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Re: Why is Barack Obama considered anything special?
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Originally Posted by Steve
I love how unproven accusations are, so often, all right-wing freaks need...
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(shrug) These are not unproven allegations. He bought a property for 300K less than market value with the help of recently indicted Tony Rezko.
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Rezko’s wife Rita paid $625,000, the list price, for an adjacent empty lot the Rezkos may develop.
The deals closed the same day because the seller insisted both parcels be sold at the same time.
When the deals went down, Rezko — who befriended Obama when he was a nobody Harvard law student — was already cast in news stories as a controversial figure and political fundraiser.
By January 2006, when Obama bought a strip of Rezko’s yard, Rezko’s status was elevated to politically radioactive, since it was known he was under investigation by federal prosecutors.
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Obama, in a written reply to questions submitted to him from the Sun-Times about Rezko last week, said he made a mistake and “I regret it.”
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Why would Obama regret making a land deal if everything was on the up and up? Looks like your new hero has feet of clay........Oh my!
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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008
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