Rezko is talking but not about Obama

You know the right wingosphere is going bonkers over the intimation that there may be anything with which to "take down" Barack Obama.

They don't have a viable candidate.

Their VP has been described as a joke and a cancer to the Republican Party.

Some either think Sarah Palin is a dangerous mistake.

So what to the right wingers do? Either incite to racist violence against Obama or try to smear him through the Rezko corruption investigation. Even if the real fall guy looks to be Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich :

Jailed political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who helped launch Barack Obama on his political career, is whispering secrets to federal prosecutors about corruption in Illinois and the political fallout could be explosive.

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose administration faces multiple federal investigations over how it handed out jobs and money with advice from Rezko, is considered the most vulnerable.

Rezko also was friendly with Obama — offering him a job when he finished law school, funding his earliest political campaigns and purchasing a lot next to his house. But based on the known facts, charges so far and testimony at Rezko's trial, there's no indication there'll be a so-called "October surprise" that could hurt the Democratic presidential nominee — even though Rezko says prosecutors are pressing him for dirt about Obama.

"I think this strikes fear into the Blagojevich administration and the Statehouse Democrats but not into the Obama campaign," says state Sen. Kirk Dillard, R-Westmont, a John McCain delegate to the GOP convention but an old friend of Obama.

Note that the guy defending Obama is ... ahem ... a republican. A fact the wingnutters will most certainly obviate.

After all, what they want is blood.

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