Tuesday, January 22, 2008
No Clean Hands
Obama faces his first serious challenge*, to image or otherwise, regarding his dealings with two folks by the name of Rezko, a name that may not come-and-go, depending on how it all falls out.
So far, it is campaign contributions and (what else?) a real-estate deal. That deal doesn't seem to have any particular financial favors for Obama or mysteries (like the Clinton's magical commodities account). It just seems to have been a really bad idea ... at worst, the Rezkos may have lubricated a deal, at fair prices, to get it to go through, as best as I can tell from quite a distance.
The rest of the Rezko's problems? ... a field day for GOP irregulars.
(h/t R. Stein)
*O'Reilly's attempt to do guilt-by-association based on two quotes on Louis Farrakhan (by Obama's pastor in Chicago) may well backfire, yet and is not serious.
