What about the families?

December 9th, 2008 at 03:22pm Linda Grist Cunningham

On Jan. 13, 2003, Associated Press photographer Charles Rex Arbogast grabbed a shot of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaking from the podium at his inauguration. Seated behind him are former governors Jim Edgar and George Ryan and the wives of all three.

There are dozens of Blagojevich-and-family photos over the years. The two little girls with smiles across their faces and their hands tucked safely in daddy’s. Pictures of the governor and his wife, Patti, dancing at the inauguration and showing off their youngest daughter right after she was born. They are the photos of which scrapbooks are made, the photos that make these powerful men and their families look just like ours do.

Do you think Ryan and Blogojevich ever asked themselves what their wives and children would do when their political misdeeds were outed? Did they ever challenge themselves simply to do the right thing? 

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