In 1992, it was "bimbo eruptions" the the Bill Clinton campaign feared.
A decade and a half later, Barack Obama has to fear "Rezko eruptions."
I'm pretty sure that Obama's business involvement with the recently indicted Democratic business began and ended with the complicated 2005 property deal involving a small piece of land next to the senator's $1.65 million mansion on Chicago's South Side. If there were other Rezko-Obama business dealings, I think someone would've uncovered it by now.
Still, Rezko was a very early Obama supporter, he first met the future senator while he was a Harvard law student.
But Rezko, who was the driving force behind what US Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called "pay-to-play scheme on steroids," will continue to make news as the media--and the federal government--continue to mine more mud on Rezko.
And today, the Chicago Sun-Times reports that a Rezko firm was hired to renovate his Chicago's house.
Which is bad news for Obama. Every few weeks or so there will be one--or maybe more---Tony Rezko eruptions that will remind polital junkies of Obama's Rezko ties.
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