Barack The Untouchable

No, Bush and Co have done nothing wrong,,,, except encourage torture and unconstitutional behavior and committing massive screwups.

As for Palin, she created her own problems. The media response to her initially was positive until she started talking in unrehearsed environments.

But that's just us liberal losers making up all kinds of hateful stuff... and the media... and the political establishment... and etc, etc, etc.

As for Clinton, yes he did lie under oath. And he lied to the people. And here's one liberal who never voted for him.
Not that you, "go sara", will ever believe that. After all, all we slimy liberals ever do is smear honest, modest, never sanctimonious or arrogant conservatives while backing unpatriotic, criminals for candidates of our own.

ANd one thing I will say about Clinton is that he wasn't an incompetent ignoramus and I think Clinton actually read the constitution once or twice.

under the bus again!! this should be a song.. may be a country song!!

Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho ho ha ha ah ah -- everything is Maya,,,,,, politics is not for the meek. This is just a joke. Opeds!

I know this is terrible to say but it is just my opinion. Just from hearing the guy talk and looking at him I am inclined to believe that he is truly sincere and very ethical. He is just very realistic and has much needed common sense. Look at the repsonse from Rumsfeld's PR guy today, dont have the exact quote be he blasted anyone for even making the accusations that Rumsfeld f*cked up and then went on to say how could you go after such a great American? I cant see Obama ever hiding behind the American flag like the Republicans always do. Looking at Bush and Cheney the human sense can pick up their shaddyness, Clinton has a hint of it in his voice and actions as well, but Obama looks, sounds and acts very clean - time will only tell but if he turns out to be even 1/4 as shaddy as the last group he get my vote for an oscar nomination.

The More time that passes, the more I'm convinced that I voted for the right man in President-Elect Barack Obama. He has the aura of a saint compared to politicians wherever he goes.

How does this stuff get published. You give any one a mic and they say whatever they want as if they have a clue what their talking about. I'm pretty sure the time spent preparing to run the government and find solutions to the financial crisis significantly dwarf the Blagojevich scandal. I would be upset if Obama wasted his energy dealing with the scandal over the pressing needs of the nation.

I bring up Obama's promise to this relatives in Africa to help fix and supply the school named for him Yet he buys a $1.35 million dollar house and doesn't help the school with $10,000 for books, blackboards and a pump for clean water. Yet he and his wife's 2006 income was over 950,000. Why so much and why no help for his relatives in Africa?

I notice a lack of comment on Obama's wife position on the Chicago Hospital staff that paid her 300,000 and how she increased substantially the cost of construction of the new wing by reneging on fairly bid and accepted contracts. Isn't that exaclty what Blagojevitch did for his wife? Do you think she got the hospital job on merit and was able to void all those contracts if she wasn't Obama's wife?

Indeed, what is remarkable about this affair is not that Blagojevich has been arrested, or that efforts are being made to question Obama's integrity that require articles such as this one to clear Obama. No, what is remarkable in all this is that not a breath of question is uttered about the Bush administration and the many republican examples of this sort of thing and worse.

The buying and selling of political positions is common at all levels, but it is usually done quietly and usually without leaving fingerprints. Why news makers (formerly journalists and commentators) act shocked is ridiculous, but it just might be helpful - or drive the practice further underground. Regardless, Obama seems remarkably clean of the process no matter how lazy pundits try to link him to the process. Must mean that he is clean indeed!

Bush and his cronnies have profitied from nearly every natural and man-made disaster of the last 8 years, from the Tsunami in asia to Katrina to Iraq, follow the heafty corpoate contracts, the appointed positions, the heavily paid consulting posts. The privitization of our government agencies and the disasterous result of privitizing disasters and government. What is the difference between legal and illigal corruption?

Alma, in the case of the Illinois governor, well he's a democrat. That's the problem. With our 2 party system we have rot on both sides. I did switch my independent back to democratic for my states primary. I felt Obama was for once, someone I wanted to vote for. I can't believe the President elect isn't gonna be pretty honest with us as he has even said as much. Considering past Presidents and their lies I feel pretty good about our choice for the first time in many years.

Yes, and I'd add that Public Ethics means much more than 'not being corrupt'. Good citizens and leaders who love Public Ethics put fairness, openness, due process and multilateral solutions above Personal Values when they conflict, in every case and decision of good and sustanable governance, not just in egregious csaes like refusing a bribe.