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Barack Obama has offered himself to the electorate as the harbinger of “the new politics” throughout the Democratic race, and he’s poised to seal the deal in next Tuesday’s primaries. However, voters in Ohio and Texas would do well to tune into the corruption trial of one of Obama's longtime friends and supporters set to begin Monday in Chicago.
According to ABC News, “reform watchdogs say it {the trial} will reveal the ‘cesspool’ of Illinois politics in which Obama came of age and has said little about in his campaign for president.”
The report continues: "'We have a sick political culture,’ said Jay Stewart, the executive director of the Chicago Better Government Association, ‘and that's the environment that Barack Obama came from.'
“Stewart says he does not understand why Obama has lectured others about corruption in Washington and Kenya but ‘been noticeably silent on the issue of corruption here in his home state, including at this point, mostly Democratic politicians.'"
To read more of the ABC News report, go here:
Note:
Jeralyn at TalkLeft posted on Rezko's upcoming trial this past Tuesday:
"Let me start out by saying, as I have before, that I don't think Barack Obama did anything illegal in his dealings with Anton "Tony" Rezko. Obama has labeled his involvement with Rezko and his wife in the purchase of his home "boneheaded." In other words, since Rezko was under federal investigation by a grand jury at the time Obama bought the $1.65 million house, it was bad judgment, nothing more."
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