I wonder if the media will ask Obama if he has retained a lawyer for the Rezko thingy?

[boston bean]

Do you think they'll do their job and ask him that?

His answer that he's said all that needs to be said, sounds like he might have lawyered up, just sayin.

[murielm99]

1. When did he say that?

Has he been asked about Rezko since the arrest?

This thingy is worrisome. If he thinks the Clintons picked on him, he hasn't seen anything compared to what the MSM and the repukes could do over Rezko.

[boston bean]

2. He said something like that on George Stephanopoulis.

[DesEtoiles]

8. Hmmm...no link. Interesting.

[Dr Fate]

3. Hillary should bring up the issue in all her speeches. Why blame the media?

Hillary has all the media access in the world- if she wants to make this an issue, she knows where to find the cameras and the mics.
If this is an important issue, then calling him out is better than "but- the media isnt as nice to me!"

[Yossariant]

48. I hope you're not serious

For one thing, he'd be a bigger ass than even I think he is if he hasn't lawyered up already.

And, obviously, it's not her job.

The little weasel tried to slime her with the WalMart "while he was working the streets." ;-)

Then she threw a Rezko left jab and he's still reeling.

Her work is done.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Did Hillary retained one for Hsu?

Just asking?

Prison For Democratic Fundraiser Hsu
Norman Hsu, Donor Tied To Hillary Clinton, Sentenced To Three Years
REDWOOD CITY, California, Jan. 4, 2008

AP) Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out a 16-year-old fraud conviction.

Hsu's lawyers had asked Judge Stephen Hall to dismiss his 1992 no-contest plea, arguing that Hsu's right to a speedy trial was violated because authorities were not actively pursuing him during his years as a fugitive. They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers argued, at one of the fundraisers he hosted in California for prominent local politicians.

Hsu also faces federal fraud charges in New York.

His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a fugitive who fled the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud conviction. He turned himself in on Aug. 31 - then fled again.

He was recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been held without bail in a Redwood City jail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/04/politics/main3675603.shtml

[DesEtoiles]

5. oh snap!

[ArkySue]

35. Funny you should mention Hsu

Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama
Campaign Acknowledges Link to Democratic Donor Who Is Now Under Arrest

(snip)
Before becoming a major bundler for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu helped host a 2005 California event for Barack Obama's political action committee and introduced the senator from Illinois to one of the biggest fundraisers for his presidential bid.

(snip)
Mark Gorenberg, who now sits on Obama's national finance committee and is one of his biggest fundraisers, said Hsu organized an early 2005 event for the Hopefund and invited him to help raise money.

"He introduced me to Barack Obama," Gorenberg said of Hsu. "He was working on an event for Barack's PAC, and he asked me to help, and I did. Barack came up to San Francisco, and introduced him to a bunch of people."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090703047.html

[moobu2]

41. oh, double snap!

[MADem]

45. And the triple snap is that GORENBERG, the Obama moneybags and finance fellah, was

also a moneybags for ..... Kerry!

Follow that money!

[rateyes]

46. Well, then, what we need to do is

nominate someone who doesn't have problems with either Rezko or Hsu...don't you think? :shrug:

[MADem]

47. We will just have to see if The Invisible Candidate can get some votes without the MSM touting him..

[ursi]

38. Exactly! The hypocrisy here is rich some times.

[MADem]

44. Hsu donated to Obama, too, though....and the Rezko figures keep getting larger, as well

And then, there's THIS shit that just hit the fan today--and who besides me remembers how a bunch of Obama's paperwork as a state senator mysteriously went missing when FOIAs were filed to retrieve it:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/01/28/will-rezko-blow-up-obama/

So what does this have to do with Obama? Well, buried in a footnote in the motion for an arrest warrant, we learn that Auchi was denied a visa to the United States because of his conviction in France on fraud charges. Auchi’s buddy, Rezko sent a request to the U.S. Department of State in November 2005 for a visa waiver. And Rezko asked unidentified “Illinois government officials” to ask for clearance as well. How much you want to bet one of those officials was Barack Hussein Obama?

