Give me my money back!

What is so bad about the timing?

Who cares about this small amount of cash.

Hillary had close to a million dollars from Hsu!!

When are you going to cover that?

Big deal, give the money to charity and be done with it.

Hillary received 850,000 from Hsu, she gave it to charity and it was over with. Obama should do the same thing.

Rezko is small potatoes in any case. I want to know how much Marc Rich payed for his pardon and all about Peter Paul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq8aopATYyw&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/1/25/134225/529/38

Well lets just take this at face value, becuase, after all, ABC has been a paragon of fairness where Obama's concerned.

Sometimes I think Obama's campaign is run by morons. Obama's campaign has to fine-tune itself very fast. In case he is nominated, Rezko would be issue no 1 from the repugs.

This must be the "more to come" Hillary was talking about. How the hell does the Clinton team manage the media coverage this well? The night before the SC election? Why didn't anyone, including Obama's campaign, notice this beforehand? They can't be so strapped for cash that they would intentionally hang on to $100,000 in tainted money for the media to dig up. I don't buy it...

Ditto on how Clinton is so able to pull this kind of story out the night before a primary election. i'm sure it has nothing to do with WJC's former communications director/press secretary working for ABC, right?

I'm also sure this ABC is not also the same network that reported just a few days ago that Obama got into a "tussle" with a reporter, when the video clearly showed it was anything but.

I'm sure none of these "coincidences" have anything to do with it.

Who cares?

Hillary's been friends with far more shady characters.

I'm not buying it from ABC until I see the facts.

That picture of Rezko will Billary looked Photo Shoppped to me.

First he said they only received between 50 and 60 thousand for Rezko. Then the Chicago Sun Times told them that they thought is was more like 168,000. He just got rid of another 40,000 last week. Now this. He is lying. Why does the news media have to tell him how much he received from this guy? He is lying his tail off. He said he only did 5hrs of work for this guy. That was a lie. He said that no one could have known that Rezko was being investigated when Obama purchased his house. That was a lie, because it was all over the Chicago media. He needs to just come clean, about his 17yr relationship with this man. He is lying and you Obamites need to admit that he is going to make things worse for himself by doing so.

The headline could read "Hillary Clinton saves children from burning school" with a subtitle "Barack Obama sets school full of children on fire" and the comments here would read that setting schools on fire was Christ-like and saving children from fires should be punished by death.

And to the poster above, clearly the photo from the Carol Mosley Braun fundraiser in 1997 was given to druge by the Obama camp. You give a check to Carol and in return you get your own shiny photo with the Clintons.

No, cythera45, you have it all wrong. See, if Obama got money from Rezko, there's nothing wrong with that, since Obama is, like, pure. So whatever Obama does is good.

Unlikely hwc, don't think Obama will be giving them a photo to use the way Rezko gave him one to use.

Unless of course the obvious Adam, they were trying to keep it/hide it.

The O-Bomb-A fluffers are sooo intellectually dishonest.

Wipe the dew out of your eyes.

Tony Rezko has never contributed a dime to Hillary or Bill Clinton. They have no relationship with Tony Rezko.

Tony Rezko has been described as O-Bomb-A's “political patron” and friend of 17 years.

Tony Rezko and his associates have directly donated over $200,000 to O-Bomb-A, and bundled more, but O-Bomb-A has only returned $85,000.

O-Bomb-A’s name recently appeared in court documents because it was revealed some money Rezko raised was funneled through at least one straw donor or stolen from the government.

O-Bomb-A wrote letters to city and state officials that helped secure $14 million for Rezko in taxpayer money.

O-Bomb-A helped Rezko impress potential investors by appearing at his business meetings.

Most famously, O-Bomb-A and Rezko were involved in a controversial real estate transaction.

O-Bomb-A is a fraud and his relationship with slumlord Rezko is a glaring example of that.

I've got a great idea - why doesn't Letterman run an 'affiliated to Rezko' piece?

We could have images of Rezko trotting along in front of his low income housing projects with a great big muscled 'strong arm', with poor folk handing over bills with 'Obama money' on it.

We could have a private investigator catching Rezko's maid, gardener and dog walker caught looking shocked - handing over Obama money.

