Barack The Untouchable

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  • Posted By: hesbooks @ 12/11/2008 9:40:30 PM

    RIGHT again, 40YearR, and Michael Hirsch! Now is the time for all fair-minded Americans, who face real and immediate worries (i.e., all of us), to show some generosity toward the good intentions, as expressed and demonstrated by our president-elect. Sure, only time will tell if as president he can deliver on all his many promises--on all the many fronts, including ethics--but at the very least Obama has offered a lot of promises for improvement, in all aspects of American life, and that gives us reason to hope. And 'tis the season for hope and charity, dear ladies and gentlemen! Let us all try to practice it in our politics as well as our judgments. Please, what do we have to lose? Happy New Year!

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/11/2008 10:04:28 PM

      Never saw what I thought was a better man going in. He inherits some whoppin' problems, though. Nonetheless, I'd rather see his hands on the steering wheel than anyone else.

  • Posted By: This Is Our Time @ 12/11/2008 9:53:37 PM

    ajaxson - Why don't you leave this country? Our USA would be a better place without bigots like you. Move on...

  • Posted By: bronzee @ 12/11/2008 9:46:17 PM

    I think that it is an incredible was of time, ink and cyber space to discuss this almost no story to death. We have absolutely no reason to believe that Obama is dirty, other than those who just want to to throw dirt on his otherwise shiney suit. He has not shown us business as usual. He has not played the game. Remember, Blago was missing from the convention, missing from campaign stops, missing from just about all of his campaign. Why now should we suspect that he has any pull with the President-Elect? He certainly does not need Blago now!

    I think you in the press are just happy to have what you would like to think is an all-week strength piece of rawhide to chew on, discuss, and wring innuendo out of. I'm already bored. As one from Illinois, I am ashamed of Blago. He is a disgrace and should be quickly removed from his ability to have any power over us ever again. I am ready to give the President-Elect, given the prosecutor's statement that he is not investigatin him, the benefit of the doubt, or more appropriately, the ability to continue on the merit he has truly fought for and deserves, and turn our attention and support toward fixing our nation. None of us wins is we waste our time with this loser. I wish he hadn't been so dirty, and I wish we didn't have to deal with his shame. But I'm happy he can't continue to do what he was doing anymore. Illinoians had already long since tired of him, distrusted him and lost our respect for him. Now everyone else gets to join the party.

  • Posted By: hesbooks @ 12/11/2008 9:39:45 PM

    RIGHT again, 40YearR, and Michael Hirsch! Now is the time for all fair-minded Americans, who face real and immediate worries (i.e., all of us), to show some generosity toward the good intentions, as expressed and demonstrated by our president-elect. Sure, only time will tell if as president he can deliver on all his many promises--on all the many fronts, including ethics--but at the very least Obama has offered a lot of promises for improvement, in all aspects of American life, and that gives us reason to hope. And 'tis the season for hope and charity, dear ladies and gentlemen! Let us all try to practice it in our politics as well as our judgments. Please, what do we have to lose? Happy New Year!

  • Posted By: Loden Green @ 12/11/2008 9:15:12 PM

    People outside of the Beltway and Illinois have tuned this "scandal" out. They're much too occupied with tryinbg to figure out how to pay the biils.

  • Posted By: RaeofSun @ 12/11/2008 9:11:35 PM

    What really gets me is why people insist that all politicians want more than what the have already achieved by reaching office. Certainly, Blago does a good job of arguing that many feel entitled to more, but I am tired of the rhetoric that others can't just rise above the fray. Why do we automatically assume Obama is either a prude politician, or that he is just waiting for the right moment to get even more benefit than just having the job as the next President? I am sadden by America's, and especially the press's, automatic response to apparent corruption. Some of us out here still have our morals and values that don't have a price to be bought at.

  • Posted By: aviewerofmsnbc @ 12/11/2008 9:06:30 PM

    I don't know if it's a fair comparison of Truman versus Obama. For example, did Truman accumulate a few hundred dollars' worth of parking tickets and never pay them until a major political race was in view? I don't think so. Please don't give our President-Elect so much credit. He is essentially a novice in the political arena, so will look squeaky-clean compared to the rest of the herd.

