Marathon Pundit: Rezko flashback: Obama ducks reporters

I referred to this April 23, 2007 video a few days ago, in which NBC 5 Chicago's Carol Marin tries to get Barack Obama to talk about this Chicago Sun-Times story about the senator and his ties to indicted political insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

Obama was in Chicago that day for a speech in front of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and made Carol Marin, the stations's political editor, very unhappy. Which is bad for Obama, because a few months earlier in a Sun-Times op-ed, she was greatly looking forward to covering the great senator.

Now, it seems, time has chosen Obama as his clock ticks toward a January date with destiny. And no group of people is more excited than those of us who will cover the election. We like the fact that we knew him when. Long before folks in Iowa or New Hampshire stuck out their hands to press his flesh, we actually rubbed shoulders. He's our homey and we are his. As hometown press, we're wild about this story. A politician from Chicago tearing down a barrier of race. One of our own ready to make history.

In April, Marin redeemed herself with her her story on Obama. She was among the reporters who were awaiting Illinois' junior senator after his speech. But as Marin reported, "Obama's security detail altered his route out of the building so as to now to face reporters questions about this latest Rezko controversy."

Also in the video are shots of a couple of former Rezko buildings, that are "unlivable or boarded up," according to Marin.

And Obama is still "altering his route" to avoid fully answering questions about Rezko.

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