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Title: Barack Obama: Tony Rezko 'a sad story'
Source: Swamp Politics
URL Source: http://swamppolitics.com/news/polit ... ck_obama_tony_rezko_a_sad.html
Published: Jun 6, 2008
Author: Mark Silva
Post Date: 2008-06-07 08:33:11 by buckeye
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Comments: 1

Sen. Barack Obama, calling the saga of convicted Chicago power broker Tony Rezko "a sad story,'' suggests that he has had plenty to say already about any support that he had drawn from Rezko in the past and is focused on the presidential campaign ahead.

"Obviously, he was a friend, he was a supporter, he raised money for my campaigns,'' Obama said in an interview with Tom Negovan of WGN in Chicago. "Now, he's a sad story of somebody who clearly crossed the line.''

Rezko, whose friendship and fundraising benefited the careers of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Obama and others, was convicted Wednesday of using political clout to orchestrate millions of dollars in kickbacks. A federal jury found Rezko guilty on 16 of 24 counts in a trial that exposed an ingrained culture of corruption in Illinois government.

With that conviction coming in the week that Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, the Republican Party has been ready to remind voters of the support that Rezko once lent to the senator from Illinois. Obama has not been implicated in any of Rezko's wrongdoing. Obama, for his part, is turning the focus of his campaign to his contest with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

"On a whole host of issues, John McCain is, I think, continuing the economic policies and the foreign policy of George Bush,'' Obama said in this interview. "His primary economic policy is to continue the Bush tax cuts and adding more tax cuts for corporations ... Mine means universal health care, a tax cut for the middle class, closing corporate tax loopholes, making college more affordable.

"On foreign policy, John McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq, doesn't want to talk to our adversaries,'' Obama said. "I feel that we have to end the war in Iraq and engage in some principled diplomacy.''

This interview came before Obama's secret meeting with Clinton in Washington last night, an hour-long session at the home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California in which the two Democrats met privately. So there was no word from Obama here about any of that.

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