Rezko Witness Leaves New Questions about Obama Real Estate Deal Unanswered
I think what you have to realize about Illinois politics is that they are very dirty on both sides of the aisle. Someone made a crack about Bob Kjellander, and Illinois republican. He was tied into Rezco for sure. In Illinois, columnist John Kass calls this merge of Dems and Reps the “Combine”. Now Obama has memory lapses regarding Rezco. He has said that Rezco asked him for no favors. Let’s take Obama at face value and assume he is telling the truth.
The question you must ask, “Who asked you for favors?”. Undoubtably, Rezco had allies that asked Obama for favors, or will once he is in the White House. They may have come from other politicians, like Emil Jones, or some of Daley’s henchmen. No one climbs to the upper echelons of northern Illinois politics without becoming a little dirty.
Obama is not telling the whole story, but just enough to placate people. He is a very good lawyer.
Disregarding all his character flaws, his fiscal policy pronouncements will make him a terrible president.
