Remember the movie "There is something about Mary"?
Let me say it again: There is something about Chicago that Obama is scared to death about.
Why didn't Pres elect Obama stand up earlier and call for a special election in Illinois?
Why didn't he break Gov. Blago's back by calling for a special election?
Why didn't he jump on the opportunity to do something about the corrupt politics of Chicago?
My guess is that Obama knows that Blago has info on him. Obama also knows that Blago will open up and sing like a canary.
Didn't Obama enthusiastically support Gov Blago in 2002 and 2006? How did he do that in 2006 when there were serious allegation of Blago corruption?
Isn't BO a disciple of the Dailey machine?
Forget the economy and foreign policy.
Keep an eye on Chicago. It will be Obama's biggest nightmare.
Check out John Kass from Chicago:
"President-elect Barack Obama was not found as an infant, floating in a reed basket along the banks of the Chicago River.
He is not the gentle faun, the Mr. Tumnus, of the Daley machine.
"President-elect Barack Obama was not found as an infant, floating in a reed basket along the banks of the Chicago River.
He is not the gentle faun, the Mr. Tumnus, of the Daley machine.
Obama could have forcefully and publicly demanded that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and fellow Illinois Democrats support legislation for a special election to fill his vacated Senate seat.
Obama had a responsibility to the people of Illinois to do so.
But he kept his mouth shut.
As always, he avoided conflict with machine political bosses, a consistent character trait stubbornly ignored by his media cheerleaders.
As always, he avoided conflict with machine political bosses, a consistent character trait stubbornly ignored by his media cheerleaders.
His top White House strategist and his chief of staff are creatures of the Daley machine, and Democrats didn't want to risk the Senate seat.
What happened to the promise of transcending the old politics?
So when the freak show comes to Washington next week and political hack Roland "I'm a tool of the people" Burris is denied entry to the Senate, and the national political class shrieks in fake outrage and Blagojevich surrounds himself with African-American ministers and he sings "Let my people go!" remember who could have stopped all this:
Obama, Madigan, Daley and the Illinois Democrats."
P.S. We don't always agree with Pat Buchanan. However, he is right on target today:
"Our president-elect is from a party that champions busing to integrate public schools but bypasses D.C. public schools to send his girls to exclusive private schools in far northwest Washington.
"Our president-elect is from a party that champions busing to integrate public schools but bypasses D.C. public schools to send his girls to exclusive private schools in far northwest Washington.
We have a Democratic Senate that champions affirmative action.
Yet not one white male Democratic senator, in a caucus that has not a single black member, has ever volunteered to step down and let the governor of their state replace him or her with an African-American.
Not one.
Not one.
That would be liberals leading by example, not exhortation.
If Democrats believe our institutions of power should look like America, why don't they make their Senate caucus look like America?
Why do not a dozen Democrat senators resign, to be replaced by 12 appointed black Democrats, giving one-fifth of all Democratic Senate seats to a minority that gave Barack 97 percent of its vote and Barack and Joe Biden one-fourth of all the votes they received?
Why does not Gov. Paterson follow Gov. Blagojevich's lead and name an African-American of Burris' stature to the U.S. Senate?
Fellas, let's start practicing what we preach here."