  • Posted By: baccaruda @ 12/11/2008 9:03:25 PM

    The author almost had it right, but lost it at the end. To even acknowledge, much less show some "appreciation" , for the chance to place Obamas choice as Senator is disturbing. If he were to be above reproach, he would have reported ANY contact about "PLACING" his choice as senator immediately, not show even any "love" to one of his cornies. That is the real story and the author totally missed the truth in what he had written.

  • Posted By: baccaruda @ 12/11/2008 9:03:02 PM

    ""not willing to give him anything but appreciation" in exchange for appointing the president-elect's preferred candidate, Valerie Jarrett.

    The author almost had it right, but lost it at the end. To even acknowledge, much less show some "appreciation" , for the chance to place Obamas choice as Senator is disturbing. If he were to be above reproach, he would have reported ANY contact about "PLACING" his choice as senator immediately, not show even any "love" to one of his cornies. That is the real story and the author totally missed the truth in what he had written.

  • Posted By: Bill Mainor @ 12/11/2008 8:51:05 PM

    I doubt this story will tell us much more than the 24 hour instant tv and internet news journalists are having a tough withdrawal from the amazing 2008 presidential campaign. This will be forgotten real soon.

  • Posted By: exarte423 @ 12/11/2008 8:29:17 PM

    There's nothing to "cover" for the guy. Its unreal so many want to hate Barack, even though everything he is doing right now is setting up our Country for getting back on it's feet! You haters and right-wing lovers will stop at nothing, to tarnish the image of a man who might actually be a good, honest politician...he's the right man for the job right now and I promise all of you haters, he had nothing to do with Blagojevichs' stupid acts. Get over it. Barack is your President, and you'll be happy he is very soon. So get a clue.

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/11/2008 8:35:41 PM

      Their happiness is all invested in paranoia, fear, innuendo and hate.

  • Posted By: skeetchamp @ 12/11/2008 8:27:22 PM

    We've seen over at least the last two years that Barack Obama, unlike nearly all other politicians, is reluctant to publicly criticize people for their failings. He hangs back for quite a while before laying into people. Once he gets going, though, he socks it to them pretty well. He just does it in a thoughtful, intelligent way.

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/11/2008 8:33:46 PM

      I'll second that thoughtful, intelligent part, thank you.

  • Posted By: bwebb54 @ 12/11/2008 8:06:23 PM

    I do believe the governor's name is Blagojevich, not Barack Obama. And to all of you idiots who keep trying to infer that he agrees with every single word or deed any of his friends has ever done, need to get a grip on reality. I guarantee you, everyone person who sends in a negative blog about his affiliations, has some friend or more likely family member has said or done something that you don't agree with, but you are not going to cut them out of your life. And if you say yes you would, then I will call you a liar. P, S. - for all of you who bring up Rev. Wright and some of his radical ideas, I am willing to bet that either you or someone in your family of the 2 previous generations sat in a church where a pastor openly spoke out for continued segregation. Quit acting so righteous and holy and admit we all have shortcomings. bwebb@hotmail.com

    • Posted By: 40YearR @ 12/11/2008 8:20:17 PM


      But they need something new to smear by innuendo with, since all their annonymous smear email themes got debunked. Bear in mind that their method is to believe really, really hard in something that has no factual basis. That's all they have, repetition of the same old plays that lost them the election.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 12/11/2008 7:39:24 PM

    I would not believe a word from ABC NBC or CBS the spin doctors and cover experts for the democratic party but I aiso do not believe Obama to be stupid enough to offer money to put someone of liking in his seat but I do believe he or his staffers tried to get someone they want in there that seems only logical. Now if it were Bill Clinton no doubt about it he might in send hookers up to service the governor.to seal the deal. The jury for me is out on Obama due to all of his questionable affiliations but I will gie him a pass for now on this one. Impeach Bloggy ASAP .

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 12/11/2008 7:56:38 PM

      Well said. It is very hard for me to believe that Obama could consort with all of the questionable types that make up Chicago politics and come out clean...but I hope that I am wrong and am willing to give him a chance.
      That said, we certainly cannot count on the news media to do its job with Obama...they have their collective left-wing lips firmly attached to his backside, and that won't change no matter what happens.

  • Posted By: Dollar Wise @ 12/11/2008 5:25:42 PM

    Go Sarah:

    GO SARAH GO! Right on target with postt!

    All those wonderful relationships you point out are surely integrity building exercises.

    Hirsch is clearly a brownnoser. Journalism is dead and they clearly buried it in Hirsch's cubical.

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