[browardchad]

He's the kind of politician who can be caught red-handed in bed with one scumbag after another (Rezko, Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, Khalidi, ACORN, etc.) and talk his way out of it every time with the help of a completely complicit and corrupt media that has been only too willing to believe fall for every, "Are you going to believe me or are you going to believe your lying eyes?" story the Obama campaign has told.

Well, here we go again -- Ben Smith of Politico rushing breathlessly to don the kneepads with this incredibly dishonest spin:

Unlike many others, Obama has not enriched himself off the machine; the closest he came was accepting Tony Rezko's apparent help in buying a house. He backed ethics legislation that made the traditional ways a bit more inconvenient, though the fact that State Senate President Emil Jones, a leading machine soldier, backed it suggests it wasn't exactly revolutionary. And he kept himself apart from many of the transactions -- and other insiders, seeing his promise and not wanting to taint him -- kept him away from any taint

Emil Jones blocked the legislation, for over a year, and Obama had to be dragged into supporting it, only after it became a campaign issue.

[Michael Eden]

Yeah. We find out now (only after the election, of course!) that Blagojevich has been known to be dirty for quite a while now (his own staffers have charged that he demanded money in exchange for political favors); we find out that Tony Rezko was a major Blagojevich bag man; we find out that Blagojevich’s wife made something like $700,000 in real estate dealings involving the state government; we find out that Blagojevich’s wife in fact arranged the sweetheart real estate deal Obama benefited from.

But this is what we voted for. We want Chicago EVERYWHERE.