Joe Dead Intern Scarborough just cannot believe Obama isn't linked to Blago

[ProfessorPlum]

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[LynnTheDem]

1. PROJECTION: Joe can't believe anyone in the same state as a crooked pol could be innocent because...

REPUBLICS WOULD BE IN ON THE CORRUPTION.

[beachmom]

2. Yet you accuse him of something to do with his intern without proof.

I mean, Joe has never been charged of anything regarding the intern, yet people still keep bringing it up. So maybe you ought to wipe your own slate clean before accusing him of accusing someone of something they did not do.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. did he or did he not have a dead intern in his office?

I rest my case, and I'll thank you to keep your scolding tone to yourself in the future.

[beachmom]

11. No. I think it is important to point out inconsistencies and to self police.

Take a long hard look at the Right Wing right before the election in November. Completely tone deaf and clueless. Insulated.

Give the intern a rest. Joe has not been charged with any crime. He quit Congress because his kid has Asperger's syndrome, and needed extra attention (he was a teenager at the time). There is no way NBC would hire someone they thought had committed a crime.

You accused Joe of something you yourself did. This is not scolding. This is about trying to keep us all honest.

[ProfessorPlum]

13. I haven't accused Joe of ANYTHING

He had a dead intern in his office. I call him Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough. Period.

Take your self-righteous accusations and shove them up your tailpipe, please.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Check out this link:

http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Joe%20Scarborough

[Mugweed]

4. Well lets' see..

Joe has a dead intern in his offce, yet somehow insists he's got nothing to do with it no matter how fishy the whole situation looks. But Joe insists that Obama MUST have something to do with the Rod situation, despite B.O.'s interactions with Rod being probably less frequent than Joe's daily interactions with that intern.

You see, what we're pointing out is HYPOCRISY. Maybe the inability to see in the mirror the same thing people like him see in everyone else?

[amdezurik]

7. don't forget the messy divorce going on at that time

and how he seems to have had his fidelity called into question...

[ProfessorPlum]

8. You've pointed out the hypocrisy very well

I just always call him Joe "Dead Intern" Scarborough, because he had a dead intern in his office under extremely suspicious circumstances, and we should never forget that. I'm not accusing him of anything, as I see you are not either.

[Mugweed]

19. Thank you.

It was a little hasty and maybe could have been better laid out. I think that a man like Joe would know what it feels like to be the victim of people who would jump to unfounded accusations of wrongdoing, and maybe he would lay off doing the same such thing (on national TV, no less). I guess he didn't walk the whole "mile" in those shoes and doesn't remember how that feels. So I'll help him out for those last few yards: WHY DID YOU KILL YOUR INTERN, JOE?

On the other hand, it could be because he's 100% guilty of murder and doesn't have that perspective described above. In that case: WHY DID YOU KILL YOUR INTERN, JOE?

[peace13]

6. Why did his office tell the press that the dead intern had health issues.

Her parents deny this. Guess the fine young gal dropped over dead in Joe's office of her own accord and Joe decides on his own that politics are just not for him. Doesn't' mean that he killed...it's just odd.

[beachmom]

12. So innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply to Republicans?

Okay, duly noted.

[peace13]

14. Well let's just have Joe come out and say that he is a Rethug talking head.

Maybe he could wear a shirt that tells people that instead of pretending to be an impartial boob.

[ProfessorPlum]

15. "odd" != "guilty"

Is that you, Joe?

[mmm413]

23. The dead intern was found in his office

at the same time the media was going crazy over Gary Condit and Chandra Levy's disappearance. But you never heard about Joe. Just Condit.

[amdezurik]

5. well it is isn't like Obama was in the middle of a nasty

divorce with alligations of infidelity against him having a dead woman who happened to work for him turn up in his office with a mysterious fatal head injury and not being tied to it, now is it?

[ProfessorPlum]

9. well put. :)

[ksimons]

10. I suppose Joe Scarborough had interactions with Larry Craig - can we assume anything by that?

nuff said - no story here, move along seems just about right

[Mugweed]

20. Well....

Joe IS a die-hard Republican. I suppose that means I could come to the conclusion that he's a closeted, self-loathing, gay man...like the majority of Republican males. Therefore he may have had some interactions with Larry Craig, who is exactly what I just decribed. Maybe they have a little club...called the RNC.