So here’s the test. Was Obama smart enough, hell, let’s say brilliant, to just say no?

We may not find out until Rezko’s trial starts on 25 February. Imagine this nightmare scenario. Obama nails down the Democratic nomination for President on Super Tuesday. But then comes the Rezko trial and we learn Obama was doing favors to get an Iraqi felon a visa to the United States. You know, he is just helping out one of his major fund raisers. Will his story line about a new day in Washington still sound plausible? Will folks still believe he’s serious about not being beholden to “special interests?”

I don’t begrudge Obama trying to help out a buddy. I just wish he’d cut the holier than thou act. He’s playing the Washington game like many others. In this case, however, he may get dirtied up. And in that case he could take the Democrats with him.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2007/11/tobamas_missing_papers.html

November 9, 2007 7:36 PM
Sen. Barack Obama had a contentious exchange today with Chicago Sun-Times writer Lynn Sweet over papers from his eight years in the Illinois state senate. Sweet has criticized Obama for not being more forthcoming about the location (and even the existence) of those records. She wrote on Monday:

White House hopeful Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is making government transparency a centerpiece of the latest phase of his campaign, does not always practice what he preaches when it comes to his own business
Read on...

At a press availability in Des Moines this morning, Sweet asked directly if those papers exist, where they might be located physically, and if the campaign will make them available. The Illinois senator responded that in the state senate he had a single staff aide and a filing cabinet.

"I don't have the Barack Obama state senate library available to me," he quipped. He said if she wants particular records, she should let him know. But under sustained questioning from Sweet, Obama acknowledged the papers could have been discarded.

[Egnever]

6. The Chicago trib seems to have a pretty good handle on the rezco thing

and so far has said Obama is not implicated in anything and has done nothing illegal. However they also say the land deal thing while not illegal doesn't look good and obamas answer that he wasn't aware of rezcos law troubles at the time of the deal seems highly doubtful.

I find it highly doubtful also, but I also don't see it as particularly damning either. Bad judgment to be sure.

[murielm99]

9. We do have to remember how republican

the Tribune is. If there is anything at all, they will blow it out of proportion.

I am not an Obama supporter, but he could be our nominee. He needs to take care of this NOW.

[Egnever]

29. Right which is why when they say he has done nothing wrong

I pretty much believe them.

Again I think he knew rezco was starting to smell bad when he bought his house. He got a good deal arguably too good of a deal. Bad judgement to be sure.

[Levgreee]

11. Obama said he knew Rezko was under some suspicion at the time of the house deal

but had not been charged or brought to court at all


I'll look for the source sometime, or other people can... if they don't take my word

[DesEtoiles]

14. Hmmm...no link. Interesting.

[boston bean]

34. If you don't know that then you have not done your due diligence. Please go

read up on it and them come back and we can converse.

[DesEtoiles]

7. Did you notice we have a criminal in the White House? Media doesn't give a shit

about stuff like that...they care about haircuts, however.

Cheer up - Maybe Barack will get an expensive haircut and you can crush him with that! Good luck!

[oasis]

10. MTP question for Obama: "As president, would you pardon Mr. Rezko?".

I'd like to his his nuanced answer for that one.

[DesEtoiles]

12. I'm sure that would have a BIG BIG effect on people's votes.

[oasis]

15. Obama sweating, squirming and fumbling for an answer. Not too presidential.

That's my point.

[DesEtoiles]

20. The way Hillary did when she had to respond to that photo of her...WITH TONY REZKO! D'OH!

[oasis]

25. Obama's 17 year relationship with his slumlord pal and neighbor will surely

be discussed time and again by the media. Better start getting used to it.

