God Loves Chicago

It is charming to be in Chicago at the moment when Rod "the Hair" Blagojevich announces that he wants to subpoena the President of the United States.

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lawyers asked a federal judge Thursday to force President Obama to testify at Blagojevich's upcoming trial, as new information surfaced -- accidentally -- that Obama personally called a mutual supporter to discuss his replacement in the U.S. Senate.

On the day before he was elected president, then-Sen. Obama called a union official about the possibility that adviser Valerie Jarrett replace him in the Senate, according to Blagojevich's defense filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago and sources close to the investigation.

I doubt that this amounts to anything, but when you send Chicago to D.C., this is sometimes what you should expect.

Comments

[Guard]

I highly doubt that KB. Chicago is just like everywhere else in politics: "a good ol' boy system" that exists at every level and in every state, including South Dakota. Just because our "good ol' boys" don't dress like Al Capone or have Italian-sounding names, does not mean that under the tables aren't made and corruption does not exist, because we know it does.

[KB]

Guard: Chicago is not at all "just like everywhere else." Thank God.

[BillW]

Obviously Guard is not familiar with Chicago politics. As a South Dakotan transplanted to Illinois I have come to appreciate the art form to which Chicago has taken political corruption. Tom Daschle by comparison, is a petty thief, not crooked enough to be a decent Democratic alderman in Chicago.

KB - most folks from Chicago would read your latest post on Obama's blatant, outrageous lies concerning health care reform and yawn, asking, "what's your point?"

[KB]

Bill: you make my point very well.