Oh my, from the article about Rezko's arrest:

[ProSense]

Earlier this month, Obama gave to charity more than $40,000 in past political contributions from seven individuals with ties to Rezko. The decision to donate the money contributed to Obama's House and Senate campaigns — but not his current presidential bid — came after a published report that Obama is the unnamed "political candidate" in one paragraph of a 78-page prosecution document that outlines the case against Rezko.

Obama also has had to answer questions about how Rezko became involved in the purchase of the Obama family home as well as other ties to Rezko that go back more than 15 years.

Obama has been accused of no wrongdoing involving Rezko or anyone else.

Rezko also has been one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's leading fundraisers.

link

This is from Hillary's cmpaign site:

Fact Check: Sen. Obama Claims 'Nobody Had An Inkling' About Rezko

Oh, Hillary:

Obama comes clean, but Hillary's sleaze machine thrives

[jlake]

1. You are right. This is getting VERY serious very fast.

[babylonsister]

2. Rec'd and bookmarked. Read it and weep, you people throwing lies and

insinuations around.

[saracat]

3. This is a bit cherry picked. I read this as Obama wasn't forthcoming with Stephanopolous

regarding contributions.And why is that? How hard could it have been to connect Rezko's wife to rezko when they were cleaning out the contributions? And it appears there "Were " Presidential campaign contributions as well!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4203278&page=1
By AVNI PATEL
Jan. 28, 2008
Font Size

E-mail
Print
Share
Despite claims over the weekend from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama that his campaign had given away all the donations connected to accused fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the campaign has not returned more than $100,000 in donations from Rezko's wife and 20 other Rezko-linked donors, according to an ABCNews.com review.

Related Stories
Political Fixer Rezko ArrestedHow Much Did an Accused Political Fixer Raise for Obama?Obama's 17-Year Relationship With Alleged FixerWhat Did Obama Know? When Did He Know It?The Rezko Connection: Obama's Achilles Heel?Top Blotter stories
Obama 'Backer' Rezko Ordered to JailMore Dangerous Than Osama Blackwater Sues Own Lawyers in Death Suit
"What we've done is we've traced any funds that we know of that we think were connected to him," said Obama during an appearance on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos. "And if there any other funds that were connected to him that we're not aware of, then we will certainly return them. It is in our interest to do so."

On Friday, campaign spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the ABC News findings and others from the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Sun-Times, stating "we think they are casting a wide net and overestimating."

The campaign has donated to charity more than $85,000 of Rezko-linked contributions since Rezko was indicted on federal fraud charges in the fall of 2006. Burton said the campaign's best estimate of what Rezko has raised is $60,000, including contributions from a fundraiser Rezko held for Obama in 2003, but acknowledges that it does not have an exact record of what Rezko raised. "We review our donations, and where there are questions, we make decisions about donating to charity those which, in the circumstances, do not seem appropriate to retain," said Burton.

The Obama campaign statements have left some campaign finance watchdogs perplexed. "I don't understand why they didn't do a top-to-bottom audit and divest themselves of these funds," said Cynthia Canary of the Illionois Campaign for Political Reform.


Obama Kept Contributions From Accused Fixer's Wife And Others
12Next
| Read All 35 Comments and Post Your Own

[ProSense]

4. Saying "cherry picked" and introducing an article about returning money is disingenuous!

It changes nothing stated in the OP.

[saracat]

6. Opps I misread the first sentence. I thought it was saying Rezko did NOT contribute

to Obama's presidential bid but in fact it only says Obama chose to return ONLY the money from the state Senate Campaigns But this doesn not change the fact that Obama told Stephanopulous that he would clean out his Rezco Presidential Campaign contributions and did not do so.Why did he do that? I truly don't get it? Why is he keeping that money?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Breaking: Walmart still selling Nazi T-Shirts!

http://consumerist.com/348776/walmart-nazi-tshirt-watch-week-62

ZOMG!

[Vinca]

7. "Obama has been accused of no wrong doing . . ."

Who else here understands the English language?