Hey folks,
Well, I just asked the question, "When is the Media going to do their jobs?" Some of you out there might have said, "They are doing their jobs. Look at this. They are reporting the Obama - Rezco connection." {Laughing} Sure.
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press WriterCHICAGO (AP) -- Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.
"SEE! SEE! What in the world are you talking about, 'Liberal Bias Press?'"
OK. They brought up his name. They even report this.
Rezko also was friendly with Obama - offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. {BUT} But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko's trial, there's no indication there'll be an October surprise that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee - even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.
When Obama found out that his "friend" was dirty. He did the right thing.
Obama has sent to charity $159,000 that Rezko raised for his campaigns for the state legislature, the House and the Senate. Rezko raised nothing for Obama's White House run.
So no big deal. Right?
Obama's name came up in testimony at the trial four times, twice in connection with an obscure legislative memo, as a guest at a Rezko party and when defense attorney Joseph Duffy told jurors his client was a friend of the senator.
None of the witnesses accused the Democratic nominee for president of doing anything improper.
Nah.
But questions concerning Obama's relationship with Rezko linger, particularly over Rezko's role in the purchase of the Obamas' home.
The two have known each other for years, starting when Rezko offered Obama a job after he graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. Obama didn't take it, but a friendship developed.
The men talked politics frequently and occasionally dined together with their wives.
In 2005, the Obamas paid $1.65 million for their home near the University of Chicago. The sellers wanted a parcel they owned next door to sell on the same day, and Rezko's wife, Rita, was the buyer. At the request of the Obamas, Mrs. Rezko later sold them a 10-foot strip of land to enlarge their lot. They paid $104,500.
The deal took place while Rezko was under investigation and when details of the cozy relationship surfaced, Obama said it was a "bonehead" error to have asked for the additional land because it looked like he was getting a favor.He WAS!
"I regret it," Obama said at the time. "I'm going to make sure that from this point on I don't even come close to the line."
{Laughing} No. Obama wants to MOVE the line. He wants to CHANGE the line. He WILL attempt to if he gets in as President. He will make the line so that there is one set of people on one side, Socialists, and YOU on the other. You will NEVER be able to cross it. YOU will just pay and do whatever they say.
Just to make sure that you know, there is nothing here involving Obama.
Obama's name has not surfaced in accounts of the investigation since the trial. But Rezko himself raised it in a letter to the judge months ago.
"Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened," he wrote. "They are pressuring me to tell them the wrong things that I supposedly know about Gov. Blagojevich and Sen. Barack Obama."
So just remember this folks, Governor Palin is guilty, the Messiah Obama is clean as the wind driven snow. {Sigh} Be right back.
Peter
Source:
Las Vegas Review Journal - Obama fundraiser, convicted of fraud, spills beans
