Comments on: The real news from Chicago: a thought experiment

By: stuart Williamson

stuart Williamson — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:35:33 +0000

I’m really tired of pundits prefacing their statements with the likes of: Mr. Obama has a brilliant mind, is is a great political strategist – when all the evidence is to the contrary. Would a great strategist permitted himself to be blind-sided by the Rev. Wright revelations? Would he repeatedly insist that Bill Ayers was just a neighbor he bumped into occasionaly? Would he attempt to put a lid on any reference to his role in the Annenberg Challenge project? All things which were on public record and bound to come to light.

A good strategist knows that any connections with a rogue political figure are going to investigated and is ready with a plausible response when the inevitable happens. A good strategist or smart politician would have said, “Naturally, I have an interest in who might succeed me as Senator in Congress, and the Governor would reasonably be expected ask for my opinions in the matter. Bt I can assure you that on no occasion have I discussed the matter on a basis of quid pro quo or any form of compensation”. Knee jerk statements on the order of “I had no knowledge….” are pitifully weak.

Blago and Obama are the creatures, the appointees, of the Chicago machine, and have marinated in its foul brew of blatant corruption every day of their political lives. Nobody could be more aware of how it operates than they. Yet this brilliant intellectual stalls and stammers every time a critical, but totally foreseeable,event arises. It is so obvious that Obama has to check in with the boss before he commits to ANYTHING.

Maybe somebody can tell me why the conservative media waited until after the election to find dig up the dirt on the Great Puppet.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:58:46 +0000

But what about the past? If Gov. Blagojevich finds selling a Senate seat unremarkable, doesn’t that imply it’s the norm–and that Sen. Obama’s seat was also bought? It makes the Govenor’s verbal fury understandable–at the ungrateful Obama.

By: Augie March

Augie March — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:29:31 +0000

Roger:

You wrote: “Threatening a newspaper? Dumber.” Actually, threatening Sam Zell is borderline insane. Anyone who thinks they can tell Sam who to hire or fire has lost all touch with reality. Seriously, ask anyone who has ever worked for him.

Love the columns, btw. Will continue to visit.

By: Hazy Dave

Hazy Dave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:14:42 +0000

Roger,

I think you want to replace the name “Obama” with the name “McCain” twice in this section of the above paragraph. (Gotta keep the characters properly designated in this little experiment.)

“Would NPR instantly fall over itself to assure everyone that Obama was in NO WAY connected with the scandal? Would The New York Times offer similar assurances and even go so far as to suggest that an ethics bill Obama supported helped bring about the governor’s downfall?”

And isn’t it funny how nobody makes fun of Obama when he says “you betcha”! He must say it with more insight, nuance and gravitas than Sarah Palin ever could.

By: Marginalized Action Dinosaur » Rod Blagojevich Governor of Illinois indicted for corruption MSM’s unable to determine his democratic party.

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:01:41 +0000

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By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:29:01 +0000

Look at Michelle Obama’s “community outreach” job. That’s nothing but graft, paid by the taxpayers at a thousand dollars a day, money that is taken from and entrusted by the taxpayers to treat illnesses. More sophisticated than Blagojevich’s demands, certainly, but how is it different otherwise?

The culture is rife with subtle graft masquerading as charity and do gooderism.

Insidious graft in all its forms is more offensive than the arrogant Blagojevich doing what Illinois pols. are (especially) infamous for doing.

(Obama’s denial of contact with the Governor on the topic of Senate succession and David Alexrod’s “misspoke” disclaimer both feel disingenuous, to put it mildly)

By: marymcl

marymcl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:40:39 +0000

@10 That’s really well done – the only thing missing is Mitch Miller

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:19:23 +0000

Here is Gov (commerce secretary elect)Bill Richardson
saying in Spanish that Obama is an “immigrant.” (So he understands
understands “immigrant” issues.)The context suggests that by
“immigrant” bill richardson means “illegal immigrant”

Of course Obama has nothing to do with this. And surely it must be an unfair characterization. After all Obama has only spent $800,000 to avoid releasing a $10 birth certificate.

On Monday there were over 500 articles from around the world in google that mentioned that the supreme court had rejected the Donofrio petition. On Tuesday there were another 200 articles. On wednesday another 100 articles clocked in. On Monday as well Wrotnowski v. Obama was referred by Judge Scalia for conference for this friday Dec 12. It was the same case as Donofrio’s only better crafted. On Friday the judges will decide whether to take up the case. There needs to be four judges. Two have already suggested that they would be interested in taking up the case. Scalia and Thomas.

imho this is why the liberal media is falling over themselves saying that obama is not involved in the illinois governors problems. They know that Obama is already damaged goods.

By: Cris

Cris — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:54:37 +0000

In a surprise move late today, Governor Blagojovich issued an executive order requiring all convicted murderers whose sentences were commuted by convicted felon and former Governor Ryan returned to death row.

By: mac

mac — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:14:41 +0000

Bama’s just another lying black pol, except dirtier because he’s a Chi pol. He knows crooked from every angle there is. The lying bastards in the media knew this jerk was a crook from day one and they didn’t give a damn. They very happily carried his water and flatly refused to investigate him, or even tell the known truth. The lot of the MSM is a bunch of Obama whores and that is unarguable fact.

The question for them is whether they’ll survive it. They got Bama in office but at the rate he’s going, he’ll be lucky to last a term. Judging from what has been made public about their financial woes, however, the MSM is looking like they’ll be gone before Bama is. One thing is absolutely, unequivocally certain: there are lots of Americans who wouldn’t trust the MSM to tell them the truth about which direction the sun will rise tomorrow morning, much less the truth about anything less sure. They’re voting with their wallets and the MSM is going down to crashing defeat.

Screw the MSM. The sooner those lying bastards are broke and shut down, the better. Go PJ Media–you’ll soon have an open field!