[JDPriestly]

16. Obama needs to respond clearly, loudly and swiftly.

This is precisely the kind of confusion that could destroy Obama's presidency. I can see the investigations this could set off into Obama's every move in Illinois. Wow. Small but potent in my opinion.

Obama's greatest strength is that people like him. Ironically, it's what gets him elected.

But as is common, it is this, his greatest strength that is also his greatest weakness.

And, in this respect, he is a pretty typical politician. In fact, this situation highlights the greatest flaw in our system, the contradiction that causes so many presidents to fail: the requirement that the president reconcile the need to be liked by the majority (necessary to get elected and re-elected) and the need to lead and as a leader to do the right thing even when it offends.

Remember, our first president, Washington, was a general, and in a sense, the position was made for him. He was at ease as a leader and was loved by those who followed him. Only a few of our presidents have succeeded in fulfilling both demands.

Bush tried to lead and do the right thing. He believed he should be the "decider." He became defensive, close-minded, arrogant and cruel and ended up an object of ridicule and disdain not just of Americans but of people across the world.

Obama has not yet faced a situation in which he has needed to lead boldly and offend, but he will. How he handles himself when he has to take on that role will determine the success or failure of his presidency.

Obama did not hesitate to offend Reverend Wright when the good Reverend went to far. In this case, Obama should describe the broad scope of his relationship with Blagojevich. He should be honest about it. If Obama was involved in a lot of Blagojevich-type corruption, he should spare us the pain. Hello President Joe Biden. If not, he must tell all he knows. I hope that this scandal will not taint his presidency. I do not want to go through another eight years of endless accusations and scandals like those under President Clinton.

*** Less relevant, but I just want to say it:

The extent of the corruption in our government at all levels is horrifying. Blagojevich is naively (or arrogantly -- but he is too simple-minded to be successfully arrogant) blatant about selling offices for favors, but this is going on at all levels. Never have we seen so much of it as we have seen in the past eight years under Bush.

Blagojevich is the Saturday Night Live skit on what is going on everywhere, all the time at every level of our government. Think Enron. Think the Paulson bail-out. Think the song and dance around impeachment. Think Schwarzenegger appointing his kids nanny to a government commission regarding, I believe, guide dogs. The fact is no one should have the power to make high level appointments all by him- or herself. That kind of power today invites corruption. The president does not have that power. Why should the governor of any state be able to appoint a senator (or judges for that matter) without the consent of a legislative body.

[FrenchieCat]

18. You said.....

"If Obama was involved in a lot of Blagojevich-type corruption, he should spare us the pain. Hello President Joe Biden. If not, he must tell all he knows. I hope that this scandal will not taint his presidency."

You sound like Joe Scaroborough!


Perhaps you should read this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7971781&mesg_id=7971781


Please explain the media and your silence on the sourced article posted in the OP.

[Mugweed]

21. Yup

I think the very idea of giving Mr. Dead Intern the benefit of a consideration that his offering is valid is way misdirected. Obama's strength isn't just that a lot of people like him. Obama's strength was that he's smarter than us, which is what is needed. I don't want to drink a beer with Obama, I want him to be too busy fixing the mess. Obama's strength is that he didn't take a low road. He stood by his message of hope and change and didn't spend the entire campaign trying to dig dirt.

If one thinks that Obama was part of the corruption, then why would the Governor call him a "motherfucker" for not playing along? Have HOPE, dear!

[madrchsod]

17. hey--- dead intern joe ---blago and obama basically hate each other!

gee joe, have your "alive interns" do a bit of fact checking....

[stlsaxman]

22. Joe Scumborough, Mika Mousesky and Chuck Tard are all low-rent whores... 'nuff said.

[Politicalboi]

24. And I can't believe Joe

Has nothing to do with a dead intern. Was the Gov working for Obama? No! Was the intern working for Joe? Yes! I think Joe has more "Splainin" to do than Obama.