Monday, March 10, 2008

The morass of Illinois political life, or, Obama finally gets some scrutiny

Very, very interesting investigative journalism from the Chicago SunTimes.

And given the swamp that is Illinois party politics, in all likelyhood the tip of the iceberg. No, no candidates are clean, but if you're going to *claim* you're different, don't have situations like this in your financial dossier.

"During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.
Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s."
Too many questions. Too many unconvincing denials. Too much whining now from Obama, now that he's being subjected to real scrutiny-- c'mon, who thinks 8 questions amounts to *anything* approaching a press conference??? Too many un-democratic connections (small "d" here).

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