Letters to the Editor
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I expect better than this
Joe writes:
So far, as the trial of his former patron Antoin Rezko unfolds, nobody has even suggested that Obama did anything illegal or unethical to advance his relationship with the indicted Chicago developer. Yet many questions are still unanswered about that relationship, which included well over a hundred thousand dollars in political contributions and simultaneous real estate purchases that concluded three years ago with the Obama family owning a South Side mansion (and the Rezko family owning an adjacent lot that enlarged their celebrated neighbor's yard space).
I'm somewhat surprised by the duplicity in this pair of sentences. And then there's the fact that the first sentence is clearly false - people other than just Joe Conason are suggesting that Obama has some wrongdoing here to account for. Indeed, if they weren't, Conason wouldn't be writing an article telling Obama to respond to them.
If Conason has something specific, not just a few innuendo-ridden references to ways in which Rezko might have helped Obama, perhaps he should help the democratic process along a little and make them, and I mean make specific allegations that, if true, clearly show wrongdoing on the part of Barack Obama. Because from where I look, the very first paragraph of this article looks like an attempt to push Whitewaterish smears like those that the Clintons had to suffer for most of Bill's presidency.
Unless those specific allegations are made, rather than the "suggestions" that Conason is at once claiming nobody is making, and repeating himself, what, exactly, is Obama supposed to be answering?