WaPo: As the Scandal Turns: Clinton, Obama, Rezko and Whitewater

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As the Scandal Turns: Clinton, Obama, Rezko and Whitewater
Is this is a small world, or what?

Just two days ago, on a java-sipping Sunday morning, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson and Obama campaign strategist David Alexrod were going at it on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopolous" over strange real estate deals. Wolfson was in his element, firing away at Barack Obama for his land deal with accused swindler Tony Rezko; Alexrod said Hillary Rodham Clinton should be the last person "wanting to characterize any real estate transaction as unusual" -- a none too subtle reference to Clinton's Whitewater woes.

Cut to Monday: Rezko's extortion and money laundering trial began in Chicago. And who should be presiding as federal judge?

None other than Amy St. Eve, the youthful and diminutive former protégé of Ken Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel.

St. Eve was a deputy on Starr's prosecution team in Little Rock, Ark., that convicted Jim and Susan McDougal, famed former pals and business partners of the Clintons in that really unusual -- to paraphrase Axelrod -- Whitewater real estate deal.

more at link: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/as_the_scandal_turns_clinton_o.html

Small world indeed.

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1. ..and Denise Rich's generous donation... did it buy a pardon

for Marc Rich? Does HRC really want to go there?

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2. It was only a matter of time until Whitewater was back in the news.

Old skeletons are still skeletons arent they.