This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew
This isn’t the Ayers I know.
This isn’t the Wright I knew.
This isn’t the Ffleger I knew.

Connie on June 5, 2008 at 12:51 AM

Mad props to Connie for picking up on that. I6t’s getting to be a, ummm, distraction to keep hearing the same explanation when he’s called out on each of these associations. It’s like a bad piece of dialogue from a B movie.

And besides, none of this talk about Rezko is helping Michelle Obama’s children…

Agree. Hot Air is superior over Drudge in both style and content

I second that emotion. I haven’t checked Drudge’s site in probably three months.

…no one can say for sure if Rezko would have anything of interest to spill about Barack Obama.

It wouldn’t matter anyway. He could have ties to Osama Bin Laden and it wouldn’t matter at this point.

Agree. Hot Air is superior over Drudge in both style and content with the content greatly improving since Ed Morrissey was brought on.

This isn’t the Ayers I know.

This isn’t the Wright I knew.

This isn’t the Ffleger I knew.

So, Barack, does this mean you are a lousy judge of character? Running on superior judgment? More like running on empty.

Obama predictably says this is “not the Tony Rezko I knew”. Didn’t he say that about Rev. Wright…and Father Pfleger…he doesn’t seem to know his friends very well, does he? Either that or he’s lying.

Hot Air gets news up just as fast. I don’t hardly ever check Drudge any more.

Win Win Win on June 4, 2008 at 5:39 PM

Faster, and more relevent. Drudge goes for the fake headline crap. He plays head games.

MrLynn on June 4, 2008 at 8:03 PM

True. Maybe McCain can get him to squeal like a pig in exchange for a pardon…

//Possible Obama retorts to questions about Rezko.

James on June 4, 2008 at 7:52 PM

You forgot: We’ll be talking about that a little later, sweetie.

Rezko will keep his mouth shut when it comes to Obama in exchange for a pardon during Obama’s term.

db on June 4, 2008 at 6:00 PM

Hmm. . . Kinda assumes that Obambi will win; not at all a given.

On the other hand, when is the sentencing? How long can Rezko drag out the process with appeals? If he can get past early November, then he’ll know who won. But he loses much of his leverage. So perhaps it’s in his interest to sing now, assuming there’s anything to sing about. If I were him, I’d want to cut a deal right away, and damn the consequences.

It would have to be something earth-shattering to harm Obambi, though; as long as your followers in the media think you can do no wrong, you can weasel out of anything.

“That’s non-sense”

“I’ve already answered, like, 8 questions”

“Are you a bitter American?”

“CHANGE!!”

//Possible Obama retorts to questions about Rezko.

A woman called into the Hannity show this afternoon and asked this question “the media is not informing us about who Obama is, if it weren’t for people like you, we wouldn’t know about any of the personal associations Obama has with so many really horrible people; the media doesn’t do the job they are supposed to do; what can we (the people) do about this?”

Hannity gave her a long winded non-answer to the specific question about the fact that the media doesn’t do the job they are supposed to do; the job they were given special privileges to do.

I would love to see AP & ED design a post that gives this question (topic) a chance for honest debate. What was the original intent behind the concept of a “free press”? What do we do about the fact that the media has become a huge tool for a specific political party? Do guidelines exist that govern the behavior (results) of the media? Why was the NYT allowed to disclose national top secret programs (during a time of war) and go unpunished? Is the media above the laws that govern the rest of us?

I think these are honest questions that deserve factual answers.

Read about Obama’s heated exchanged with Lieberman today? What was that about?

Conspiracy theorists unite!

The Obamamessiah picked that Kennedy daughter to pick his VP for him, that’s all that matters, right?

blue13326 on June 4, 2008 at 6:46 PM

And if anyone tries to compare Obama to JFK, remind them that JFK was strongly anti-Communist.

Ask Obama what he thinks of Marxism-Lenninism. I dare you.

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