Show the photo - a picture is worth a thousand words.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/01/25/photo-surfaces-showing-sen-clinton-posing-with-chicago-landlord-rezko/

OOPS!

A photo, Dorning?! You're really fishing.

When there's a financial connection, be sure to let us know.

Say anything, change nothing.

"No, I don't," Clinton told Lauer. "You know, I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures.
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Wow, talk about drive-by. Was Rezko a known crook when that picture was taken? How many pictures are there of Abramoff and Bush? Oh yeah, we don't know, the white house refuses to release them.
Still can't top the picture of Rummy shaking hands with Saddam Hussein. How many times has NBC shown that photo? None I bet. Same with the entire right-wing media.

Clinton took a picture with him, Obama had a relationship.

Go Hillary!

Well Hillary and Bill...say what?

I just couldn't be more disappointed in Clinton and Obama. I was obviously naive in thinking that we could have an election where the candidates stayed focused on issues and not get into all this other b.s. Edwards is getting my vote in the primary.

This is rich! I was wondering how long it would be before Billary would get caught up in this. And, we all know these photos come with a price. How can anyone still fall for the Clinton lies?

The next step for some enterprising reporter is to dig out how much money, if any, that Rezko has donated to the Clintons in the past.

BUSTED!!

I pray every day that the people of this country remember that the Clintons are completly full of it. Another four years with them will only remind everyone what we dealt with in the 90's.

Imagine that! The Clintons associating with a slimy individual. What a shock!!

I'm no fan of Obama, but the next time Hillbillary attacks him for his associations, all he has to do is pull out a laundry list that starts with Whitewater and "currently" ends with that Chinese businessman who was recently arrested.

Yeah...she didnt know Peter Paul either....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019

So she took a photo, Obama had a relationship. BTW she looked very nice as a blond.

I am so happy this photo came out. I was a long time Clinton supporter. After I've seen the tactics they've used against Obama by distorting the truth and telling blatant lies, I will never support another Clinton again. Obama in 2008.

Hilary is such a liar. She's like the wind, today it blows North, tomorrow South. Today she's critizing Rezko, tomorrow its shown she's done business with him. Such a PHONEY!

I wonder how much Tony paid the Clintons funds to get that picture? You know it was not done for free!

Hillary Clinton is the worst opportunist. She is always guilty of whatever she accuses her opponents. She is so part of the old political establishment.

Well Hillary and Bill...say what?

So what?! Is everyone supposed to remember everyone they took a picture with...are there supposed to back ground checks before each photo...

This is what she gets for giving Obama flack about doing 5 hours of document review as an associate at a law firm on a case that happened to involve a Company owned by this guy.

I wonder if Obama even knew what the guy did. Obama was a law firm associate, which means he had zero control over the work he did and likely knew nothing about the background's of his firms' hundreds of clients.

The fact that Clinton keeps bringing this up makes me thing less and less of her. Be realistic, lady, and nail Obama on something substantive.

Say anything, change nothing...

Say all you want, Clinton campaign staffers. You opened this door. Now your candidate gets to be thrown through it. Maybe it would be better to just shut up about Tony Rezko. Obama's financial ties to Rezko do not extend beyond the home purchase/side yard issue, and there is not enough there for this to be a real issue, as troubling as some aspects of that deal were. The point is that since it's not evidence of wrongdoing, and as Obama has returned the campaign money, all you have is his association with the guy, and now we have Billary in a photo associating with him. Yes, they are associating with him. Not just anybody gets to be pictured with Billary. Don't duck it. Trying to tar Obama further on the Rezko issue will only tar you as well as Obama, and further damage the party's chances in November, though it's hard to imagine how much more damage you could do, going back all the way to when you wouldn't leave the White House so that we could run an incumbent in 2000.

Just keep on doing what you are doing -- you are hurting the party in the long term so that you may be nominated in the short term. And this is coming from someone who doesn't entirely trust Obama -- you guys are turning a lot of us off, in a way that is going to give the GOP nominee a leg up.

Your time is done, gone. Step away and let the party and the country move forward.

It certainly doesn't look good, but this still isn't a letter writing campaign and a sweetheart house deal like Obama got from Rezko.

It looks like one of those posed pictures at a democratic party event where someone like Blago or Obama would sell big donors a ticket to a dinner where they could "meet the president and first lady and get your picture taken with them."

Or maybe it's from one of those times that Bill and Hill rented out the Lincoln bedroom.

Typical left wing loon post, the Clinton's get caught with a thief and somehow the post turns into an attic on Bush. You idiots are something to behold.

Doh...

