Barack Obama’s biggest campaign contributor as he climbed the political ladder in Chicago was Tony Rezko. New files recently released after Rezko’s conviction for corruption tells us that “(T)he Illinois senator was the recipient of “straw” campaign contributions made by others on behalf of Rezko…”

Yet we have this statement from Barack Obama.

There’s no doubt that I have friends and continue to have friends that come out of the more traditional school of Chicago politics, but that’s not what launched my career and that’s not what I’ve ever depended on in order to get elected.

Sure, Obama is said to have donated an equal amount as he received from Rezko many years ago, but he definitely relied on that money to get elected. And did he donate the campaign contributions he received from other people that were actually from Rezko, or is he ignorant as to how much extra money Rezko was funneling to him? It was AFTER he won the US Senate seat that he tried to equal out the illegal Rezko donations and who knows about the “straw” campaign checks.

In the Rezko trial, the prosecutors asked the judge to allow them to present evidence as to why Rezko’s money was being  laundered through others into Barack Obama’s campaign accounts, but they didn’t do it. Barack Obama will claim he was unaware he was the recipient of laundered money, yet by his statement above about “traditional” Chicago politics we know Obama knew funny business happens in campaign accounts. Barack Obama ignored the corruption, participated in it, or at the very least failed to even keep it out of his own bank account.

Do you want Barack Obama to continue to let laundered money enter into politics right under his nose from his biggest campaign contributors and refuse to apologize for failing to keep his own campaign money clean while still claiming he’s completely clean, as he has done in Illinois?