Obama: "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew"

Obama's longtime buddy and campaign financer, Tony Rezko of Chicago, was convicted on 16 out of 24 corruption counts by a federal jury this week.

On Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that he was "saddened by today's verdict" and that "this isn't the Tony Rezko I knew."

Not the man you knew, Obama? That sounds familiar. Let's flashback.

"The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago," Obama said a day after Reverend Jeremiah Wright strutted his stuff for the National Press Club.

Obama attended Wright's church for twenty years and the man baptized his children. Rezko has thrown fundraisers for Obama and even helped him buy his family's home.

Obama's declarations beg the question-who does Obama know? The next thing you know, he will have the same excuse for Michelle Obama.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezko-verdict-web,0,2256058.story?track=rss, http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/29/transcript-obama-press-conference-on-jeremiah-wright/