[DesEtoiles]

28. Kind of like Hillary's relationship with scumbag Rupert Murdoch

[oasis]

31. I didn't realize that Rupert Murdoch was under indictment. Thanks for the scoop.

:eyes:

[oasis]

32. delete. duplicate

:eyes:

[DesEtoiles]

13. And Hillary can explain Bill's pardon of Mark Rich.

[oasis]

18. Russert would not be so dumb as to ask her. Not her call(eom)

Edited for clarity.

[DesEtoiles]

22. She's the one claiming she has "White House Experience". So she's going to pick and choose. Not too

presidential.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. LOL

anybody who thinks the Marc Rich pardon is a campaign problem for Hillary has been reading FreeRepublic for too long.

It was 8 years ago - and if you think people haven't spent a lot of money trying to find some dirt, you're naive.

And Hillary never had the power of the pardon.


The fact is, Rezko is new and developing. I'm not saying there's any there there, but it's a concern. The ancient Clinton battles of the 90s only made the Clintons stronger. So yeah, I wish they WOULD bring them up.

[oasis]

30. Have you seen any First Lady at a signing ceremony, signing bills into law?

They do, however, observe what's going on. Observe and learn. It's really not that hard to visualize. Try it.

[jackson_dem]

36. He would do his knee jerk thing in such a situation: say "present"

[EFerrari]

16. Two of Hillary's donors are in the same spot.

I hope she gets a good lawyer that is not Bill.

[DesEtoiles]

17. AND Obama got a really expensive haircut!!!!! From TONY REZKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DesEtoiles]

19. Oh it's true alright - I heard it on George Stephanopolis...

[boston bean]

21. do you always post to yourself?

[DesEtoiles]

23. but I'm having SO MUCH FUN with this thread you started..

watching it being demolished, I mean.

[boston bean]

24. doesn't bother me. you keep it kicked. nt

[DesEtoiles]

27. Yes, we need to get that Norman Hsu information out there.

[boston bean]

33. it's out there, and as much as it's out there, it's not gonna stop Rezko from being out there.

get it?

[ArkySue]

40. This info?

Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama
Campaign Acknowledges Link to Democratic Donor Who Is Now Under Arrest

Before becoming a major bundler for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's

presidential campaign, disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu helped

host a 2005 California event for Barack Obama's political action

committee and introduced the senator from Illinois to one of the

biggest fundraisers for his presidential bid.

(snip)
Mark Gorenberg, who now sits on Obama's national finance committee and

is one of his biggest fundraisers, said Hsu organized an early 2005

event for the Hopefund and invited him to help raise money.

"He introduced me to Barack Obama," Gorenberg said of Hsu. "He was

working on an event for Barack's PAC, and he asked me to help, and I

did. Barack came up to San Francisco, and introduced him to a

bunch of people."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090703047.html

[bowens43]

37. more swiftboating, you learned well!!

politics of personal destruction, business as usual by hillary and her supporters....

just sayin

time for change...

[cali]

39. If he's hired a lawyer, the media would know and they would have

spilled the beans. Remember Gonzo hiring Terwilliger? That leaked quickly enough.

[shaniqua6392]

42. The media will do nothing against Obama.

I keep wondering why the media, who have given Bush a free pass for 7 years, is now giving Obama one? He is like the second coming of Jesus in their eyes. Puzzling. People who like him are all excited at the great media attention. But, I am skeptical about it. They devoted the entire day yesterday to the Kennedy endorsement and never mentioned Rezko at all. It is on the medias websites in the form of articles if you look, but nothing on the television. If there is something to find out about Obama, I would prefer to find out now rather than when/if he becomes the nominee and then the media blows him out of the water allowing a Republican to rise to the White House. It could all be a big trick. Sorry for the rant, but this has really been bothering me. The media is slanted to Republicans. We can never forget that. Never forget the last 7 years of Bush ass kissing.

[GalleryGod]

43. "do their job" Why don't you, Masswipe?

"Besides Will Pitt, those Mass guys turn me off! Ugh!"

[Scriptor Ignotus]

49. a lawyer to defend him from what crime exactly? - eom