Although you did appear in front of the the Chicago Tribune editorial board, in private, about your Rezko dealings in late 2006, I think the people of Illinois, and the nation, deserve more.
How I do not think you should handle it? Well, not in the audacious manner you chose last spring.
From an April 23, 2007 Chicago Sun-Times article:
The Sun-Times first sought to interview Sen. Barack Obama on March 14 about indicted businessman and longtime supporter Antoin "Tony" Rezko and a series of troubled low-income housing deals involving Rezko's company, Rezmar Corp. Obama's staff asked for written questions. It responded Sunday but left many questions unanswered and didn't directly address some other questions.
What follows are the Sun-Times' questions, asked in the preliminary stages of the newspaper's investigation, and the answers received in an e-mail from Robert Gibbs, communications director for the senator's presidential campaign...
C'mon senator...appear on TV, live, and discuss Rezko and Rezmar. You, not Gibbs. No questions supplied in advance.
The Fox News Channel would be an ideal forum, but since you're boycotting it, Tim Russert's "Meet The Press" program would serve nicely as well.
If you can't handle a little media grilling, then how are you going to cope with Vladimir Putin or Hugo Chavez when if you're president?
UPDATE January 18: On November 5, 2006, Senator Obama answered a lot of questions from two Chicago Sun-Times reporters.
Here is my question? "Was the "Rezko lot" a loan to you for a house that you couldn't afford?"
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