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Tomas Gordon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:03:02 GMT

Assuming the reader is NOT a Barama supporter (and even if you are), you might be interested in the following web page:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obam…

It’s a link to a November 5, 2006 article on the Chicago Sun Times web site – titled “Obama on Rezko deal: It was a mistake” – which is pretty revealing. The reporters’ second direct question to Barama asks him whether he or his wife ever did any legal work for Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago slumlord with whom Barama did a sweetheart real estate deal that resulted in the $1,650,000 Georgian revival mansion for the junior senator from Illinois (at a $300,000 discount). Barama answered “no” at the time, but didn’t he actually confirm that he had billed Rezko for five hours of his professional time during Monday’s SC debate? I guess my concern is that his “mistake” conveniently netted him a house most of us could only dream of living in, and he’s certainly not talking about donating IT to charity like the ill-gotten $40,000 in Rezko contributions his campaign has identified so far.

There is a silly piece on abcnews.com showing the Clintons in one of the 100,000 photo ops they’ve probably taken, in this case with the dreaded Tony Rezko. I couldn’t see any real estate docs in Hillary’s hands, but the top right of the page should display a film clip by Brian Ross that shows Barama’s Chicago mansion in living color. Here’s the link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4192372&page=1

There is also a hard-hitting “print” article by Ross that extends the Chicago Tribune story – http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4111483&page=1 – yet when George Stephanopoulos interviewed Barama this week, he barely followed-up on his softball question about the cozy deal. I’m afraid most of the mainstream reporters are holding back on tough questioning about Barama’s lack of integrity (as it was displayed with the Rezko “mistake”) because they don’t want to be shut out of future interviews if he’s the nominee, or God help us, the next President. We’ve had just about eight years of an inexperienced politician with questionable moral certitude, and I really don’t want eight more of the same, even if the guy is a Dem!

Tomas Gordon — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:40:03 GMT

Assuming the reader is NOT a Barama supporter (and even if you are), you might be interested in the following web page:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/124171,CST-NWS-obam…

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4192372&page=1