Hilarious. Only Hillary could have set herself up more idiotically than this with the over the top scripted attack on Obama during the debate.

I admit, this is hardly something worth knocking a candidate for and I imagine there ARE hundreds of thousands of photos of the Clintons with strangers, but this just adds to the embarassment of her campaign to date (which so far includes Obama's kindergarten essays, third-party attacks she orchestrates through others, DUIs for her campaign staffers, etc.).

I'd say this kind of makes her dramatic salvo during the debate a bit of a wash.

Let's gather our wits and please ensure she is not elected people...

A photo is not a 17-year relationship such as Obama's with Rezko. Did Rezko get the Clintons a discount on their home also? Any of Rezko's relatives get jobs with Clinton?

This means nothing.

And this means what?
Grabbing at straws come to mind.

Ha, Ha, you cant unring a bell, i can see the next obama ad, just showing this mages with is name under it, and a speaker saying "Nuff Said"

I have a few photos taken with her.

Looking at this photo, seems to me by the looks of Bill and Hillary that it was around the late 90's. Aren't there any baby photos you can come up with?

Hillary lying again. What a surprise

"Ha Ha" (in the tone of Nelson Muntz from 'The Simpsons')

Can we now bring up Norman Hsu? Whitewater? Monica? Or the fact that Hillary was a racist "Goldwater Girl" (even though she now lauds LBJ)?

Good Gravy People! America gets what it deserves when these are the type of candidates that we're given to choose from. I weep for the future.

If Hillary isn't embarrassed to be photographed with her husband, why should she have any shame about being in a picture with a slum lord?

If you live in a glass house don't throw stones. Can you say White Water & Hsu!

Not quite the political genius everyone thought she'd be, eh?

Typical Obama antics. Needs something to try and cause problems. His association with Rezko is well known. Trying to divert attention from that. How can someone in thier position know everyone they take a picture with. It must be several years old, look at Bill's hair it is still mostly dark. Come on y Obama you can do better than that!!!! the

Bottom line... "Bill-ary" is in the fight of her life in this campaign and she is grasping at any straw she can find. She was supposed to win this election in a landslide according to Democratic pundints. Not the case...

Also... "right-wing media" LOL... that's a laugh!!! I had no idea there is such a thing...

What goes around,comes around......serves her right.

Another evasion by the Clintons. They are slippery, aren't they?

I can't believe she would harp on Barrack's links to this guy, when she has many more links to questionable guys.

Guilt by association. It's a well-known political standard that, until recently, didn't apply to Sen. Obama. To find out that a picture exists of the Clintons with Rezko is less than shocking. I was surprised that the Clintons would even bring up Rezko and Obama's ties to Cook County, since any corruption charge they throw at Obama only boomerangs back 10 times on them. Funny stuff.

MJ, donors typically get to take their photo with the First Couple at fundraisers or "appreciation dinners". My parents have a similar photo with the 1st Bush prez & Barbara. No, I don't know that Rezko gave money to the Clintons, but knowing what we do of his many past contributions to various politicians, I would be surprised if he didn't give something.

Point is, she shouldn't be trying to throw that mud around.....it's ridiculous coming from her & Bill.

As long as we're pointing out hypocrisy...the comment that launched the "slumlord" discussion was Obama attacking Clinton on her being a corporate lawyer for Wal-Mart.

Obama's Wal-Mart cheap shot is especially interesting because Michelle "Pickles" Obama sat on the board of a food processing company that makes hundreds of millions of dollars off of Wal-Mart. Forgot that part, hey Obama?

While Pickles took home $50,000 a year plus stock options for showing up to a couple of meetings a year, the men and women on the pickle canning machine at Treehouse Foods make, what, $10 bucks an hour?

Obama is every bit as hypocritical as Clinton supposedly is, although I don't know whether Rezko got the Clintons a discount on their NY home like he did with Obama in Chicago.

Bruce Y, I take it you live in some loony left fantasy world too? That Rumsfeld-Hussein photo has been shown all over the media for years now. Anyway, when that photo was taken, Iraq was a quasi-ally of the U.S. against Iran. Maybe you are not old enough to know or maybe you're just plain ignorant, but from the time of the Iranian hostage crisis, the U.S. supported Iraq over Iran.

Anyway, while not one to defend the Queen B, to show some photo is rather ridiculous. Politicians get their pics taken all over the place and with people from all over the place. Look at all the photos at Harry Caray's of politicians, actors, news media taken there and elsewhere.
If there is a financial connection, then we have a story. This photo is not one.

A financial connection? Are you kidding ? How do you think you get those pictures ? A substantial donation to the Campaign or the DNC. That's how.

