Clinton demands Obama denounce donor's remarks
A dispute over words has erupted in the Democratic presidential campaign, with Hillary Clinton's camp calling on rival Barack Obama to disavow a Hollywood movie mogul's remarks. Movie-maker David Geffen was a big donor to Bill Clinton's White House campaigns, but this time around he's backing Barack Obama. Geffen, who threw a Hollywood fundraiser for Obama this week, said in an interview with the New York Times that Bill Clinton had been "reckless" and his wife is "ambitious" and "polarizing." Hillary Clinton's campaign demanded that Obama denounce those remarks. "Why would I be apologize for someone else's remarks?" Obama said during a news conference on the steps of the Iowa statehouse. Obama said he is "absolutely" proud to have Geffen as a supporter. "My sense is that Mr.
Land related to Obama transaction could be turned into condos
CHICAGO A piece of property related to a business transaction by U-S Senator Barack Obama (ber-AHK' oh-BAH'-muh) could be the site of a new condominium. The property once belonged to the wife of indicted political insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko. The Chicago Sun-Times reported today that property records show she sold it late last year to her husband's business attorney. Michael Sreenan plans to build a six-unit condominium on the site, next door to Obama's house in a historic South Side neighborhood. Obama bought a ten-foot-wide strip of the Rezko land in January 2006. The Democratic presidential candidate has since called the purchase "boneheaded" and "a mistake." Rezko is a longtime Obama political supporter and was known to be the target of a federal investigation.
Obama, Clinton trade blows over Geffen interview
THE rival presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama traded accusations of nasty politics over Hollywood donor David Geffen.
Mr Geffen once backed Bill Clinton but now supports his wifes top rival.
The Clinton campaign demanded that Mr Obama denounce comments made by the DreamWorks movie studio founder, who told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that while everybody in politics lies, the former president and his wife do it with such ease, its troubling. .
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