I found these two paragraphs in a Chicago Sun-Times story to be very funny. I pick it up into the first of the two paragraphs, but otherwise there is no break.

There is no doubt I had friends and continue to have friends who come out of the more traditional school of Chicago politics but that’s not what launched my political career and that’s not what I’ve ever depended on to get elected, and I would challenge any Chicago reporter to dispute that basic fact.”

Obama friend Tony Rezko was convicted of corrupting state government, but Obama was never implicated and has returned contributions Rezko made to his Senate campaign. Obama did run as an independent Democrat but worked closely with state Senate President Emil Jones, an old-school organization Democrat. Obama runs for president with the full blessing of Mayor Daley.

How can anyone believe this man.

More from the same article:

He repeated the claim he has made repeatedly in the past few days that it was not a “flip-flop” for him to continue raising unlimited amounts of money from an unprecedented number of small donors over the internet instead of limiting himself to $85 million in public matching funds as he had indicated earlier he would.

“Public financing was one means of achieving that end — I feel confident we have achieved it,” Obama said.

I don’t believe that “that end” he is talking about refers to getting the politics out of campaign finances. His real goal all along has been, and continues to be, win power by whatever means necessary.

I just don’t understand how people (and how many people) believe anything that he says. It seems as if we are heading for the Phineas T. Barnum election.