We could have a guy arrested after using the same public toilet as Rezko, because he had earlier donated money to Obama - a prescient deliberate deviation from justice - pleading 'I didn't know I was doing anything wrong!'

We could take all of the Clinton's campaign funds back because they had a photo taken with Rezko. Clearly, no one would ever have donated money to the Clinton campaign had it not been for their appearance with the super star Rezko?

We could have all the charities lining up and pointing at everyone saying 'that's Rezko money there, you better hand it over'.

I used to like this site until it was two hits on Obama in a row and the editors act like Hillary never took cash from Hsu in the tune of almost 1 million dollars. a donor who they know well who beyond investigation. He is indicted.

I know it's about opinion here - but throwing out things like Obama/tussle headlines from abc and additional monies headlines from ABC without any verification makes you just as BAD as the MSM when they fire from the hip to get a scoop or serve the inside biases of a news editor with a agenda.

It's okay if TPMelectioncentral has an agenda - but make it clear your agenda. It's very easy to sit back and pretend your objective. It sounds good - it's what we all aspire to - but when guilty of an agenda - people rarely recuse themselves - judges, pundits, journalist, bloggers. It seems like you feel lower by admitting that you have bias.

I know it hurts to admit you have bias for one canidate - but I promise we won't think less of you - it's totally within your rights and expected that you would have a favorite :)

I recommend the new blog RezkoWatch for a comprehensive overview of Obama’s Rezko-gate. It seems so far that every major news story of any importance to the case is easily accessible there.

If you’re an impartial journalistic type dude perhaps you’d even want to make RezkoWatch your home page - that's if you're into following the biggest non-scandal since travelgate. ;-)

There's even more.

People are embarrassing themselves with this non-story.

Let's research or better yet, ask the man himself....how much did he donate to the CLINTON camps back in the 90s?

Let's research or better yet, ask the man himself....how much did he donate to the CLINTON camps back in the 90s?

Turns out, Tony Rezko has never contributed a dime to Hillary or Bill Clinton. They have no relationship with Tony Rezko.

Ouch.

And this too was easy to find out with the help of RezkoWatch.

I don't trust ABC as far as I can throw them. Remember the "Obama loses it with reporter" story. Then the vid came out and it was nothing like that. When did ABC become Fox News? Hill/Bill have a lot of friends in high media places it would seem.

Oops - revised post from above

How Obama supporters answer the charge that they irrationally tar the Clintons with discredited Rightwing talking points:

ABC reveals Rezko "dirty money" in Obama's campaign chest - it's Clinton's fault.

Got it.

I'm embarrassed to live in America. We, who for that last 8 years, screamed in silence for fear of being labeled "unpatriotic". Then a shift, more and more spoke out against the powers that be. Because of our voices, now most people do not believe in WMD, Saddam/Al queda link etc. When Gonzo, Rove and the gang were exposed for their lies, it was the people's voices who ran them out of town, not the powers that be. Indeed, the people have dug in and exposed this Administration for what it is.
It was exhilarting to watch Iowa, and for the first time in a long time, America could get an inkling that maybe, just maybe, we had evolved enough to elect a president who would believe in the power of the people. It works - see above.
We have debunked the repuglican slime machine, no one believed them any more. The fear of the repuglicans is unfounded now. We know the truth.
What blindsided us was one of our own. No one could have believed Hillary/Bill could stoop to republican tactics, especially being on the recieving end of them. But that is the rub. Many still do not believe they could sink so low, if they did, all hope of the previous progressive "power to the people" stances would be lost.
The American people do not want that crap anymore. Not from republicans, surley, but definitely not from one of our own.

The best bare bones comparison of the kind of leadership we can expect from each of them is here - I've read many many articles, this one is the best analysis so far.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/specialguests/2008/jan/21/understanding_leadership_and_organizing_for_change

Re: Mary wrote on January 26, 2008 1:33 PM:
I don't trust ABC as far as I can throw them. Remember the "Obama loses it with reporter" story. Then the vid came out and it was nothing like that. When did ABC become Fox News? Hill/Bill have a lot of friends in high media places it would seem.

Sure, Mary. Obama is so mistreated that his supporters are madly faxing copies of Jake Tupper's ABC column from last night contending that Bill Clinton is a racist. And that each network has bit, featured it and the talking heads are saying, "As Jake Tupper documents on ABC... "