Obama's Revko problem

John Kass:

There was some buzz about it, but it wasn't really a gotcha photo, and it really doesn't help Barack Obama, that photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton sandwiching indicted political fixer Tony Rezko at some forgotten fundraiser.

Billary were like two icy slices of white political bread, and Rezko stood between them like meat. All the Clintons probably knew of Rezko was what they could feel coming through his palms pressed against their backs: some ambitious somebody ready to make some moves.

That won't hurt Hillary. And she's probably got some other images in mind -- either real photos or word pictures -- about Rezko and Obama that she'll probably drop on the way to Super Tuesday.

One image will surely involve the dream house that Rezko helped the Obamas buy. And another involves Rezko himself, about to stand federal trial in a huge political corruption case involving not only Democrats, but old bull Republicans in Illinois, with Rezko passing through the metal detectors in the federal courthouse.

Those are the images Obama must concern himself with. The Rezko-Clinton photograph wasn't much.

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Actually Hillary has her own skeletons to worry about. Remember Whitewater, cattle futures and more recently Norman Hsu who used her campaign as a prop in a scheme to defraud. The Revko photo could join several others where people who belong on the Post Office wanted board were pictured with the Clintons. It would make an interesting collage. It helps explain the Democrats recent fund raising advantage also.

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