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 Blagojevich Pleads His CasePosted on Jan 29, 2009
It was just politics as usual, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday of the corruption allegations that seem all but certain to upend his political career. Blagojevich took a defiant stand before the Illinois Senate, telling members that the four tapes that contain his most controversial statements are “conversations relating to the things all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and try to win elections.” MSNBC TV: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Advertisement TAGS:
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By howie bledsoe, February 1, 2009 at 9:27 am Link to this comment
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Old Blaggart was at the very least being truthful. All politicans are greedy slime, and he included himself in the slime pit. But, you gotta know if you are a politico that you cant step on the heads of your superiors, i.e. the wall street tycoons. He did, and he got nailed to his own cross.You wanna talk corruption folks? Lets get onto the bleeding dry of the US middle class, the selling of our hard-won commodities overseas for personal gain, and the cost this will afflict on our children and their children and their children ad nausium. Blago is small fry in this huge galaxy of corruption.
Report thisBy felicity, February 1, 2009 at 7:24 am Link to this comment
Politicians, media personalities and actors playing news deliverers piled on Blago because looking at him was like looking in the mirror and the reflection they were forced to look at was not a pretty picture.
Report thisBy mark, January 31, 2009 at 7:26 am Link to this comment
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I find it disgusting that the media was summoned to attack Blagonovich when it is totally obvious to anyone who really pays attention to many sources of independant real news that he was targetted because he dared to go to the media 2 days prior to this scandal with a declaration that the Bank of America are crooks who have stolen billions of our tax money to supposedly help refinance mortgages and other small business loans. He went public with this and just like Elliot Spitzer, who did the same exact thing with the banking billionaire crooks and exposing them in the media, was also suddenly attacked for his transgressions.
Believe me when I say this, all politicians are blackmailable. That is why they are (s)elected.
What Blagojevich did is what every US governor does. It is very typical in US politics. “You don’t get something for nothing.”
For example, why was so much more made of this scandal than the Federal Reserve refusing to disclose the 2 to 3 trillion dollars they gave secretly gave these nameless huge Paulson/Bush picked banks on top of the already $700 billion already given a couple months back? That was barely reported on despite the fact Bloomberg News filed a lawsuit over it. Or compare Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff! Not to mention the non-reporting of the fact that JP Morgan withdrew ALL their investments just two days before Madoff “confessed”. I don’t believe it is a confession at all. I believe it’s a cover-up and he’s a fall guy for a much worse and bigger crime.
One thing is obvious in all this, it is Wall St. that runs this country and not the government. Remember Wesley Clarke warned us of this just two years ago and the only thing that saved his skin about the big “no-no” of this revelation was that he wimpered and apologized all over the TV media within two days.
Report thisBy RAE, January 30, 2009 at 7:49 pm Link to this comment
“conversations relating to the things all of us in politics do in order to run campaigns and try to win elections.”
Probably the most honest, on-the-money remark he’s ever made. There are very few, if any, people who gain success in political life by being open and honest. It’s like expecting professional athletes to play strictly by the rules of the game… everyone knows that to win you MUST cheat. The trick is to cheat and not get caught.
I nearly puke every time I hear some airhead preach the list of valuable lessons taught to our young by their involvement in organized “sport.” What bullshit. The results of the lessons can be read, seen and heard on each day’s news headlines.
Report thisBy jr., January 30, 2009 at 4:01 pm Link to this comment
I find it interesting how people like john stewart could so easily get so many uniformed americans to jump on the band wagon to lynch blagojevich, and based souly on nothing more than ACCUSATIONS. It was interesting blagojevich wasn’t even allowed to call witnesses because the da’s case being so flimsy it would corrupt the investigation. Only in america is a person guilty until proven innocent. Hell, i don’t even know with certainty who was is on those tapes. And, in a country that allowed the firing of judges for political reasons, where, according to bill moyers, people like colin powell knew full well he was lying to the united nations about iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, where the president blatantly lied to the american people regarding iraq just to get this country involved in warfare, and even later told jokes about it, where the constitution’s bill of rights were taken away, and even, if just for a time, sanctioned the use of torture, we have every reason to disbelieve the da and, not just for the aforementioned reasons only.
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