Comments on: The Outrage Aimed At The Normal

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:58:52 +0000

Note that ya lib'r'ls out there who are also on a youth kick might want to read about Obama's likely favorite for running the FDA:

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/12/11/who-is-j...

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:10:32 +0000

Obama no doubt has dealt with the Chicago people (not only Rezko)

He seems fine to me, though, more like a (very rapidly) rising political star that happened to be in Chicago (longer, and more legitimately, in Chicago than Hillary Clinton exploited her "New York" Senate seat as a springboard to the Presidency) and my thought when learning about Blagojevich's latest behavior was that Obama must be more glad than ever to be leaving Chicago for something much bigger and better.

Hopefully this "winter" we're anticipating economically will extend to other realms, such as the political, and will enable us to do some much-neglected pruning and re-designing in other ways, too.

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:42:59 +0000

There is way too much tolerance for this type of corruption and way too many gray areas that we seem to be stumped on dealing with.

I actually find it quite shocking that a governor who is arrested while in office can remain there- he should be forced out at the time of his arrest- I feel the same abput Congress- why was Sen Stevens allowed to serve (I'm sure his colleagues would have voted to expel him but what if they didn't??

Obama probably would have had trouble winning election to the Senate and the presidency without having SOME relationship with the governor of his home state. Thankfully, he was smart enough to curtail his involvement with the sleazy SOB and his even sleazier wife.

I'm in a no tolerance mood. In our schools we have no tolerance for weapons- even butter knives in lunches are viewed in this category, sex or drugs-- so why are we tolerating illegality --politicians who have been convicted of actual crimes in our political system?

By: Marlowecan

Marlowecan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:04:34 +0000

Well, speaking personally, even as a convicted cynic I was stunned by this story.

A Governor of a major US state, attempting to "sell" a seat in the US Senate...the seat formerly occupied by the President-elect of the United States...whose name, incidentally, said Governor cannot apparently ennuciate in everyday conversation without adding a "motherf...." or "f...." to modify the President-elect's name in order to illustrate the Honorable Governor's opinion of the President-elect.

It was a breathtaking vision of corruption and venality.

"Because right now, we seem to like it."

You make an interesting point, T-Steel. Yes, there is a bizarre sense in which this is entertainment.
People are arguing about which state is more corrupt etc.

But this is corruption on a Third World scale.
People should be enraged. But they just nod and go...yeah, you know how it is...Chicago.