Last night I was waiting for Barack to look over at Hillary after she hurled an accusation, tip his head, flash his 100-megawatt smile and say, "There you go again...." Would've brought the house down, imo.
As usual, we can count on Corky to be about as honest as his choice in candidates, the Clintons. From his own links, here's the rest of the story:
The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he's known Rezko, "I've never done any favors for him.''
On Tuesday, Bill Burton, press secretary for Obama's presidential campaign, said the letters Obama wrote in support of the development weren't intended as a favor to Rezko or Davis.
"This wasn't done as a favor for anyone," Burton said in a written statement. "It was done in the interests of the people in the community who have benefited from the project.
"I don't know that anyone specifically asked him to write this letter nine years ago," the statement said. "There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district. . . . They had a wellness clinic and adult day-care services, as well as a series of social services for residents. It's a successful project. It's meant a lot to the community, and he's proud to have supported it.''
The development, called the Cottage View Terrace apartments, opened five years ago at 4801 S. Cottage Grove, providing 97 apartments for low-income senior citizens.
Asked about the Obama letters, Rezko's attorney, Joseph Duffy, said Tuesday, "Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project."
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Obama's response that his association with now indicted slumlord Rezko is about only working 5 hours on a project is going to cause the articles in the Chicago papers to go nationwide now, as that response is ludicrous.
Except Obama was refering to a singular instance when he was an associate at the law firm and worked on a specific project that Mr. Rezko was involved in. The allegations above are completely different than what he talked about last night, but in Clinton-speak, that obviously doesn't matter. Fancy what Obama allegedly did. He wrote a letter in support. Let's string him up!
""There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district. . . . They had a wellness clinic and adult day-care services, as well as a series of social services for residents. It's a successful project. It's meant a lot to the community, and he's proud to have supported it."
For shame, for shame, a state Senator supporting the poor people of his constituency! Quick, call Mark Penn (Jabba the Hutt) and Howard Wolfson (Dracula)! Let's run this for all its worth!
