Reply #10: So it's a future quid pro quo this columnist is worried about [View All]

Not any past impropriety. That's somewhat strange.

I think it's incumbent on Mr. Kass to show if there ever was such a pattern, and if not, then he should stop speculating about future patterns that have yet to take place in some imagined future. Until that happens, I, like the entirety of the Tribune editorial board, consider the case closed, at least for the time being.

"Twelve years of scrutiny" is what the Tribune wrote in re-affirming their endorsement. I assume that twelve years included no discovery of past patterns.

But wait ... he might have asked Obama for a favor in the future!

(P.S. I drove past the Obama property for the first time this weekend. Knowing the neighborhood and seeing the story, I feel much better, and more confident about laying any lingering doubts I might have to rest.