Comments on: A Quick Round-up: Blagojevich and Obama

By: Twinkie

Twinkie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:36:42 +0000

Mr. Blagojevich won [first election to governor, with Obama's support], but before long, problems surfaced. In 2004, Zalwaynaka Scott, the governor’s inspector general, said his administration’s efforts to evade merit-selection laws exposed “not merely an ignorance of the law, but complete and utter contempt for the law.” Nonetheless, Mr. Obama endorsed Mr. Blagojevich’s re-election in 2006.

By: Twinkie

Twinkie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:31:58 +0000

RE: Comment by tek | 2008-12-11 15:30:04

I just want to see that twerp Emanuel take a fall.

Can a former male ballet dancer be a twerp?

By: socalannie

socalannie — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:07:53 +0000

Great roundup LisaB, and I love your comments! I can tell you from experience the LA Times isn’t interested in uncovering any wrongdoings whatsoever by gov. officials. But they did send 3 reporters out one day to cover one of Britney Spears temper tantrums. We are so done with the LA Times.

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:59:49 +0000

lol BOzo, I like THAT!…sorry for delayed reply, phone call from sis, then dinner….and the dinner was REAL late because of phone call.

They definitely have worked together, all the dirty guys, Emil, Rezko, Blago, Jackson Jr and Obama and the record and history confirms it all. All of the sudden O is clean? ROFL Now, I think you can be in politics in even Chitown and not be dirty, it’s just not THEIR cup of tea. And O wanted to climb to the top too fast and accepted all their help to get there. But, O was playing ball and directing money to friends long before he started really making the bucks.

Why everyone has covered for his schemes with Rezko, I don’t know. Maybe Fitzgerald is working in order and that’s next.

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:03:13 +0000

you can bank on it!

By: NoBamaNoWay

NoBamaNoWay — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:28:19 +0000

uh, corruption IS a big deal. it is 90% of what is wrong with washington, and i’m sick and tired of it. maybe in you scheme of values, this shit is okay, but it sure isn’t in mine.

By: NoBamaNoWay

NoBamaNoWay — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:25:30 +0000

i have been saying this since day one. everything about obama’s history (what one can actually find, which hasn’t been sealed or “disappeared”) suggests that he has been a willing participant in the chicago “pay to play” game.

i think that initially, some of the powers-that-be there saw obama as a convenient, clean, fresh face to use as a tool to advance their own interests, so they “helped him along” with his career. obama, of course, was quite willing to be used as a tool. later on, when obama gained some power of his own, he started pulling other people’s strings, as well as having his own strings pulled.

By: lark

lark — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:39:46 +0000

By the smirk that I detected in his face today I can bet heavily that he was tipped.

By: lark

lark — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:32:34 +0000

Maybe in the next four years we will have a nuclear holocaust where we all die from atomic radiation but Obama survives in his bunker. After all he never knew what was happening that made our enemies fire everything they have against us.

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:18:10 +0000

Linda, I think it’s a pretty safe assumption that Blago and BOzo have worked together for a long time. No one gets anywhere in Illinois unless they’re part of Thugs Inc., and weaseling one’s way toward the WH does not mean that those who helped with the push will step aside. Not in the least–in fact, in reality, they are now stepping up for their payback for getting him there and the ties would, by necessity, be closer than ever.

By: jbjd

jbjd — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:15:59 +0000

You are full of fecal matter. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by LBJ in the presence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the White House. (As soon as he became President after JFK’s assassination LBJ, a brilliant mover and shaker in Congress, gathered the leaders of the House and Senate. ‘I want a civil rights bill; and I want it yesterday.’ So, they worked up a bill that prohibited discrimination on account of race, religion, and natural origin. But not sex. The word “sex” was added as an afterthought. That is, prohibiting discrimination on account of race did not go over too well with some white legislators. But Southern legislators did not want to stand up and say, ‘We don’t want the federal government telling us how to treat darkies in our neck of the woods.’ So, they figured, if we add a prohibition against discrimination on account of “sex,” no one will vote for this. Even Eastern industrialists will balk at having to pay women equal to men. And that’s how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law.

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:15:05 +0000

Amen Fred. You obviously ‘get it.’

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:10:57 +0000

msjudy, many many thanks for that–everyone should take note of judy’s quick thinking–Whenever anyone sees anything of merit online, it is absolutely VITAL that it be harvested and safely copied and saved in the probable event that it is scrubbed. Since the Bush administration, things began to disappear at an alarming rate from all kinds of archives but what has been perpetrated since Obama began campaigning for office is exponential compared to what the Bush administration accomplished. Of course, promising Google owners good government jobs has further insured that the scrubbing continues even more furiously than before, in the hope that all Americans are not only too stupid to remember what they have read, but also too stupid to notice that it has suddenly been removed from the page.

This is serious business folks. We now have the most brilliant technical minds in charge of an ongoing scrubbing campaign. Again, it is vital to harvest and save every salient report we see for it is certain to disappear the minute someone pokes another hole in the network of thugs that have seized power.

By: truthisgold

truthisgold — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:48 +0000

my point exactly.

By: Diana L. C.

Diana L. C. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:01:07 +0000

Hey, I have an idea. Since you’re so astute about what is bad, worse, and worst, let’s all ask you to decide all the issues that have to do with government corruption. You can give them labels so we know better which ones to worry about.

Then, please tell me why all those terrible things you mentioned were not brought under fire by the very people who pursued and fraudulent agenda during the Democratic primary to get the ONE elected? Why, for two years, weren’t those issues raised? Why? Perhaps they simply learned how to commit fraud from them.