Business as Usual Obama

So we learn the other day that recently indicted Dem fundraiser Tony Rezko can't pledge his Wilmette house for his bond, as it is tied up in some kind of trust. But apparently he has some other property he can pledge---

next door to Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois.

Somehow when Obama bought a $1.65 million dollar home, Rezko was there. Tribune:

When Sen. Barack Obama decided to buy a stately $1.65 million home last year on Chicago's South Side, Antoin "Tony" Rezko and his wife wasted no time. The same day the Obamas closed on the house, the Rezkos closed on the purchase of the adjoining vacant lot, which once was the estate's lush side yard.

In normal circumstances, the two real estate transactions probably wouldn't have raised an eyebrow. There is, after all, nothing illegal or untoward about an aggressive developer buying hot property next door to a rising political star.

The mark of a true friend, wanting to "live" right next door, and even accepting the price your friend Obama set to buy an adjoining 10 ft. of "your" property, so that the fence Obama's wife wanted, that you, Rezko paid for (only you've stiffed the contractor) would look nice.

This does not look nice. It looks niiiiiiice.

So this takes me back to another friend of the rising star Senator Obama, one Alexi "of the alleged mob ties" Giannoulious, who just happens to now be running for state Treasurer) and who bankrolled Obama's rise.

The only conclusion to make, sadly, is Obama is just another business as usual politician.

And with Obama's feet of clay firmly planted in the muck of Chicago and Cook County corruption, can his star continue to rise in the Democrat firmament?

(Maybe if your competition is Hillary.)