If these things are brought up NOW, and repeated by bloggers over and over, the MSM might have to cover the stories, and since the Dem primary campaign is still going, the Hillary campaign might latch on to these things to bring Obama down before it’s too late–for her. Since Hillary is not exactly squeaky-clean, there’s a risk in it for her, but is there anything to which a desperate Clinton will not stoop?

Sure, it’s easy NOW for Obama, who raised $55 million in February, to give Rezko’s measly $0.3 million to charity, but the point needs to be made that Obama got his start with Rezko’s money, and then keep digging for other connections, that Obama has also been bought, damaging his reputation for “new” politics as the same-old that’s been practiced in Chicago since 1968.

Can anyone trust a politician from Chicago? That goes for a certain Hillary Rodham, as well!!!

“Hand me the money and I’ll give you change!”

It’s time to change that, methinks. We might want to wait for September, though.

Bob’s Kid on March 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I’d rather see it trickle a little at a time…death by a thousand cuts…particularly if he is beating HRC. If it all came out now, then the drive-bys could claim it’s all old news, and not cover it at all.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that it is Bullshit when politicians get caught with dirty money and give it to charity to make the problem null & void.

America1st on March 9, 2008 at 12:40 PM

It’s not just you.

O-bummer

NoFanofLibs on March 9, 2008 at 4:36 PM

NFoL, please note that profitsbeard had covered this already.

O-busted.

O-bummer.

O-prah tell-all show.

O-back to hustings in anonymity.

profitsbeard on March 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM

O-bama!

Entelechy on March 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM

O-bummer

“There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law.”

Uh… did someone say that a person by the name of Ata was involved in this?? Ata, as in the 9/11 hijacker Ata?

Yet another dot connected and I don’t like the picture that I’m coming up with.

swampy on March 9, 2008 at 1:28 PM

Um, that would be ATTA. If you are going to be sarcastic or speak tounge in cheek, use the /sarc tag, so you don’t appear like a loon.

This story comes from June 2007. I didn’t notice that when I first read the story.

Ed

Before you get all carried away and accuse the Chicago Kneepad Press of committing journalism, rather than their customary journalistic oral gratification, remember that it was:

- one guy,
- at one paper,
- 9 months ago, and
- followed up by no one, including himself.

You’re on your own here, Ed. Good luck.

Nixon was running against McGovern, so, short of knocking over a bank, he was going to be reelected. But, it all came back to destroy him, because he didn’t come clean, even after the election.

As others have said, Obama needs to come clean and take his chances. There are too many reporters that would love to be Woodward or Bernstein and break a gigantic story. If there is dirty laundry there, it will be found. Fortunately, there are six months before the Dim convention and 9 months before the election. Pleanty of time to out the “accidental Messiah.”

Uh… did someone say that a person by the name of Ata was involved in this?? Ata, as in the 9/11 hijacker Ata?

Yet another dot connected and I don’t like the picture that I’m coming up with.

swampy on March 9, 2008 at 1:28 PM

Is that sarcasm, or are you insane?

as Bill likes to say, “No Keep the cigar”.

FTFY

But, Oprah promised with Obama, “You witness a politician who has an ear for eloquence and a tongue dipped in the unvarnished truth.”

I guess underneath that varnish is a money trail.

moonsbreath on March 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM

Turns out it’s more of a stain than a varnish. Pale green.

BTW, Jane Hall is on Fox right now defending the media’s man crush on Obama. Kirsten Powers is dutifully propping up Clinton.

Th problem is not simply that Obama has acquired a $925,000 obligation as part of buying the house: an unexplained $300,000 discount on his house + effective control of the $625,000 lot (the yard to the house?).

The problem is also that the original offering was for $2.6million, an amount for which Obama simply could not qualify.

Someone, apparently the Reskos, used their influence to create the possibility for the Obamas to purchase the house (and an obligation).

So: in order to start coming clean, and lose this very problematic debt and obligation, when will Obama divest himself of his house?

What is it with the love fest between organized crime (unions) and the DNC? What is it with the love fest between brutal murdering dictators and the DNC? What is it with the love fest between the American hating UN and all Liberals? Why is it that Clooney and Penn have openly embraced Hugo Chavez while denouncing America on a world wide stage? What the heck is going on with Democrats going to foreign soil and trashing America, only to return to America soil and recieve open arms and a hero welcome? What happened to the days when our soldiers returned home to American soil and received a “heroes welcome”? How far towards Socialism has this country moved in the past 50-60 years?

Yet another dot connected and I don’t like the picture that I’m coming up with.