I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.
Oh, Hillary. We’ve been over this. Once more, with feeling, then?
Obama worked for a charity group that partnered with Rezko. He did 5 hours of work for them as an associate, which means his bosses told him to do this here job.
William Miceli, Obama’s supervisor at the law firm, said the firm represented the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., a nonprofit group that redeveloped a run-down property on Chicago’s South Side with Rezko. He called Clinton’s assertion that Obama represented Rezko in a slum landlord business ‘categorically untrue. He was a very junior lawyer at the time, who was given responsibility for basic due diligence, document review,’ said Miceli, adding that Obama did what he was told by the firm.
And he did nothing for Rezko while a state senator
And a Tribune review of land and court documents and law firm files as well as correspondence and other records related to Obama’s eight years as an Illinois state lawmaker supports his contention that he did not directly represent Rezko’s development firm. Instead, the records show, he represented non-profit community groups that partnered with Rezko’s firm.
Oh… hey, who’s this guy in the middle? That wouldn’t be Tony Rezko, would it?
I don’t know the man. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door. I don’t have a 17-year relationship with him.
No doubt Senator Clinton had her picture taken with lots of people while serving as both First Lady and as a Senator. Perhaps she should keep that in mind the next time she wants to create the idea that merely associating with someone equals corruption.
