Marathon Pundit: Obama makes Newsweek cover again, but the issue is a Rezko free zone

Barack Obama's biggest obstacle in winning the Democratic nomination for the presidency is the cloud hanging over his head of known as Tony Rezko. He's the indicted Democratic political insider who was not only one of Obama's earliest supporters, through his wife Rita, a onetime property neighbor of the senator in a bizarre real estate deal done for most likely one reason: It allowed the Obama family to afford the South Side Chicago mansion they now live in. The transaction took place in 2005, when it was common knowledge in Illinois that Tony Rezko was under federal investigation on various corruption charges.

The latest Newsweek not only put Obama's famous mug on its cover again, on its web site in includes a couple of long articles, one here, the other, an interview, here.

Newsweek's Richard Wolffe and Daren Briscoe were the reporters who wrote the Obama articles, and I'm curious as two why the latest Newsweek is a "Rezko free zone."

For you who think I've succumbed to cyncicism, Rezko is not old news.

Here are some June Marathon Pundit posts about Obama and Rezko:

Obama gives up donation from man with Rezko ties

Obama donates more Rezko tainted donations to charity

Obama's letters for Rezko show favors

Rezko cash three times what Obama claims

Chicago Tribune catches up to Marathon Pundit

Obama ditching more Rezko linked cash, but what about Hillary?

Oh, the reporters touch on a controversial topic, Obama's last minute dumping of his pastor from giving the invocation at his February presidential announcement, but that's it.

Curiously, Obamas 2004 Senate campaign trip to impoverished Cairo, Illinois plays a role in one of the articles.

Here's my take on Obama and Cairo from earlier this year:

Obama and the Laborers' Union Ed Smith

Do your jobs, Richard Wolffe and Daren Briscoe. Ask the right questions.

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