and the kitchen sink

desperate times calls for desperate measures and hillary is desperate.

The Clinton campaign has helpfully brought the Tony Rezko trial back into the spotlight by reminding people that he was a fundraiser for Barack Obama. Does she just hope no one will remember that she once posed for a photo with him and her husband? Her defense is that she posed for lots of photos with lots of people. True, but not just anyone gets a photo with the Clintons, they get their photo taken with them because they helped them with something in one way or another. It wasn't 'free photo hour' at the Whitehouse and Tony Rezko just happened to show up.



Her campaign is also claiming that Barack Obama's campaign has let the Canadian Embassy know that his 'hard on NAFTA' talk is just talk and that he's willing to work with them. Isn't that convenient, coming from the people who helped initiate NAFTA in the first place. The Canadian Embassy has stated repeatedly that nothing of the sort happened. It isn't exactly unusual for senators or candidates and their campaign staff to meet with our neighboring country.
Hillary, on the other hand, has a record of supporting NAFTA
During Clinton's 1996 visit to Texas, United Press International reported that she "touted the president's support for NAFTA." In her memoir, Clinton trumpeted her husband's "successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA." The Buffalo News reports that in 1998 she "praised corporations for mounting 'a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA.' " And last year, her lead Wall Street fundraiser told reporters that Clinton remains "committed" to NAFTA's "free" trade structure.

She's lucky that Obama hasn't bothered to bring her skeletons out of the closet with the ferocity that her campaign has waged against him. If this is all she can drum up, he just looks better and better. I don't mind bringing up some of her skeletons though: Whitewater Scandal - if she thinks the Rezko real estate issue with Obama is worth mentioning, what about her real estate controversy?
Hillary also has a fundraiser who has gotten into legal trouble, Norman Hsu, an apparel manufacturer who, as of last September, had outstanding warrant for his arrest stemming from a 15-year-old felony theft conviction. (he also donated to Obama's senate campaign)