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The Media's "Almost Willful" Fantasy That Obama Is Untouched By Chicago CorruptionJohn Fund: What remains to be seen is whether this episode will put an end to what Chicago Tribune political columnist John Kass calls the national media's "almost willful" fantasy that Mr. Obama and Chicago's political culture have little to do with each other. Mr. Kass notes that the media devoted a lot more time and energy to investigating the inner workings of Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska, than it has looking at Mr. Obama's Chicago connections. As Fund notes, Obama did rouse himself to speak out forcefully against government corruption... in Kenya. Bear in mind, of course, Sarah Palin was a moron for taking on the less-spectacularly corrupt Alaskan political machine. See, if she had been as brilliant as Obama, she wouldn't have needed to respond with crude measures like fighting corruption and defeating corrupt politicians; she could have employed nuance and smarts to finesse around it, and even profit from it. Whew. We really dodged a bullet there. Rezko Singing About Blago; Feds Looking Into Rezko-Obama Land Deal: More good stuff. In case you don't know the details by now: Obama wanted to buy a property a fair bit out of his league. The owner insisted that that property and the adjoining lot be sold on the same day. Obama could barely afford the one, let alone the lot. So Rezko came in to buy the empty lot, which he sweetly never did anything with, giving Obama effectively the entire two-lot parcel for his own use. But even better -- Rezko "grossly overpaid" for his empty lot, leading to suspicions the owner charged Obama less for his property only because Rezko was willing to overpay for his by about $300,000. Allowing Obama to underpay by about the same $300,000. The real estate specialist, Kenneth J. Conner, said bank officials replaced an appraisal review he prepared on the property and FBI agents were investigating in late 2007 whether the Rezko-Obama deal was proper. The bank officer, I believe, was fired. And as if it couldn't get any worse, Obama got a sweetheart mortgage deal. He won't say from whom, but it's widely believed he got the mortgage from the mob-connected Broadway Bank, controlled by political patrons of both Rezko and Obama.
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