Disavowal is for amateurs. Let’s see if the crackerjack MSM deigns to ask this important question:

“Senator Obama, should Mr. Rezko not succomb to a small airplane crash or a massive heart attack prior to his imprisonment, would you rule out either giving him a pardon or commuting his sentence on wire and mail fraud, money laundering, and aiding and abetting bribery?”

“If you are not ruling out the possibility of showing him mercy, should we expect your pardon to occur before or after you declare your reelection campaign?”

“Would a promise either way be as firm as your promise to your Illinois constituents to serve your full term, instead of interrupting it with this, your first presidential campaign?”

“Do they allow Unity Ponies in prison?”

Questions, questions….

http://susiemadrak.com/2008/03/14/17/47/…

Indicted Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko was a more significant fundraiser for presidential candidate Barack Obama’s earlier political campaigns than previously known. Rezko raised as much as $250,000 for the first three offices Obama sought, the senator told the Tribune on Friday.

Obama also said for the first time that his private real estate transactions with Rezko involved repeated lapses of judgment. The mistake, Obama said, was not simply that Rezko was under grand jury investigation at the time of their 2005 and 2006 dealings. “The mistake was he had been a contributor and somebody involved in politics,” he said.  Read more