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newsweek.com - 10/26/2008
McCain Camp Ramps Up Attacks on Obama-Rezko Ties | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008
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The McCain campaign, frustrated over their inability to dent Barack Obama over his ties to radical Bill Ayers, is ramping up attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate's connections to convicted developer and political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko . A new video, just released by the ...
factcheck.org - 10/27/2008
Rezko Reality
— factcheck.org — On the defensive over the extent of multiple McCain homes, the GOP candidate strikes back. But his... TV spot gives an oversimplified and misleading account of how Obama bought his own $1.6 million house in Chicago. McCain launched the attack after Obama ... (more) Rezko Reality

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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 10/31/2008
McCain camp: 'Dead even' in Iowa
— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Mark Murray Despite public polling to the contrary, the McCain campaign claims... to be "dead even" in Iowa. "He has similar polling," Campaign Manager Rick Davis said of Obama during a conference call with ... (more) McCain camp: 'Dead even' in Iowa

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swamppolitics.com - 10/29/2008
McCain: Obama 'not ready'
— swamppolitics.com — by Mark Silva John McCain, outgunned by Barack Obama in television advertising, will attempt to counter the... Democrat's prime-time move tonight - a 30-minute campaign commercial airing on most networks - with a 30-second spot calling Obama "not ready'' to lead. "Behind the fancy ... (more) McCain: Obama 'not ready'

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Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:  Hugh Hewitt: Newsweek (and the U.S. Attorney) Finf The Obama-Rezko House Deal Interesting

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Hugh Hewitt: Newsweek (and the U.S. Attorney) Finf The Obama-Rezko House Deal Interesting
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — From Newsweek : Two years ago, the Chicago Tribune disclosed that Obama and Rezko purchased adjoining properties from a single seller on the same day in June 2005. The seller, Dr. Fredric Wondisford, now a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, had insisted that both properties close at the same time. Obama paid $1.3 million—$300,000 less than the original asking price—for the Georgian mansion on his property. Rezko paid nearly the full price, $625,000, for the vacant lot next door. Obama has acknowledged in several press interviews that he alerted Rezko to the ...

Hugh Hewitt: Newsweek (and the U.S. Attorney) Finf The Obama-Rezko House Deal Interesting
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — From Newsweek : Two years ago, the Chicago Tribune disclosed that Obama and Rezko purchased adjoining properties from a single seller on the same day in June 2005. The seller, Dr. Fredric Wondisford, now a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, had insisted that both properties close at the same time. Obama paid $1.3 million—$300,000 less than the original asking price—for the Georgian mansion on his property. Rezko paid nearly the full price, $625,000, for the vacant lot next door. Obama has acknowledged in several press interviews that he alerted Rezko to ...

Bill Dyer: The Rezko-Obama payoff reduced to one sentence
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... the full asking price. The seller effectively has to say that, because to make any contrary admission might subject him to potential criminal liability as a co-conspirator, along with Rezko and his wife, to the making of false statements on the federally guaranteed loan application paperwork in which Rezko's wife had to deny the existence of any side deals. (That would be an excellent reason for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to be subpoenaing those loan documents, as the new Isakoff article linked ...

McCain Sends Out Tony Rezko Mailer
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The Republican National Committee press office has been foreshadowing a final week effort to highlight Barack Obama's ties to indicted landlord and Chicago insider Tony Rezko, and mailers hammering that theme began arriving at homes over the weekend. ...

McCain Sends Out Tony Rezko Mailer
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The Republican National Committee press office has been foreshadowing a final week effort to highlight Barack Obama's ties to indicted landlord and Chicago insider Tony Rezko, and mailers hammering that theme began arriving at homes over the weekend. ...

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