Rezko Trial: Will Daily Coverage Mark Doom for Obama?

[oasis]

When Court television and the Nancy Grace show start going full blast on the Rezko proceedings, a closer examination of the relationship between Rezko and Obama will take place.

Obama will have to take more than a few punches from the press.

After the media fractures Barack's "glass jaw" on this issue, will his poll numbers tumble?

[Medusa]

1. Hey--where are Hillary's Tax returns?

What about that $5 Million dollar check she cut her own campaign. Where did those funds come from? And oh yeah, what exactly is Bill's relationship with billionaire Ron Burkle and certain mideast countries?

[oasis]

14. Will there be a trial about it on national t.v.? C'mon now.

:eyes:

[Botany]

2. how about her Arkansas cattle deal

$10,000 became $100,000 in less than 1 month.

[oasis]

16. Hillary the "capitalist". How sexy is that?

:applause:

[anonymous171]

3. Hillary will get her turn from the MSM

As I have said before, Rezko is child's play compared to all of Clinton's dubious deeds.

[SteppingRazor]

4. I think it's a huge assumption that he has a glass jaw on the issue.

This strikes me as exactly the sort of tempest-in-a-teapot scandal that eventually leaves reporters writing about the candidate involved in it as "coated in teflon."

[oasis]

10. If Obama storms away from reporters as he did on NAFTA-gate, then

we'll have a better idea on the makeup of his "jaw".

[tabatha]

15. I saw that video - and I saw no stormning out.

I saw someone laughingly say, hey guys, I have to go.

[MNDemNY]

45. OK, ducking out, then.

[MNDemNY]

44. C'mon, he answered, like, 8 questions.

[AndyA]

5. If Obama truly wants transparency in government, as he says he does,

he needs to sit down with the media and clear up the Rezko thing for once and for all.

He needs to submit his income taxes.

He's said he wants C-Span to cover things so people can see their government in action.

Barack needs to do the RESPONSIBLE, INTELLIGENT thing at this point and deal with Rezko for once and for all. He has failed miserably so far to effectively address this.

And while he's being transparent, he should deal with his endorsement of Donnie McClurkin, and explain why he gave him the opportunity to insult gay people. So much for equality for all.

Barack needs to DO as he SAYS - FOR A CHANGE.

[tabatha]

18. Do you understand trials?

Do you know that discovery is done before a trial even starts.
If there was anything on Obama, he would be part of the trial.
He is not.
There is nothing on him.

[AndyA]

22. So far.

Trials have a way of provided surprises sometimes.

If there were nothing there, the story would have died a long time ago. Barack would have successfully shut it down, by providing whatever he needed to do so.

The ties between the Obamas and the Rezkos are long and deep.

There is more there than we know.

[oasis]

49. Do you understand guilt by association? And what if the question of a pardon should arise?

:wow: Don't even want to go there.

[paulk]

6. yes.

and better now than later, if he's the nominee...

[angie_love]

7. I highly doubt it. the MSM will turn on Hillary again now that shes won OH and TX

[MoonRiver]

8. oasis,

Do you know if Court T.V. is covering Rezko? I'm thinking we should have a daily thread talking about the trial.

[RBInMaine]

17. This is what you have to stoop to???

Rezco issue has been vetted and NOTHING shown to have occurred illegally. You are playing a card that will bit your candidate's ass: i.e. Norman Hsu, tax returns, White House records, shady cattle deal, Mark Rich, Vince Foster, Whitewater, Rose Law Firm of crooks, Walmart board, ...

[MoonRiver]

20. Sorry you're so opposed to the truth about BO coming out.

Fact is, everything regarding Rezko WILL be vetted. Much better for it to happen before he gets the nomination than after. Wouldn't you agree to that?

And go ahead and vet everything you have on Clinton. Nobody's stopping you. Problem (for you) is, the Rethugs have vetted her and Bill for the last 16 years, and nothing sticks.

[RBInMaine]

27. Horsecrap. Rezco is on trial, not Obama. Not anyone else.

Kindly use your common sense if not your intelligence. Who is on trial here? Who has been investigated and charged with something? NOT Obama or anyone else. Do you know anything about the criminal justic system? Um don't you think that perhaps the United States Government would have already investigated and charged others if others had been involved in anything illegal?? Don't you know that trials of particular individuals DO NOT "bring out" evidence against others not associated with the trial. They try the evidence against the person on trial. (Trust me, with degrees in the field a llllllong professional law enforcement background I know just a few things about the criminal justice system.) So please stop your Hollywood thinking and come into some kind of reality. And I'm not alleging that Hillary has done anything "illegal" either. But if ETHICS and CHARACTER are the issues, then please DEFEND all the crap that I've mentioned as well as her gladly taking more corporate lobbyist money than most Republicans. If ethics is the issue, then your establishment candidate has enough ethics skeletons to fill a graveyard.

[MoonRiver]

31. What are you so afraid of then?

If there's nothing there, why not have a daily thread talking about what's going on in the Rezko trial?

[aquart]

53. Vince Foster????? My god, you're serious.

You're willing to use any lying slander you can find against Hillary Clinton. Forgetting that the American public tossed it in the trash years ago.

