Clinton not first to regret photo with rogue

Then First Lady Rosalynn Carter next to serial killer John Wayne Gacy in May 1978. Tribune file photo.

by Frank James

The photo that emerged last week of President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton posing during the Clinton presidency with the newly arrested Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the indicted Chicago businessman, political contributor and one-time friend of Sen. Barack Obama, brought back memories of other photos that politicians, their spouses or other government officials wish they had never posed for.

Here’s a rogues gallery of such photos which goes to prove that taking photos with unsavory and sometimes outright evil people is one of politics’ occupational hazards.