HELLO ! Pia.
Been stopped blogging by unknown force last several days.
FBI came to my home investigating terrorism ----- true.
I figured that it was ; because, I oppose Tom Daschle and now realize that Barack Obama is only putting in his administration ------ Clinton Clones.
I voted for Obama and against the wicked witch Hillary; now, i hear every day about another one getting in Obama Administration.
Wheres the HOPE and CHANGE ?
Like all those others from Illinois political mob-------- So comes Barack.
Sad day for my vote for change.
These Illinois politicians are intertwined like a can of earth worms.
Barack is doing an internal investigation to see who said what to Illinois Governor Blagojevich --------- Funny !
Mob guy will check with other mob guys to make sure their clean ------- Bull S--t.
What a world !
Rahm Emanuel -----mute.
Jesse Jackson Jr.----- mute.
Blagojevich is in serious trouble.
I hope he makes a deal; before, its too late.
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My sense is that there isn't much Blago can do to damage Obama. Yes, Obama was an early supporter and adviser in 2002, when Blago first ran for governor and Obama was positioning himself to run for U.S. Senate in 2004. Yes, Obama allies Rahm Emanuel and David Wilhelm (but not David Axelrod) did work on that campaign. But Obama had the sense to keep his distance—and he essentially got out of town before Blago went wild.
Obama might have more reason to be concerned about the Jacksons. The relationships are complicated. There is no real love lost between Jesse Jackson Sr., and the president-elect. Political junkies will remember Senior's private-parts excision threat, ostensibly because Obama wasn't pursuing the right agenda in the reverend's view. The real reason had more to do with simple, generational jealousy.
Yet Junior, who also had made his peace with the Daleys, was an early Obama supporter—and Obama was careful to cultivate, or at least pacify, the son. Junior worked hard for the ticket—and, just as important, worked hard to calm down his own father.
Friends of Junior told me long before the election that if Obama won, Junior felt he was entitled to the Senate seat. No hard evidence has surfaced that he wanted it badly enough to offer a deal to a guy everybody in town knew was under surveillance by the Feds. There also is no evidence that Junior even fleetingly ponder such a thing. In a press conference this afternoon, Junior adamantly denied having any knowledge of any untoward dealings with the governor over the Senate seat. "I denounce 'pay to play' politics," Jackson said, asking Blago to resign and announcing that the U.S. attorney's office had informed him that he was not a target of their ongoing investigation.
And yet if he is a target of serious suspicion, he could become a political headache for the president-elect. Junior has patiently played the game and, by his lights, waited his turn. If he decides that it has all been for naught, that he's being played for a sucker or the fool—that the Loop has turned against him—watch out.
Just after the press conference, I got a call from a friend of Jackson's who told me that the congressman feels none of this would have happened if Obama had only made clear from day one that Jackson was his choice to succeed him in the Senate. But Obama sought to stay neutral—in part because his good friend Valerie Jarrett initially expressed interest in the job. "Obama stayed out, and that's what led to this," said the friend, who declined to be quoted by name because he is personally close to Jackson (who in turn is now being told not to talk by his lawyer).
And Jackson's father? Well, as always, you never know what he might say.
© 2008
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