“Last week, eight candidates for the Democratic nomination for president took center stage in a debate televised on MSNBC. While the important topic of ethics was largely ignored, Barack Obama was asked one question about his relationship with shady political fundraiser, Antoin ‚ÄúTony‚Äù Rezko. (Earlier last week, The Chicago Sun-Times published a fairly thorough article on Obama‚Äôs ties to Rezko.)
Here‚Äôs an excerpt from Obama‚Äôs exchange with MSNBC‚Äôs Brian Williams: WILLIAMS: ‚ÄúYou’ve promised in your campaign a new kind of politics, but just this week the Chicago Sun-Times reported on questionable ties you have with a donor who was charged last year for demanding kickbacks on Illinois business deals. Aren’t you practicing the very same kind of politics that many of the others on this stage have engaged in?‚Äù
OBAMA: “Well, not all, we have thousands of donors. This donor engaged in some ethical (sic) behavior and I have denounced it. But I have a track record of bringing people around this new kind of politics, since I was in the state legislature…”
You don‚Äôt need to read the rest because Obama deftly shifted the conversation away from Rezko, and Williams let him get away with it.”
How much is there to this? I would say with the Democrats lifting the bar of ethics in their campaign speeches, there is much that we need to know….
What did Obama know…..when did he……
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May 1st, 2007 at 10:58 am
1[...] Crossposted at Macsmind. [...]
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May 1st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
2I really like that the Democratic candidates are collecting so much money early. This means that they all have a ton of cash to bash each other with. There will be a lot less work for the Republicans to do after the conventions because whichever Democrat emerges will be covered with quite a bit of mud slung by their own. Nice.
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