So Obama, the slick huckster that he is slips in this tell all about his relationship with criminal / best friend Tony Rezco in the Sun Times today hoping this little scandal slips under the radar of the racist rants of Rev Wright that Obama is also lying abouts, lies that are covered by myself in another post this morning.
If his judgment is as bad as he wishes us all to believe in these two situations his immaturity and inexperience as a politician belie a man ready for presidency and are more indicative of a person that needs a few more years sludging around in the sewage called politics before being ready to take on Ahmidinejad, Al Queda, Pakistan, and the rest of the world filthy world out there on behalf of America, that's for sure.
Obama explains Rezko relationship to Sun-Times ::
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Barack Obama: "Rezko helped bankroll Obama in five election runs — for the state Senate, U.S. House and U.S. Senate. The savvy businessman with the North Shore mansion could bring in as much as $70,000 from political donors in one night. In the heat of a campaign, Obama said he sometimes talked strategy with Rezko daily.
Then, during political down-times, Rezko was his lunch or breakfast companion, more concerned about Obama, his wife and daughters than with posing for snapshots with the senator as he rose from political obscurity to Democratic presidential hopeful. On one occasion, Obama recalled, they wiled away time with their wives at Rezko’s Lake Geneva estate.This portrait of Rezko emerged during an 80-minute interview Friday with the Chicago Sun-Times that marked the first time the senator has spoken in-depth about his relationship with the indicted businessman, who’s on trial on corruption charges involving allegations he orchestrated political kickback schemes in the Blagojevich administration.
The interview followed months in which Obama had avoided questions about Rezko and tried to downplay their relationship. With the Pennsylvania primary looming in five weeks, Obama said he hoped to clear the air about his ties to Rezko.
“We want to put the sense that we’re not being forthcoming behind us as quickly as possible,” Obama said.
The senator disclosed that Rezko had raised far more campaign cash for him than previously known. He said he was “saddened” by his friend’s troubles but would be “disappointed” if Rezko ends up convicted. For the first time, Obama said he was disturbed that Rezko had allowed low-income housing Rezko developed to fall apart. And he said that, although he had made a mistake in buying a piece of property from Rezko, “Does it speak to a trend of mine? No.”
Is Rezko still a friend?
“Yes,” Obama said, “with the caveat that, obviously, if it turns out the allegations are true, then he’s not who I thought he was. And I’d be very disappointed with that.”
Obama said he hasn’t talked with Rezko since the businessman’s October 2006 indictment. During their last conversation, Obama said he asked Rezko about his mounting legal problems, and Rezko responded that “his lawyers had been talking to the U.S. attorney’s office, and it’s all getting resolved.”
Though Rezko was wrong on that front, Obama insisted there was nothing impure about his relationship with the Syrian immigrant who offered him a job out of Harvard Law School in 1990.
“He never asked me for anything,” Obama said. “He never did any favors for me, other than obviously supporting my campaigns. He never gave me any gifts, gave me no indication he was setting me up to ask for favors in the future.”
Obama acknowledged that Rezko had raised $250,000 for him — about $100,000 more than had previously been disclosed and about five times more than Obama conveyed during a November 2006 question-and-answer exchange with the Sun-Times.
Obama also defended signing a 1998 letter urging the state to fund a low-income housing project developed by Rezko and Obama’s former boss, Allison Davis — both of whom were clients of Obama’s law firm as well as campaign contributors. Obama said he didn’t remember writing the “form letter” until the Sun-Times asked about it last June. This was not one of the Rezko developments that fell into disrepair.
The senator began the unusual session with Sun-Times reporters and editors by recounting his relationship with Rezko, which he said began when Rezko and two of his partners tried to recruit him out of law school for a job at Rezko’s development firm, Rezmar. He said he met with them in Chicago for about 45 minutes. continued her
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