Just spit it out.

What exactly is it that you think Obama did re Rezco? There's no evidence of illegality or wrongdoing to date. So what is it you suspect him of doing that's so troubling?

"Nothing indicts like denial".

All politicians get branded with these nonsense stories because the press likes them, but they mean nothing.

All politicians deal with unsavory people at some point... that's the nature of representative democracy where all those represented are not angels

as just a mistake in taking money from the guy.

The two go way back...Rezko has supported all his campigsn, helped him with the house buy, bundled $200,000 for Obama from his employees...Obama knew just how bad this guy was and he chose to associate him...everyone knew.

Now tell me about "change."

you can argue w/ fellow Dems all you want, but the GOP won't care what you think when they start their smear campaign against him.

We don't need candidates with real baggage. If Obama is innocent, then he should wait until the investigation exonerates him and then run for President. But its crazy for him to run while he's under investigation. Period.

BLITZER: I'm going to go to Suzanne Malveaux in a second, but I just want to give you a chance, Senator Obama, if you want to respond. Senator Clinton made a serious allegation that you worked for a slumlord. And I wonder if you want to respond.

OBAMA: I'm happy to respond. Here's what happened: I was an associate at a law firm that represented a church group that had partnered with this individual to do a project and I did about five hours worth of work on this joint project. That's what she's referring to.

Now, it's fine for her to throw that out, but the larger reason that I think this debate is important is because we do have to trust our leaders and what they say. That is important, because if we can't, then we're not going to be able to mobilize the American people behind bringing about changes in health care reform, bringing about changes in how we're going to put people back to work, changing our trade laws. And consistency matters. Truthfulness during campaigns makes a difference.

He said he was organizing unemployed steel workers when she was on the board of Wal-Mart, which he was for part of that period, 1986 to 1992. In 1993, he went into the law firm.

Clinton said he was working for a law firm representing Rezko the slum lord when she was on the board of Wal-Mart.

Obama answered that he did five hours work for his law firm representing a low income housing group that worked with Rezko.

The law firm confirms what Obama said.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/22/AR2008012203513.html?nav=most_emailed

just in case :sarcasm:

definitely the most insidiuos kind of "old kind of politics" and therein lies the rub....

You don't campaign promising to "give us" a new kind of politics" with this in your background.

The house deal, the intern, the "not knowing" about slum conditions

It is as simple as that