Who To Trust?
The FBI has recently claimed Illinois has the most corrupt state government in the nation. Fortunately, Yahoo has told us what to think about that:
And while the AP is writing about how Obama used his wits, his intelligence, and his common sense to remain 'above the fray' of Illinois corruption, the liberals are openly criticizing Obama (never thought I would see that happen).
Obama's most recent critics have included Pennslyvania governor Ed Rendell and talk show host Ed Schultz. Both of them think Obama could have been more up front about the whole Blagojevich scandal.
Here's my take. Governor Blagojevich -who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat- cursed Obama on FBI recordings for not offering payment to install Obama's pick for the position. Good for Obama, to not give into corruption and bribery.
What's bad for Obama is that many, many lies have been circulated by his staff -saying at times of convenience that they had been talking with the governor about the selection and other times that they hadn't. Secondly, Obama was reluctant to call for the governor's resignation.
Emanuel Rahm is now on the hot seat. ABC News reports how Rahm (and the entirety of the staff) are avoiding questions about their previous statements.
Ben Smith at the Politico has surmised that Obama has tried to keep a fairly neutral policy toward Illinois corruption. Neutrality (often a foe of earnesty) is what is not in Obama's favor. If he knew about scandalous offers made by Blagojevich, he should have reported the information to the authorities.
In my opinion, to have secretly overlooked the offenses of the governor (which other 'clients' refused to do) and not reported them to the authorities is really to have condoned and enabled them. Obama is not entirely clean on this one.
Here's my breakdown:
Earnesty of Blagojavich: 30%
Tried to look one way while he was acting another way.
At least he leaned toward one side: money.
Earnesty of Obama: 60%
Refused to bribe a wayward official,
but also somewhat neutral in the face of lawlessness.
Earnesty of Yahoo: 20%
Earnesty of the Associated Press: 20%
They pretend to be the news, but they'd rather slip us their opinions.
Earnesty of Ed Rendell: 80%
Earnesty of Ed Schultz: 80%
Not conservative, but earnest to admit their leader's faults.
Hard to know if it had more to do with expedience.
posted by Matthew Canonicus at
7:21 PM
4 Comments:
Quite true and accurate...
You have to got to be kidding me. The FBI is now announcing that Illinois is the most corrupt Political State? Wow, was that necessary? Really? Chicago has had the biggest political machine since way back in time. Sometimes, you just want to laugh when stupidity is slung at us. I love the remaining neutral. Please. Obama better get a backbone come January.
It's funny that you mentioned the backbone part. His change.gov put up a forum where people could ask questions for the president-elect and there was an option to 'flag' suspicious questions. Obama's supporters flagged all the questions about the Illinois governor scandal so they weren't asked. One question that didn't get flagged, though, concerned whether or not Obama would support vertebrae transplants for the supporters who censored the questions. Anyway, I thought that was odd/funny/strange.
This isn't the exact post I had in mind, but it's very similar to it:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Blagojevich_questions_censored_on_Transition_site.html
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