Obama Lowballs Rezko Cash By 2/3

Like Mike Huckabee, it appears Barack Obama didn't major in math.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Rezko and his associates provided three times as much money for Obama than the presidential candidate has admitted:

During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.

Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

But seven months ago, Obama told the Sun-Times his “best estimate” was that Rezko raised “between $50,000 and $60,000″ during Obama’s political career.

The results of the Sun's investigation are several months old, so it's all the more quizzical that Obama hasn't been grilled harder on this business.  But outlets outside of Chicago have displayed a strong distaste for covering Obama scandals and his chief rival can't with any credibility whack him agressively on it (beyond a glancing jab about a Chicago "slumlord"), give her and heur husband's boundless web of dirty money connections.