According to Fox News, Barack Obama responded to the Tony Rezko conviction today in statement with “I’m saddened by today’s verdict. This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew…” Of course this has become a pattern for Obama of having to issue this statement about the individuals that he chose to use in order to climb to the top of Chicago politics as an outsider to the windy city.
This is the man who has already had to denounce his spiritual mentor and pastor of 20 years in Jeremiah Wright, a Catholic priest, Michael Pfleger, who Obama has known well for decades, and now the man convicted today. According to ABC news, Tony Rezko and his wife were instrumental in Obama ability to purchase his Chicago mansion:
In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin “Tony” Rezko, for “advice” as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate.
The parcel included an adjacent lot which Obama told the Chicago Tribune he could not afford because “it was already a stretch to buy the house.”
On the same day Obama closed on his house, Rezko’s wife bought the adjacent empty lot, meeting the condition of the seller who wanted to sell both properties at the same time.
And the Chicago Sun Times has the following on Obama buying a portion of the adjacent lot from Rezko’s wife to expand his yard:
A few months after Obama became a U.S. senator, he and Rezko’s wife, Rita, bought adjacent pieces of property from a doctor in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood — a deal that has dogged Obama the last two years. The doctor sold the mansion to Obama for $1.65 million — $300,000 below the asking price. Rezko’s wife paid full price — $625,000 — for the adjacent vacant lot. The deals closed in June 2005. Six months later, Obama paid Rezko’s wife $104,500 for a strip of her land, so he could have a bigger yard. At the time, it had been widely reported that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation. Questioned later about the timing of the Rezko deal, Obama called it “boneheaded” because people might think the Rezkos had done him a favor.
Why the need for so many denouncements Senator Obama over your close associates?
Power Line addresses the Obama statement in a posting titled “The Most Wildly Inappropriate Statement Ever?” And Michelle Malkin has also weighed in on the pathetic statement.
The major media is silent on this issue because they have annoited Barack Obama as the next President. Perhaps Hillary knows more than she’s saying and maybe this is one of the reason she has not dropped out. I wonder what will happen when the Feds offer Tony a deal to turn on Obama. As a businessman the duplicity of this deal is more than evident. I long ago quit believing in fairy tales or politicians.