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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:43 PM
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So will every corrupt politician that get caught in Illinois be tied to PE Obama?
LID LIFTED ON CORRUPTION IN OBAMA'S STATE

THE president-elect, Barack Obama, has denied any knowledge of the astonishing web of corruption that has come to light in his home state of Illinois after its governor was arrested and charged with trying to sell the seat he vacated in the US Senate.

Rod Blagojevich, who has the sole right to appoint Mr Obama's replacement to the Senate, was caught on wire taps in his campaign office and on his home phone, plotting ways to get a personal financial benefit from the appointment, including at one stage a cabinet post in Mr Obama's administration.

According to an FBI affidavit, Blagojevich was recorded saying the Senate seat "is a f---ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing". He was also recorded saying that unless "I get something real good", he would appoint himself to the vacancy.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/lid-lifted-on-corruption-in-obamas-state/2008/12/10/1228584930044.html

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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:47 PM
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1. that is what the so called media we have in this country would lead you to believe
what the msm is doing is spewing the right wing talking points

they were the lap dogs for the bush administration the last eight years, and it is hard for them to kick old habits


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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:49 PM
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2. Every corrupt politician in Chicago will be tied to Obama
along with every mob member in town. Everytime someone gets whacked it'll be spun as Obama getting rid of his enemies.
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:49 PM
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3. Fuck yes! There are over 13,000,000 people in the state, and any of them who ever so much as ...
spat on the sidewalk should be tied DIRECTLY to Barack Obama.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:50 PM
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4. Absolutely, why not? It's the 'getting Clinton" syndrome all over again.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:51 PM
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5. based on that model, George Bush is tied to Tom Delay.... and Sarah Palin is tied to Ted Stevens
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:54 PM
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8. And what WAS the reaction of the MSM to the stmts that Bush made about Delay?
<crickets>
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:53 PM
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6. Why limit it to Illinois?
Every corrupt non-republican will be tied to Obama.

The repukes learned that Obama will repudiate people if the MSM slimes him enough (see Ayers, Wright).

So they are going to take every opportunity to slime Obama until he repudiates each and every manufactured scandal (not that Blago is manufactured). And force him to be "more definitive". And always with the snide "what did he know and when did he know it" innuendo.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 02:02 PM
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9. Yeah, let's not think narrowly here
The same media that for the last eight years couldn't connect any actions by the Bush administration to the Bush White House will suddenly be able to connect dots to the prospective Obama administration that are not only not on the same plane, but not even in the same dimension. They will of course be egged on by frothing-at-the-mouth Republicans who will demand that Obama account for every occurrence on the planet, and then pronounce any statement “insufficient.” The media will obediently report that “questions still linger” about Obama’s possible involvement in the theft of Megan’s candy from her locker at Central Middle School.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:53 PM
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7. I confess I lived in Colorado at the height of Ted Bundy's murder spree
I therefore am guilty--not only that, I STAYED in the SAME CAMPGROUND, and only a year or two after he was caught.

Hah--bet you're scared NOW!
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 02:23 PM
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10. Have you ever noticed how much Ted Bundy looks like George Bush?
creepy.

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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 02:29 PM
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11. Yes. nt
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 02:30 PM
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12. Next, they'll tie Obama to the Black Sox scandal of 1919....
...after all.... it happening in Chicago.
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