Obama: extensive interviews with Chicago Tribune & Sun Times

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Both of Obama's home town papers have been (rightly) pushing him for months on the Rezko case looking for concrete answers. They have written some pretty stern articles on the subject -- no free ride from these papers!

Obama finally sat down with the Sun Times for about an hour and a half to answer questions about Tony Rezko and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. According to the Sun Times, this interview had been in the works for several days and took place on Friday.

See what four different reporters had to say about that interview at:

Mary Mitchell http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/844637,mitch031508.article

Mark Brown http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/844635,brown031508.article

Carol Marin http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/844638,carol031508.article

Lynn Sweet http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/844636,sweet031508.article

There's also an audio of the interview: http://www.suntimes.com/images/cds/MP3/031408obama.mp3
but I haven't been able to get the link to work.

Also on Friday, Obama had a separate hour and a half interview with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board. Here's their audio of the interview:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-080314-obama-audiogallery,1,4922406.audiogallery

Major points to Obama for putting himself out there. Read the articles, listen to the audio, and make your own judgments.