Obama’s first mistake?

All of you out there obsessed with 2008 know that there’s been some rampant speculation about when Barack Obama’s first major political gaffe is going to hit the wires and take a little bit of the freshman senator’s sheen away. Well, it may have just happened. Here’s the story:

Tony Rezko, a Chicago political insider indicted this year on influence-peddling (charges unrelated to Obama), sold the senator a sliver of yard adjacent to his South Side home in June 2005.

After news of the deal broke last month in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said he had erred by creating the appearance that Rezko had done him a favor by selling him a portion of the lot….

“There’s no doubt that this was a mistake on my part. ‘Boneheaded’ would be accurate,” Obama said in a telephone interview Friday. “There’s no doubt I should have seen some red flags in terms of me purchasing a piece of property from him.”

Obama recently donated to charity $11,500 that Rezko had contributed to his federal campaign account.

I will say this: If this minor hiccup is the worst the senator has to offer, get those Obama ’08 shirts ready.