Taking Issue

(Fox News) - One of Barack Obama's hometown newspapers — the Chicago Sun-Times — is taking issue with the senator's recent explanation of his involvement with developer Tony Rezko — who was the target of a corruption probe.

Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he let Rezko help him with a real estate deal because: "We had bought a house for the first time."

Columnist Lynn Sweet writes: "This was not the first time Obama went through the process of buying a residence." She points out Obama had purchased a condominium before buying the house — and says "Obama was not the first-time residential purchaser he portrayed in the interview."

Obama also told Stephanopoulos that he was "famous" as a state senator for "not letting lobbyists even buy me lunch." But Sweet says Obama accepted donations from political action committees representing manufacturers and credit unions, as well as associations for trial lawyers, teachers and hospital workers.