Posted on 01/10/2009 1:02:34 PM PST by Daniel T. Zanoza
As a social conservative, I never thought in the space of one calendar year I would have been defending soon-to-be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and beleaguered Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. But sometimes fate can lead us to strange places. I supported Hillary Clinton's doomed Democratic presidential primary bid against Barack Obama though I didn't have a vote in the matter. At the time, I felt that even the Clintons would be better for America than President-elect B. Hussein Obama and, for the record, there has been nothing to change my mind. Indeed, my opinion on the subject is even stronger since Obama finds himself in the middle of a number of controversies, even before he takes his oath of office on January 20th.
But what's done is done and we had to move on to something new and that something new was Rod Blagojevich. Yes, Blagojevich is at the center of a political show that would have made Boss Tweed (New York's corrupt Tammany Hall); "Big Bill" Thompson (last mobbed-up Republican to serve as a Mayor of Chicago and an enabler for Al Capone's criminal dynasty); and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (an African-American Congressman from Harlem who could have been the poster child for the yet to be created prosecutorial tool now called the RICO statute) equally proud.
My only response to this situation is, "You go, Rod!" It's a great piece of political theater that I and many others want to see run for as long as a hit Broadway play. Now, tish, tish you sacrosanct purveyors of good government. Please don't try ...
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Ahhh, yes, the ‘everybody does it’ defense. Works so well on Moms ....
Ahhh, yes, the ‘everybody does it’ defense. Works so well on Moms ....
“”You go, Rod!” It’s a great piece of political theater that I and many others want to see run for as long as a hit Broadway play.”
I hate to say it, but I agree. There is something likeable and entertaining about this criminal, much more so than the typical criminals we see in Congress.
And that Burris guy is kind of likeable, too, for a dem.
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