A better question to Clinton is what about Norman Hsu ? A convicted felon and fugitive at the time he was raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton, had his own Ponzi scheme going. Clinton even defended him at first before his fraudulent past was exposed. Rezko has been convicted of nothing, and just like Bill Clinton before his conviction for perjury in federal court, is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

Oh Bruce, "right-wing media," that's rich. Please tell me you don't actually believe the media is softer on Bush than any other liberal. Please tell me you don't really think the media is biased toward conservatives. Better stick to what you know best, specifically those things that don't involve truth and reality.

Uh, big deal. One picture doesn't mean anything. As a matter of fact, I have a picture of Bill Clinton and my developer-friend too, back from 199-something, when Bill wasn't a President yet. I bet Bill doesn't remember taking this picture either. Big deal. That was a nice try though to make Hillary look bad. They really are fishing...

Get real. I've taken photos with public figures who neither know my name or anything about me. If I turn out to be a crook are accountable. A photo that's at least eight years old does not equate to a 17-year, close, financial relationship.

Before Hillary mentioned Rezko, Swamp was perfectly content to never mention his name, even though Obama has had a long relationship with this crook. Rezko was one of his earliest backers and has raised tens of thousands of dollars for OBAMA HIMSELF - NOT THE DNC, Swamp. He built slums that housed those for whom Obama claimed to be a voice, and Obama even wrote letters of support enabling him to do so. He entered into a questionable real estate transaction with Obama (one which Obama his called boneheaded), and now Obama is lying about even knowing Rezko is under investigation at the time he had these dealings. Swamp was content to sweep all of that under the rug.

But then Hillary forced the issue out into the open after Obama sancitimoniously knocked her for serving on WalMart's Board. And now the best that Swamp and the MSM Obama apologists can uncover is a undated photo, one of thousands that politicians take all the time and a campaign contribution to the DNC, not even to Hillary OR BILL.

Post the many photos I'm sure exist of Rezko and the Obamas.

You know, even if Rezko had been a Clinton pal also, which he wasn't, that still does not detract from Obama's hypocritical "holier than thou" politics. After all, he's the one who's been canonized as great wonder who doesn't practice politics as usual, not the Clintons. If nothing else he should return his halo.

Ha! Love it. I'm so sick of the Clinton crooks - hopefully America will start to understand how slimy they truly are.

Bush/Clinton/a bunch of other presidents have taken photos with dictators (Saddam for example), are we to make assumptions about that too??

This is getting incredibly petty!!

Guess it doesn't pay to have your pic taken with anyone, it may come back to bite you in the butt. Being in politics, I suspect you meet many crooks and don't know it along the way.

Why is any of this crap newsworthy? Can we just focus on who has the best plan to get us de-clusterfrucked?

Oops. That's one for the books. It goes in there right next to the snap of Rummy shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.

I guess they say those who live in glass houses should not throw stones LOL! Its called getting power by and at all means and costs.

I did not have any relationshiop with that slumlord Tony Rezko!

Can america afford this Clintonian games again?

To poster Clarence Darrow who says "A better question to Clinton is what about Norman Hsu."

You mean the same Norman Hsu that Obama took money from? That Norman Hsu, right?

How about some real journalism...or at least put a date to the picture.
What kinda hack would do this?

while i love seeing the clintons clan eat their words... i am so tired of all of this name calling, bickering, arguing BS. can't we focus on the real issues we face as a nation?

How can the author claim that there is no evidence against Obama helping REzko. I would say using your influence as a Sen and writing a letter in order to help Rezko's co' receive $14,000,0000 is pretty strong evidence. Woudlnt you? Also somehow miraculously Obama paid $300,000 under the asking price for his home at the same time Rezko bought the adjoining property for over the asking price. I bet Dorning will write that off as a coincidence. Also I love Eric ZOrn claiming it is very common for people to pay under the asking price. However not mentioning that a $300,000 drop in price is not very normal. Clearly Dorning is an Obama supporter like most swamp writers and this is just a ploy to try and spin it into Obamas favor. IN reality however if you can prove that HIllary helped Rezko get gov business like Obama, how Hilary and Rezko had private real estate deals together like Obama did, and how Hillary expanded her land with the help of Rezko like obama. There is a huge diff between taking a pic with someoen and having a shady business relationship with someone who basically is your number 1 financial supporter. Obama is a cook county democrat in the worst sense of the word.

The sitting president of the United States and members of his administration lied more than 900 times to start a war. And this picture is news?

