Mr. Obama was on shakier ground when he insisted that none of the burgeoning scandals in Illinois politics have anything to do with him. In recent days, top Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko was convicted on influence peddling charges and Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich is facing possible impeachment hearings in the Illinois legislature over Rezko-related scandals.
"You will recall that for my entire political career here, I was not the endorsed candidate of any political organization here," Mr. Obama told Chicago reporters. "My reputation in Springfield [as a state legislator] was as an independent. There is no doubt I had friends and continue to have friends who come out of the more traditional school of Chicago politics but that's not what launched my political career and that's not what I've ever depended on to get elected, and I would challenge any Chicago reporter to dispute that basic fact."
CLTV picked up on Obama's alluding to the Untouchables, outlining his ties to the Chicago Machine, and the Boston Globe (of course they are total socialists) did a long piece delving into Obama's connection to real estate slumlords, including his longtime friend and key campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett--a member of the finance committee. They even got the suburban woman hitting the building with her SUV (p. 8), presumably another Obama voter, and note that Tony Rezko seeded Obama's rise (p. 7).
UPDATE: Tribune story here. The LA Times picks it up. The Campaign Spot with more commentary. And Russ Vaughn, The American Thinker, on Obama's "crown of thorns".
(sorry, forgot to put earlier that this was crossposted at UNCoRRELATED)
No comments:
Post a Comment