Get Your Daily Rezko Dose Here
By SusanUnPC on March 10, 2008 at 9:10 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Nadhmi Auchi, Tony Rezko
Here, from Friday night’s McLaughlin Group on PBS, you’ll hear much speculation on the Rezko trial and Obama (transcript). As a regular viewer, I always pay attention to what John McLaughlin focuses on since he’s pretty sharp. He was alone on the panel the previous Friday in predicting that Hillary would win both Texas and Ohio. He also has done excellent shows recently on the energy and infrastructure crises. (Thanks for the link, C.S.)
The Chicago Tribune has another gavel-to-gavel report on all that transpired today, including Obama’s involvement on a state board. ABC’s The Blotter reports:
As an Illinois lawmaker, Barack Obama was one of eight state officials consulted on appointments to a state board which later became involved in what prosecutors describe as a fraud scheme, the Associated Press reports today.
That information was contained in a June 2003 memo from a national Democratic official introduced this morning as evidence at the trial of Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a Chicago-area developer and political operative facing corruption charges. [...]
The memo does not say how much influence Obama had over the process of picking members for the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, AP said.
And it did not indicate Obama was involved in the alleged corruption that later tainted the board.
Conservative bloggers are all over this story after one of them — Ed Morrissey of Hot Air — dug up a story from 2007 that has been overlooked:
Rezko cash three times more what Obama admits: Sun-Times
By Ed Morrissey
When attempting to defuse an embarrassing situation, the best strategies rely on early and full disclosure in the hope that the eventual revelations prove anti-climactic.
And here is a sampling of more posts following Morrissey’s lead, from conservative bloggers:
Rezko cash three times more what Obama admits | SEE ALSO: Hot Air
Barack Obama apparently hasn’t learned this yet, but the Tony Rezko trial may wind up schooling Obama on the principle. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Rezko and his associates provided three times as much money for Obama.
Obama’s Shady History and Rezko:
Ed Morrissey has been doing a great job over at Hot Air researching and analyzing the Rezko-Obama situation. In his recent post about the scandal, he dug up a story that should’ve received more attention when it came out in June of 2007 …
Imagine if Obama is the nominee. All of those bloggers — and there are many whose posts I haven’t listed here — will be hitting this story constantly. (Along with William Ayers.)
And Rezko Watch has more in its “Follow the Money” section on “Obama’s Alsammarae ‘fairy tale’.”
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