What does Obama stand for?

[grampster]

.  Anyone coming out of Chicago politics will have to really prove to me that they are NOT corrupt.  Wasn't there a "friend" of Obama who was recently convicted of fraud or corruption?

That is a smart presumption.  Living so close to Chicago and being an inmate of Chicago for 3 years, I would go further--all Chicago politicians have an irrebuttable presumption of being corrupt.

Tony Rezko is who you are thinking of.  He gave Obama the sweetheart real estate deal when Obama was living on 54th in Park View East.

Ehhh, the newspaper today said the mortgage company gave him a sweetheart deal as well.

[agricola]

.  Anyone coming out of Chicago politics will have to really prove to me that they are NOT corrupt.  Wasn't there a "friend" of Obama who was recently convicted of fraud or corruption?

That is a smart presumption.  Living so close to Chicago and being an inmate of Chicago for 3 years, I would go further--all Chicago politicians have an irrebuttable presumption of being corrupt.

Tony Rezko is who you are thinking of.  He gave Obama the sweetheart real estate deal when Obama was living on 54th in Park View East.

Ehhh, the newspaper today said the mortgage company gave him a sweetheart deal as well.

It may be worthwhile to note that an associate of Tony Rezko, Nadhmi Auchi, is (according to the last few issues of Private Eye busily engaged in threatening legal action against various papers in the UK:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3486054.ece
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/03/who-is-nadhmi-a.html
http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2008/02/rezkowatch-gets-letter-from-nadhmi.html