The conservative Chicago Tribune on Obama and Rezko

[gabeana]

http://kos.dailykos.com/


The whole diary is pretty good
but I like the end best


Meanwhile, in Iowa Saturday, Clinton lost a delegate while Obama picked up nine of them in the state's county conventions. In Oregon, the state AFSCME broke with the national organization (which endorsed Clinton) and endorsed Obama for its primary. The party's activists continue to move in large numbers toward Obama while Nancy Pelosi has essentially cast her lot with Obama. Clinton supporters are increasingly paranoid as the walls close in on their candidate's campaign, but it's essentially over. They may rail against Pelosi, or the media, or Howard Dean, or Keith Olbermann, or Daily Kos, or whatever and whoever. But what they are seeing is a consolidation of the party around the primary's winner, and that is already Barack Obama whether the Clinton campaign and her shrinking number of supporters wants to acknowledge it or not

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The Chicago Tribune has never endorsed a Democrat for president in its history. Its editorial board had every partisan reason to try and further damage Obama on the issue. Instead, it has essentially exonerated him. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Sun-Times follow suit in the next couple of days, but that would be expected. The Chicago Tribune doing so is startling.

And for those keeping score of the Clinton and Obama campaign's shadiest donors, the Tribune's blog has a scorecard:

Norman Hsu Tony Rezko
Job Apparel Sales Developer

Real Job Mover, shaker Fixer

Donations $850,000 $250,000

Whoops Fugitive in 1992 Alleged
fraud case pay-to-player who
extorted cash for
access

Status In jail facing on trial
federal charges after
being caught fleeing
on Amtrak train

[Rageneau]

1. The Chicago Tribune endorsed Obama back in January. They are on his team.

Conservative doesn't always mean anti-Democrat. Often it just means anti-Clinton.

In addition to being pro-Obama, the Chi Tri is also virulently anti-Clinton, like most of the corporate media.

[The Wielding Truth]

2. Very astute. They are attacking the front runner.

:kick: :applause:

We need to circle our wagons around Obama and let Hillary expose that selfserving McCain.