Obamaphobes inevitably will try to link the president to charges against Blago
April 2nd, 2009 at 08:14pm Pat Cunningham
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 Today’s federal indictments of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five of his chums is certain to touch off a firestorm of speculation in the right-wing blogosphere that President Obama is somehow culpable in the case against Blago.
 After all, they’re both Illinois Democrats, aren’t they? To the conspiratorialists, that in itself is prima facie evidence of collusion in wrongdoing.
 For at least one example of what I’m talking about, check the comments at the bottom of THIS ARTICLE.
 And then there’s stuff like THIS and THIS and the comments at the end of THIS.
 We’re also bound to see Republicans and their friends in the media exploit the Blago case to make points against the Obama administration by labeling it a den of Chicago-style politics. We got a FORETASTE of that strategy last week.
 Oh, yeah, the Obama haters will have a field day using Blago as a bludgeon. But it’ll all come to naught, just as their other tricks have.
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1. fatimah | April 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
this is very racist to try to charge him becuase of blagos. you know you only want to do it because hr is black!~!!~!~!~!!!!!!!!@~~!~!!~!~~
2. snuss | April 3rd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
As the saying goes, if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Anyone who believes that Obama emerged from Chicago/Illinois Democratic party cesspool as pure as the driven snow, is either as totally partisan as it is possible to be, or is on some hallucinogen that makes LSD look like aspirin.
Not to mention that most of his staff are Clinton-era retreads, and the Clinton Administration was certainly no model of political virtue.
3. Pat Cunningham | April 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Ah, we can always depend on snuss for anti-Obama rhetoric without even a shred of supporting evidence. Give us some evidence, snuss — good, solid evidence, not just the talking points you pick up from other right-wing extremists.. Time after time after time, the B.S. you peddle here is categorically refuted by me or other commenters, yet you persist. It’s just astonishing.
4. snuss | April 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am
We could start with the unpresidented number of Democratic tax cheats that have been nominated for Cabinet positions, as a sign of the direction B. Hussein Obama is taking us. Or doesn’t that count?
5. Pat Cunningham | April 4th, 2009 at 10:03 am
snuss: You’re changing the subject. Where’s your evidence that Blago’s offenses have anything to do with Obama (other than that Blago tried to sell Obama’s Senate seat)?
6. art | April 4th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
There is no denying B-Rock was trained by Daley and Blago.
7. snuss | April 4th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I am simply (for your benefit, Pat) pointing out that the Democratic party in this State (especially Chicago) has a record of political corruption equaled nowhere else in this country, with the possible exception of New Jersey.
It would be virtually impossible that B.H.O. got where he is without SOME direct exposure to the Blagojevich administration, in some capacity. When Blago goes to trial, let us see if he starts naming names, places, and dollar amounts. It could be quite interesting.
8. Pat Cunningham | April 4th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
snuss: There are countless honest and upstanding Illinois politicians in both parties who have had “direct exposure” (as you call it) to the Blagojevich administration.
My God, man, do you think that anyone who has had anything to do with corrupt politicians is therefore corrupt himself?
Pat Quinn was Blago’s lieutenant governor, but nobody’s saying he’s corrupt. Former Rockford Mayors Doug Scott and Charles Box are Blago appointees, but nobody’s saying they’re corrupt. I know lots of Republicans who had close dealings with former Gov. George Ryan, but nobody’s saying they’re corrupt.
You have absolutely no grasp of the realities of politics. There have been crooks in virtually every gubernatorial and presidential administration that ever existed, Republican and Democratic alike, but the colleagues and associates of those crooks have included countless honorable public servants. Why can’t you understand that?
By the way, snuss, I’m still waiting to hear your answer to the question raised in Comment No.. 7 of this post:
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/04/03/civilized-conservative-encounters-the-other-kind/
9. snuss | April 5th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I DID answer it, Pat. But, since you are apparently too obtuse to comprehend the reasoning behind it, I posted a version you may be able to better understand.
As to Obama not participating in crooked politics, I suppose it is possible. He managed to belong to a black separatist church for twenty years, and never knew their agenda. Was he pretending to be that ignorant, or did he just lack the ability to comprehend what was going on around him? Neither speaks well for him, or the future of our country.
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