Obama Never Knows

Senator Barack Obama is always shocked to know the character and nature of his friends and associates.

"This isn't the Tony Rezko I knew."

"The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago...If Reverend Wright thinks that that’s political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn’t know me very well — based on his remarks yesterday I may not know him as well as I thought either,” Obama said.

Also, Pfleger. Their relationship spans decades. Pfleger has given money to Obama's campaigns and Obama as a state legislator directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina's.