Illinois Scandal Threatens Presidential Bid

Ahhhhhhh......hate when that happens..... Cool

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Re: Illinois Scandal Threatens Presidential Bid

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Republicans are already capitalizing on Rezko's ties to Obama, even though the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is accused of no wrongdoing and his name was barely mentioned at trial.

I've researched this pretty thoroughly and there is just no there there. I went into it on my politics blog thread, can go get stuff. But the biggest issue seems to be the Rezko connection to Obama's house, and it's been confirmed that Rezko had nothing to do with it and there was no "it" in the first place, really. Obama paid a fair price and dealt directly with the sellers of the house. Separately, Rezko bought the adjoining lot, also dealing directly with the sellers. Nothing untoward happened.

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Rezko was convicted and Obama knew him and took campaign donations.

Abramof was convicted and McCain knew him and took campaign money from people at his firm.

Neither episode makes the candidate who took the money guilty of any crimes.

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The more we hear about Rezko, the more likely we are to hear about the Keating five. Quite probable that McCain doesn't want to go there, but there are too many wingnuts that will disregard McCain and go there anyway. I'm looking forward to an entertaining year.

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Hey, come on, Dys . . . John was just a freshman Senator then, he was dazzled by the glamor of DC, and all the fawning by people in expensive suits . . . Keating was just a regular, nice guy . . . who knew ? ! ? ! ?

(I always love that sort of defense--as though we should trust to high office those who can't spot a crook . . . )

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I'm trying to connect the article to the thread title -- I must be missing something.

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JPB wrote:

I'm trying to connect the article to the thread title -- I must be missing something.

It might help if you just clicked on the link provided.

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ok -- did that. Still don't see this as threatening his Presidential bid. The number of people who would have voted for him without ever hearing the name Rezko who now won't vote him because Rezko was convicted would probably be .... dunno, six or seven maybe?

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If you know how to read it, it makes more sense. Obama is from Illinois, one of the most liberal states in the union thanks to the corrupt city of Chicago. Illini are nazi gun grabbers. They do so to keep the power out of the hands of the people and in the hands of jerkoffs like Rod Blagojevich and Daley.

Once America figures out that it is no longer the "Land of Lincoln", Obama's toast.

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Rezko is a criminal.
If liberals are in power then only criminals will have guns.

Glad we got to the heart of your issue cjhsa

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Lol, you're a moron if you truly believe that. Honestly. I don't think you understand much about politics.

Cycloptichorn

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So the number of people NOT from IL who would have voted for Obama because he was from IL, formerly known as the "Land of Lincoln", who now won't vote him because Rezko was convicted is.... what? 10?

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This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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JPB wrote:

So the number of people NOT from IL who would have voted for Obama because he was from IL, formerly known as the "Land of Lincoln", who now won't vote him because Rezko was convicted is.... what? 10?

cjhsa wrote:

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Yeah, JPB . . . yer missin' the point . . . you didn't take into consideration the 80 people who won't vote for Obama, but who aren't talking about it . . .

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You're reaching. Rezko got convicted. Rezko will go to jail where he may or may not get to rub elbows with Ryan and where he may or may not be joined by Rod (Richie keeps himself well protected). And I still don't see how any of this will affect voters who would otherwise have voted for Obama to the levels that would put the election at risk.

(p.s. -- I'm not from here, I only live here and IL politicians in general make me twitch. Obama doesn't make me twitch nearly as much as McCain's fundy pandering).

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Setanta wrote:

Yeah, JPB . . . yer missin' the point . . . you didn't take into consideration the 80 people who won't vote for Obama, but who aren't talking about it . . .

Ok -- then we're up to 90!

btw, my reaching comment was for cj.

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