus is on the real Chicago, not the fairy tale.
But even as the Republican National Committee uses Rezko to thwack Obama, the RNC has a Rezko problem of its own. And they forgot to mention it on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Never heard of them and I don't think they're running for President.
Dang! This story started out really well and quite hopeful for us, but went downhill quite rapidly.
As Rush has said, with liberals .."It's not the evidence that matters, it's the seriousness of the allegation"
Desperation reigns supreme among the ranks of the pathetic libs as they scramble to find something, anything to offset the torrents of flubs, misstatements, lies, flip flops and unseemly associations with people running the gamut from anarchists to Communists that surround their Messiah with the tarnished halo
That’s part and parcel of Illinois politics and the role of the Illinois GOP in it. The RNC would do well to distance themselves from these characters, but it might be too late.
How did it go “downhill”?
by getting into the RNC’s problems with Rezko.
Kass is a pretty good reporter but he is hopelessly lost in Chicago insider baseball.
He's equating the Democrats standard bearer and presidential candidate's known track record with Rezko, to some tangential ties to the party planner for the Republican convention!
Oh and somebody used Karl Rove's name in a sentence with Rezko.
by getting into the RNC’s problems with Rezko.
All corrupt officials should be hung high metaphorcally regardless of party.
We hang all the corrupt officials in Washington and it will be a ghost town.
Unfortunately.
I’ve only been here a couple of years .. never seen anything like this “machine.” Hope they go after the whole rotten bunch. If they’re corrupt, nail ‘em.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/957338,CST-NWS-hotel19.article
The ‘piggy bank’
WILLIAM CELLINI | Treasurer accuses powerbroker of using state-funded hotel to commit fraud, line his pockets
We hang all the corrupt officials in Washington and it will be a ghost town.
That would be a great start. The GOP can’t take the high road and tolerate slimeballs. We have to accept some of the blame for our reputaton. Yes I now there is a double standard, but we can and should do a lot better.
Is it even possible for politics to become clean?
Unfortunately, in Illinois, political corruption is an equal-opportunity event.
It’s only gotten worse over the years. And the depth of the corruption is shown by the fact that they still do it even though Patrick Fitzgerald is the federal attorney and has a record of going after people. I don’t know if they are stupid along with being crooked, or if crookedness is like a bad habit they can’t break.
An Obama + our Nation = Abomination!
It’s a “bait and switch”. First, Kass admits some of Barry’s most glaring faults, and then he slides the knife between the ribs of the RNC. It will only work on the uninformed and the hopenchangelessly lost.
Correction: That should read BRAINWASHED children.
My Dad knows a lot of the major players in this. He said even a blind and deaf dog could tell Rezko was up to no good.
There’s a lot more to this than we’ve seen.
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