And you are right, there is no EVIDENCE to prove that a deal that smells in every possible way is as crooked as it looks. The quid pro quo evidence is lacking. As in, Obama got lucky because Rezko got pinched.

But it showed me that Obama will look us in the eye and lie with perfect and transcendent sincerity. So I know enough not to trust him. You, sadly, don't.

[oasis]

19. I'm not sure if it will be televised, but they will surely have reporters out

front giving the American public blow-by-blow coverage of the proceedings.

Were it not for Obama's rock-star status, the trial would probably be buried on page sixteen of the daily newspaper.

[MoonRiver]

23. I guess they're still in the jury selection state.

But the fun should begin long before Pennsylvania.

[oasis]

36. The super delegates will hold until they see what damage is done to Obama

by revelations from the trial.

[Bullet1987]

9. Unless something showing Obama did something wrong comes out

I don't think the Rezko trial will mean much. So fucking what...he knew the guy. How many scumlords does Hillary and Bill know? I'm sure MANY more than Obama!!

[oasis]

30. "So what"???. You'll find out "what" when all you hear is "Rezko" coming from

the MSM.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. DOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

12. How long will the trial last?

A couple weeks most? And what will come out about Obama? Likely nothing. It will be over way before PA and will mena nothing.

[oasis]

24. Still picking the jury. Obama's "rock star" appeal has elevated it to national

attention. That's going to stretch the process.

[Renew Deal]

25. If this is all you got

You better start looking for something else.

[oasis]

28. That's what someone told me about NAFTA-gate, and then,oops

Texas and Ohio went Hillary.

[Renew Deal]

32. And the nafta story was debunked by the canadians

And Hillary didn't gain anything overall. Keep dreaming.

[oasis]

34. and then the "debunk" got debunked. So back to square one. (eom)

[Hepburn]

13. Take a clue......

...it is NO longer CTV and that pig Nancy Graceless has not been doing trial commentary for them for a very long time.

Sheesh.....:eyes:

[rox63]

21. There is no more Court TV

It turned into TruTV a few months ago, and they don't do many court-related programs any more.

And I checked the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times web site this morning, and there was nothing about the Rezko trial there, let alone anything about Obama's relationship with Rezko. If it was going to be anywhere, it would be there.

[oasis]

26. Don't need actual "Court TV". Daily coverage by reporters outside of the court

will be enough to raise more questions about the Obama/Rezko relationship.

[casus belli]

29. If anything, it exonerates him.

Also, it will show that this guy had dealings with many, many people - showing that Obama was just one of hundreds (if not thousands) of people who had wound up in business deals with the guy.

[oasis]

33. After America examines how Obama got to be Rezko's neighbor, those

other dealings with "many, many people" won't matter much.

[casus belli]

38. You presume to know quite a bit

about how America will perceive the results, and it sounds as if you've already decided what those resuts are, so I'm not sure why we're even having this discussion.

[oasis]

39. "Experience". I base most of my opinions on life experience, and one other thing

"common sense".;-)

[casus belli]

41. Experience is fine...

but you can't say there's something there, until there's a there there. We don't need a primary Whitewater that drags one of our candidate's names through the mud only to come up with the legit purchase of a home and a 7-foot wide section of a parcel of land.

[oasis]

46. I have no control over what the media makes of this, or the perception created by

the relationship between Obama and Rezko.

However, I can make the prediction that it won't be pretty.

[Metta]

35. Patrick Fitzgerald already exhonerated Obama. Get with the program.

:hi:

[oasis]

37. Unfortunately for Obama, "Fitz" is not the court of public opinion.

:-(

[Straight Shooter]

47. I don't believe he "exonerated" him. I think he merely issued a standard disclaimer.

Par for the course. :)

[aquart]

52. And just how did he do that?

[CyberPieHole]

40. We can all only pray and hope that Rezko brings his buddy Obama down with him...

Regardless, Rezko/Obama are tied together. The MSM is watching and reporting the story. It's not looking good for Obama. And for THAT, I am glad.:evilgrin:

:kick: and rec

[ProSense]

42. Idiotic and pathetic.

Only someone on mind-altering drugs would actually believe the Rezko trial has anything to do with Obama.


Edited to add: Oops, it may also be a sign of desperation because Hillary's campaign is pushing the story.

[oasis]

50. All of America will be on "mind-altering drug's" before the highly publicized trial

is over. After the story of Obama's association with this crook becomes widespread, it is sure to torpedo his campaign.

[NJmaverick]

43. Did White Water spell doom for the Clintons?

[oasis]

48. If a highly publisied trial was being conducted simultaneously with Bill's primary run,

can you imagine what the results would be?

[aquart]

51. Nah. His supporters have already discounted it.

If he becomes the Democratic candidate, the Democrats will discount it. (Doesn't mean it's not true, however. Just remember that.)

Since the only choice would be Obama or McCain at that point, America will discount it, because nobody wants a Republican in charge when the banks are failing.

So I'd say he's free and clear...unless Rezko makes a deal, but then, he'd have to have a blue dress, wouldn't he?

[anigbrowl]

54. Keep trying...

Just keep an eye out for witness Myron Cherry.

[oasis]

55. Will President Obama pardon Rezko? Inquiring minds want to know.

;-)