It is usually a bad sign when a President’s Chief of Staff is ducking questions. To all those outside the Land of Lincoln, welcome to Chicago politics 101!
Update I: I think Emanuel may be an ex-chief of staff even before he becomes chief of staff if this story pans out.
Update II:Â Â More detail as to the contacts between Blagojevich and Emanuel as to the Senate seat.
That news link seems inactive, there’s no story.
Joy unspeakable from this end. The whole Chi-Town affair gets ever messier. Was Rahm the now legendary Advisor B monitored by the Feds? Just as Jesse Jackson Jr. was Candidate Number 5? Hope and Change mired in the cesspool that is Illinois politics? I know not if God is Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative. I do understand that He has a humongous sense of humor. Now Colin Powell urging the GOP to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh- aka Living Symbol for Conservative Movement. How hilarious. When I hear him, I hear the D.C. Mafia. Such like David Rodham Gergen, Margaret Carlson, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, David Broder, Name Another Insider. Insidious as the Chicago Mafia. Ha ha to them all.
Of course, in respect to the charity due to all human beings, while we can speculate on “might”, we should wait on further information before making judgments. We’ve seen too many cases tried in the media already, with the right as guilty as the left in a number of cases (though I personally believe the left has tried people in the media far more often). I think it is still premature to muse loudly about the possible connection between Rahm and Adviser B, and that we should all calmly wait until more becomes known.
I’m with Ryan on this one. Reserving judgment until more facts become available…
Yep – I’m for reserving judgment as well, but boy this does not look good – even if Obama and team come out clean.
Kind of reminds me of Rudy at the RNC saying Obama “immersed himself in Chicago machine politics.” It unfortunately does make you wonder how much Obama immersed himself in those.
I’m not an Obama supporter in the least, but I hope he and his staff do come out clean. This is the last thing we need as a country right now.