ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger reports at Political Radar:
After coming under fire repeatedly for his connections with indicted Chicago slumlord Antoin "Tony'" Rezko, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., yesterday responded to the critics.
Following a speech on foreign policy to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Obama told print reporters that until recently, he was unaware Rezko was a slumlord."Should I have known these buildings were in a state of disrepair? My answer would be that it wasn't brought to my attention," the Chicago Sun-Times reported Obama said. "As far as I can tell, we were never contacted by Rezko tenants."
Read the rest at the link above. Sure, Barry, we believe you! Like Sgt. Schultz from Hogan's Heroes, you "see nutzing, know nutzing!"
Of course, Rezko was doing business right in the heart of Obama's Illinois Senate district, and his problems with the law were no secret by the time he and Obama worked their little property-swap deal. He might not have been indicted by then, but if Obama didn't know Rezko was under investigation he must have kept his head buried in the sand.
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