Despite these cheap shots in the media (where are the photos of Obama and Rezko?), Obama's "magic" aura is fading and being replaced by the reality of a smug, smirking con man.

Super Tuesday is the beginning of the end for Winnie the Poohbama.

Seriously, is the point of all this muckraking minutia to get the general populace so sick of politics that we lose interest in the democratic process itself? If so, it's working on me.

Oh look another 'fairy tale' and 'LBJ' fire! fire! call on the part of Obamamaniacs.

If this was in anyway done through the Obama camp, which is not important because their supporters will bring it up over and over again around the ether net, that "guilty by association" theme we are going with-, this is nothing but a petty way to flame the fires they always "want" to put out. Tony, Norman, Tony, Norman. It is a dead end street for the argument.

honestly... who really cares?

I was friends with a guy who dealt drugs 15 years ago in high school. I haven't seen him since so would any one care about that now? Probably not.

Get over this whole Rezco thing. It's not news. Nobody cares. It will affect nobody's vote.

Enough with the Clinton's and their games. Lets make some real progress and elect Obama.

Obama's election would ring in a new era of politicians and leaders. Clinton is part of the past and is owned by that past.

this is exactly why I don't want to see woman as U.S. president. politics is not the game, it's not a drama or show. it's a very delicate process.

Clinton modus operandi...if it's something that shines favorably on us we remember it....if it's something that shines unfavorably on us we don't remember it.

Looks like Obama called his pal Resko, and had him produce a souvenir picture with the Clintons on it.

I have a picture with Hillary too. Its photoshopped!

The Clintons, whether this photo is significant or not, fall right below pond scum on the evolutionary ladder. I would not want another 4 or 8 years under the leadership (if you can call it that) of either of these degenerate oportunists. If she gets elected, the only difference between her administration and his will be who gets laid in the White House and where!

How much money has Clinton gotten from Rezko?
Rezko is Obama`s baby. Nice try.

Hillary doesnt read the Bible, or maybe Bill didn't share it with her, for she thought she was without sin and through the first stone, not knowing it would come back to hit her.

this is exactly why I don't want to see woman as U.S. president. politics is not the game, it's not a drama or show. it's a very delicate process.

Posted by: constantine | January 25, 2008 12:48 PM

Wow...keep em on the farm..huh Constantine? If they went to work, you'ld die of starvation.

Clintons lying again. Hopefully America will get smart and kick these losers to the curb.

I think the story is backwards. Rezko is the one denying the relationship. He had no idea the Clintons were that corrupt when the picture was taken. He's since learned to distance himself from them.

vote ABC (Anyone But Clinton)

Hillary-ous!

The Swamp mentions every Obama endorsement including Ken Burns (who?) yet The New York Times endorses Clinton today and you run this meaningless photo instead. Nasty, inexcusable bias Swamp folks.

Do you think there will ever be a politician that says Oh yes, I remember that!"

hahaha! BACKFIRE!

Can't wait for the picture of Obama and Rezko.

HAHAHAHA

Well well well.....a leopard never change its spot...

Wait till Hillary becomes President then another episode of "Mr Lewinsky" (remember the cigar...) will show up !

There goes the Webster dictionary....as another new definition of "having sex" would be added.....

This photograph is meaning less. There is no context. Just because your photo is taken with Mick Jagger, does not mean your buddies.

A picture of her with Obama's personal crook? What watered down, mis-direction crap. Lets hear about all the money her and her rapist wanabe husband got from China in exchange for nuclear secrets. Maybe when he grows up, Obama will grow a pair and call her out on that in a debate.

Maybe the country will get lucky and the piles of cash and fear-mongering the Clintons use to control the media will stop being effective and they'll finally do their jobs as news reporters.

Maybe I'm just wishful thinking.

Am I the only one who remembers this is the exact same excuse President Bush used to explain away the photograph of him with Jack Abramoff? Come on, people. We know the truth. Bush knew/benefitted from Abramoff, and the Clintons knew and benefitted from Rezko and the contributions that his "slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago" allowed him to donate to the Democratic Party under the Clintons' leadership. What's good for the gander is good for the goose, Hillary.

I used to be a Hillary supporter and the thought of a woman President could change the American landscape (WAIT!) but the Clinton's tactics are typical American Foli-tics and belong in the decades of years gone by. The candidate who I have moved towards is Obama who seems to have the honesty to ask the American people what they want and the integrity to admit if he makes a mistake. Something Billary has never done. Obama 08

This is hillarious! The only dirt she can come up with against Obama and she's smiling like she just won the lottery standing next to Rezko. Just some random photo huh Hillary?? It's nice when dirty politics backfire. It's sad that in politics, it's not how good you are, it's how much can you discredit the next guy. We should all be better than this.

