Gentlemen,
Maybe you would have learned from the Bill Ayers fiasco that guilt by association is not going to work under the current environment. The country is simply in too much trouble for most people to be distracted innuendo, spurious claims and unsubstantiated allegations. There are simply no facts or evidence to support a substantial link between the corrupt Chicago machine and Barak Obama. As much as you don't want it to be true it seems that BO is in fact honest. He is in this thing to get things done and not cash in. You may disagree with what he wants to do and that is fair but stay away from the stupid stuff.

No cash in the freezer, no back room deals to put his wife on corporate boards, no quid pro quo, nothing. Forming a headline with a leading question such as "Is Obama Hiding Affair With Goat?" and a sub headline with something like "President Elect refuses to deny bestiality" is not going to work. Neither is the steel trap logic of "Blago is guilty, he is from Chicago, Obama is from Chigago, therefore Obama is guilty." He is not going to fire Fitzgerald and he is probably not under investigation. Neither are any of his close advisors. While Rahm did make a lot of money in investment banking when he left the Clinton Administration he did nothing different than many in the investment banking industry. He got his cut for making deals but is seems that the deals he made were legal ones and the commissions he was paid were above board. It also seems likely that Rahm probably had some conversations with Blago or Blago's men. What else seems likely is that he immediately called the FBI to report whatever was said and was probably the catalyst for the bust going down when it did.

As much as you want an early scandal or some other stain on the Obama presidency or to have your longtime Rahm Emanuel hatred justified it does not look like it is going to happen. I suggest you stick to policy and rooting the scumbags out of your own party before the next go round.

Just saying.

Guys,
I am not trying to imply that Chicago Politics is clean by any stretch. I know a little something about the first ward, how most city jobs are given out to foot soldiers by their local aldermen. Chicago Politics is dirty and the party in power, the dems, are the seat of that corruption.

Up to this point not a single substantial instance of illegal or unethical conduct has been linked to Obama directly or his his staff. It is certialny possible that it might but I don't think so. What is more likely is Dave's assertion that he turned a blind eye to corruption in order to advance his political career. How many politicians who come in railing against the machine and promising to fix the broken system actually advance to the hightst elected office in the land. If he let the corrupt Pols think that he might be willing to play ball or that there would be room for them on his coattails then good for him. The real test will be what does he do now that he is no longer beholden to the local machine.