This Blogo shit: Does it seem like the media is trying desperately to make this an issue?

[glowing]

Its been a headline since he was arrested. Every reporter has written, spoke, blogged about Blogo.. and even further, trying to tie it to Obama. I don't think its catching on. He seemed to have some fuck you's for the P.E., and most people don't see the overwhelming connection. I just don't find anyone gives a shit about this crooked gov. AND the poll with 62% of respondents saying they'd pay to play too means that most people in America realize you get something for knowing someone or paying for something or threatening with something. Most Americans would love to be connected and have an elite lifestyle. But in the meantime, most of us have to go to work at shitty jobs, stretch our pennies, and make do. NOW, that shitty little existence is impossible. People trying to work, can't find a job that sustains what shitty existence they were maintaining. People are worried about eating, electricity, mortgage/ rent. In reality, Blago is nothing compared to what people are really caring about at this moment. Obama is the only way thru the nightmare, and he has a lot of support. The days of trying to scandalize the President (like Clinton years), is not working. AND in my own ideas of importance, the Rick Warren issue is bigger than the Blago issue. One deals with a crook another does the best to discriminate against minorities.

I only wonder when they will realize when the media will wake up. Cover stories about people in desperate need of help. Cover stories about where ALL that money has gone over the last years... AND if Obama thinks doing nothing about Bush and the crimes is acceptable, he has another thing coming. Most people in this country want someone to pay for the wars, the treasury robbery, torture, and bankrupting this country.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Well, it IS an issue. And an entertaining one at that!

[glowing]

6. Andrea Mitchell is my fav at trying to get Blago excitment going.

I just wish she had gone after Bush with that vigor over REAL crimes associated with that president, and stop trying to get something on Obama. Its all very ironic.

[rpannier]

2. Criminal behavior and politics goes way back in Chicago

It isn't even something people in the area are that ashamed of.

Blago (The Gov of Chicago) is interesting because he is so arrogant and so delusional.

I think what the media is hoping/waiting for is to see who falls out of the tree after him.

[babylonsister]

3. Considering Fitz has asked Obama to refrain from commenting, yes.

That little fact seems to slip their minds constantly.

Conversely, if he went against Fitz's wishes, he'd also be lambasted. It's a no-win situation.

[earthlover]

4. IT IS AN ISSUE! Do you have a problem with that?

A corrupt governor trying to sell a senate seat to the highest bidder....

Who is trying to question whether it should be an issue? of course, it is a Repuke! No....what the ?xhp?//////....it is a Democrat? A Democrat has to question why corruption in government is an issue worthy of comment?

Sigh.....

[glowing]

5. It seems odd, considering Bush is sooo much more the criminal.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Exactly!

[glowing]

9. I don't deny that Blogo is a crook. Shit, Jeb Bush when he was Gov. was a huge

crook.. he just didn't get caught. There is a lot of corruption.. I'm wondering why its become a witch hunt to tie obama and blago.. and why, in the context of importance and relevance, why it is the number 1 story day in and day out. Pathetic when the biggest crooks have occupied the White House for 8yrs.

[Cattledog]

8. It's the Right Wing Media applying the "Clinton Rules"

No way would they be digging this story in 2000 if Bush was in this situation.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/04/18/debate/

[glowing]

10. Exactly.. not that there isn't a story.. its just not high on my national radar.

I'm in FL, and we've been in recession since 2006.. now we are in Depression.. I'm more worried about my job, home, income, friend, family that are all in dire straights.

[earth mom]

11. Blagos corruption is a HUGE issue & the tip of the iceberg.

That you don't give a shit is why this country had * for president and a do fucking nothing congress that only gives a damn about themselves!

Anyone who cares about this country needs to demand accountability from these elected officials who are working for all of us don't forget!

Otherwise YOU deserve the shitty economy and the corrupt politics we now have! :grr:

[glowing]

12. Well, its not high on my radar. I wish it to proceed with the legal implications

and for people who are guilty to go away.. I just think the 24/7 witch hunt is just suspect. AND if you think Bush got away with it because no one could catch him, bullshit.. Pugs are protected species.

[earth mom]

13. * got away with every crime he committed because the media is owned by rethuglicans.

Obama is a target because while he is really on the right in practice, he is technically a dem and a full on target.

So yeah, the media whores will focus on the Blago scandal because it pays off in viewers on t.v. and will make it look like they are actually "journalists" which they haven't been for years. But they have their fingers crossed that Obama is part of the scandal or that Rahm Emanuel is a part of it.

But that doesn't mean the Blago scandal is meaningless because the media rat bastards are finally paying attention or that they are really aiming for Obama.

If anything, it gives a peak into and exposes the entire corrupt political system for what it is-from Chicago to D.C. to every city in the U.S.A.

You may want to live in DENIAL about it all, but I refuse to.

[glowing]

15. Its all horribly corrupt.. I just find it irony and hypocritical... and so many other things

[earth mom]

16. Yes it is all horribly corrupt. And the sooner we all realize it the better. nt

[Peregrine Took]

14. Blago, apart from his all too human need for money, has been a champion

of the "little people" of Illinois.
The old "grey beards" in the legislature have stymied him every step of the way as they wanted to negate him and run things themselves as they always have.

Blago was all into doing things for everyday people like helping them to get cheap Canadian drugs, a successful "Kid Care" program" and free public transportation for the elderly and handicapped.

He's an old fashioned populist but the entrenched political establishment in Springfield, i.e. Mike Madigan, was afraid of his appealing directly to the people and this would cause them to lose their hold on power.

WHen I referred to his need for money I meant the need to fight established interests via his defense fund and desire for re-election money.

Illinois politics sucks and has for years.

[Synicus Maximus]

17. I remember the days of Paul Powell

He was the SOS of Illinois in the 1970's and never made more than $30,000 a year but when he died they found $800,000 in his apartment