Seriously, the guy was in the middle of bith of them and she'll flay out deny this. I cant even believe ameircan people cant see through the Clintons. Its falt out agitating.

A big part of Obama’s contrived sainthood is that he is somehow "above" or "different" from the Washington establishment that is supposedly Clinton.

In reality, Obama very quickly wove his senatorship into the web of institutionalized influence-trading that afflicts official Washington. He quickly established a political machine funded and run by a standard Beltway group of lobbyists, P.R. consultants, and hangers-on.

For the staff post of policy director he hired Karen Kornbluh, a senior aide to Robert Rubin when the latter, as head of the Treasury Department under Bill Clinton, was a chief advocate for NAFTA and other free-trade policies that decimated the nation’s manufacturing sector (and the organized labor wing of the Democratic Party).

Obama’s top contributors are corporate law and lobbying firms (Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, where four attorneys are fund-raisers for Obama as well as donors), Wall Street financial houses (Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase), and big Chicago interests (Henry Crown and Company, an investment firm that has stakes in industries ranging from telecommunications to defense).

After being elected, Obama immediately established a “leadership PAC,” a vehicle through which a member of Congress can contribute to other politicians’ campaigns—and one that political reform groups generally view as a slush fund through which congressional leaders can evade campaign-finance rules while raising their own political profiles.

As John Kass said in the Chicago Tribune last week, "As we wait for Obama to transform our politics, let's hold our breath and see who turns purple first."

This photo is as meaningless as the photograph of John Wayne Gacy and Mrs. Carter taken in 1978.

To the few pathetic souls here who think that this tars the Clintons and/or clears Obama, I'm about to rain on your parade:

Obama has a very long financial relationship with Tony Rezko. Clinton doesn't.

And some folks here have conveniently forgotten that it was Obama who dragged this campaign into the sewer to begin with.

PS: There seems to be 2 very different "Jeffs" posting here.

I would think that real journalism would include at the very least:
1)What
2)Where
3)When

Seriously? Is this all the Obama camp can come up with? I have a picture with Hillary and I'm a Republican. She has no idea who I am much less who this Rezko guy is.

Face it Obama supporters. He isn't the golden boy you think he is. The only reason he doesn't have more scandals is because he hasn't been a national politician as long as the Clintons.

The Rezko deal is bad. Even my Democrat husband is willing to acknowledge it. Obama is no different than any other politician but he's somehow managed to snowjob a lot of Democrats into thinking he is.

Of course he took money from Rezko because it helped him get elected. And of course he did a deal with him to make money on his house. He's looking out for himself.

And of course his wife took a massive pay raise at the U of C after her husband became senator. They're politicians...this is what they do. To think otherwise is naive.

Hee hee hee. GAWD that is rich. And Soooooooo typical of Hilly. She's just so slick and so conniving, and....so FREAKING STUPID. She does it every time, hangs herself with her own B#%%$#*t. Anybody who would actually consider voting for her has got to have rocks in their head. Jeez what a BOOB!

Clinton supporters don't see the big deal. They can't believe it. Just like they don't believe voters in the general will remember the unseemly side of the Clinton Years. Just like they don't believe attacks on Obama are alienating half of the democratic party. Just like they don't believe the vote was for the war.Just like they don't believe people remember Hillary saying young people think "work" is a four-letter word.
The rest of us, meanwhile, can't believe what we're seeing.
Methinks Hillary needs a reality check.

". . .I did NOT have photos with that man!. . ."

I'm no fan of Hillary, but the reality is that a photo means only that they met.

My sister had her pic taken with Hillary at a function many years ago; I'm sure Hillary doesn't remember her at all.

Interesting photo, but it's no smoking gun.

Are you kidding me people? Do you know how many pictures politicians, athletes, entertainers, celebrities, etc. take with people they have no connection to?

It is so sad that Obama supporters can even make an arguement about this. Then again they do think by saying "present" you stand for something.

Maybe the Clintons didn't have a personal relationship~oops! with Mr. Rezko....but they certainly did with his money didn't they....

Now someone needs to dig up a photo of Obama shopping at Wal-Mart and they'll be all even.

How come no one at the swamp is writing about the fact that Obamas wife sat on the board of a company whos number 1 client was Wal Mart. If you are going to point out a fake hypocracy with the Clintons why not call Obama out on his. Oh thats right I forgot that would not coincide with your objevtive to get Obama elected. Obama is a fraud and is going to lose once they get to the other states. Unless every other stat