GOP wastes no time hitting Rezko-Obama angle.

Desperate people do desperate things...

Within hours of Tony Rezko's conviction Wednesday, Republican Party leaders launched a blistering attack against Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, whose political career began with Rezko's financial support.

"On the day Barack Obama hoped to unite his party after wheezing over the finish line and claiming the Democrat nomination, a jury in his hometown of Chicago convicted his longtime friend and fund-raiser Tony Rezko of multiple felonies," Republican National Committee chairman Robert "Mike" Duncan said. "Today's verdict and Obama's friendship with Rezko raise serious questions about whether he has the judgment to serve as president.''

Obama's campaign staff put out a statement quoting him as saying, in part, "This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew." But an aide declined to respond to the GOP attack, which included a new Web site, RezkoJudgment.com, and a YouTube video dubbed "Obama's Money Man."

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