Obama accepted a bribe as a state senator

NOTE: The article below is from last year. It's a story that was never picked up by the media (since when have they ever picked up anything about Obama?) and the Clinton campaign did not know what to do with this -- people we've spoken to said that, in retrospect, they realize what a mistake this was because what Obama did here is actually a prosecutable crime. We were told, specifically, that the bribe Obama took as a state senator is the thing David Axelrod has lived in terror of this whole campaign -- he has been praying this does not get out.

One reason this never came back to bite Obama is that the article below is overly long -- and the part about the bribe is buried in the middle -- it's no coincidence this story appeared in the LA Times. The article's author, Dan Morain, tried to bring this bribe up in the primaries, but never had any support in the media to go anywhere with it.

One of the greatest advantages Obama has is that he's surrounded by so many crooked deals, kooks, loons, and criminals that it's hard for the public to understand most of what's going on. Here in Chicago, Team Hillary kept trying to bring up Obama's connections to Tony Rezko and the land deal for Obama's Mansion -- but people couldn't understand what the Rezko dealings were all about. They still don't understand it. And they won't read a long article like the one below about the rest of Obama's dirty dealings.

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