"You Must Not Know 'Bout Me!!"

This is just too rich!! I just had to post the whole thing. Either Obama & Co. have forgotten how things go at home, or maybe he just hadn't reached this level of Chicago-style politics before he made his grand leap.

Anyway, after delivering their fox-guarding-the-hen-house report exonerating themselves (I repeat -themselves!), they let their guard down. And Blagojevich said, "Aw-w-w yeah! But you got to do better than those Madigan pawns you threw at me - he with this and she, who, incidentally, is also on the list for the same seat (no conflict there!), with this thing! Okay, let's play! And by the way - Check!" Too rich!

I could be wrong but, legally, since he's not been convicted of anything, doesn't he have every right to do his job - as the governor - and fill that seat? The premature indictment (shouldn't they have waited until some money actually changed hands or something?) is technically, just that - isn't it? Hell, nobody kept William Jefferson from doing a damn thing while under indictment for that $90,000 block of ice in his freezer (among others charges)! She-e-e-et, he's still under indictment more than a year and a half later! Even though he lost, he was allowed to conduct business as usual, trying to get re-elected.

And I wonder now, if my people are having any critical discussions about flocking to the Changeling like some "Great Black Hope?" Seems Bobby Rush is trying to give them something to chew on.

I have no doubt however, with Obama & Co., the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Congress all chomping at the bit to get rid of this guy, there'll be some kind of check-mate coming soon. Unless of course, the governor really has, and intends to use, some of that good, ole Chicago dirt he's saved-up. I don't know what's next, but I've got a huge supply of hot, buttered popcorn for the next installment of, "As the Crooked Obama World Turns."

(Blagojevich - 1/Democratic leadership - 0)

"Because So-and-So did it."

I'm just politically spent. For a couple days now, I've just been sitting - in silence. I'm worn out by the hypocrisy of the "game." And make no mistake, it is all a damn game - one in which "we the people" are merely pawns. I clicked through my links, lurking, just to see who was saying what. I came across two posts that moved me to comment. This one, "Go Sit Down Somewhere" at Cliff's Crib about indicted Congressman William Jefferson's plan to run again as well as the indictment of his kinfolk was not only hilarious in its observations, but dead-on. Read this post when you get a chance. Here's part of my comment: "Cliff...I don't know man, it seems the sole purpose for our doing better in this country is so that we can mimic the Burning House rather than transform it. I expected better, but that's on me. I'm so tired of hearing, "They did it, why can't we?" as if that makes it alright. Those of us who teach our children right from wrong when they're little, appear hypocrites once they're grown because all around them they hear the adults saying shit children always say when parents ask, "Why did you do that?" - "Because So-and-So did it." In a weird show of "solidarity" (pretty sad isn't it that this is what we two Black people share?), I gave him a link to a similar story from my home state of South Carolina regarding House Majority Whip, Rep. James Clyburn. Sad, sad, sad. Appears, some of us are who they thought we were. The other, with which I'd like to leave you, was this one at Sugar-N-Spice entitled, "We Are." Man! That video of Sweet Honey in the Rock coupled with Sugar's words were soul-stirring, uplifting and - the truth! (h/t to Sugar for this beautiful find!):