Maybe you Obamabots should email his campaign to get better talking points. If these are the best excuses you can come up with to explain your candidate's fear of debates, you're definitely losing the spin wars. Oh well, It's been fun running rings around you logically in this debate.

So don't try. Unlike your candidate, I am not afraid of this give and take.

Hey, burlydee, I plan to ignore you very easily. You can do the same, I trust.

Enjoy drowning your sorrows, dash_7. I understand you need to, given the cowardliness of your favored candidate.

Yes, I am very concerned about your candidate's fear of debates. You should be too. But I'm not a Republican--though what would it matter if I were? I thought Obama loved Republicans.

Like any cultists, they want to BAN you if you don't share their adoration for the demigod.

At least those Clinton supporters are identifiable. Isn't the Obama campaign paying you enough money to come up with a handle of your own?

setting up his sweetheart deal for the Chicago mansion? I'd sure like to read 'em!

Hey, Tony, I found this sweet castle on the South Side but I can't afford it.

No worries, Barack. We'll split the lot so you can buy the house. My wife'll buy the second lot. Do you need a fence?

Boy, you Obama folks are ridiculously paranoid. You seem to believe that the only reason anyone would dislike or attack your candidate is if Hillary were paying them. Well, I hate him for free!

She has joined the cult, drank the Koolaid, she's GONE.

Is that latest Anonymous an Obama plant? I think so!

You know the truth and the Chicago papers don't! Did Obama speak to you in a dream. "I am innocent of these charges, TRenne. Go forth and clear my good name." LOL.

I suggest that those who are interested in the facts go to Google and do a search for Obama Rezco and Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times. Then just read the coverage and judge for yourselves. Do not listen to the devoted acolytes who believe that the sun shines from Obama's posterior.

Here, read this earlier Salon piece:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/01/rezko/

This is what Obama knew (or should have known) when he entered into that "boneheaded" house deal with his bosom bud Rezko:

"Rezko also used his connections with the Ali camp to expand his fast-food holdings. After Washington was elected mayor, Jabir Herbert Muhammad's company, Crucial Concessions, won a contract to sell food and drinks at the Lake Michigan beaches. Rezko took over the company's operations. In 1997, Crucial opened two Panda Express Restaurants at O'Hare, under the city's minority set-aside program. It was stripped of those franchises in 2005, when investigators determined the company was a front for Rezko.

"In 1989, Rezko and a business partner founded Rezmar Inc., a real estate company that aimed to rehabilitate South Side apartment buildings. Partnering with community groups that could help them win government loans, Rezmar purchased 30 properties. At first, Rezmar had a golden reputation. But many of its tenants would have been better off in housing projects. During the winter of 1997, a Rezmar building was without heat for five weeks, until the city took the company to court. It was one of a dozen cases in which the city had to force Rezmar to turn on heat for its tenants. More than half of Rezmar's buildings went into foreclosure, and several have been boarded up. According to a Chicago Sun-Times investigation, Rezmar properties were 'riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.'

"Rezmar's work was done on the cheap, says a former employee who spoke to Salon on the condition of anonymity. But that was at the urging of the city of Chicago, which figured rehabbers could develop more units if they installed low-grade appliances and cabinetry. When boilers and refrigerators started to wear out after six or seven years, Rezmar hadn't banked enough money to fix them. Rezko's business partner, Daniel Mahru, oversaw the day-to-day maintenance. Rezko's job was to raise equity and cultivate politicians. But that doesn't excuse him from the 'slum landlord' tag."

Just the sort of guy you want to cozy up to, huh? So much for the judgment of Mr. "Right on Day One"!

Is Salon making up those facts about Rezko's background? Your blind devotion is cute, but it doesn't sit well with the actual facts. But who needs facts when you have a messiah?

At least not for most of them, just for the "claims." Interesting.... I guess the truth just comes to you--maybe via David Axelrod Talking Point memos?

I'm able to ignore you just fine. By the way, my candidate is ABO--Anyone But Obama!

They only want to hear happy, uplifting things about their demigod. To criticize him is "tactless," it's just "swill." This is the sort of blind devotional thinking that characterizes Bush supporters. It's sad.

If you lived in Chicago, it didn't take psychic powers to know this guy was shady. Worse, he gamed systems designed to help minority businesses and to assist low-income tenants. Doesn't Obama boast about his years as a community organizer? And he knew nothing about these blights on the community? Maybe he NEEDS psychic powers!

than Whitewater was when Bill Clinton ran for President. It is precisely the sort of thing that McCain will trot out to beat your candidate over the head with. But keep your head stuck in the sand. It feels better--more uplifting--that way.

in the Salon article. Should Obama have known or cared about Rezko's shady past dealings? Apparently, you think not. Maybe you should post a Claim/Truth essay on the Salon piece. Quick, get Axelrod on the speed dial!

Where's your name?