Quote Originally Posted by ElectricBadger View Post
As for purchasing property, it was clearly a favor from one friend to another. If I had as much money as Razko, would I buy a property I could resell later for profit to make a situation easier for a friend? Certainly. Even if I were squeaky clean ethically, which Obama (by all reports) had no reason to doubt Razko was.
A $500,000+ favor to a politician from a slumlord doesn't make you at all suspicious?

And he did have reason to doubt Rezko was "squeaky clean", saying, in fact, that he was "bone headed" to enter the deal when it had been reported that Rezko was under grand jury investigation. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,1468124.story)

The "profit" came from selling it to their own attorney for "development", despite the fact that the property's too small to build anything on? There are only three possibilities there -- the attorney's "development company" is run by idiots, was bilked by the Rezkos or is in on a deal to make Obama look better -- which does Occam's Razor support?

Also, the reported "profit" doesn't include taxes and other expenses over the years.

The purchase of ten feet of the the Rezko property and putting up a fence only occurred a few months before Rezko was indicted.

Until that fence went up Obama mowed the freakin' lawn on that property. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,1468124.story)

A politician gets this kind of "favor" from someone convicted of influence-peddling and it doesn't make you suspicious? It doesn't make you concerned about, at least, his judgment in doing so?