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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 05:45 PM
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In Chicago, Political Celebrations Give Way to Shame
In Chicago, Political Celebrations Give Way to Shame

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122894587486295867.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

By JANET ADAMY and TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
CHICAGO -- The pride that's been surging through this city since Barack Obama's presidential victory last month is showing signs of deflating now that political corruption has returned to center stage in Illinois.

To many residents, the arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich for, among other things, allegedly trying to sell the president-elect's vacated senate seat marked an end to the political glow the city has been basking in.

"It was as if Chicago politics had turned a corner and this was a new day," said Sean Kennedy, former president of a student Democrat organization at Loyola University here. "All of a sudden, we get pulled back into reality, and realize nothing in Chicago has changed that much
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DonCoquixote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 05:48 PM
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1. Nothing change
That is exactly why Fox will want to blow this up to the moon, they want people to believe nothing can change, to crush change in the egg, so that we will sigh and vote in 2012 for the GOP, or for a Third Party (which will get them the desired results just the same.) They want to pour crap all over Obama's face, because they know most people are stupid enough to think Blogo=Obama.
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one-eyed fat man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:55 PM
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2. what changes?
Has anything really changed in Chicago politics since Al Capone knocked Mayor Joseph Z. Klenha down the City Hall steps? Chicago has always had the best politicians money could buy. Leastways in Capone's day you knew who owned them!
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 08:12 PM
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3. This is nothing...
but a piss-poor imitation of what corruption across this country looks like. It would be great if we could use this example to explain where our tax dollars go, and why they don't go very far. I wonder why in the indictment it was said to get 'the real money' he should be the head of a Non-Profit, or the Dept. of Energy. Makes me wonder how much those positions pull in.
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