Posted on 12/12/2008 8:16:26 PM PST by shoptalk
Extorting Children's Hospital is a new political low.
Chicagoans and Illinoisans love political scandal the way that Milanese love opera.
We trade recollections, like baseball cards, about the secretary of state (Paul Powell) who stashed money in shoeboxes, and the Chicago mayor (Harold Washington) whose birthday was April 15 but never filed his income tax return.
Rod Blagojevich stands a chance to be the fourth Illinois governor in recent history, and the second in a row, to wind up in prison. This run suggests that Illinoisans are indifferent to political corruption, and it's hard to argue with such an impressive procession of felonious officials.
But all of Illinois' disgraced former governors were considered honest pols when they were elected. Otto Kerner had gone to Cambridge, won the Bronze Star, and was a respected judge. Dan Walker was a self-righteous reformer of such blatant rectitude that he managed to cast Illinois Congressman Paul Simon -- bow-tied Paul Simon, a man who wouldn't try to sneak a tenth apple into a Nine Items or Less checkout line -- as a stooge for the Chicago machine. George Ryan was considered a slightly frumpy small-town druggist who would keep a wary eye on Chicago sharpies.
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My thoughts too. Very uncharacteristic for such a quick hanging of a fellow rat...
no doubt in my mind hes got dirt on obama! why else would camp obama send out a memo to call this guy dilusional! every news guy is call him nuts! he aint nuts this is the illinois way of doing business and b o knows it! get the popcorn!
I just said on another thread that when I watched Fitzgerald,s post-arrest presser, I was watching a Judge, Jury and Execution on laid out for the MSM. Follow that with the AG wanting him thrown out of office before conviction...they need him out of office BAD!!!
Blago’s crime is that he got caught. That’s it folks.
The ongoing campaign to discredit him as delusional is to give Obama cover. But also to give Chicago politics same.
Al Capone says that he wouldn’t be caught dead in Blago’s Chicago.
Now that is scary!
"Pure as the driven snow.......no one in Chicago even comes close."
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