Best line tonight: Rezko/slum lord!!!! hahaha

edited for spelling

tit for tat

Obama was an associate lawyer and his firm was working for a church group partnered with him. Obama did 5 hours of work.

NY Times article from June 2007
An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and MIKE McINTIRE
Published: June 14, 2007

snip>
Mr. Obama has portrayed Mr. Rezko as a one-time fund-raiser whom he had occasionally seen socially. But interviews with more than a dozen political and business associates suggest that the two men were closer than the senator has indicated.

Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.

And when Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, bought a house in 2005, Mr. Rezko stepped in again. Even though his finances were deteriorating, Mr. Rezko arranged for his wife to buy an adjacent lot, and she later sold the Obamas a 10-foot-wide strip of land that expanded their yard.

The land sale occurred after it had been reported that Mr. Rezko was under federal investigation. That awkward fact prompted Mr. Obama, who has cast himself as largely free from the normal influences of politics, to express regret over what he called his own bad judgment.snip<

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/politics/14rezko.html (Make sure to read both pages)


And here is another Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-rezko_both_20jan20,0,7876083.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

This needs to be vetted long before he gets the nomination of the Dem party. We don't need the R's bringing this to the table when it will be to late for our party. This crap is pretty damning, can anyone spell RICO?

He didn't have an especially close relationship with Obama.

Really. You should look up what Rezko raised for the Governor. Well into the six figures.

. . . any of Rezko's illegal wrongdoing. Essentially Hillary was trying to use guilt by association, which is a fallacious charge always. But Hillary was indeed on the Walmart board and it would be hard to see how she would not share culpability for some of Walmart's predatory behavior.

I'll try to find more information on the Internet about it. But if the only accusation is that he worked on the case of a bad person, did 5 hours of billing on it and was a mere associate in his firm (i.e. not a partner) I really don't see much there. As a lawyer myself and having been an associate in a firm, I know that 5 hours is barely a half a day of work and it doesn't sound like very heavy involvement in the matter. Lawyers often bill 10 to 12 hours a day. And an associate rarely has any say in the cases given to him or her. Besides, a lawyer handles the cases of every type of lowlife there is. Everyone deserves to be legally represented, even murderers. The fact that a lawyer works on a case on behalf of a client with a less than exemplary background means nothing. Lawyers do it all the time.

I assume there will be a transcript. As it is so precise, I would bet it is accurate, but I assume that the media will fact check it.

Nothing in the story is more questionable that HRC making $100,000 starting with $1,000 in commodities trading, guided by a Tyson chicken lawyer, when Arkansas was being asked to control the waste from Tyson flowing into the rivers. No one can prove it wasn't good luck or that there was a connection there, but it is at least as easy to see a possible connection as it is in Obama's case. (If we want cleaner - the party should have supported Gore and Kerry more.)

nobody gives a shit about some guy named Rezko except Hillbots.

Hillary got him better, though.

No one except political fanatics like us knew who Rezko was before tonight.

Now, it'll probably be the most repeated line from the debate. The entire country will know.

Unless you plan to get burned.

Hillary is not some little woman here.
She is going to defend herself from Barrack's little sneak attacks.

"You're likable enough, Hillary."
Bull.

Cocky men can't just dismiss women anymore. Sorry.

he also had a very long lasting relationship with him. The way it sounded tonite, Obama only did five hours of work for him, this is going to come out and it gonna look bad.

It just shows how good Hillary will be in a debate with a Republican. She'll give it right back to him. Don't mess with her.

Obama is in fact not presidential. I once thought he was. But now I think he would be slaughtered in the very first presidential debate.

And that was booing. Good grief.

That's called booing.

... because they were supporting her. Right!

Here is some things you should really read about:

NY Times article from June 2007
An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and MIKE McINTIRE
Published: June 14, 2007

snip>
Mr. Obama has portrayed Mr. Rezko as a one-time fund-raiser whom he had occasionally seen socially. But interviews with more than a dozen political and business associates suggest that the two men were closer than the senator has indicated.

Mr. Obama turned to Mr. Rezko for help at several important junctures. Records show that when Mr. Obama needed cash in the waning days of his losing 2000 Congressional campaign, Mr. Rezko rounded up thousands of dollars from business contacts. In 2003, Mr. Rezko helped Mr. Obama expand his fund-raising for the Senate primary by being host of a dinner at his Mediterranean-style home for 150 people, including some whose names have since come up in the influence scandal.

And when Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, bought a house in 2005, Mr. Rezko stepped in again. Even though his finances were deteriorating, Mr. Rezko arranged for his wife to buy an adjacent lot, and she later sold the Obamas a 10-foot-wide strip of land that expanded their yard.

The land sale occurred after it had been reported that Mr. Rezko was under federal investigation. That awkward fact prompted Mr. Obama, who has cast himself as largely free from the normal influences of politics, to express regret over what he called his own bad judgment.snip<

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/us/politics/14rezko.h... (Make sure to read both pages)


And here is another Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-rezko_b...

This needs to be vetted long before he gets the nomination of the Dem party. We don't need the R's bringing this to the table when it will be to late for our party. This crap is pretty damning, can anyone spell RICO?

I really would like to know which dimension you are in, where that was not booing.

Forum Name General Discussion: Politics
Topic subject OH NO SHE DI INT! REZKO. BWAAAAA
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4146213, OH NO SHE DI INT! REZKO. BWAAAAA
Posted by Proud2BAmurkin on Mon Jan-21-08 07:32 PM

:rofl:

I think she was more than justified in bringing it up, after Obama's low blow at her.

she had every right to mention it. The people in the audience who booed her were Obama's supporters. I expected nothing else from them.

:rofl:

Who wants a Corporate Board member for President?

Scooter Libby' FED Indictment...Now ...Fed Indictment Rezko...Obama's close Buddy...they even attend the same church,,you know where Rev Wright ...oh so much more...soon come mon..:)

If so, it most certainly should come out as soon as possible. If Obama participated in any criminal activity, by all means he should drop from the race.

and he wasn't honest about his relationship again this evening...that will come out I;m sure tomorrow or the next.

The gain he made via Rezko's money on the house land amounted to 1 years appreciation on a 100k real estate investment (he paid pro-rata what Rezko paid a year earlier) - not a big deal - but why keep the relationship going after 04 when it became obvious - if it wasn't before - that Rezko was going down? Indeed earlier the Rezko minority employer con revealed the Lebanese money behind Rezko - and Obama needed that post 9/11. It is only a judgment question, in my opinion - but it is a question.

I hear a lot of BO supporter use "judgement" as their reasons for support. there goes that.

What say you?

Feb 25th is trail date ..amazing what jail time does to a person..

and from the context, I probably wouldn't care.

Don't mess with Hillary. Also, Obama's stuttered answer was hard to understand & I'm not sure it was truthful. He said there just was one contract? Hasn't he got a ton of donations from Rezko?

We're talking about millions of dollars.

The Rezko case involves a couple real estate issues that even Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting the Rezko case, says that Obama did nothing wrong.

But hey, if you want Obama to bring up Hsu and his problems and direct alliance with both Clintons, we could take that train and drive it through the Clinton legacy like butter.

Hillary is one tough lady.