I remember there was a post on the rec list that claimed that Obama's real-estate deal with Rezko was completely legit. Well, let's revisit. Apparently, what many of us didn't realize was that the Obama campaign was filtering the e-mail to the media.
The campaign declined to share the sellers' e-mails with the Tribune or elaborate on the Bloomberg story.
They WILL NOT release the text of the e-mail. So much for transparency. I wish this was the extent of it, but it's not.
Obama has recovered from his selective amnesia! Praise the Lord! When Obama was previously asked how Tony Rezko found out about the adjoining property in question, Obama used to use the "I don't recall" answer given by politicians who don't want to lie:
It's not clear why Obama had not previously divulged Rezko's tour of the house with him. In 2006, he told the Tribune he recalled talking to Rezko and his wife "either at an event or some conversation we had where they mentioned to me that they either knew the property or knew the developer or something like that.
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