Comments on: Time for a Special Prosecutor?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:52:20 +0000

It’s pretty clear that Obama knew about the impropriety and did nothing. He made a calculated decision. No surprises here. Obama will not pay a price, the MSM will not hold him accountable. The political world will keep spinning on its axis unperturbed.

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By: daveg

daveg — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:17:34 +0000

The crime is real.

The only question is Obama’s involvement. It sounds like he dodged the bullet, but it was closer than it should have been. Maybe Rahm will take a hit??

This will make any taint from Rezko stickier.

Democratic scandal are funny for the small amounts involved. But in some ways that makes them more damaging as people can get their heads around it, while republican scandals just seem like something from another planet.

By: Jack Tracey

Jack Tracey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:26:55 +0000

Obama’s relationship to the case wasn’t drummed up by right-wingers; it was uncovered by legal authorities. Were those legal authorities’ actions influenced by political motives? This is always a legitimate question to ask in a legal case that involves politicians. Also, since when is it not legitimate to be concerned about the corrupt connections of the land’s highest office-holder? To dismiss as a right-winger anyone who isn’t willing to forget such concerns reminds me of all those fun conversations over the last 6 years where I was dismissed as a liberal, because I didn’t want the Decider-in-Chief to succeed more than I wanted him to act responsibly.

No one needs to keep his or her mouth shut, no matter how much easier that would make it to believe in Obama. However, it is good advice to be reasonable and sober, so that anything uncovered is not dismissed as a partisan delusion.

By: rawshark

rawshark — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:31:44 +0000

This is about as meaningful as Whitewater. In fact it’s just a remake, a reimagining of the Clinton scandal. As soon as a dem gets elected try as hard as you can to drum up whatever scandal might sell air time on Fox and right wing radio and hopefully ruin his term so a republican can take over to restore dignity to the office. Sound about right?
Why is it so hard for people to just see right thru this bullshit? Is it bias? Who was even surprised that a governor with a senate seat to offer would look to get a some favors out of it? I’m shocked out of my seat right now. Never saw that coming. The only thing more predictable is that a right winger will try to find the flimsiest connection to the new dem president so he can try to taint his administration with it. Sad really.

By: Suggestions4Obama.com

Suggestions4Obama.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:18:06 +0000

The thing to remember is that as a politician in the same state and party any politician has to interact with people. However, he or she does not have to befriend a person, and limit the interactions to professional boundaries. Obama might have endorsed Blago in the general but in the primary he did endorse his opponent. So, the conclusion is that all the interactions were strictly professional. In a similar analogy, a lots of folks who endorsed Hillary then turned their endorsement to Obama when he won the primary. Even though he was not their first choice, he was the Democratic nominee so they endorsed him. That is politics works. Obama does not need to discuss any interaction once he indicates that he has not have any discussions regarding the vacant seat. Therefore, he was not involved in any wrongdoing – it’s time to move on and look forward! Let’s focus on all other critical problems at hand!

By: TomB

TomB — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:03:05 +0000

It’s impossible to disagree that it’s a damned interesting question why Fitzgerald pulled the plug on this investigation when he did and perhaps if he was anyone other than who he is with his reputation for simple fierce non-partisanship it would be right to start howling right now. But that question still needs to be asked, no doubt.

On the other hand if I was the Republicans I’d be very very careful about how they go after this as regards Mr. Obama and his people. He’s not even in office yet and if the Republicans come off looking like they don’t care if he can help the country and are in essence trying to nullify or overturn the election by destroying him even before he has spent a single day in the Oval Office, boy I sure think it would look like they were unhappy that their suicide attempt that was their nomination of McCain wasn’t good enough and they were now trying to make sure that everyone knows it’s their party itself that is crazy.

Plus I suspect they’d lose even as regards the trees of this thing going after Obama and his minions not to mention that forest of the bigger picture. That is, so far all that’s there is this creature Blogojevich saying that Obama and his people have done the *right* thing by merely offering him appreciation for considering their suggestions instead of a bribe or etc. And one of Obama’s strengths is his seeming coming from nowhere, being above the disgusting game-playing that has so defined Washington. So all it would take in the face of highly ambiguous evidence of wrong-doing on the part of one of his people—which form such evidence usually takes—is for him to wait until the right time and give one of his “above-it-all” speeches condemning this and talking about how petty it is when the country has all these other problems and bang, the Republicans would look as petty and hackneyed as all get out. And they don’t control even one house of Congress meaning their ability to hold hearings and actually getting any traction out of this is zero.

I think the Repub.s ought to just sit pretty quiet and still for awhile, see what pops up and above all appear sober and responsible as hell. I suspect a huge majority of the country wants Obama to “succeed,” and wouldn’t take kindly to any suggestion that not even a month or so after they’ve elected the guy, and in the face of this economic tsunami, there’s a claque of folks out there already trying to bring him down.

Just my opinion, but that seems the logic of it to me right now at least.

Cheers,

By: MattSwartz

MattSwartz — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:04:19 +0000

All I know is that if this scandal doesn’t attract at least twice as much attention on the right as the “natural-born citizen” one has, it will have become clear once and for all that xenophobia is a higher priority in conservative circles than government transparency is.

And that would be sad.