re: #552 Honorary Yooper

It was Machiavellian alright, but that is neither anything new and/or different from a Chicago politician.

Obama may have read “Rules for Radicals”, but he got tutored at the feet of those who run the political crime families in the city. I have yet to see one thing that Obama is doing that would seem out of place on the fifth floor of the Chicago city hall. Not one fricking thing.

As I keep saying, if you want an inside glimpse of what the hell is going on with the Obama administration, look no further than Cook County, Illinois, and the people who run it. The Daleys, Strogers, Beavers, Madigans, Mells, and others. You got to see some of it when Blagojevich was arrested, impeached, and then thrown out of the governor’s office. If you think the Obama adminstration is anything other than Cook County politics writ large, then I have some swampland to sell you folks. This administration will run on broken promises, pay for play, and clout.

I’m sure what you say is true…..I’m aware of, but not all that familiar with the details of Chicago political wrangling.

I have wondered, however, what actually happened with Blago. He was tolerated/encouraged for years within the democrat party and Chicago machine, and then, BLAMO, everyone from dogcatcher to lieutenant governor are treating him as a pariah….. even on the federal level.

Did he do something to piss everybody off at once, or with the Fitzpatrick investigation, were they afraid of exposure? And if the latter, how does making him a pariah help them avoid the fallout?

Most of the time (William Jefferson comes to mind), the left just defends whatever bad behavior a fellow democrat may have been caught in and says “move on, this is just a distraction”.